How to Recover Money from Scams

How to Recover and Get Back Money from Scams

If you get victim by phising scammers and lost your money, the only way to recover your lost money is reporting scam to the governments and authority of the country where criminals stay and run their activity, or to the country where the funds has been transferred. But how could you know the exact location of the criminals? If they claim that, they are from Italy or Germany but actually they sent email from Africa, or if they claim they are from Zimbabwe but actually from South Africa, how could you identify their original country or region? To find the probable location of email sender, you first need to detect their IP address and then specify their country by using the IP.

To find the IP, you can open an Alibaba account and also request the email sender to open an account in Alibaba, mentioning that you always use Alibaba, so it will be more helpful to maintain regular contact with you.
Alternatively, you can create a webpage, include "AddFreeStatus" on your page and then request the email sender to visit your webpage. To encourage him/her to visit your page, you can give details reply including your personal information including bank information (off course not give real information) in that page. You should neither inform about this webpage to any other people, nor submit this page to anywhere in the web. If your targeted person visit your page, then you will see his/her IP address in the Addfreestatus of your page.

After find the IP, you can found the country of IP holder by using this IP address. To get the country name of a particular IP address, see the following pages:
How to find web address location
How can I find location through ip address
How to find any ip address
How to know ip location
Easy ways to know location from ip

Please note that, you can only found the country name, not found the exact person or computer. Because, same IP may be used by many people. So matching only IP address could not prove anybody as culprit, untill other evidence found. So you must be careful that, no innocent people would be harrassed or harmed. A criminal must be captured in red handed during doing his/her criminal activity, not any other time when he/she not involved in activity. Before hunt anybody, you and law enforcement authority must carefully observe and spying on his/her activity. Otherwise, you may be responsible for victimize any innocent person.

Another important point, if the email sender use any annonymous proxy server, then you will not found his/her country by using IP address. So depending only on IP may be lead to harm any innocent people. So please do not take action against anybody without further evidence.

After found IP and country name, contact with the government of the country and forward all emails to them. If you sent money, do not forget to scan the payment copy and send by email to the government of the country where the money has been transferred.

Here is a list of governments, organizations and agencies, where a fraud victim can report the scam:

South African Government
http://www.gov.za/
Official website of government of South Africa
South African Police Service - Scam Prevention Project
http://www.saps.gov.za
The South African Police Service established a Task Team within the Commercial Branch to investigate 419 scams.
Southern African Fraud Prevention Service
http://www.safps.org.za/
A South African company combating fraud and scam
Federal Republic of Nigeria
http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/
Nigerian government official web portal
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - EFCC
http://www.efccnigeria.org/efcc/
Contribute to the global war against financial crimes
Sudan Government
http://www.sudan.gov.sd/en/
News and issues from Government of Sudan

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Zimbabwe Government
http://www.gta.gov.zw/
Official website of government of Zimbabwe
Cameroun Government
http://www.spm.gov.cm/
Prime Minister's office of Cameroun
Benin Government
http://www.gouv.bj/
Official website of Benin Government in French language, you need to translate through Google Translation
Government of Ghana
http://www.ghana.gov.gh/
You can find Security agencies of Ghana Government at the Directory page of this official website
Philippines Government
http://www.gov.ph/
Official gazette of republic of Philippines

Please note that, before take help or service from anybody of above listed websites, please ensure and verify two things: they are government and they do not require any advance fee. Southern African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS) has not still verified, so be careful about taking help from them.