Dear admin, as seen in all the scam cases which happened recently affected buyers did not report to the police immediately because they are primarily interested in getting back their hard earned $$
They resorted to threatening the seller with police report for failure to refund and give seller ultimatum to fulfil the refund request
Hence the case just drags on endlessly as these seller kept asking for "chances" / more time and made empty promises to do the refund
You can't fault the buyers for believing the lies cos they really want their money back! Every lie gave them hope......sounds pretty ironical but that's the truth!
Yes, you guys are not the victims and you do not have a case with the police but posting on the thread to advise buyers to make police report is not a good solution too. It is too passive, you must understand that these buyers do not get scammed very often. When met with such case, they are really lost too.
We see them as a group of victims but everyone of this individual feels isolated as no one knows each other. They probably need you guys to give them more directions to proceed. I think besides tabulating their losses in the form of table and posting on the BP, asking them to confirm with you if refund has been received, perhaps you can be more proactive in gathering them together and make the police report together?
I understand that they can lodge a police case online, to the computer savvy and the more "updated" mommies, this may not be too difficult but what about those not so savvy ones? Those homemakers who have "lost touch"?
Someone got to be the "leader" you know what I mean and who can be the most suitable candidate other than a SMH admin staff? You guys are running this forum, you guys must do more than giving verbal advice.
And the question which I think most of us want to know is after making the police report, then??? How long more before they can get back their money?
As I know, the RWS case just went "dead" mommies did not get back their $$, what happened to the scammer? Jailed? released already?? declared bankrupt?? Then $$ leh??