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[benjaminthunderbolt]

So I recently got scammed on Craigslist, and judging by a post I put up, so have many other people. About 5 emails in the last 24 hours saying they've been scammed by the same person. I have the man's banking information but that's about it. My questions are:

1. What are my options?

2. Can anything be done with the banking information that I have?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[kinerry]

Do better research next time, and yes, you can usually use the bank info if it's not a stolen account.

Most people don't go through the trouble, but if you do, you'll likely catch him/her.

[crossmr]

There was some gyopo who was mentioned here a couple months back scamming people. Last we'd heard he was in Busan. Is it the same guy?
Find a cop who cares. Got a friend who's family member is a cop?

[orosee]

If you have internet banking, you can set up a mock transfer to the account number (just enter 1 won to be safe if you make one wrong click). It should give you the name of the account holder in Korean. After that just abort. Use that name to proceed, police maybe or google.

[Solarian]

You could post some details on the scam so that others don't get scammed.

[Senior]

How much did you get scammed? Unless it's substantial, just forget about it, but learn from it. It's not worth putting yourself through a great amount of stress over a little cash.

[benjaminthunderbolt]

Posted a warning on Craigslist and had a lot of other people tell me the same guy had been ripping them off.

It was 170,000 won. I don't care about the money, more making sure it doesn't keep happening. From the emails I've gotten, I was on the low-end of the scams.

The consensus I'm gathering is there's really no way to stop this. Maybe we should all start scamming if it's this easy? (tongue in cheek)

[b0101]

The police to have a cyber crime department, take copies of all the emails and the original post and bank transactions. Get a Korean friend to go with you. They can trace it with a bank account. Whether it's worth the hassle or not is up to you....but if they pursue it and find the guy it may stop this from happening in the future...I would hope anyway.

[shinbowl]

I was the guy. I did it.

[sesyeux]

[Scouse Mouse]

My wife got scammed a few months back, and the police told her there was nothing she could do. What these scammers like to do is head down to Seoul station, find a homeless bum, have him open an account in his name for the princely sum of 100,000 won, and they use that to run their fraud.

Nothing you can do about it...

[drdst122]

what is the scam?

[Depths of My Soul]

I just sent some money to Dr. Nmbonku.

I'm gonna be rich

[Dr. Whom]

This post is USELESS unless you provide specific details about the scam,
how it was carried out etc., etc.

However, I think the reason you don't want to go after the guy is you were
involved in something a little shady yourself...right?

Don't tell me you sent the hooker guy money? Hahahaha

[fortysixyou]

OP:


If you truly want to prevent this from happening to others, wouldn't it be necessary to, I don't know, tell others what the scam actually was?