The seller promised to sell me an IG account that has been dormant; we had agreed on the price of $120 and I had said for him to send me all the stuff over first; he had declined as the account "Took a long time to build up to where it was now". which I understood as I too have an account with a fairly large following after 4 years or so. Anyways, the guy promised (in a form I can provide) to send over the information for the agreed amount; I then sent him the money as he said he only accepted payments set under friends and family so he could accept it right away. After accepting the payment he claimed to have Emailed me, I checked my Email and saw that there was nothing; so I told him he needed to send it over right away to which he responded "Give me one moment, doing it right now" and STILL didn't. He's been claiming to have sent it for a week now. I can tell he is trying to stall until PayPal won't allow for a dispute and I am completely fed up with this. He then sent me a screenshot showing why he responds once a day after getting the money (before receiving the money he was extremely active in our conversations and now hasn't opened any messages in 5 days). However in the screenshot revealed that he is scamming not only me, but at LEAST 9+ people using PayPal. I have 30 screenshots of evidence; and yet PayPal will not cancel the transaction, or remove his account(s) from their service. I have tried reporting this behavior from my phone and it filed a dispute under the wrong claim, and now I can't do the correct claim from my computer because it is closed. What can I do to not only get my money to not transfer, but to have him removed from PayPal as a service for being an active scammer?
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