Help, I have been scammed & lost everything. *stressed*

cloud360

I have got my answers from an expert, this thread can now be closed

marleyboy

What exactly did you pay for, your post seems a little vague on what you were buying?

Physical goods would be something wrapped and posted, from a Disk to a camera. Non physical would be data, codes, vouchers or any item that involves nothing more than an email.

Brooker_Dave

"mini cookers" whatever they are.

Brooker_Dave

cloud360 wrote: »

3) What if seller says to card company I paid for services and gives false evidence (e.g forged emails), and I also give evidence I paid for physical goods. Who will card company believe?[/B]

Was this an ebay transaction or did buy something from a website?

Fire_Fox

Did you pay against a PayPal invoice or as a 'gift'? If you paid £3K against an invoice why doesn't that describe the tangible items you bought? Have you written to PayPal? Do you have an address for this person, could try small claims? Not sure chat logs count as evidence, it would be easy to falsify those.

cloud360

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Did you pay against a PayPal invoice or as a 'gift'? If you paid £3K against an invoice why doesn't that describe the tangible items you bought? Have you written to PayPal? Do you have an address for this person, could try small claims? Not sure chat logs count as evidence, it would be easy to falsify those.

person is in usa. paid as "payment for goods and services ", because there used to be option for "payment for goods" and one for "payment for services" then paypal merged them. they are crooks !

cloud360

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

Was this an ebay transaction or did buy something from a website?

paid through paypal

barmonkey

cloud360 wrote: »

paid through paypal

yes we got that but where did you buy from ?

cloud360

barmonkey wrote: »

yes we got that but where did you buy from ?

From somone I met on a freelance site called elance. I added them to my skype and advertised that I needed these items, they said they can send me these goods for cheap.

Thats when scam started, they own an SEO service site and have a paypal business account.

On their business account it listed their site, where they offered some digital goods. But I never paid digital goods, but based on sellers history am guessing paypal decided to believe seller and not me.

I feel terrible being scammed

theonlywayisup

Specifically what items?

Paypal are clear. Items must be tangible/physical. You have been very vague here.

Brooker_Dave

cloud360 wrote: »

From somone I met on a freelance site called elance. I added them to my skype and advertised that I needed these items, they said they can send me these goods for cheap.

Thats when scam started, they own an SEO service site and have a paypal business account.

On their business account it listed their site, where they offered some digital goods. But I never paid digital goods, but based on sellers history am guessing paypal decided to believe seller and not me.

I feel terrible being scammed

But elance is not the sort of website anyone would use to buy some cookers????