{"id":2797,"date":"2022-01-27T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/devious-facebook-scammer-disappears-after-conning-stallholders-with-fake-charity-event-leicestershire-live\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:19:10","slug":"devious-facebook-scammer-disappears-after-conning-stallholders-with-fake-charity-event-leicestershire-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/devious-facebook-scammer-disappears-after-conning-stallholders-with-fake-charity-event-leicestershire-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Devious facebook scammer disappears after conning stallholders with fake charity event &#8211; Leicestershire Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>&lsquo;I wasn&rsquo;t bothered about the stall or the money but the fact that someone would use a charity and build up a list of people to con like this.&rsquo;<br \/>Get our Loughborough stories sent to your inbox with our free email updates<br \/>A scammer has caused fury after setting up a fake charity event and then disappearing after she had taken payment from stallholders. <br \/>A number of unsuspecting craft enthusiasts and business owners signed up through facebook and paid out \u00a315 for a space at the charity fair in aid of Dementia UK at the Carillon Rooms, in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/loughborough\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\"> Loughborough<\/a>. <br \/>But little did they know the event was a fake and had never been booked at the venue. <br \/><b>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/loughborough\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\">For the latest news in Loughborough and the surrounding areas click here<\/a><\/b><br \/>The victims only became aware of the scam after the user blocked them online, leading them to contact the venue direct.<br \/>Carillon Rooms said they became aware of the fake event that was said to be hosted at the venue on January 19, after receiving floods of messages and calls.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecarillonrooms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">It posted on its Facebook page<\/a>: &quot;We have been alerted that someone is posting that there is a craft fair for Dementia UK at our venue on 29th Jan.<br \/>&quot;They are asking for money from stall holders. THIS IS A SCAM! There is no event at our venue. Please report to the police.&quot;<br \/>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\">LeicestershireLive<\/a>, a spokesman for the venue said: &quot;It is awful that people would take advantage of people&apos;s charity.&quot;<br \/>A number of the victims commented on the post to share their outrage, highlighting the \u00a315 each of them had transferred to the fraudster via PayPal.<br \/>Screenshots of messages from the fraudster were shared by dozens of victims in the comments, who had been messaged directly by the user.<br \/>However Kerry Dyke, from Countesthorpe, said she actually made first contact herself on December 13, after coming across a post promoting the fair.<br \/>In screenshots shown to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\">LeicestershireLive<\/a> the account holder replies to Kerry to confirm the location of the event and requests the money. <br \/>She said: &quot;I already attend stalls to help promote my little sideline \u2018Whits N Bobs\u2019 so when I saw a post on Facebook looking for stallholders for potentially regular charity stalls I messaged for more info.<br \/>&quot;She advised that she was collecting interest and looking at venues so would come back to me when confirmed.<br \/>&quot;It was 11th January when she contacted me again and said the event was on 29th January at Carillon Rooms &#8211; and that it was for Dementia UK.<br \/>&quot;It had been a month since the previous message and with the charity there was no reason to doubt the authenticity so I booked and paid by PayPal.&quot;<br \/>Kerry, a team leader at Eon Next, then tried to contact the account to confirm last minute details.<br \/>She said: &quot;It was only recently I needed to confirm parking and access times to set up that I realised she had removed herself from Facebook so I googled the venue and called to check.<br \/>&quot;That&apos;s when I found out they had received numerous calls and it was all a scam. My heart sank.<br \/>&quot;I wasn&apos;t bothered about the stall or the money but the fact that someone would use a charity and build up a list of people to con like this.&quot;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\">LeicestershireLive <\/a>has contacted Leicestershire Police further information.<br \/><b>Keep up with the latest news with our email alerts directly to your inbox.<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" data-content-type=\"section\"> <b> <u>Sign up here.<\/u> <\/b> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/devious-facebook-scammer-disappears-after-6561441\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;I wasn&rsquo;t bothered about the stall or the money but the fact that someone would use a charity and build up a list of people to con like this.&rsquo;Get our Loughborough stories sent to your inbox with our free email updatesA scammer has caused fury after setting up a fake charity event and then disappearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}