I have all the recipts, emails, car listing, whois, vin number and all that good stuf. I don't want the money back that was my fault I just don't want him to scam other people with it.
Except if the car never existed (he could have taken photos of a strangers car), would those things actually point to them?
Yes I ran the carfax report on the car and it has the same city and state as the whois. Yes he tricked me into thinking we were going though an escrow service for cars. I mean the site is legit but we wern't going though the site it just appeared that way.
I guess that could be you can get the vin number from the outside so that could be. Ohwell I guess it happens lol guess I will just look local.
Well... this probably won't help you much at this point but this is how they got another scammer doing a similar thing: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ Too bad the guy that pulled the scam on the scammer is now unreachable... (~shrugs~)
Actually... check this out from good ol wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud specifically this part: "You may also email the 419er documents, especially any banking data they may have given you, marked as described above, to Task Force Main in DC ; that is also acceptable." But I'm not sure if 419 is specifically for scams originating in Nigeria...
I called moneygram and there able to get my money back but that isn't what I wanted. I just want this guy to take some responsibility for scamming people.
BTW... it is OK to say that you did want to get yor $3,000 back in addition to being a good samaritan. I've got a better scam for you. A girlfriend of mine wanted to sell her car. The guy who answered her ad happened to be in the UK and said that it was cheaper for him to have the car sent via boat than to buy it new. He was going to send her a check for the car - purchase price 15K. His company just got a check for 20K from company B and he'd endorse the check and she could keep 1,000 for the trouble and just send him a check for 4K. She smelled something strange and called her favorite Internet guy, who said it smelled worse than the dump on Staten Island on a hot day. She reported it to the police who sent her to the FBI. Said this happens so frequently it's difficult to handle. You can cash the check, it will temporarily appear in your account as funds received. Then you send off your check in the mail not knowing that the check is going to be reversed, funds removed, and perhaps you may only find out a few days letter when a statement comes to your house regarding the transaction. By that time your check has been cashed and nobody may be taking your car... or the car has already been shipped if you're really gullible. Now THAT's a good scam!
in that case can i have it? did you email the task force? Are you going to find out if they nail this guy? Post back here if you ever find out if they get this guy. Glad you got your money back.
slinky, and sadly there's a very succcessful variation of that where people pay via cheques from stolen bankers' cheques/bankers' draft books. Most people assume these instruments are as safe as cash. It's only several days after they've parted with the goods do they discover the unbounceable cheque has bounced.