Okay, well, I am really upset right now and this wasn't even my money, it was my dad's. Neither one of us are avid ebay users, and he isn't really internet savvy at all. Anyhow, here's the story:
Roughly a week and a half ago my dad bid on a Generator to hook up on his new camper over ebay. Everything seemed fine and working as normal, although he lost the bid. No big deal as he wasn't really needing one immediately anyway, but wanted to give it a shot anyway.
After losing the next day he recieves an email from someone saying that they'd like to give him a "second chance offer" at the price he bid at. He said sure and this is where things got a bit hairy. The guy again replied and said he would be in contact shortly. After that point, he got another email that looked like an official ebay email with their headers and things on the email talking about how they would like to give a second chance offer and how this guy had over 20,000 in bonds and all this stuff with this guy.
So, my dad chose to give it a shot and go ahead and accept this generator. This is where my dad went wrong. There was no discussion through ebay after this point and apparently there never was. My dad sent over $1500 through Western Union to someone in Chicago. It was picked up Monday morning of last week at the Western Union there. No responses from the guy, ebay says that that guy was not the guy who was originally selling the generator, and now we're trying to get the police involved and have filed a report, but we filed the report last Thursday and still no response from the police.
I want to take this matter into my own hands and know that if the internet is capable of allowing people to commit these crimes, surely it is capable of helping me track down and catch this guy. My father, who this happened to, is an attorney and is very eager to go up to Chicago and file charges against this scam-artist. So anyone's work here won't go unnoticed or to no avail.
Has anyone had this happen to them? I know you guys deal with a lot of theifs here in the For Sale/Trade section and want to know what I can do to track this guy down or what methods I should take to find help with this.
Summary:
A guy scammed my father, we want to track him down and press charges. We know he is in Chicago and we have an email address with @aol.com. What can we do to find this guy?
Roughly a week and a half ago my dad bid on a Generator to hook up on his new camper over ebay. Everything seemed fine and working as normal, although he lost the bid. No big deal as he wasn't really needing one immediately anyway, but wanted to give it a shot anyway.
After losing the next day he recieves an email from someone saying that they'd like to give him a "second chance offer" at the price he bid at. He said sure and this is where things got a bit hairy. The guy again replied and said he would be in contact shortly. After that point, he got another email that looked like an official ebay email with their headers and things on the email talking about how they would like to give a second chance offer and how this guy had over 20,000 in bonds and all this stuff with this guy.
So, my dad chose to give it a shot and go ahead and accept this generator. This is where my dad went wrong. There was no discussion through ebay after this point and apparently there never was. My dad sent over $1500 through Western Union to someone in Chicago. It was picked up Monday morning of last week at the Western Union there. No responses from the guy, ebay says that that guy was not the guy who was originally selling the generator, and now we're trying to get the police involved and have filed a report, but we filed the report last Thursday and still no response from the police.
I want to take this matter into my own hands and know that if the internet is capable of allowing people to commit these crimes, surely it is capable of helping me track down and catch this guy. My father, who this happened to, is an attorney and is very eager to go up to Chicago and file charges against this scam-artist. So anyone's work here won't go unnoticed or to no avail.
Has anyone had this happen to them? I know you guys deal with a lot of theifs here in the For Sale/Trade section and want to know what I can do to track this guy down or what methods I should take to find help with this.
Summary:
A guy scammed my father, we want to track him down and press charges. We know he is in Chicago and we have an email address with @aol.com. What can we do to find this guy?
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