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lepetitmartien
post 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. cool.gif
These guys don't belong to our musical world tongue.gif


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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   I found this site about fraud, in English, note th...   Mon 6 Nov 2006, 05:02
- - 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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