Victim Location 01002
Total money lost $1,000
Type of a scam Other
Hi,
I am a graduate student at UMass Amherst, MA, and will be graduating on May 11th, 2018. After graduation, I am moving to Seattle, and I thought of subletting my current apartment during the Summer. I posted the availability of my room for Summer 2018 on Facebook, Craigslist, and UMass Off-Campus Housing portals.
Last week a girl named Ramya Eluri had messaged me on facebook asking whether my room was available or not. I checked her message yesterday morning (i.e. 04/17/2018), and replied that it was available. After asking a couple of questions she was ready to take the room, and I asked her to pay me $100 for a token amount to confirm her stay. Then, she took my phone number (as we can transfer money using a phone number in Bank of America) and tried paying me using it. I gave her my number. Then she had some issues making the transfer, but finally, I could see a credit of $1000 on my account. She told me that by mistake she send me $1000 when she had to pay me $100. I told her I will pay her back her $900, which I did instantly.
In the evening, again I saw an extra $1000 credit on my account. She said that the bank had deducted the amount twice from her account, and maybe because of which I got it twice too. I transferred her $1000 back again. Today morning, I checked my account balance and it had $1000 less than the initial balance I had. I tried contacting her again, but she had blocked me on WhatsApp and Facebook both. I tried reaching on her number but it was a Google number and no one ever answered it. I tried reaching her from my roommate’s account, but as soon as my roommate told Ramya that she was my friend, Ramya blocked my roommate as well (from WhatsApp and Facebook both). Now, we are not able to reach her at all.
I called Bank of America, and they filed a case and told me to contact Local Police for help. I went to the UMass Police Department, who told me to go to Amherst Police Department. When I went to Amherst Police Department, they said that it is a wired fraud and I should go to USPS instead. After going to USPS, they told me that they don’t deal with anything of this sort, which was the last thing I could do there.
I am attaching all the details I have here. Please help me get my money back as I am a student, and my balance reached negative amount after this loss.
Name of the spammer = Ramya Eluri
Facebook profile – https://www.facebook.com/ramya.eluri.10?ref=br_rs
Phone number – +1 (929) 335-3805
Email ID (to which I transferred money) – [email protected]
Bank of America transaction details –
— Temporary Credit Adjustment on 04/16/18 Claim 180417100778
— My transaction IDs – 1. Zelle transfer Conf# b03095bf3; Ramya Eluri
2. Zelle transfer Conf# 504b19e58; Ramya Eluri
Bank of America CASE ID – ***