scammed by a close friend
so about two years ago a friend messages me telling me he’s got something going on and asks me to transfer money for him (yes I know this is typical for fraudsters and scammers now but i genuinely trusted him as we went to school for years and he has even been to my house and spent a lot of time with me). I ended up doing it just to find out months later that he actually claimed universal credit under my name and tricked me into thinking he sent me the money to send to him. He allowed me to keep around £200 but I genuinely thought it was just my boy being my boy (I gladly would’ve given £200 if he asked and needed at the time). After the initial letter which was a couple months after the exchange I messaged him asking to sort it because atp i still had no knowledge of what Universal credit was as a 19 year old at university. He would constantly tell me he would pay it off, or call them and sort it out and as the idiot i clearly am, I trusted him to. The money was never an insanely pressing issue to me so paying back that 1.2k in instalments per month was doable for me. Now I’ve paid over 800 to DWP and finally came to him, putting my foot down and asking him to pay the money or come clean FOR BEING A CRIMINAL AND USING MY DETAILS TO FRAUDULENTLY CLAIM BENEFITS … he blocked me. So me being me I messaged him everywhere i could, got a second number all this rubbish. He eventually replied and picked up and started to unblock me once i threatened authorities. Now again I’ve been messaging him and its evolved to me basically calling him scum and looking for relatives of his to contact out of anger and frustration. I have called the police but they’re fucking useless as well as my bank who are useless without a police report. I don’t know any of his info except his social and university. What can I realistically do to him to either give me the money to pay back or make his life hell.