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Help Me Out....Serious Fraud....

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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 11:01 AM
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A friend of mine had over $3000 transferred from his paypal account to someone else's account at like 3:00AM ish.

The money was transferred to this email address: ImSoHooD_@hotmail.com

Unfortunatelly, I do not have any emails that were sent to my friend from this address, so I dont have an IP address.

Does anyone know how to find out info regarding this email address?

Location, IP address, etc etc...

Thanks for the help!
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 11:07 AM
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Best solution, I think, is to get Paypal to resolve this fraudulent activity.
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 11:17 AM
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Why would anyone send 3k to an email address named IM So Hood?
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 11:41 AM
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^ lol. Point taken.
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Purple_sky,Jun 4 2006, 02:07 PM
Best solution, I think, is to get Paypal to resolve this fraudulent activity.
Paypal said they cannot release IP addresses unless it is to law enforcement.

Dumb NYPD cops told me that "Its not murder, you probably arent going to get any help here" Dumb pigs, as useful as a c0ck flavored lollipop.
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 07:57 PM
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where;s the emails? Try contacting paypal, and the isp of the guy's IP. Have your friend file a police report. If the transfer was unauthorized, paypal can reverse it. The funds are not released immediately upon transfer, so the dude doesn't have the money in cash yet.
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 09:51 PM
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I don't know when people will understand if you have to use paypal use a credit card, YOU CAN BLOCK FUNDS!!!

I had to do this on my first paypal transaction and guess what, i got to keep my money and kept the merchandise which was defective!
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Old Jun 4, 2006 | 10:06 PM
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The money was actually denied by AMEX after the fraud call came in. We just want to get the guy....Videotape him getting dragged out of his house in cuffs, and post it all over the internet.
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Old Jun 5, 2006 | 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,Jun 5 2006, 01:06 AM
The money was actually denied by AMEX after the fraud call came in. We just want to get the guy....Videotape him getting dragged out of his house in cuffs, and post it all over the internet.
Gonna be tough to get any type of REAL payback. You could pay an information gathering service (website) to match that email address to a IP address/mailing address, but that wont solve much. Just file a report and let Paypal know that this was an unauthorized transaction. If someone hacked the account, they will research it...
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Old Jun 5, 2006 | 12:42 PM
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being that its a web based address, its going to be difficult to trace the IP.
I have to imagine the email will be sent from the hotmail server, not from the users computer. You might try contacting hotmail with the problem and see if they will release the IP of the user logging into that account.
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