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Andrespetmonkey said:
d21lewis said:
Change your credit card numbers. Also, I would have never agreed to meet the person at your house. You'd be surprised how easy it is to learn somebody's schedule, kick in the front door, and make off with whatever you want in a matter of minutes.

I'd be on high alert for a little while.

I've already told my bro to change his cards, I'm sure he would of done without me saying anyway :)

@bolded definitely

Me, too!



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We know little of you nor your the whole incident's backstory. I'd say this cat really is after Andre's pet monkey



You should have called the police and set up a trap for him when he dropped off the bag. He knows way too much information. I would only leave the house for short periods of time and when you do lock everything. Ask your neighbors to be on alert too in case they hear window breaking or something.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Its unfortunate that you live in England. If he does break into your house and you try to defend yourself you will go to jail.



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acdcste said:
Sounds dodgy to me. Only repeating what others have said but just make sure you change the numbers. Did you not get his reg when you met the guy coz thats the first thing i would have done, the second being phoning the police the minute he had left. Dont forget the guy is on camera stealing the bag and you can id him if it came to that.


Nope. I didn't really know much info at the time, at this point the only thing that seemed dodgy to me was him insisting on me to get the bag, I only knew about the security cam and him knowing my brother's company after I got the bag, when my brother told me.



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Probably highlighted before, but with the address and the card details he can easily purchase stuff online and have them send to a phony address to pick up.

After all most of the time the sites only require the billing address and the card details. I think he's scamming rather than having a change of heart, especially if it happened in a blink of a moment. Your brother was foolish for giving that guy his house details and further stuff like the home telephone number.

I would probably change the bank accounts and alert the bank of possible fraudulent activity.



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..Even if he gives back the contents of the bag intact he will likely try to break into the house too now, so a change of locks would be wise. There are very few good samartians in the world, especially those who steal first then have a change of heart later just because they didn't hit the jackpot with that steal.



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