Can you please explain why police can’t do anything for the death threat and stalking threat I received?
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.
And what have we learned from all this??
Maybe are you a tad smarter and more suspect now? Will you be a bit more self reliant and watchful of what you do with your money and personal info?
If you answer yes then we are all a bit better off since you have become a bit smarter.
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could be anything. just because you have a cell phone number means nothing. you can buy a pre paid, throw away phone for thirty dollars anywhere. let me guess, you’re not in florida? most police departments won’t chase something like this across sate lines. these days they can’t afford to. these days as police department would probably drop this if it’ only in another town in your own state. thing is they know the scammer is in the wind. they won’t be able to find him.
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Probably because there is no evidence and they can’t go on hearsay.
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The police have no way to find this person. By saying the number was untraceable, it means the scammer used a pay as you go phone that they paid cash for – there is no record of WHO that phone belonged to. It’s not like a normal cell phone where you have a contract with a billing address. That’s why scammers use pay as you go phones – they buy they phones with cash, then pay cash for the top-up cards. You have no way to find who is using the phone
Second, the scammer is NEVER going to give you his or her real name, so again the police have NO way to find them
Third, anyone with a fake ID can pick up money at Western Union, and the scammers always have a fake ID
Fourth, your local police have NO jurisdiction in Florida, and if they’ve sent a complaint to their counterparts in Florida and they don’t feel it’s worth their resources to follow up, then nothing will happen
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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.
References :
http://romancescam.com
http://scam.com
http://scamwarners.com
http://westernunion.com
http://419eater.com