23-01-2015 00:00 via west-midlands.police.uk

Walsall woman charged over online holiday scam

A Walsall woman has been charged over a reported online scam where people paid deposits for holidays that did not exist.

Detectives launched an inquiry after several people contacted police last year to report that they had lost money after following up an advert on Facebook for holidays in Rhyl and Devon.
Would-be holidaymakers informed police that they had paid deposits for stays in a caravan but then heard nothing back − they later discovered the holidays did not exist and they had lost th
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