On the other side of the coin
https://www.namepros.com/threads/pa...me-escrow-business.971364/page-6#post-6516117
I just had a Payoneer escrow that closed before the domain was transferred due to this issue
https://www.namepros.com/threads/co...aimed-was-icann-had-suspended-domain.1059240/
where stupid Network Solutions (NSOL) thought that my domain was ICANN suspended when there was no such issue at all going on, so I am not a big fan of NSOL in the first place - they seem to often hold up transfers out of domains and apparently even (in my case noted here) transfers in of domains, for phantom issues, or simply because they want to retain a domain and not let it go.
In my case I pushed the domain Dynadot to Dynadot
after the escrow closed (there was nothing wrong with the domain, it was NOT ICANN suspended) because I am an honest seller.
If I had not been honest, and not transferred the domain, would Payoneer have been responsible? Buyer paid with a credit card, could he not have disputed the payment to Payoneer?
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In this situation here, I assume buyer wired the money to escrow. He has no recourse other than somehow finding and suing the seller, which would be, as already pointed out, expensive and perhaps not even productive, perhaps resulting in a worthless judgment (including a judgment worthless because the seller is in some foreign country that will not recognize the judgment) or turning the matter over to the authorities for criminal prosecution, which let's face it, although this sum of money sounds like a lot, when it comes to a possible multinational criminal investigation perhaps ending in some country which has no diplomatic ties to the U.S. and given that buyer himself is apparently China and would not exactly be right next door to testify in a U.S. court, doubtful that much would happen.
In the U.S. a victim of say, identity or credit card fraud, is supposed to file the complaint with his hometown police and then it is up to his hometown police to coordinate with the authorities in the jurisdiction(s) where the actual crime(s) occurred.
But with this buyer we're talking about a guy in China, and China is not going to coordinate with U.S. authorities, so if anything is going to be done, only the FBI will do anything about it as it is probably an across state lines to a foreign country type crime, I imagine. I don't see any local police having jurisdiction here unless this guy is stupid enough to be right in the U.S. and pull this scam.
I once had a client who was defrauded on the internet for low five figures and we never could get the FBI, IC3 or local cops to do anything about it, and it was only after I investigated the culprit myself with the help of a private investigator friend, that we were able to put enough pressure on him, because he was worried that he
might go down criminally, that he refunded every bit of my client's money. Later though, after he was finally arrested for doing the same thing to others that he did to my client, we found out that he had "robbed Peter to pay Paul" - that is, bilked others to get the money to pay back my client. The culprit had paid back only my client only because we scared him - all the other victims were left out to dry.
It was only after this scammer ripped off enough people that finally the authorities stepped in to do something - they would not do anything for my client when he seemed to be the only victim.
