A Nîmes resident is the victim of a banking scam: 36,000 euros have vanished and a financial advisor is missing

Le Nîmois a déposé une plainte pénale. Midi Libre – JEAN MICHEL MART

Un Nîmois piégé par un faux conseiller bancaire et un site de placement d’argent plus vrai que nature. Il vient de déposer une plainte. Explications.

A financial advisor who no longer responds and no longer has the possibility of recovering his money. This is essentially the situation of a man from Nîmes who has just filed a criminal complaint for having been robbed of 35,000 euros.

It all started last June when the sixty-year-old tried to invest money that had just been given to him for family reasons. He made inquiries and fumbled around to see how to make the money grow. He surfed the internet and came across an online site on social networks. The advert displayed a livret A with a net return of 6%. He contacted the site. Of course, we answer him, reassure him, give him precise information that leads him to open an account with this company that has an account in France. We provide him with the bank identity statement and the international identifier (IBAN) of the bank account that is in France."This is also what reassured me", explains this man to show the evolution of his misadventure. But initially, the placement seems to provide guarantees of security and credibility with a fairly well-constructed website. 

Account  futures and stock market investments

The Nîmes resident finally sent money by transfer on two occasions (15,000 and 20,000 euros). And the investment was to take two forms, a term account where the money was to be blocked for a certain period and was to generate interest above average. A securities account (with stock market investments) was to allow this Nîmes resident to grow his money. Several discussions took place with the customer advisor. The numerous discussions reassured the sixty-year-old who initially did not detect any default or potential risk. It was only later that he noticed details about the management of the account or the details of the contract. And it was when he started asking questions about the possibility of getting his money back that he felt he had fallen into a trap. The pseudo-financial advisor became evasive and then less friendly and even unpleasant. In exchanges via messages that Midi Libre was able to consult, the manager clouded the issue, played on the transfer deadlines and ended up saying that “it is the litigation department that will handle the case.”

Overwhelmed by his misfortune

At one point, he stopped answering the phone altogether,” laments the victim, who had to accept that he had been scammed. After making inquiries, it turns out that the account where he made the transfers is indeed in France but it seems that the sums were transferred to other accounts.

Met this Monday, August 12, the complainant confirms having filed a complaint with the courts by way of a complaint. “I hope that we will be able to take action because the procedure is totally unfair”, indicates this man overwhelmed by his mishap. He filed a complaint in recent days. An investigation could be opened into the financial flows and perhaps an attempt could be made to trace back to the masterminds of what appears to be banking fraud and probably identify several victims.

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