She wants the purple rat thing ? I ' ll trade . <| sep |> tldr Free money ad on deep web . Got scammed , got reimbursed . Stupid 15 year old me was looking for a way to make free money . Things like paypal money adder and other obvious scams . Wading through howtobecomeahacker programs , drug deals , and other escrowstuff , I stumbled upon this site owned by a Vietnamese guy that claimed to offer credit card dumps and paypal transfers for a small fee . I was like why would you give away money for money like this ? but I gave it a shot anyway but not without a few safeguards in place in case I got fucked over . This guy looked legit since he had all of these screenshots of his paypal account balance looking like a phone number . I later discovered how that can be faked . I found this website that provided temporary emails safeguard # 1 and messaged the Vietnamese guy to see if the sight was still active . And holy shit , he replied in less than five minutes ! He made me a deal , and said he would take a $ 300 money order for $ 600 legit paypal dollars . I signed up for a western union account with a fake name safeguard # 2 and transferred the money out of my mom ' s paypal hang on , keep reading . He messaged me that I ' ll see the money in 30 minutes . While I waited , I googled the dong ' s exchange rate , which made me think that I was doing this guy a huge favor . 35 minutes pass , and I still don ' t see the money . I message him gain and again , no response . I got scammed hard . My mom ' s money was gone , and there was nothing I can do about it . Or was there ? My mom wasn ' t the most computer literate person there was , so she never checked her account . She usually left that for me to explain to her . I remembered that charges to that debit card could be disputed , so I played the waiting game for about a month and filed claim that her card was stolen . Because of safeguard # 2 fake name and the money order ' s destination country , paypal decided in her favor . I signed Vietnamese guy ' s email up for a lot of spam , uninstalled TOR , got a job , and turned my life around . Four years later , I ' m heading towards an engineering degree and wouldn ' t dream of crawling back to the dark web . Caveat ? Stay away from there ! If it ' s too good to be true , it is . Drink your school , stay in milk , and let drugs do you .