Sunday, October 31, 2004

Doublers continued. Ways to recoup

As I mentioned before doublers can make you money. But what happens if you get into one that fails or isn't exactly kosher. There may be a way to recoup "some" of your investment.

First, depending on how you made your original investment get a copy of how much you sent and who you sent it to.

Send the Admin of the program an email asking to have your money refunded. Sometimes it is just a matter of the program stalling and the Admin may return part or all of your investment. In other cases the Admin may be behind several programs and using a fraudulent email. You may have to search around for a valid email. Sometimes you can get it from the domain information at WHOIS.

If you are unsuccessful in finding the Admin and getting him or her to refund your money then you must be prepared to file a complaint.
Perhaps you may eventually get your money back but if not, at least you have placed this person/program on the record as being a ripoff. That in itself may save others from being scammed again in the future.

These 5 options are valid when trying to get your money back from any vendor or program on the internet.


1. If you paid by Paypal, Stormpay, Intgold, eGold,
etc. file a request for a charge back thru them.

2. File thru your respective bank.

3. File thru your credit card company.

4. File a complaint thru http://www.fraud.com/

5. File a complaint thru your city, state, or federal
government offices and fraud divisions of various law enforcement agencies including Postal inspectors.

I have been successful a few times in getting my money back from a failed MLM. Usually it's just a matter of being persistent. However, I have also seen my hard earned cash "fly the coop" never to be seen again. It's a crapshoot at best. There is one thing for sure: "if you don't try to get it back... you never will".

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