 Scammers Wading Thru Our Classifieds, Don't get swindled! |
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  Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:08
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Moderator In Chief (MIC)
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From: Paris - FR
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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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Fri 31 Dec 2004, 20:51
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From: SAN FRANCISCO - US
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I just posted this for people to see as an example. I posted in the Getting Started Forum:
I've listed 2 items for sale on this site in the last month, and both times I've received this scam. Be on the look out for this crap:
"I want you to know that i very much intrested in the (sampler) which is $500 US and Once again mode paymentis going to be a Cashier's Check. You will sent by a Client of mine who has been woing me some amount and has said that he his only going pay me via Cashier's Check, So dedcided to send you the Check since the Check will be drawn from a US bank and i am from Isreal.The Check is in the Amount of $2,700 US. So when you recieve the Check all you have to do is to Cash the Check and forward the remaining funds to Shipping Company and here is there e-mail address which i will email you later..
As per Shipping i will handle the Shipping i have Shipping Company that will take care of that, When the Check has been recieved and cashed, all you need to do is to deduct your selling price and send the remaining excess fund to the Shippingg
Company via account i will provide you late . The Information to send the funds to them via Western Union will be given to you upon recieve of the Check. So for the little stress you will go thorugh sending the funds and Cashing it i will
compesate you with 100 US. MeanWhile, for the Check to get to you i will want you to provide me with the
following information, Which of course i will forward to my Client :
1) THE NAME YOU WANT THE CHECK TO BEAR
2) THE ADDRESS YOU WANT THE CHECK SENT TO AND
3) YOU PHONE NUMBERS(HOME,CELL AND WORK)
With this i will expect to hear from you soonest today with these informations.
Thanks and God Bless Marry Xmas and Happy New......
Mr Franklin.........."
Nothing new in terms of scams, except these guys keep targeting this site it seems. Honest people, be careful out there![I][B]
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 lepetitmartien Scammers Wading Thru Our Classifieds Fri 10 Dec 2004, 18:08 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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