Like so many other people trying to get work or progress in work, I decided to apply to a company called National Networked Investigations, who stated they were looking for new persons nationally to represent their company as Private Investigators. I did the usual checks ( clearly not enough), and decided to apply for a job when I saw them advertising on the internet. So I applied and got a response from the so called manager, Dean Wright. This male made out he had seen my CV and was very happy to offer me a job.
However, I would first have to do a private investigator course that cost me nearly £300, after he gave me discount. I did the course like all the other naive and vulnerable people and passed the course. I was obviously delighted that I could now start with the company. Again, like the others, I get no further forward with Dean Wright who kept telling me they were having problems with a new system they had obtained. This went on for weeks and I kept emailing Wright and he kept stringing me along. From the first week I got suspicious but I hoped my intuition was wrong.
Why was all correspondence via email even though I insisted he telephoned me for reassurance. I then did more checks and found this Ripoff Report and it put the nail in the coffin for me. I was buttered. I continued to email Wright and got him to call me. I was shocked he agreed to call me. Anyway, the alleged Wright called me on his mobile that he his the number. This again proved he was hiding his true identity to me. When we spoke, he could hardly say a full sentence which a manager would have the confidence to do so. He said he was sorry for not meeting up before but intended to catch up in the next five weeks and would come up North to see me.
This obviously never happened. I am so angry with myself for falling for the scam but I was caught out when I was in a vulnerable situation in my life. I am aware that this is a crime of fraud and if all the others could come together with me and join up as a team then we could share our similar incidents and then report it to the Police in Oxford as this is probably where the actual crime occurs and Action Fraud will be our route to finding this person and so called company. This might also lead to getting our money back. We can beat these people.