Say hi to failed recruit Jack Jones or Simon Jeremy and a list of their names he likes to go by. He’s a scammer who bloats his service and of suffering PTSD.

Jones having served just six weeks in basic training before getting out because army life was too hard for him, meant he was still able to take advantage of the same veteran benefits as a time served soldier who had passed his basic and served three to 22 years service.

Jones arrived on our radar a few weeks back when a flurry of reports hit our ever evolving pm system. As most will know we don’t just post up and hope for the best when exposing a Walt, bloater or scammer. We like to be 100% in our findings first and build up a good evidence trail. That way our exposures are taken seriously and not with a pinch of salt.

Jones took in a number of veterans on a carp fishing page called Carpe diem collective.

Jones would swing the lantern and pull up the sandbag with his dits and PTSD claims which at times came across as genuine and helped give Jones a form of credibility to conduct his primary aim. Scamming.

How does he do it you may ask?

On the basis of being allowed to claim veterans status Jones was able to see an NHS doctor, claim he has PTSD from his time in the armed forces (we know someone else who did that) who in turn refers him to Combat stress and the Royal British Legion to get help.

A question asked frequently is how does someone who spent hardly any time in the armed forces, never went near a war zone or suffered any work related accident get so much help and in some cases a war pension.

Due to medical in confidentiality, Jones knows the doctor cannot tell anyone outside of the consultation room what or how Jones claims he got PTSD.

There are no x rays or scans, no drugs which can prove such a thing. Jones only needs to give a convincing story to the doctor who in most cases had never served himself so would not know if the story was BS or not, and he knows the doctor is not in a place to call Jones a dirty little fibber.

Armed with a few buzz words anyone without a care in the world can replicate a story from real PTSD sufferers to the doctor . (There’s enough genuine references out there) which is all a doctor needs to hear to be convinced.

Remember most Walt’s, bloaters and scammers are very convincing fibbers who practice their story and emotional outpouring to look and sound genuine.

Armed with a doctors letter and a letter of referral to combat Stress, Jones can take further advantage.

The WMHCHQ have been approached before by ex forces specialists who work in the rehab centres and who claim they’re powerless to chin off what they know are bluffers as a doctors letter carries a lot of weight legally along with the charity not wanting a complaint on there hands. Again despite only having served six weeks Jones is still classed as a veteran.

Jones then uses the letters as his compelling evidence to claim a War Pension due to his alleged PTSD which started off by feeding the doctor a few dits.

The receipt of a war pension is further used to claim Jones is so much more than just a six week failed recruit.

The letters are then bounded about by Jones like a get out of jail free card whenever his claims are questioned by veterans who are unconvinced by his shit dits. In response Jones would openly post them on social media as his only evidence to get people to back off and in most cases it works. A bit like captain kippers and his sea cadet life at sea book.

As per Walt SOP once suspected. Jones makes his counter claims and use the WMHCHQ as if he had been verified by us.

Not the first time a Walt has used that old chestnut

Throw a few acronyms, he learned during his six weeks basic training, claim a deceased SAS legend helped you once and was good muckers and the stage is set to bloat and scam with confidence.

Jones gave a rather convincing story to some veterans that he was close to self harming due to PTSD, he gave a story he was a veteran hard on his luck who had been assaulted in a hostel with various injuries and was homeless.

He claimed to some he had served in Afghanistan with 1 Para SFSG. To others the RGJ.

The veterans community acted fast and he was taken in without questions, given money and food due to the need for a quick response. Jones like most serial bluffers took advantage knowing most if not all good hearted people and charities do not have the means to fact check your service details on the go and with genuine cases, speed of action is required to save a vulnerable persons life. He knows you only need an army number, and DOB to get you in the door.

Jones started up a fishing club where he was taking £70 pound per person to join the club.

Suspicions were raised as money and fishing equipment went missing and those raised suspicions were ejected by Jones and counter accused.

Jones would use a well rehearsed tactic of diversion and counter claim used by scammers to cast anyone who continued to question them in a bad light. One organisation is a well known PTSD charity, Talking 2 Minds which suspected Jones was up to no good.

One veteran subtly asked him a few questions in a well played out bait and fishing operation.

Enough bait was cast and Jones took it like the bloat fish he is.

Further stories relating to Jones antics can be found

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From another veteran

"Beware all. Especially Veterans.

A lot of people have been scammed by this man who calls himself “Jack Jones”, and uses a group called the “Carpe Diem Collective” as his way to scam money out of people. This is a clone of an art business in the USA used to defraud people.

He runs events for veterans, I attended being a veteran myself as well as some civilians who were there. The event was meant to be for a veterans mental health charity and we were charged £70 as food was to be included for 2 nights fishing 2 rods at Horcott Lakes.

No food was given. His crew had taken all the catching pegs before the supposed draw was meant to take place which never happened. I asked to move peg to be close to people I know which he agreed to but then made up all manor of problems, ranging from me wading a rods length into the water. To the fact I didn’t want to be included in the “competition”.

I had already paid an £80 deposit for Old Mill pool in february which I was told was refundable as I said I might not be able to make it. He tried to tell us all we had to pack up on the saturday night the event was off and we needed to leave. This was because 2 of us were stood at the end of a treble peg talking.

They have now blocked me and removed me from the group. They have done this scam to lots of people. A man called Trev Whittaker has made in depth videos about him on youtube. Including that his name is actually Simon Jeffries and he is a known Scam artist.

Below is a mugshot of him to show you what he looks like. CDC is also not a registered charity. He kept name dropping “Chilly Chilcott” every 5 minutes saying he wanted to meet me and have me on their veterans team and so on and so forth.

Just a warning all. Bewaret here..."

Jones is currently keeping a low profile after his house of lies fell around his by now red hot burning ears. We checked his service history and other than a few weeks there is nothing else on the system.

What a scamming Cumper.

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