Cruel conmen target schoolboy fund-raiser with fake £20 notes

[dutchman]

Ten year old was duped by fraudsters



Incredible community spirit rallied around a fund-raising schoolboy who was duped by fraudsters.

Desperate to help an appeal for his beloved Nuneaton and Bedworth Sea Cadets, Stan Barker set-up stall during Bedworth’s Christmas Lights switch-on.

He was selling festive goody bags for £2 but found himself being victimised by cruel fraudsters, not once but three times.

The heartless conmen used fake £20 notes to buy items from him, taking the change genuine shoppers had given him.

It left the ten-year-old absolutely devastated according to his mum Kebrina.

“They all gave him fake £20 notes, so they had pretty much all of his change and just walked away,” she explained.

“We didn’t realise until one of the other traders said ‘be careful, there are some dodgy £20 notes about’ so we decided to check.

"To be fair, they looked quite good. My son is only ten, I didn’t think I would have to warn him about dodgy money, you wouldn’t have thought someone would do that to a child.

“He took it really badly, it wiped out pretty much all of the money he had taken.”

She contacted her friend to spread the word: “I was on my break from work, I phoned to see how they were getting on and he couldn’t speak to me, he was that upset, so I messaged my friend Kerry and told her to put something on Facebook to warn them about what had happened and how these people were using fake £20 notes."

The response was almost immediate – and staggering.

“A man came up to him on the stall and gave him £20 and said ‘please have this, we are not all that bad’ and someone else gave him a ten pound note too, it just exploded,” she said.

“People were asking on Facebook how they could donate so they set-up a page on justgiving and money just came flooding in.”

[rebbonk]

B@st@rds.

May karma get them.

[Melisandre]

If you are regular shopper in Bedworth the shops will always warn you of any thing like this even if there is dipping your bags. Last time this happened I was told it was the bank at the top that frequently give them out in the cash machine.