Corey Said:

How to get a person's details from a photo?

We Answered:

Sorry but there is little you can do.

The person that picked up the cash could been an innocent person duped into picking up the cash for "new internet friend". The photo used to pick up the money could be some photo shopped creation that does not actually reflect the real person who picked up the cash. The name on the photo could be completely fake.

Another possibility is that the person who picked up the cash is the person you sent it to. What I mean is that the receiver lied to you from the beginning, she said she was working for a charity and intended from the beginning to pick up your cash, use it for herself and pretend it was stolen in the hopes you will send more.

Not to be rude but what evidence do you have that you sent the cash to a legit charity? Do they have a website? Street address, phone number, company email? The scammer could have been setting you up from the very first email. Pretending that money was stolen is a common scammer tactic as scammers are greedy and frequently attempt to "double-dip" a victim and steal their cash 2x, 3X, as many times as they can.

It is very easy to pick up cash intended for another person as Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.