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Can you please explain why police can’t do anything for the death threat and stalking threat I received?

April 2nd, 2011 5 comments

First I was scammed online. I was tricked to send money by western union to someone in Florida. Later when I realized i was scammed and demanded my money back from that person, I was sent death threat and stalking threat through cell phone text messages. I went to the local police station near my home to report of this online scam and death threat text messages. As evidence those threatening text messages are still there. So I provided the cell phone number of the offenders. I also provided the name of person who was sent money through western union. Police said, "there is no way possible to find the identity of these people". First they said it maybe Nigeria scam. I insisted that the person is in Florida, not Nigeria because that’s what western union record shows. Later police told me, "their cell phone numbers are untraceable and the western union name i sent money too is extremely common". I feel police wasn’t interested in the case. Why cannot the identity of person be found if his cell phone number is known? Especially if he lives in Florida. I don’t believe this. Police then said that the death threat appears fake and nothing would happen. But I am not convinced. Please suggest me what to do.
just curious: was my complaint not taken seriously because I am not white? i know this maybe a far stretch, but just want to know.
its not nigeria. the scammer is in florida
i lost $300
the evidence are the text messages which i have stored. western union is evidence too. everything is based on the text messages I received.

Sorry, but the information you have is one of the scammer’s fake names, one of his free email addresses and one of his paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers, none of that information is going to help your local law enforcement agency find anyone.

Your scammer could be anywhere in the entire world, the address in Florida was probably copied from the phone book.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off the cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country the money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

While the death threats are annoying and scary, there is nothing that scammer can do, he is located half way around the world from you.

What you can do is slow that scammer down. Making a scammer’s scam googlable on every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find is a great way to slow that scammer down when a suspicious potential victim goes looking for information, finds your post containing the scammer’s name, email address, phone number and the emails themselves and then that potential victim does not become a victim because you took the time to "get the word out".

Wasting a scammer’s time legally and safely is called "scambaiting". If you google that word, you will find sites where you can read scambaits, post up the emails and email addresses of scammers, ask questions and learn all about that hobby.