Just got scammed - Page 2

Prenut · #11 11-23-2007, 01:56 AM

Prick PM'ed me wanting to sell a site.

Prenut · #12 11-23-2007, 01:59 AM

You might want to email his affiliate managers with links to all of his shenanigans. I don't think they will look too fondly on it. Assuming the joeythechips character is him all of his affiliate id's are on his blog

Notspot · #13 11-23-2007, 06:28 AM

Thanks for letting us all know - I was gonna pp him some cash today - lucky escape!

Would be good to have a thread here with a list of emails / nicknames for known scammers - I almost missed this. Maybe a closed thread that only the mods can add to?

Graham · #14 11-23-2007, 08:50 AM

igotaces21 has now been banned. Here is some of his info:

- Go to town!

http://joeythechips.blogspot.com

This seems to be inline with the information provided in this thread. Sorry to hear about this Holyman, but this is a lesson why you should always do your due diligence when doing anything with money online.

Graham · #15 11-23-2007, 08:54 AM

As some have mentioned I own that site. If you had of looked at the forum you should have been able to figure that out pretty quickly. Even a search on google for the site name brings up my blog talking about how I just bought it. I feel bad that you were ripped off, but did you do anything to verify that this person actually owned it?

Holyman · #16 11-23-2007, 09:52 AM

You are right Graham. I brought this on myself. I thought it was strange, but I've been talking with this guy for a week and guess I had been conned. After we agreed on a deal I was asking him about verification details etc. He send an invoice to my wife's paypal and I was looking at it. I basically never use paypal and I clicked pay (thinking it would have a double verification system) and it paid it. So, at that point I was like ok, transfer me everything and he started sending me information..

Then he went off line abruptly and I got pretty nervous. After thinking about it for oh maybe 2 minutes I started the paypal dispute process, posted on paw, and tracked down Kaus who I saw was on the fuzionforum..

Everything turned out ok I guess, but it was a good wake up call for me.

ClickItNow · #17 11-23-2007, 10:41 AM

Ask them to upload something to the site for verification.

FTP access is a pretty reliable indication that you are speaking to the right person.

No FTP access means no point discussing the finer details.

gtycoon · #18 11-23-2007, 10:31 PM

he tried selling me links on a blog. I deleted his message. It was on here.

mikebrad · #19 11-23-2007, 10:32 PM

Quote:

he tried selling me links on a blog. I deleted his message. It was on here.

same here.