Lost 1000$ to paypal scam , How I got my money back ?

in #paypal7 years ago

Hello Steemit Fam ,
this is my first post here ,
I'd like to share this story with you ,
I wrote about it in reddit here

The situation in sum
Last June I lost 1000$ to scam
I wanted to buy stuff from newegg.com and since I'm not american citizen the only way for me is to buy it with bitcoin , I always use this forum to buy bitcoins , the scammer contacted me and offered a real good deal , I was stupid enough to fell for it , and stupid enough to believe that if something went wrong i will get my money easily from paypal , so i paid him , and he ofcourse didn't send me anything ,

and even thought in paypal transaction notes i stated that I'm buying bitcoin from him and inserted my wallet address there , paypal turned a blind eye on that and closed the dispute in his favor telling me that they don't offer buyer protection for this kind of transaction , so i had to go the hard way , and filled a chargeback with my bank .

my bank were dickheads with me at first , they kept asking really dumb questions , like they didn't even know what is bitcoin and what is cryptocurrency , so i had to add a little lie to protect myself more , i told them im not only buying bitcoins from him , im also buying a hardware wallet which is something like a USB drive , they asked me to explain to them what is bitcoin :D , and what is hardware wallet :D in details , so i did , and they asked me to send all my communications with the scammer , and to send a proof that i did ask him to refund the money and he refused ( imagine i have to give them a proof that a scammer don't wanna pay me back )
Yeah it was really dumb and frustrating , and i almost lost faith im gonna get this money back,
but Hey I GOT MY MONEY BACK TODAY WOHOOOO :D
It took almost 4 months but at least i got it back finally.

Lessons learned:

  • if you dont' know them , dont' trust them.
  • If a deal is too good to be true , it isn't true .
  • Buy (anything) from verified merchants and markets only.
  • Dont lose faith , do what you gotta do, if it's meant to happen it will happen .
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