9L scammed by friend (need advice)

[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:26 am

I’m(22M) Indian living In Dubai, I need some funds to start new business here.

So I raised 9L from my closed ones in India(Nagpur), and I asked them to transfer that money to one of my friends who then was supposed to hand it over to a OTC(usdt seller) in Delhi and later to my crypto wallet.

But I transferred the money to my friends whose bank ac is from Bhopal & Gondia and he lives in Agra. He says one of his worker took the money and ran away with some girl. And was not picking up my calls and no response after a week he called back said the girl’s family, he’s worker ran with filed a case on my friend. Claiming he helped his worker and girl to run away.

No I don’t believe his story much as his father is a contractor and well connected to police maybe. So no way his father will keep him in cell for 3-4 days for this silly matter he told me.

How can I retrieve my money back without visiting to India fast?

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[Rakhieagle417]

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Rakhieagle417
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April 30, 2025 at 4:52 am

Yeah, you’re fucked in more ways than one.

Why did you involve crypto in this? To evade taxes?

Crypto is not meant to be used as a cross border remittance instrument.

If you take this “friend” to court, you’ll have to prove the source of funds and for what reason they were transferred to this person.

Also, all your lenders will have to accept that the fund transfer was for you.

A lawyer will be able to guide you better. But this sounds like a mess.

If you had transferred the money to your friend, things would’ve been different.

But here Party A and Party A1 transferred to Party B and Party B was supposed to convert it to crypto via OTC (so most likely an an unauthorized exchange) and then send to you Party C. Now Party B says they lost the funds.

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:58 am

Yeah, I’ve trace of how all the funds(It’s all white money) first I got money from my closed ones to my own Indian ac and then transferred to my friend now he who claims to lost it.

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[Rakhieagle417]

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Rakhieagle417
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April 30, 2025 at 5:01 am

If it was transferred from your own account, please involve a professional lawyer with experience in handling such cases ASAP.

This is going to be a mix of legal options + some soft threats.

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[Poojaking568]

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Poojaking568
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April 30, 2025 at 9:29 pm

Why tf wouldn’t you transfer money from your India account to Dubai account directly ?

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 10:22 pm

Currency conversion and all the other charges

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[Brighthawk4837]

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May 1, 2025 at 8:00 am

Send like you are a newbie here. Kuch paise bachane me pura ghar kho diya.

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[Megasarat3657]

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April 30, 2025 at 5:29 am

Your money is gone.

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:42 pm

Thanks it was very helpful, no comment from you would have made this post better.

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[Megasarat3657]

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Megasarat3657
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April 30, 2025 at 4:43 pm

Now I feel like you deserve it and I hope even more goes.

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:49 pm

I would have called you stupid to even comment on this post, but after what I’ve done. Clearly I’m the one here.

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[Megasarat3657]

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April 30, 2025 at 4:49 pm

My initial reply was basically short for you have no legal recourse as it is the legal advice sub.

“Your money is gone” as in there’s no legal intervention possible

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:52 pm

Yeah, mate I get it now. Was just hoping if there was some way to retrieve it somehow, cuz he’s not refusing or blocked me or something like that, he’s just not responding or give me such nonsense reasons when he calls.

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[Indianninja1000]

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Indianninja1000
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April 30, 2025 at 9:25 am

Crypto + no contract or paperwork + cross border transfers

Wow, I’m surprised that you were able to go convince yourself to go through all this just to avoid taxed anr trust someone with 9 whole lakhs. You can try and ask a lawyer but with no paperwork to support most of this, it looks tough.

You might have transaction IDs but that doesnt signal intent of what the money is for. For that you would need some document where you and the friend have agreed to what the money is for. Obviously WhatsApp message conversations won’t work.

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[Primefalcon577]

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April 30, 2025 at 9:58 am

U r dead man lol

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[Primefalcon577]

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Primefalcon577
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April 30, 2025 at 9:59 am

Usdt chhaiye toh just could have done it same time..
Next time u need usdt..it’s hand to hand .. cash payment .

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[Desipanda1506]

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Desipanda1506
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April 30, 2025 at 1:43 pm

Please don’t open a business …

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[Epicninja9327]

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April 30, 2025 at 2:48 pm

If it was all white money,then using Crypto was a very bad idea.Its almost impossible for you to retrieve as there is no actual paperwork/contract you made

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[Indiansashi7038]

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Indiansashi7038
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April 30, 2025 at 4:40 pm

Yeah, I realised this very late. Should have done some paperwork or something instead of just trusting

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[Brighthawk4837]

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May 1, 2025 at 7:57 am

Itni mathakut just for 9 Lakhs 🤷🏻 you could have simply done a bank transfer.

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[Simranguru453]

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Simranguru453
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May 1, 2025 at 10:09 am

Going legal won’t help you, you have try something else.

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[Supernimesh829]

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Supernimesh829
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May 1, 2025 at 10:24 am

Ab Bhul ja bhai tere 9L tata bye bye

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