Can a private investigator help? It is well worth consulting a good firm of private detectives to find out because they are far more likely to be successful than anyone else. The Police have pretty limited resources to call on for this type of crime. Your bank will have its own investigators but as long as it’s just you who has lost out and nor the bank itself, their interest in pursuing the matter will be minimal. If you read between the lines of the bank’s response, you’ll see that they are basically telling you that you should have been more careful!
A private detective will be working for you on your case and for no-one else. Your private investigator will not be working in a vacuum as you might think. All the best private detective agencies, firms of the standing of EJM Investigations for example, are members of nationwide networks of similar firms which vastly expand the scope of their enquiries. These networks have links to similar networks in other countries outside the United Kingdom and indeed beyond the EU.
That latter point is important because so many scams are operated from countries with no official law enforcement links to the UK. Whether the scam which caught you in its net originated online, via an innocent looking email or an unsolicited telephone call, a firm of private detectives is more likely to be able to help than any other agency.
Of course prevention is far better than cure and we all have to be so much more vigilant than used to be the case. For sure, it’s easy to say that but the scammers are becoming more and more skilful and sophisticated in their activities aimed at taking our hard earned money off us. We now have to treat every unsolicited letter, phone call, or email with the utmost suspicion, to the extent of assuming it to be a scam until its genuineness can be established beyond doubt.
Even then, however careful we are and however suspicious, even to the point of paranoia, no one can ever be totally immune to the wiles of the scamming brigade. If the worst should happen to you and your bank proves less than helpful and the police can’t do much, remember there is someone out there who may well be able to help. Try a well established private enquiry agency. EJM investigations in Preston, Lancashire are a good example of the class of agency, with the right kind of expertise and connections, that you should call in.