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Bristol accountant jailed for eBay fraud

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27th Feb 2014
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A Bristol accountant has been jailed for 18 months for getting people to sell non-existent shopping discount vouchers on eBay. 

The Bristol Post reported that Simon Nagle of Pucklechurch pleaded guilty to two charges of fraudulent trading and forgery at Bristol Crown Court this week. 

Nagle received £70,000 from getting people to sell the vouchers - which did not exist - on eBay. 

He sought out eBay users with good feedback ratings and asked them to act as agents on his behalf to sell the vouchers. Money was then placed into his bank account following the transactions, but he did not forward the supposed vouchers on. 

According to the Post, Nagle's promised vouchers purported to be shopping discount vouchers offering money off high street stores such as Tesco and Argos.

The accountant even got some of his own clients, Kim Stevens and her partner Neil from Yate, to sell the vouchers on his behalf.

The couple ended up £5,000 out of pocket, the paper reported, in unpaid commission and money they loaned to Nagle. 

In handing out the sentence, Judge Michael Roach said: “You have a history of obvious dishonesty and, looking at these offences, there can only be a custodial sentence. You tried to blame your victims as being the authors of their misfortune.”

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David Winch
By David Winch
27th Feb 2014 15:40

The time it takes . . .

Interesting to see that 4 years had elapsed between the police visiting a victim and the defendant being sentenced.

One does not know how complicated the case was or how widespread the police investigation - but it does seem a long time!

David

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By justsotax
28th Feb 2014 10:44

only trumped

presumably by the 'too good to be true' offers the general public took up....perhaps there were so many of them...?

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By JoeOBrien1983
03rd Mar 2014 17:12

What I don't understand is...

... did he think he would get away with this?

He approached people, who knew him, or got payments made to his account which can be traced. Why in the world would somebody do that? Getting caught would just be a matter of time. This is just plain idiotic.

 

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