The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Refunding Expensive Items PART 5

Part 5 - How to Scale Safely

The last part of this post is to teach you how and why you can scale this in a limited fashion, even under your own name. Obviously, you can only do this type of refund once per company, and you can only file one police report per station, never try to do 2 police reports at the same station or 2 police report refunds at the same company. However, companies to not share data with each other regarding who has received a refund. In addition, police departments in different counties (let alone different states) don't automatically share every single police report that gets filed with them with each other, unless it's part of a larger investigation. Feel free to call and ask different companies and police departments if this is true.

Based on this information, it follows logically that: If you file a police report in county X, for an order placed with company A, the police department in county Y has no idea you filed the report in county X, and company B has no idea you received a refund from company A. That means you can place an order with company B, file a police report in county Y, and neither company B nor police station will be aware of the separate report/refund you've done previously. It's this principle that allows you to somewhat scale this idea, meaning you can be refunded for filing a police report at many different companies, all under one identity, without anyone knowing you did it more than once.

Of course, this isn't true to an infinite degree. If you file 15 police reports, even if you spread them out all over the country, there's a much higher likelihood of someone noticing the pattern and starting an investigation into your activities than if you file 2 reports at different departments. It's not guaranteed that they will, but every additional report you file does increase that chance. This isn't something you want to push too far, because like I said, even though this is impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt directly, enough circumstantial evidence in aggregate may persuade a jury. That said, you really shouldn't need to do this more than a few times before moving on to refunding under stolen identities or other higher level fraud, so I personally think that risk is negligible (and my experience helping people do this over the past few years supports that conclusion). I've personally pushed this as high as $10,000, and I've been assured by a few different companies that this would work for amounts even higher than that, so this isn't the kind of thing you need to do more than a few times to develop more than enough starting capital to invest in higher level fraud.