I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
Eons ago when I was on a shared hosting account on bluehost, I had my site compromised few times, and got my account temporarily frozen with the warning that if I didn't stop getting hacked they would suspend my account permanently.<p>So I started digging into the php files and found some sort of irc bot and noticed the channel it logged on an the admin username that was allowed to issue commands. Logged on the server and channel and hanged out for a bit but no trace of the username.
Started  asking around for the person,  and someone messeged me and asked what's this about, I explained that I just want the hacking to stop so I don't get kicked out of the hosting I was barely paying for.
I was met with understanding and the person said they would pass along the message.
The hacking stopped. And I was a happy kid 16 year old.