- happens globally (far outside of local police jurisdiction)
- per event small monetary value
- widespread but difficult to tell how connected (is it tens of thousand of fraudulent events from a single actor or tens of thousands of different actors?)
All of which adds up to there not being a clear cut law enforcement agency to handle these types of things (aka you can't reasonably ask the local police to help you track down a scammer in singapore).
Yeah, essentially no local law enforcement is going to care about some guy successfully scamming you for a $100 chargeback. We were basically told not to bother for anything under $25k from a single actor, and even for amounts over that I think we only managed to get law enforcement action through personal contacts.
I think the one case that law enforcement did act on was a group that was using a newly built neighborhood as a drop point for stolen goods. It was complete enough that there were addresses to ship to, but nobody was living there yet, so it was easy to just pick up packages off the front steps. From what I heard, the police ended up picking up some guy with a truck full of iPods who was just going house to house picking up the deliveries.
Yes I tried to report CC fraud (as a merchant) and the local departments kept bouncing me back and forth between my local police and the department at the fraudster’s jurisdiction. I had address, email, IP, and name, yet no one could do anything.
- happens globally (far outside of local police jurisdiction)
- per event small monetary value
- widespread but difficult to tell how connected (is it tens of thousand of fraudulent events from a single actor or tens of thousands of different actors?)
All of which adds up to there not being a clear cut law enforcement agency to handle these types of things (aka you can't reasonably ask the local police to help you track down a scammer in singapore).