To consider reporting him

Maybe you should tell him it's not the 1990s anymore, modern phones take more than one sim card at a time so you can use multiple numbers but not look like a drug dealer.

he could be a stock broker on wall street etc

No, burner phones! He always has multiples on the go.

c’mon now. I get the devil’s advocate thing. I’ve spent a decade explaining to myself that there must be a perfectly innocent explanation. But there just isn’t. A blind idiot could see he is in crime. I’ve just buried my head for years

No, burner phones! He always has multiples on the go.

c’mon now. I get the devil’s advocate thing. I’ve spent a decade explaining to myself that there must be a perfectly innocent explanation. But there just isn’t. A blind idiot could see he is in crime. I’ve just buried my head for years

No, burner phones! He always has multiples on the go.

c’mon now. I get the devil’s advocate thing. I’ve spent a decade explaining to myself that there must be a perfectly innocent explanation. But there just isn’t. A blind idiot could see he is in crime. I’ve just buried my head for years

Well he didn’t become unemployed because he was never employed to begin with. He deliberately went out to find a flat which would max out what benefits he could get.

i’m not sure of the specifics as i didn’t want to know but that was the gist anyway.

I have no idea why he’d do it, agree it’s risky for little benefit. But people aren’t always logical

There's a little matter of "And he's regularly making trips to Thailand and Mexico. And constantly has more cash than is feasible when you're on benefits. And uses burner phones." I suspect that could definitely arouse some interest.

Sorry if the thread has drip-fed a bit and there are loads of posts.

but i can say on this, i am absolutely completely certain. I don’t have firm evidence as I am not in the drugs trade and am not going to stalk my bro for evidence against him.

the only people walking round with thousands in cash in their pockets, with no access to other family money, no debt (he has ccjs so can’t borrow) are builders or drug dealers. And he’s not a builder.

as another poster helpfully commented, a blind idiot could tell he’s a gangster. I’ve stuck my head in the sand for years. I don’t know if now i should do something.

he won’t stop because i ask nicely.

what would you do?

Op - I think my brother is a drug smuggler
PC - What makes you think that
OP - He can afford many things I can't when he is on the dole.
PC - Have you seen him with drugs
OP - No
PC - erm...

I’m defo thinking he has an older, rich partner who is financing his lifestyle!

I suspect Spy

Sorry i’ve responded on these points loads but some of them have been filtered by the site as too much detail about crime stuff i guess.

so i know he’s never had a job because we are millenials - we’re on whatsapp constantly, he’s on social media. I find it wild how many people think it possible my brother could have had a whole entire job without my knowing in a world where i know what at least 4 of my not even close mates had for breakfast today.

I know about benefits because i asked him. He’s scamming housing benefit (i wouldn’t report him for this though i do think benefit fraud is disgusting) and gets UC.

I know about amounts of money because i have seen him with stacks of cash and also other things he’s done involving money and not wanting to use a bank account but whenever i include the detail of this it gets filtered out so will leave off. but it’s dodgy stuff.

i HAVE queried as I have said a million zillion times. He gives answers which are clearly lies and gets upset if i press him. I have kept dropping it so far because i don’t want to fight. But recently it’s like the scales have fallen from my eyes and i’m sick of pretending i can’t see what’s staring me in the face.

i know he has no access to credit because he has ccjs. I know about these because he’s my brother. He also asked me for advice on if he could get them overturned and i looked over the paperwork for him.

oh and he bought himself a jetski a few weeks back! a guy on benefits with no job and no credit.

Look I’ve been telling myself for years he’s probably some small time cheeky chappy del boy type who’s hustling here and there, fingers in pies. But I need to face facts. You might make enough from del boy-ing to buy a few rounds of beers extra on a night out. Or to fund the odd trip to aiya nappa. You don’t make enough to go round buying jetskis unless you’re up to your neck in something bad.

Unless it's a council place he's subletting he won't be making much off that scam, housing benefit will only pay him enough to cover the cost of a single room in a house share at his age. Sounds like you've misunderstood and assumed he's doing something illegal, subletting isn't illegal.

The one i know about is he got a lease on an expensive flat, then claimed unemployment and got housing benefit to cover the rent, then sublet the room for more than he was paying in rent, and then moved to a way smaller / cheaper place. I’m not sure of the details (as i didn’t want to know, i don’t approve), but he explained it as he was quite pleased with himself