Lillytrans0311 - Glasgow

[ZERBE2]

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Found lilly (Emily) on AW, had a positive review on UKP so thought of trying.
Communicated, asked for deposit to guarantee her "safety" which was a red flag despite the the positive review she has here in UKP. So decided to skip her.

A few days later had a meet with Francini whom I've reviewed before.

Out of frustration from a radio silence situation with Francini, I thought 50 pounds is a cheap gamble, contacted Lilly again and agreed for a deposit, and of course it was a scam and stopped replying at all.

( I've made a mistake and the only reason I am reviewing her and risking looking stupid is to make people learn from my mistake, so please if you have "what a stupid moron" comments keep it for yourself )

Did as much search as possible about her using her real name (Emily L.) which she passed it on when transferred the money, took screenshots of every thing from facebook, linked in, our conversation, her profiles.
And found that she claims to be a law school graduate and working with a victim support group in Glasgow.

On the later days I've set a plan with escalation steps against her. Sent her an email with everything I am planning to do with timeline and offered a last chance to refund my deposit before escalating. She ignored.
it wasn't about my 50quid but it was about the stupid feeling of getting scammed.

So, I've contacted my bank with evidence, got my deposit refunded within 72 hours.
Contacted the victim support group which she claims she worked for and apparently she doesn't - at least now - and I got the impression from my discussion with them is that she is known to them at least as a volunteer at some point, but never was an employee.

They started taking steps against her to get their name removed from all accounts.

The only escalation step I said I will do but didn't is reporting her to the police. Thought it is an overkill.

[Punterperson1971]

Well done mate for
1:standing up to her and being persistent in getting your money back from your bank
2:Tracking her down through all the ways possible to you
She could do this again but it may put her off and may encourage others who get scammed to do what you have done,pity you never got police involved but you done more than enough.

[mrwhite]

I notice her new AW profile doesn't offer BB (a good thing) but the AS one does!

[willie loman]

Well done, i admire your energy.

[Falkirk GND]

I’m sorry you had such a shit experience OP 

I fear my positive review might have contributed to your deciding to book Lily.    If so, I apologise.  Clearly she isn’t cut out for indie work.

Call me a cynic, but her profile is down now, and this has popped up…

Lily - Emily - Lydia…

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I’d put money on it being a “fresh start” 

[g3nius]

May sound like a stupid question - but how do we convince the bank to refund something like this, considering the "service" in question?

I did contact her some time back and she asked for a deposit, that put me off and just decided against it.

[williambream]

May sound like a stupid question - but how do we convince the bank to refund something like this, considering the "service" in question?

I did contact her some time back and she asked for a deposit, that put me off and just decided against it.

It's like any other service, taking a deposit and not delivering the product/service is fraud at worst but refundable otherwise.

Banks have a responsibility more so on the fraud side but even with current accounts/debit cards. Don't just believe Martin Lewis when he says Credit Cards have all the protection.

As noted elsewhere on here, NEVER send via PayPal or with a reason like friends and family as this circumvents a lot of the controls and plays into the recipient's hands if it was to be disputed.