how do i go about getting my money back ?
ok – back in October I met a guy on an online dating website. About 3 weeks after we started talking, he had to go to the U.K. on business. As soon as he got home from there, we were finally going to meet. However, circumstances arose, and he had to go to Nigeria to be with his mom who was facing a major surgery. He called me up and was very upset. Long story short, I loaned him 00 to help with his moms surgery. One thing lead to the next, and teh next thing you know he said that if I could loan him enough money to come home that he would pay me back everything he owes me. So , then nice and trusting person I try to be, I sent him 00 for a plane ticket to come home. I asked him if he got his plane ticket, and he said he couldn’t get it because he had to pay his cell phone bill and his internet bill before they would let him leave the country – and his bills were totalling more than i sent him. I am starting to believe this is all a scam. I would like to know how I can get my money back and get it back as fast as possible. ANY AND ALL HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. : I have learned my lesson about internet relationships now – so PLEASE NO RUDE COMMENTS PLEASE !!!!!
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.Actually, you probably have little recourse but you can report it to the authorities. You voluntarily gave someone money who you didn’t know…I don’t loan money to people I DO know (it tends to cause nothing but trouble).
Consider it a pricey mistake as it’s unlikely you’ll get the money back but you can try…don’t make this lesson just about internet relationships (because people offline can bullsh*t you also)…make it a lesson about people and money in general. Don’t loan people money…either make it a gift (not to be returned) or advise them to speak to a bank, get a credit card, or pawn something of value.
Well there is no way that you can get the money back sorry to say
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out to lunch,………honey, damn , I wish you would have sent me the money at least I would have shown you a good time !
if you sent money via Western Union or Moneygram, there is unfortunately no way to ever get your money back, that’s why the scammers always ask you to send money this way. He gave you a fake name so you can’t trace him, probably used a different internet cafe every day so you can’t track his IP address, and most people in Nigeria use pay-as-you-go mobile phones so there is no way to find out who a certain number belongs to.
You can try contacting the EFCC in Nigeria, who investigate scams http://www.efccnigeria.org/ but they are not going to bother for $5000. They are more interested when banks and major companies are scammed out of $500,000 or more. But they may follow up if lots of people report the same person – assuming he’s using the same name, phone or email more than once. Most of these scammers have hundreds of different aliases and email addresses just look at this guy http://www.romancescam.com/album/displayimage.php?album=585&pos=0 and how many different names, email addresses, IP addresses and phone numbers that he’s used on various dating sites have been reported to this scambusting site alone, meaning there are probabaly hundreds of other victims who have never reported the other names he is using
Be careful, you may now get contacted by email by a "lawyer" or "police detective" or "private investigator" offering to help you recover your money – this is all part of the same scam. Once the scammer knows you won’t send him any more money, they invent new characters who want to "help" you but just need you to send some money for legal fees, processing fees, bank transfer fees, and anything else they can think of to steal more of your money
My friend’s mother lost over £5000 to one of these scammers with a similar story and never got anything back. Even the UK High Commission in Nigeria said they couldn’t do anything because she voluntarily sent money to a complete stranger and under Nigerian law, no crime was actually committed. If he had hacked into her bank account, sent her fake money orders to cash, or used her credit card details to make purchases, the police would get involved. But since she chose to send her own money to someone she had never even met, they don’t see it as a crime and won’t even bother investigating