Edinburgh Fringe Flats scam.

My son and his friends are appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They are acting in a play about Charles Dickens. Accommodation was booked with fringeflats.co.uk, at the beginning of June. Last thursday, 18th July, we discovered the site had been deleted and all emails bounced. It appears we have been cheated out of £1420.00. If anybody else has been affected by this, please report the crime to the Action Fraud Site. The Police have said that they can only investigate this type of crime if sufficient reports are received. Thank you.

Domain name details:
fringeflats.co.uk

Registrant:
Peter Jones

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
21/4 Perth Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 5DW
United Kingdom

Registrar:
One.com A/S t/a One.com A/S [Tag = TJNF-DK]
URL: http://www.one.com

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 31-May-2013
Expiry date: 31-May-2015
Last updated: 31-May-2013

Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.

Name servers:
ns01.one.com
ns02.one.com

Thank you for posting this info. We have informed the police of this information. Interestingly this address is an empty property which is for sale. We have done quite a bit of research into this and if anyone else has been affected by this scam they are welcome to get in touch. Many thanks.

Hi Kathydq, Welcome to scamwarners. Sorry to hear that you were scammed. Do you have any of the initial emails from this scammer? Posting them here on the forum might prevent others from becoming a victim of the same scam.

Hi - I was also scammed by fringeflats, although luckily for me I had only given the deposit.
How do you go about reporting it - which Police Branch do I need to speak to?

Hello vin645,

With the basic information you posted. You can report to your local police and IC3 http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

The Edinburgh news has an article about the crime. At least 50 people have been affected by this.
Here is the link:

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/w ... -1-3022747