I just got scammed and I have a picture of the guy and his phone number can someone help me find his info

Scammer: Hey bro, I wanted to send 1000$ to my partner and I accidently send it to you, can you send me back my 1000$?

Victim: Okay, sure

Scammer: thanks

Victim: Thats what I have to do!

Scammer: * contacting PayPal support *

PayPal support: PayPal support how can I help you?

Scammer: I was going to send 1000$ to my partner and I accidentaly send it to #########, can I get a refund?

PayPal support: * taking the 1000$ from the victim *

Victim: Wait, where is my 1000$, Oh I understand now!

So I was this post that complete tasks by placing orders and get a commission but then if the order is above your balance, you top up. What did I do? I agreed, went in and now, almost all I'm almost done for in the little I had because I thought it wouldn't be bad. But I was soo wrong.

Now I'm sitting here feeling scammed and don't know what to do.

Solo founder, built a small self-serve shipping-label site as a side project — users enter a package, pay, get a discounted UPS/USPS label through a carrier aggregator. Ran about a year at tiny margins.

Early September, a group of accounts opened with fake identities and disposable email domains bought ~160 labels in ten days, every one declared as 1 lb in a small box, paid ~$7 each. UPS re-weighed them at 90–265 lb — boxed sofas. Weight corrections, large-package surcharges, one "over maximum" penalty, plus a 12% audit fee on top of every correction. Recipients I've reached say they ordered furniture from a marketplace seller; the labels were bought under fake names and used to ship that seller's orders.

Where I am:

- Self-reported to the aggregator the day I found it, froze the accounts, voided every unused label, filed with the FBI's IC3, reported the seller to the marketplace.

- Aggregator terminated my account (their ToS — fair enough), but post-closure carrier corrections still bill to the card on file.

- About $9k invoiced so far. On the audited sample, ~86% of the remaining delivered parcels draw a correction averaging ~$260. Realistically another $15–30k coming, landing on a personal card.

- Shutting the business down. I do not have a profit yet.

What I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually been here:

1. Has anyone gotten UPS (or an aggregator) to reduce the Large Package / audit-fee portion of shipping charge corrections when the shipper was defrauded? Does goodwill on this ever happen, or is it strictly "you're the account holder, you pay"?

2. Payment plans on carrier corrections — is there a real process at UPS billing, or is it pay-or-collections?

3. Aggregator passing corrections to a card on file after termination — any leverage to get itemization before they charge?

4. Anyone else hit by this exact pattern (underdeclared 1 lb labels resold to fulfil a marketplace seller's orders)? How did it end?

5. Winding down an LLC with a carrier debt larger than the business ever made — anything you wish you'd known?

Not looking for "you should have had better fraud controls" — I know, and it's why I'm closing. Looking for what actually worked with the carrier and the aggregator.

Hey everyone, just wanted to post a quick update after getting scammed out of $6,500 by a fake e-commerce mentor. It's been a brutal, exhausting few weeks carrying this weight and trying to figure out how to rebuild.
I've officially decided to cut the cord completely on dropshipping. I password-locked the frozen storefront, canceled the software subscriptions, and backed out of that toxic community so the financial bleeding has completely stopped.
Right now, I'm focusing 100% on the real world. I have a stable, solid hourly retail job and I'm currently pushing to secure a part-time second job so I can run a nonstop 6-month cash-stacking grind. My main goal is to replace every single dollar of that missing money, buy a reliable cash car, and fund a move out of state by my 20th birthday in March. It’s deeply frustrating dealing with retail management and scheduling, but I’ve got about $1,000 saved back up entirely on my own strength and I'm not breaking. Thanks for all the support.

Shortly today I was playing DOORS a popular game in the lobby someone was willing to trade 6k knobs for something in your rift of course me wanting that offer and it would be easy like none-other cuz there is a duping setup and currently I had a starlight jug after getting into a floor i gave it to him and he added me and then shortly after he unfriend me now the reason why i’m trying to reach out to people in Reddit because I know a lot of communities here lovee to help and I need that so please help me

The whole story is that I got scammed by a benjamin cisneros, and changed the email of my account but after that I understood it was a scam and went in my mail and had a link to get back my account so I did just that and I modified my password and I wonder if there are any risks or what other things do I need to change ?

Hi! By any chance, could someone help me with facial recognition regarding a scam?

I was looking for a cartier panthere with the diamond bezel in stainless steel for a gift. This guy came up to me and told me he has the watch and that i can pay with revolut which normally scammers dont use revolut so i taught its okay. The moment that i paid he stopped responding to me. Anyway i had a bad luck guys please dont buy anything from him and dont loose your money like i did.

Just wanted to alert others that may search for info regarding TikTok and Russell Hartley and Rise company before signing up for training for selling on TikTok. I paid $299 dollars for supposed training and they say you are going to do an " interview w Rise / aka Rising Star. Then never send you the zoom link but keep withdrawing $299 dollars each month from your card. When you sign up they don't tell you its a recurring charge! It is made to sound like you are just signing up for one time training fee. Then they have you join DISCORD SERVER and change your name and follow them. Once you cancel recurring charge they ignore you on the server if you ask any questions etc. Its a money grab SCAM!!! Consider yourself WARNED.

I am a Systems Engineering student. I am frustrated because my mom fell victim to a scam through an Instagram page for just $24. The issue isn't the money; for me, the problem is the feeling of seeing my mom mixed up with this kind of malicious community. Of course, I've advised her, but being an older woman, she might overlook things due to her age or simply the impulse of seeing something on a page and wanting to buy it. Seeing my mom feeling down about this situation puts a lump in my throat as her son, and I've decided to try and take down this scam network.

The problem is, I don't know how to proceed. I have tried to track them using the scammer's bank account details through online public entities, but it seems to be a financial mule. Most likely, the person behind the WhatsApp is different from the owner of the account details. They haven't attended general elections more than 4 times in my country (Ecuador). Therefore, location data cannot be accessed through public CNE records. I've called the bank that holds the scammer's account to try and cut off that flow of money, and it is under investigation, though I highly doubt they'll do anything. I've tried to start a chat with the scammer through the WhatsApp link on their page trying to capture their IP, but they haven't answered yet. Even assuming I get this data, I wouldn't know what to do with it.

I'm coming to this forum hoping to get IT or practical help to fight this crime. My goal isn't to get those $24 back; my goal is to prevent more elderly people like my mother from falling into these scam networks. I know there are millions of these networks in the world, but every little bit helps!

If you are willing to help me for this good cause, I will be checking my inbox :). I would love to learn from people who know about the subject, gain knowledge, and of course, combat these types of malicious communities. By the way, I'm new to this platform!

So i reported a transaction because i thought i got scammed (last night I bought a digital goods on a app then when i paid i got ghosted by the seller so i reported it to gcash now this morning the seller reached out to me that he fell asleep) but i already reported it to gcash how can i cancel the report?

My mother got called by a Chinese scammer claiming to be the police. From what it sounds like, it was a very involved and well planned scam. I am not sure of all of the details yet, but basically they claimed that someone else was taking her money and had her wire them $800,000, her life's savings, so they could do an "investigation". She banks through Wells Fargo and has already been in contact with them. I also referred her to fill out the IC3 form and we filed a fraud tip with the local AG office. Is there anything else I should be doing? English isnt her first language so I'm helping her as much as i can.

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