How to get money back if I am scammed?

[areasquared]

Hello there,

I was in the process of buying a mage today from the user wowtradez. WE had it worked out to where I sent him half the payment, received the account info, gave him half the payment, and was given the rest of the information.

I gave him half the payment, and he gave me a faulty username / pass. I told him it was wrong, and he proceeded to give me a chain of other wrong passwords and usernames before logging out.

I've e-mailed him on all the e-mails I can find, and opened a disputed the second he logged off with paypal.

My question is, how will it work with paypal? Will they even deal with online accounts? And what should I do to get my money back?

Is there a way to find someones shipping address and phone number through paypal? Thats one thing i would like to do - call this kid (Or, most likely, his mother) and demand my money back.

What kind of legal rights do I have here? I'm not wanting to spend a ton of moeny getting a little bit of cash back, but it would be nice to know what kind of protection I have in a court setting.

Anyway, thanks for all your answers and for reading this.

 

[yan5ks1]

file a claim with paypal saying you never got your order. if he doesnt respond to paypay with a reason why he didnt give you what you bought they will refund you.

 

[Ecko72]

This was the same guy who wanted to buy my account and then for no reason blocked me If you look at his thread (something about buying 60+ alliance) someone else points out that hes a scammer. Hes a really shady person.

 

[areasquared]

Thats what I figured. Its a good thing I'm pretty stocked with funds at the moment, heh. If it had been last month i'd have been pretty screwed.

Its 20 days minimum for the refund right?

 

[bobbygg1753-banned]

Banned

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Thats what I figured. Its a good thing I'm pretty stocked with funds at the moment, heh. If it had been last month i'd have been pretty screwed.

Its 20 days minimum for the refund right?

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You may lose with paypal. Your best bet is to try and get his phone # and call him up.

 

[areasquared]

"You may lose with paypal."

How so?

I was trying to do that, but I have no way to really. I have little info - a few e-mails, an AIM name, paypal e-mail, and a markee name with 6 posts.

 

[cuzzo42o]

I just got scammed the same way , Last night it was a guy with the name Otto Stegmier on paypal , And today a guy on MD ewing(29200) and icecreaam(29831). These are all scammers using the same scam.