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[Jeonju Teacher]

Hi all. I responded to Craigslist ad of this men. Then transfer money to his account. Then he vanished.

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[Jeonju Teacher]

Not much to tell. Saw the ad for camera at a good price. Exchange emails, he was willing to either meet or ship it. As I live far from Busan, where he claimed to be, I sent the money. Then as he supposed to ship it today, I got funny feeling. Check his email, has been closed, silly me believe him for not having phone, but bank account checks out so....I always seems so cautious, as I probably done over 200 deals on CL, but he surely got me, or rather my greed. Anyway warning for others, beware.

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[Skippy]

Well what about the transfer details. What kind of transfer?

If it was Korean bank to bank, look at the the slip and you can get some details on the guys name. Plus his bank account details could be used to maybe make a police report.

[The Cosmic Hum]

2.5 years as a member of Dave's and this is JT's first ever post not in the BST forum.
In the BST forum...JT is a prolific poster.

Even though this post is still connected to buying and selling, it is a good start.
Welcome to Dave's in general JT.

Best of luck getting this mess figured out...keep us informed as to how things turn out.

[Jeonju Teacher]

LOL that's true, you see what it takes to make my appearance here. I don't think I am buying/selling so much. I am just selling stuff to pay for the non-existent camera, now to fill up hole in my bank account Anyway thank you for the welcome, will keep you posted should something change.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

Do you think that's his real name? Why would a scammer use his real name? He'll change the made up name and go on scamming.

Take you bank transfer record to the biggest police station in your city. Even my little city has an foreign liaison officer that speaks English.

[fosterman]

happened to me once.

go to the bank, tell them of the fraud. tell the police.

then the bank will give the details to the police,
then the police will track him down, he will receive a phone call from the police saying that you will press charges and the police will arrest him if he doesn't send the money back.

you can't open a bank account in korea without ID.

you can catch him if you want to.

my guy was contacted in a day, and he wired me the money that day.
he thought he was smart, but I got him.

[Jeonju Teacher]

Thank you for all the support.

[Jeonju Teacher]

UPDATE: As the whole doo doo happened over the weekend, today I went to file police report.

[Troglodyte]

How did you manage to get his girlfriend's number?

[Jeonju Teacher]

I got his name from the bank account.

[cadurling]

Apparently it is legal to sell your bank account to another person, without consequences if that person happens to do illegal activity. About 4 years ago I had booked a pension and got scammed. The police looked into it and the account owner said he had sold the account to somebody he didn't know. That was the end of the inquiry and my 400 bucks.

[nautilus]

Sounds like you totally pwned this crook. Nice work.

Although if he is married to a Korean (as appears the case) then probably not much will happen to him.