I wired $19,000 to Google Checkout to buy a vehicle. And no vehicle? how do I get my money back? Report abuse
mettie21 Level 1
3/31/10



I wired $19,000 to Google Checkout to buy a vehicle. I haven’t received it and this is day 12. I checked with the DMV to see about the VIN and it isn’t even titled in this guy’s name.

This is the invoice number – can you please help me get my money back?
I got a Google Checkout Payment Invoice

I have tried to contact Google Checkout and they have no phone system and no one to talk to. This was a scam and on the Google Checkout site, it says that it protects you from fraud.


Please, help me get my money back from Google checkout or where ever it is.

June 5th 2010, Same guy, Daniel Schultz, Lawyer out of Washington State (bull****) selling 2008 BMW M3 convertible (Gloucester VA), with car fax. The car fax was legit, as I ran the vin through my local BMW dealer. Mileage and all service was correct. Wired $32K to Google Check out. Drove 13 hrs to Va, he never showed to listed address. Went to listed address and spoke to home owner who knew nothing, Contacted Google Check out and have replies saying my $32K will be wired back in 24 hrs. Now 72 hrs have passed with ZERO responses. Sent dozens of emails to google support but not one reply.

I filed FBI report. Money was supposed to go to Chase Bank Costa Mesa Ca Coastline Automotivbe Account name. Anyone else have that bank as send to for wire?
Let me know if anyone is successful with refunds.
Thanks
george

andrea20 Level 1
7/24/10


My husband and I became victims of this scam today. My husband came across an amazing deal, or so we thought, on a 2006 Mercedes CLS55 AMG and he inquired about it since he knew that I love this car. The seller who identified himself as Ronald Cross was in constant contact with my husband by both phone and emails. Mr Cross stated that he was an attorney that was on a business trip in Washington (his cell number also had a Washington area code) and that he would be back in a few days........Long story short, we wired $30K into his BofA Bank account under the impression that this was being monitered by Google Checkout and as we all know now, that is not the case. Too little too late! When my husband went to pick up the car today in Torrance, there was no one to meet him and now of course Mr Cross is no longer available or returning any calls or emails. Fortunately for us, the wire was sent from our bank to BofA yesterday and my husband was able to confirm with the branch where the wire was sent that the money was still in the account. My guess is that Mr Cross is sitting somewhere oversees and is going to try to wire the funds to his oversees account on Monday when the Fed Reserves resumes business. We have been in contact with the Fraud dept at both our bank, which is Chase, and BofA. We were instructed to call back first thing Monday morning to have the account at BofA frozen due to Fraud. Hopefully we can intercept the outgoing wire and stop this jerk from REALLY taking our money. We have enough to prove it was fraud so hopefully if we can get the account frozen, we can maybe get our money back. I am really not going to hold my breath though.

I really want to be a part of any investigations or lawsuits to catch these jerks. I am also really disappointed to hear that Google Checkout has known about this type of scam since 2009 and they are not doing anything to stop this or help prosecute those that victimize people like this. If anyone has information about attorneys or government officials we can contact about this, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it. My email address is rubenandrea@verizon.net.

Thanks!!

Abbo30 Level 1
7/19/10

To MONAMILAR, we are intrested in this!! My husband and I lost 17K!! Does your lawyer think you have a case??? My email is nabbadessa@stny.rr.com if you want to respond that way!
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minebelk Level 1
8/12/10


What is going on with this type of scam is wrong. I just got scammed out of $12,200. I have notified autotrader, with no reponse. Sent letters to Google corporate offices- no reponse. Filed a complaint with the attorney generals office as well as local law enforcement. Mailing out my complaint to Illinois attorney general ( where the funds were taken from) and the FBI. The bank that received the funds is not being helpful at all. I also have a private investigator I might use as well. My question to all of you is, has anyone thought about filing a lawsuit against autotrader or google since neither one of them seem interested in stopping this. I know I would not have used google checkout if I didn't know google was a well known name and I felt safe going through them. I am going to put a case together and find an attorney willing to take it on. Has anyone else started this process?