An Indian person has scammed me 5000$ dollar. I just know his name,,want to know what are the possible options available to me. How much it will cost me hire a lawyer but the problem is that I only know the name of the person and the state where he lives(no address) some help from an indian person will be appreciated and rewarded
If you only know his name and his state, are you certain that he provided his real time and state? If no, you can forget about it. If yes, you need to consider firstly where is your location? If you are overseas, I think the costs of litigation will easily exceed the $5000. If you are local, you may want to give it a try. But still it is a very slim chance. I have setup my biz in India for more than a decade, I can assure you of the difficulty of filing a civil suit and the costs involved.
I know you said the person who scammed you is Indian, but you didn't say where you or your business is located. If you are located in the United States you might try small claims court. Each state has different rules. Take a look at this Nolo.com article that gives a good summary of state limits for small claims court. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclope...l;jsessionid=58A8BEA29017576579576CA0E4ADB878 Good luck. Let us know what you decide to do. Thank you.
If you don't know about his identity like Full Name, Company Name, Full Address and Phone Number then its really hard to track him now.
Mind to share how you were scammed? If it's through some online payment processor like Paypal/Escrow/Moneybooker, you may get the money back through them.
If you are ready to spend a $2k there are SME companies @ india who will send their executive directly to make a search on the city involved. Further they run private CID companies.
If the user is from DP. If you have the proof of scammed from him, I think you can ask the Dp mod or admin for his Ip. Then trace him through ip. $5000 = INR 231,749.99 . Lol how did you made transaction without knowing the user. Can you tell from which State he is from.
well thanks for some support guys,,,,actually he did some web design work for me and I got impressed with his knoweledge. I worked with him for 3 months and that time he was being honest. Then I decided to open a joint venture with him in India like our web designing company. For this purpose I send him the money but now he is nt replying to my messages. I just know his DP username, paypal id , his real name and he is from kolkata
Since you know his paypal ID, You can contact paypal and provide all the proofs you can. That might help but I am not really sure... But Tell us his username on DP [If it's allowed] just to prevent working with this guy. Ask admin to tell his IP address to you. Then rest things like tracking him down and so is yours
If you paid via credit card, then dispute the charges... paypal will not refund on intangible items... People get scammed all the time from people in the US and from overseas... unless you have something to dispute with your credit card, then I think you are out of luck, and he is probably eatting lobster, and spent the dough on a hooker... in other words, da money is gone, no matter what you do...
I am sure Admin will quite rightly tell you to take a hike. If you want that sort of info from any forum owner you will need a proper court order.
As you already know, it is extremely unlikely you will see any of that money again. Start out with a paypal dispute. Unless he still has funds in that acccount, highly unlikely, the extent of paypal's assistance will be disabling that profile. It's possible a secondary paypal or eBay account has been linked to him, so the freeze might be more than he anticipated. Either way, it's worth a shot. Did you pay using a credit card? A cc dispute is far more likely to succeed, even if you paid through paypal. Be aware that paypal disdains cc disputes because they can be liable for any chargebacks, even if the account has zero funds. I believe they put a clause in their terms and conditions a few years ago to attempt to restrict cc disputes. Keep in mind they might disable your account for breaching their TOCs if that dispute is successful. That said, this too is worth a shot with $5k on the line. The next step is filing a police complaint. If you are a US citizen, try www.ic3.gov. There are far too many cases like this for them to help you, but you can forward a copy of that complaint and the receipt of your $5k transfer to the staff of any site he's associated with. Staff is far more likely to believe your story and ban his accounts if you include a copy of an official police complaint. Good luck!