Who would i contact to report a scammer or fraud case? I was ripped off by a person online from indonesia?

Question

i had asked this question but i didnt add enough detail and couldnt reply to the other yahoo person so what the issues are with this fraud was i ordered two items from him off his online website called Ausielindo. they are suppose to be wholesalers and offer EMS tracking. i paid him $400 via wire transfer. He took over 2 weeks to get back to me with a tracking number. It was like impossible to talk with this person because his english was horrible and kept saying i should receive the items soon etc etc the tracking number seems be valid through a cargo service called jdexpress.com however i only received one response from them and now it has been over 5 weeks and they have responded to any of my emails. As for Ausie lindo he has closed his site and email and seems to have run off. who knows if sent me fake items or nothing at all? i am usually quite good at digging up stuff on ppl but since i was in a rush to buy these items as a gift it was my own fault for not investigating further

Answer 1

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/address/index.html
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By clicking the above link u can contact Yahoo! Answers team directly.
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Please click the above link to select customer care of ur choice.

Answer 2

JD Express's liability extends only to delivering the goods to you. My concern would be that this Indonesian was somehow hand in glove with the delivery company and that the tracking number was false as well (though valid, of course, on their website.)

I found the following on Google Answers (which is not going to help you one little bit, I fear):

Subject: Re: http://ausielindo.com/ Scam or not
Answered By: scriptor-ga on 25 Jan 2006 17:45 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars

Dear ar032,

Ausielindo is a scam. I checked the Singapore database of registered
companies for their name, but no company of that name exists in
Singapore.

Note that they seem not even to know what their own company's name is:
On their website, I found the variants "Ausielindo", "Ausialindo" and
"Ausie Lindo". This shows how careless the scammers were when they
made their fraudulent website.

The company "Compas Enterprise", mentioned on the "info address" page,
does not exist in Singaporte either.

I also checked the ownership record of their domain. This is the result:

Mary Julie Bowman
PO Box 99800
EmeryVille, CA 94662
US

The Emeryville address is revealing: It shows that the domain was
registered through an anoymizing service offered by Yahoo under the
name "Yahoo! Private Domain Registration". Only registrations done
through that service have that P.O. Box address. It is a fact that
reputable companies have no reason to conceal their identities and
actual locations. Only the owner's name remains unchanged, but nothing
is easier than to register a domain with a fake name. Only fraudsters
have reason to hide behind a such mask, because they don't want to be
tracked by their victims.

The domain was registered only on 9 October 2005 and will already
expire on 9 October 2006. That is typical for frauds: Scammers use
"disposable" domains that will simply be abandoned once they are not
of use any longer.

And there is more. I found this company profile Ausielindo posted at
EC21, a business-to-business marketplace where anyone can pretend to
be a company:
http://bestlaptop.en.ec21.com/company_info.html

Note that "Compas Enterprise" suddenly became "Kompass Enterprise".
Employees of a real company would certainly know what their company's
name is. But there are other interesting details in that profile:

- They claim to have the impressive annual revenue of "USD 5,000,001 -
10,000,000". And yet they have auch a primitive website? This is
absolutely unrealistic.

- They claim to be in business since 2002. But why would a company
wait three years before registering their name as their domain? I'd
say that this "company" is no older than their pathetic website.

- The claim that their address is Simlim Square BB 4 SG, 320384
Singapore. But Sim Lim Square in Singapore is not a street - it's the
name of a huge electronics shopping center. The correct postal code of
that shopping center is 188504. The postal code 320384 does not even
exist in Singapore, neither does the postal code 908833.

Finally, the only payment methods they accept are telegraphic transfer
and wire transfer - which is typical for fraudsters, since the victims
can neither call back the money, nor can they ever trace who actually
received the money. Reputable companies offer better, safer payment
options.

Ausielindo is clearly a scam. I advise not to do any business with them.

Regards,
Scriptor



Sources:

Singapore Database of Registered Companies
https://www.psi.gov.sg/NASApp/tmf/TMFServlet

Allwhois Domain Database
http://www.allwhois.com/cgi-bin/allwhois.cgi

Singapore Yellow Pages Map and Location Search
http://www.yellowpages.com.sg/iyp/yp/jsp/index.jsp

Answer 3

If we only had the money for a trip, I'd go with you and we would locate this pizz ant. Too bad you were rushed. That's how easy it happens, we drop our guard for just one second and bam! It wasn't insured, eh? I'd probably go after anyone and everyone acssociated wit hthe shipping and handling of the items in question. Good luck, though. Too bad we aren't rich enough to take that trip.

Answer 4

Your SOL. any time you order something from outside of the country you are taking a chance. It's hard enough to get your money back from people inside the country these days.

Answer 5

it would count on the way it handed off. became into it with the aid of something like Ebay or yet another procuring or did you purely deliver somebody money? you are able to attempt submitting a checklist with your community police, they may well be waiting to direct you to the spectacular company.

Answer 6

I do not think you can really do anything. It's like buying from someone on ebay - if you don't receive your purchase the most that can happen is the seller being suspended.

Answer 7

if you paid with debit or credit card, alot of times you can contact your bank and they can stop the transaction, for a fee, or file it as an invalid transaction explain the situation

Answer 8

I would call police or secret service or something like that. I know they all have divisions set up like that.Good luck!

Answer 9

well get in touch with the nearest FBI offices , i think they have a cyber crime unit(international) and they can stop him before he skim another person.