Scam: Please help me.

Hello All,

Please everyone help me.
I was looking for a wheel with LFGSS.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/310634/#comment13857539

He contacted me that have a wheel in my gmail.
I paid for Western union (he said that PayPal could not be used)

But he does not ship the wheel. And He do not refund.
I was deceived by him.
Is this license a fake?
Do you know him?

Thank you for your time.
I'm sorry, I am not good at English.

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His Name : Powell Chris
His girlfriend name : Titad Dominic(Western union Receiver)
City :Greenbelt
State : Maryland
Country :United States

Given the signature on the license says Dominic Titad and the name says Chris Powell I don't hold out much hope for it being real.

Thank you for your comment.
Does this license mean fake?
Real name is Titad Dominic?
Thank you

People stating Western Union is their only payment method are often scammers. If you search for 'Titad Dominic' in Google, it looks like that name is linked to other scams, too. So it looks like you may well have been scammed. How long has it been since you made payment?

@Velocio

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How much did you pay?

Thank you very much.
I was doing many dealings using Westernunion.
I was careless.I trusted him.I have only myself to blame.
I paid 23rd September. He received the money after several hours on the same day.

Hello,
450usd.

New information
He did not have a wheel.
He used photos from other people.

You should report the fraud with Western Union if you haven't already.

https://www.westernunion.com/gb/en/fraudawareness/fraud-home.html

Thank you for your kindness.
I will report it soon.
Thank you very much.

Should we add no Western Union to the classified rules @Velocio ?

It seems to be favoured by scammers...

Hello All,
If Please let me know if this "Scram" conversation is inappropriate.
I will remove this post soon.

But I can not forgive scams.Please let me know if you have any information. I am constantly gathering information.

I am very grateful to LFGSS guys for helping.
Thank you very much.

Should we add no Western Union to the classified rules @Velocio ?

It seems to be favoured by scammers...

There will always be something favoured by scammers.

The only thing I'd recommend is that people only use PayPal, and never use PayPal as Gift... just regular PayPal with payment protection, and the seller pays the fees (it's against PayPal's rules to add surcharges to cover fees, PayPal will close seller accounts if they learn about this).

In the thread that you posted, no-one replied.

Did they contact you via the forum, as a private message, or did they email you?

Ah, email and you use Gmail.

Could you view the email, and using the drop down menu choose "Show Original"... it should display the email headers.

Once you have these, could you paste them all in this thread preceded and followed by lines with only ``` on them.

Hello,
He contacted me by e-mail.
Yes,I should have used Paypal.I have only myself to blame.

I may start allowing people to post adverts that are on eBay.

eBay's walled garden combined with PayPal are very effective at preventing scammers. It concerns me when scammers are going direct to email or WhatsApp, and are then asking for money via bank transfer, Western Union or something else that is direct and non-refundable.