ASK HN: Got scammed, how to check the scammer etc.
Someone approached my on Skype and via Gmail, positioning himself as an US military general and after personal stuff told he&#x27;s in Syria in the US Army at some camp on some mission, can&#x27;t use phone and money (but they connive and still use phones intermittently) and needs someone &quot;trusted&quot; to receive some gold he was holding at some South African company, as the company was closing its headquarters. As I was bored with my current job, planning for a startup and searching a co-founder and I was chatting with him to procrastinate time. The company required some fees to prepare that gold for shipping. So I paid ~250$ in 2 installments via Binance (Company’s  Binance ID: 531490280, it was in Ghana).<p>I gave him my address and phone number, and email address. Now he wants +620$ for package ownership name change etc. I checked the images of gold he sent via Skype, they matched exactly the ones present at LinkedIn profiles of some african gold selling companies. The personal photos he sent didn&#x27;t have exact matches on google&#x27;s reverse image check, except for one, which matched 95% the photo of that US general he is masking himself onto.<p>The IP he uses to send Gmail emails is 209.85.220.41, and it was listed in some databases as malicious. His Skype is live:.cid.35b9237547aedf2. The Skype IPs I see from my linux terminal 
13.107.246.67:443 
40.74.219.49:443 
52.97.201.98:443 
20.42.65.94:443 
52.182.143.210
are also listed in some databases as malicious.<p>He says he&#x27;s using Windows.<p>So far, I told, that I will receive soon more money and will transfer it to him. He seems to respond. What can I do (to also save myself time preferentially)? Can I return my last money I paid on binance? Can someone check him?