Feedback How do I Report a Fraud DP Member, Paypal Scam at DP?

Clearly you didn't know about me.
Never mind. I think it is time for me to leave this thread.

 

The guy is banned, for what reason I don't know (I have never felt that this the guy is trustworthy - but don't have any proof of it). Time for some beer, relax and let the authorities sort this guy out?

 

Yep Ryan, I see he has got banned However, I just wish no other DP member or any other forum member will face such loss like I am facing currently. I am in touch with Paypal and they said he has already withdrawn the funds and his Paypal Account for Easton Harmon Services has been banned as well. However to recover my funds they advised me to contact the debit card company. I am doing that now.

I never meant to offend anyone, neither I felt I have offended anyone other than the scammer. My unconditional apology to you if you felt I was offensive in any manner.

 

No need to apology. I clearly understand the situation.
I always respect anyone whom report scam activities to alert the whole community.

Arick

 

This is a pretty simple tale. There are many scammers and protecting yourself is simple. Use escrow. If you choose not to use escrow it is presumably because you trust someone, either from experience or you know them. If you get burned for doing that, it is the risk you take.

Here, someone relied on a useless metric like post count as some guide as to whether to send money to someone online without protecting yourself. That was obviously a foolish thing to do, especially in hindsight. It was your decision not to use escrow that caused you to lose money to a scammer.

So, like you, I like to post to help others. But instead of just warning them to stay away from one random scammer, I am trying to point out the obvious mistakes you made so others can avoid them.

1. Use escrow.
2. Don't trust someone you never met and have never done work with before and then send them money all while *not* following your own practice of using escrow.

There is a lesson here and it is not about avoiding one random guy, it is about protecting yourself and not letting your guard down without a really good reason.