DJEStylez401, the shadiest person ever.. stay away from him Options

[nate95]

DJEStylez401 pretty much scammed me out of $70 a while back i sold him something for $70..like 2 days after he bought the item he filed a claim agianst me on pay pal cause he did have it yet!! how crazy.. well anyway he got it a few days later and he said he dropped the claim.. well apparently not pay pal went on with the claim and my account was locked up for like 3 months... he acted like he was all sorry and seemed pretty nice we had been talking ever since on aol and stuff.... well i decided i needed my pay pal account back up and working and the only way to do that was to deposite the $70 and refund him the money to make pay pal happy... so i talked to him about it and we decided i would send him the $70 to get my account back up and he would send it right back.. well i sent him the money and i never got it back.. he wont respond to me at all, i have him on aol and hes online but wont talk, i'v sent him email and pms on here, even a money request on pay pal and he cancelled it....some of you might say ya im stupid for sending him the money back and trusting him... but thats just the kinda guy iam. . im nice and i trust people... and what hes doing is just NOT cool. any suggestions?

[punkuup5150]

Internet fraud

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The IC3 gathers internet fraud complaints from consumers across the nation and alerts the proper authorities to internet fraud reports. In 2004, the IC3 received more than 270,000 internet fraud complaints, an increase of 66 percent from the previous year. Of these internet fraud complaints, over 190,000 were referred to the appropriate agency for further investigation. The average loss to each internet fraud victim averaged just under $220, totaling over $68 million for all internet fraud complaints reported that year.

Internet fraud involving auctions was the most widely reported internet fraud, accounting for 71 percent of reports received by the IC3 in 2004. Other top internet fraud offenses include: non-delivery of merchandise or payment, credit or debit card fraud, check fraud, investment fraud, confidence fraud, and identity theft. The two primary mechanisms for internet fraud contact are email and web pages. More than two-thirds of all internet fraud victims report having contact with the perpetrator by email and 24 percent had contact through a website.

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