by TerranceBoyce
Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:41 am
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/687196/failed-businessman-lured-pyramid-selling-scheme-cost-friends-family-92000/?
This is an unusual case but far from unique. When a scammer has cleared out a victim and the victim hasn't caught on to the fact that they've been scammed, it isn't unknown for the scammer to get the victim to find other victims for him. This appears to be the case here and the original victim is facing serious consequences.
Effectively a victim has acted as a scammer's stooge and will undoubtedly suffer the consequences.
This is an unusual case but far from unique. When a scammer has cleared out a victim and the victim hasn't caught on to the fact that they've been scammed, it isn't unknown for the scammer to get the victim to find other victims for him. This appears to be the case here and the original victim is facing serious consequences.
5 September 2015
A failed businessman who admitted a £92,000 fraud has been branded a financial danger to others who must be stopped.
But Inverness Sheriff Court heard yesterday that the 66-year-old still refuses to believe he has been duped and insists he will eventually receive up to £3million from the scam.
Even when he was facing criminal charges Anderson continued sending money to the “brains” behind the con, including £36,000 from a widow only weeks ago.
One of his victims had borrowed money, sold shares and given Anderson his savings totalling £60,000 – with no return.
“We believe that the money was going to someone unidentified in Asia.”
Fiscal Roderick Urquhart told the court: “He is in so deep the only way out he sees is to keep paying. He has to be stopped. He is a danger to the financial welfare of other people.
“The amount of money he has sent abroad is quite staggering.”
Mr Urquhart added: “It is a bizarre case. The Crown position is that Anderson is himself the victim of a fraud, but he does not accept that this is the case.”
He said that Anderson was warned by police against sending any more money and told that he would be committing fraud if he did so.
Despite the warning, Anderson approached truck and digger drive Alexander Slaney in April 2013 and asked for a £25,000 loan to buy land in Inverness for a storage container and digger business.
Anderson’s agent, solicitor Mike Chapman, said: “This case relates to other people losing a significant amount of money and my client has not gained one penny.”
Sentence was deferred until October 2 for reports and Anderson was released with bail conditions preventing him borrowing money without the court’s consent, or sending any money abroad.
Effectively a victim has acted as a scammer's stooge and will undoubtedly suffer the consequences.
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