Originally Posted by dynastoned

long story short he bought a car from ebay or so he thought. he won the bid at 3k or something i don't know the exact amount. anyways, he gets an email from some guy it looked something like this after he won the bid.

Date: tue, 13 sep 2005
From: eBay Safety Centre <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected] <hidden somehow?>
Subject: eBay Transaction #3202948093 Confirmed!

blah blah blah instructions blah blah all the info on the car and all that good stuff.

then it asks for him to transfer his funds to a western union account. so thinking it was legit he did it. turns out the dude was a scammer and got all his info somehow to make it look legit.

what i was wondering is if there is any way to trace this dude through his email to get his ip or whatever. i know people use proxies and shit and its probably an endless cause but my friend is out some cash so i thought id ask some of you computer geniuses for some friendly help.

only thing i could find on this guy from my friends papers he brought to work was a couple emails.. hes already contacted the authorities and still has to do a bunch of other shit.. anyways, here they are. anything he can do or just bite the bullet and hopefully learn his lesson?

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