Need help from irish, a french guy...

He could not have done a bank transfer with just your name. Who is the scammer round here? Fortunately you are in the wrong forum so very few people will see this.

It's a scam alright. The bank page is a clone and it looks as if the money has been transferred. I have heard about this scam on BBC radio. Agree the best course of action is contact the British police, but I wouldn't hold out much hope of getting the money back.

It is a warning to everyone not to be generous to strangers. Awful advice but no good deed goes unpunished nowadays.

hmm…he asked you for €400, and to convince you to give it to him, he deposits €400 into your bank account? yeh, that makes total sense…

Did you report the scam to the police?

The car registration comes back as unknown on the UK Government sites to check car Tax/MOT.

The number hasn't been checked by anyone else on Tellows yet anyway.

vous devez donc vous présenter à la police française, c'est une voiture britannique, pas irlandaise, notez la couleur de la voiture et la description des personnes

pour toute escroquerie irlandaise, je téléphone parfois à une émission radio populaire pilotée par les appelants appelée Liveline, animée par Joe Duffy. Joe@rte.ie

Just as a general FYI for other reading this thread. Lots of scams now a day's involve someone transferring money on fraudulent apps that look like real ones. It's a been fairly common scam on donedeal etc where people turn up to buy something, carry out a "transfer" in front of the seller and then the seller assumes its genuine and hands over the item and off the "buyer" goes. Unfortunately when the seller soon checks his account they realise they've been scammed.

To be fair I've seen scammers operating on the trains here who will literally give their sob story to the next person in line after being told to piss off

Lad in the van could be driving around asking 10 people an hour, only need to fool a few of them

This is a fairly well-known scam every summer at motorway rest stations in France. I've come across it myself about 5 years ago, but because I was Irish (albeit in a non Irish reg car, which is why the two men hadn't expected an English speaker) and, more importantly perhaps, had two tall teenage boys arrive back - they had been out of sight walking our big dog when the guy came up to me - he quickly made his excuses and left.

They seem to be travellers with strong Irish accents. Very well dressed, like businessmen, and in a nice car (not sure what make now). He was in the process of telling me a sob story about having been robbed getting off the ferry, even though he was heading the wrong way for someone who had just arrived.

Anyway, the OP is almost certainly not lying. It's a thing, and is doing Ireland's reputation a lot of harm on the continent - I've seen it referred to on the news as "the Irish scam". Calling the OP a scammer is a bit much, considering he's not asking for money himself.

Unfortunately I think you know this but there is nothing credible about this story. What stranger asks another one on the street for a loan of 400€ legitimately..... No one.... Good luck but the money is gone

Part of their culture…………

If you dial #31#and then the mobile number

085 191 9422 you get answered (the #31# is to withhold your id on a per call basis)