#116 We got scammed

UPDATE: Crowdfund Done! ❤ The target was reached in 4 hours after publishing and within a week it nearly doubled plus the donations continued to come in! It's amazing to have such a strong community supporting the project. Thanks everyone for supporting us. But we decided to close the campaign because we got more than what we need for now. Save your money for the Community Center ;) projectkamp.com/digger UPDATE: We continue to find the scammer! See what we found in the following update: https://youtu.be/OKP4CQevYxg

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You need to flag this to the Serious Organized Crime Agency, the National Crime Agency and Serious Fraud Office here in the UK and flag it to them to investigate in more depth

Warms my heart to see that nearly 3hours later of uploading the video, they’ve nearly reached 14k in donations

Big up Graham for going out on the recon mission! Top lad!

Banks can re-book money for 90 days. Make that ASAP, go to the police and make the scam official, give that to the bank as proof, and get a lawyer just in case the bank says it can't do anything.

2 hours after the upload more than $11k have been donated already! Incredible how dedicated your community is!

So sorry to hear you got scammed. Amazing from the viewer in Northern Ireland to take the drive and check things out. Wonderful!!

Involve the police No reason to continue alone with this

Although this is such a terrible situation, I was incredibly impressed with your sense of humor and ability to shoot a great video about it. Really rooting for you guys to make the best of this situation - and for them to get caught.

5 hours after posting and already reached their goal, shows you what good community is all about ! congrats!

I had 5k$ stolen from a builder. I fought for a year to get it back, to no avail. The authorities did nothing. Town's people laughed and said, "he does that all the time. " Not one of my best experiences. I'd like to forget it.

Well done to Graham for driving up there to do a recon. 🚘🧐💪 Calling all white hats to locate the scammer. There must be a way.

One red flag for me would be that the company was just incorporated in 2023. 🤔 I'm really sorry that you got scammed. 😔

Just love to see how the power of community working... And specifically the mercy of the Project Kamp broader community, it really touches me. I'll send you by email the contact of my father who knows a looot of machine retailers in the Center part of Portugal (his job is to sell them filters for the machines). Use someone who speak Portuguese to get in contact with him, I'm sure he will be glad to help you guys!

Amazing community support! 🎉 Looking forward to seeing your new digger help you. Yes for Justice. Yes for waterfall crying. You are blessed by many hearts Dave, pk and all.

I was thinking last video that when you looked on Google Maps, "ask one of your irish fans to check out the location". What done is done, and I agree with Dave, make the most out of what happens.

The reason they delay for so long, is so you can't get a refund with your credit card campany, any thing over 25-30 days is impossible to reverse. Main reason why the scammers keep in contact for a certain time.

So gutted to hear this. But on the positive side you’ve raised 166% of what you were looking to raise in a couple of days! Well done!

I'm from Ballymena and I know that google location - its a local council road service depot - those vehicles are mostly gritters for road salt - unfortunately the address is a total dead end for your purposes.  ...but looks like you'll be getting a digger soon in any case! good luck with it all and keep on keeping on!