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To Catch a Predator · Riverside County, California investigation

Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi

Also reported as Rafi, philosophyguy2003

Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi was identified in the Riverside investigation after communicating with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl. Chris Hansen later revisited the unaired case in a December 2023 podcast.

Outcome
Unverified
Evidence
Attributed reporting
Jurisdiction
Riverside County, California
Encounter
Not established
Case number
Not established

Charges & sentence

Charges awaiting verification

We have not established filed charges from the available evidence. This is a gap in our research, not a finding about this case.

Sentence

No imposed sentence has been established from the sources reviewed.

Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.

Media

Sources

  1. 1Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi publisher episode descriptionOriginal publisher · Chris Hansen · Published Dec 18, 2023 · Checked Oct 24, 2026The publisher identifies Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi, also called Rafi, as a 21-year-old unaired Riverside investigation subject using philosophyguy2003 to contact a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl.
  2. 2Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi original podcast openingOriginal publisher · Chris Hansen · Published Dec 18, 2023 · Checked Oct 24, 2026At 276–291 seconds, Hansen places Rafi Ahmadi, then 21, in the January 2006 Riverside investigation; at 351–359 seconds he gives the same screen name as the RSS description. This opening does not establish an individual arrival or interview. The opening identifies the program as Predators I've Caught.
  3. 3Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi on MegaphoneOriginal publisher · Megaphone · Published Dec 18, 2023 · Checked Oct 24, 2026Public episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Exact RSS title and full publisher description identify the subject. Publisher explicitly describes this case as unaired. Attendance and whether Hansen interviewed him remain unknown; collective descriptions of 51 arrivals are not individualized evidence.
  4. 4Rafiullah Sayed Ahmadi on SpotifyOriginal publisher · Spotify · Published Dec 18, 2023 · Checked Oct 23, 2026Public episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Exact RSS title and full publisher description identify the subject. Publisher explicitly describes this case as unaired. Attendance and whether Hansen interviewed him remain unknown; collective descriptions of 51 arrivals are not individualized evidence.

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Record updated Oct 24, 2026 · Version 1 · Suggest a correction