 Scammers Wading Thru Our Classifieds, Don't get swindled! |
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  Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:08
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A few members have given us proofs that some scammers are trying to swindle people here. They usually contact sellers of items to propose them some serious material under false identities/nationalities. The mechanism is this one: Mr Scam contacts you, want's to buy your stuff. He has some complicate story upon some money a guy must pay him for some time etc. The third guy will pay for your material and you should send the difference to the buyer. I'm talking about a $700 transaction transforming into a $4000 one! No need to tell in the end, you are short of $3300… A news will be on MM very shortly, I have banned already a few avatars of these guys, if you fell something is fishy with a buyer/seller, be very cautious. Don't accept Western Union for exemple. A short list of do/don't will be available too. In need ask me for counsel here.  These guys don't belong to our musical world 
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 Mon 6 Nov 2006, 05:02
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I found this site about fraud, in English, note the kind of demo they prepare is illegal. Lots of links of use in case you have an issue or a doubt. Now they give the persons to contact when you're screwed in UK: the Metropolitan Police. They can be reached at: fraud.alert [remove this and replace by an @) met.police.uk UK Met police website
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 lepetitmartien Scammers Wading Thru Our Classifieds Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:08 michaeljt I just posted this for people to see as an example... Fri 31 Dec 2004, 20:51 lepetitmartien I came back of holidays 3 days ago, and right on t... Sun 9 Jan 2005, 16:23 beyaRecords I think the lesson here is there's no such thi... Mon 10 Jan 2005, 10:50 lepetitmartien Just banned one more…
- No Western Union!
- N... Mon 10 Jan 2005, 18:05 The Guitar God QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Jan 10 2005, 17:05)Ju... Mon 10 Jan 2005, 20:48 lepetitmartien I copy below an exemple on the last try of one of ... Sat 15 Jan 2005, 18:19 saskia And another attempt. This emailer who claims to be... Wed 26 Jan 2005, 01:53 Fields Doesn't everyone wait until the cash is in you... Wed 26 Jan 2005, 08:48 lepetitmartien Note that I'm receiving signals from members a... Thu 3 Feb 2005, 16:21 beyaRecords My experience on ebay is not good either. I purcha... Thu 3 Feb 2005, 16:30 The Guitar God you should always check things like that first Thu 3 Feb 2005, 18:04 lepetitmartien On the actual description of the frauds:
FBI frau... Mon 7 Feb 2005, 02:08 lepetitmartien The morons are still around, just nuked one
Do... Sat 12 Feb 2005, 04:35 lepetitmartien Spam thru the forums by an ivory Coast scammer (us... Mon 14 Feb 2005, 14:46 lepetitmartien Note that I'm still killing on sight scammers ... Tue 15 Mar 2005, 02:43 lepetitmartien A little update, I regularly ban the offenders (we... Wed 20 Apr 2005, 04:08 lepetitmartien As I'm still on the prowl to ban our &#@... Thu 5 May 2005, 19:27 zenartist I just signed up our above scammer for free gay em... Thu 5 May 2005, 21:11 The Guitar God Homophobe Fri 6 May 2005, 16:08 Houston Texas, USA. Hey guys, My name is Frank and I work in the Finan... Tue 14 Jun 2005, 18:49 johnnyboy I just got some scam email, english version of the... Thu 29 Dec 2005, 01:06  traderdude Here is copy of one i have been getting the most f... Mon 24 Jul 2006, 09:14 traderdude [font=Arial Black][size=4]
Hi just found your sit... Sun 23 Jul 2006, 07:48 lepetitmartien Well, I searched, if this guy is around, it's ... Sun 23 Jul 2006, 08:06 traderdude QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Sun 23 Jul 2006, 02... Mon 24 Jul 2006, 08:55 traderdude More from same fake buyers read on .................. Mon 24 Jul 2006, 11:22 Eliezer I too have met up with these same scammers on a di... Sat 21 Oct 2006, 01:10 brybon QUOTE (Eliezer @ Fri 20 Oct 2006, 18:10) ... Sat 17 Feb 2007, 17:22 lepetitmartien Did my search. They don't seem to be registere... Sat 21 Oct 2006, 17:45 lepetitmartien Thanks for the hints Sat 17 Feb 2007, 17:29 lepetitmartien Note for everyone
we just banned a member using t... Fri 16 May 2008, 03:15 lepetitmartien I've just made a blog post (my first) to sum u... Fri 16 May 2008, 04:34 Mark Owen Hi,
This scammer's pretty careless so I don... Fri 16 May 2008, 08:20 lepetitmartien I've just banned other identities of him, no c... Fri 16 May 2008, 17:18 lepetitmartien He's banned under the logins:
silvrmbr
southe... Tue 20 May 2008, 03:44 lepetitmartien Just added new logins to the list above. We have a... Thu 22 May 2008, 17:36
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