All law enforcements, whether they're police or FBI, won't do [***] about it. I reported it and they basically just told me not to fall for these type of scams again.
I got scammed to. I spoke to a Lieutenant with the FBI and I already have a case # and now I need to go get a Subpoena and go from there. Do not want to give out to much info but things are going people just need to come forward and do the same thing as me go to www.ic3.gov
This scam is not new, it's pretty old! I was almost suckered into it 10 years ago. This scam's history dates back to the mid 1990's. My theory is that it's operated by a small group of scammers who are possibly bouncing around the whole USA with burner phones (untraceable phone) or have put there phones under a false identity. They then put vague ads in the newspaper, Craigslist, offering jobs with unbelievable pay. The scammer who offers you the job is very persuasive and high pressures you to wire a deposit through Western Union or Moneygram. They claim once they receive the deposit, they will call you back within 30 minutes with further instructions on what to do. That gives the scammer enough time to withdraw the money from Western Union or Moneygram, and then the victim is out hundreds of dollars.
This scam works very well for one major reason. Most guys who get suckered in are too embarassed to report this to the law enforcers. The scammer has cleverly set up this scenario. Where he has created this illusion of you working for an illegal escorting agency, so when you do get scammed, he is almost certain you will not run to law enforcers with the simple fear that you could get in trouble for trying to join an illegal business.
Like I said before, this scam is over 15 years old and surprisingly just now people are fighting back. If enough of you email Dateline MSNBC and Chris Hansen, I'm sure they will investigate and catch these guys. Obviously law enforcers, cops, FBI, won't give a rat's [***] about this because you were trying to be greedy by trying to join an illegal business thinking you'll earn over $1000 a night.
LOL. Listen to this one. I called these people last night and found out it was a scam. Here's what I did. I went through the whole routine, while I was at home on the phone with her, of going to Walmart, getting the money gram, filling it out, yadda, yadda, yadda. When she asked for the reference number of the money gram, I gave her this for a reference number, She had me spell it out one more time. She repeated it back to me. She was going to check on the reference number, but I asked her what it meant, she didn't know so I told her. She hung up for some reason. Was she offended?