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Les mt wrote:
Any suggestions what realistic action I can take to try and stop the fraud taking place?
What have you been defrauded of?
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I did not say we have been defrauded but the fraud is taking place using our names and contact details.
We are caught up in the loop whether we like it or not  We are the ones that have to field the phone calls of the victims because they have cloned our contact details and have impersonated our company - to my mind this is a crime involving fraud, it seems to me the UK police don't have an obvious system of dealing with it.
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Les mt wrote: I did not say we have been defrauded but the fraud is taking place using our names and contact details.
Then they may well be defaming your company. Not that the police will care about that: It's a civil matter.
The people who have actually been defrauded need to contact the UK police and/or their local police. Contacting police across national boundaries is not unheard of at all. I know of people who have been defrauded in the UK contacting both US and German police to report fraudsters.
P.S. I should add that, from what I have seen, both US and German police have in the cases I know of (that is private, fraudulent high value watch sales) proven to be considerably more helpful than UK police. UK police have often said in such circumstances, quite incorrectly, that it's a civil matter (by which they mean that someone has 'accidentally' forgotten to pay or 'accidentally' not sent the item) rather than wanting to accept that the non-payment or non-delivery was intentional and obviously criminal.
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a) Find out their street address
b) Burn down the building
Now people will pay attention.
For the humor-impaired: This is a joke.
Sad that people have to make this disclaimer nowadays...
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Does your joke mean: People will not pay attention?
I make my best to understand the joke.
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Yes. Apparently identify fraud isn't worth their time. The joke is to escalate matters, and see whether that draws their attention...
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Not enough police to go around. They pick their battles.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It is quite a common. We have an 'awareness' program for our staff. Unfortunately we don't have one for our customers.
Not giving away out company name, lets assume we are Evil Corporation, and out domain is evil.com.
Some bright kid registered evill.com; two Ls at the end. He then emailed one of our customers and said our banking details had changed.
This is the customer's loss, because he still has to pay us.
The domain was registered through a questionable ISP making it very difficult to trace the true owner.
My advice to the customer was to have the police follow the money; into who's bank account was the money paid.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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I have not seen Nish on this site in a very long time.
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lol.
That's a name I've not seen in a long time.
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It must be very long indeed... I didn't recognise it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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This takes us quite a while far back in time 
Bon anniversaire Nish !
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Do recursive functions break up when they stop calling each other?
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They stop calling only when they run out of curses or get bored by just shouting the same curses back and forth at one another.
(just to put thing right - they generally don't call anyone but themselves - perhaps you're thinking of cursive functions).
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: they generally don't call anyone but themselves
I've occasionally had two or more functions that were recursive via the fact they called each other, but not necessarily themselves. N-way tree structures lend themselves to this sort of thing fairly often when doing traversals.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not sure about that, but I do know they'll eventually stop calling each other if they call each other too much...
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One of them will get so mad that they will blow their stack.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Similar to the bird that flies in ever decreasing concentric circles.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Actually, I think recursive functions are Schizophrenic. The talk to themselves and get answers.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Talking to yourself is only a problem if you don't expect the answer.
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Actually, I sometimes find it's the only way to get an intelligent conversation.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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