I am a fraud investigator for a bank and I can tell you that this person is probably in Canada and will never cross the border. They probably have a dozen other frauds running right now. All of the information that they provide will be false and virtually untraceable. Unless you are actually a victim (meaning that you have actually lost money to this creep) I am willing to bet that no one in law enforcement will even give this a second look. Even someone who has been taken would be lucky to have someone take a statement from them. Even if they could track this jerk down, no one will be willing to spend the $ to bring them to the US and have justice served. I have seen a lot of scams coming from north of the border lately. We have one of their citizens locked up in our county jail right now . He has "family" that are willing to pay full restitution to his victims or his six figure bail, whichever will get him out quicker, and they are willing to pay in cash. Wonder where they are coming up with that money .

There is also a scam out there now where someone bids on big ticket items and asks them to be shipped out of the country. They send the seller a bogus cashiers check and ask them to wire them part of it back to pay shipping costs. After the wire is sent, the check bounces and the seller is out of luck.

Be careful out there!

 

... i have a trojan horse email device for yahoo. when the user logs in, it sends their yahoo password to me. i could go into her email and find out all the other people she is email with and ripping off...chris

 

Un****ingbelievable, it's bad enough the sellers are bidding against us and raising the price of these auctions, now this

 

YOU MUST do that and keep me posted. Perhaps you'll find personal info!

 

damn, you guys were ahead of me. the first thing i noticed about the escrow service was just the url. not too many websites have hyphens and a z, and the first part, alianz or whatever didn't really signify a name. plus the point she will do nothing but that escrow service. and their login does not use any security or encryption, their contact number is not a 1-800, and they clearly lack not only content but professional graphics. on a real escrow site, there will dozens of pages about security and procedures and such. this website has about six pages, and i bet you aplenty of the wording was copied and some basic web editor output a template for it. it's definatley sketchy. sadly america will not let me punish them accordingly, as repeated penetration of every bodily orfice by my 250 pound cousin Gerrod is, for whatever reason, "cruel and unusual". but here is what i would do (have done before). Take every piece of solid information you have on them like email address and AIM, and search every search engine you can find. odds are they will have posted on forums (like this) and they post information like location, phone number, etc. etc.

 

She/He's already reading this...

I bet she/he bidded on her own auction to raise the bid. (Bidder has zero feedback) Then 2001 Silver L sent the bidder (her) the link to this forum. Oh well...if YOU are reading this "BURN IN HELL!"

 

he he he. hopefully no one reads their terms of services

" The Buyer and the Seller agree to use the our Services at their own risk. Our Company will make every effort to perform its tasks and responsibilities to the best of our ability however our Services makes no warranty that their services will meet the user's requirements or that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free. "

and i'm almost positive this webpage was put together by front page. also note the only graphic (other than the extremely basic logo) is a laptop that is clearly a piece of clipart, probabley from microsoft's online clip art library. this is all fraud at quite an extreme. while it wans't done poorly, it wasn't done well at all. careful on these shifty looking webpages, escpecially when imporant links like "customer service 7 days a week | check transaction status online" aren't even links at all. flip the switch and watch this idiot sizzle! if they were smart though, the escrow account was not registered by or to them, or else they are indeed retarded (think about it, a big fraud scam, and the fake website is registered to them!) If you get into their email, and the website is to all fact registered to that email address, you should be able to get the administrative password from one of two ways: password could be in an old email from the company that registered them; or you could find out what website registered their website, and fill out a lost password form, because they would send the password to their email address. after you have their password, you must pass the information over to the police (BUT i think it may be computer fraud considering you did get into their mail). One way or another try to get the police information on past fraud accounts, or better yet, contact all those the fraud was committed on and everyone must demand something has to be done about this. they are cracking down on computer crimes, and the more crimes the longer the sentence. just don't link the person to here, or they will (if they are smart, which is debatable) delete any and all incriminating information.

 

You're probably right. If someone saved me from a 10 grand mistake, I would e-mail them back to thank them.

For all of those who e-mailed him (her), did you get a reply back thanking you?

Pat

 

i am willing to bet money that sadly rick kicker is right. both seller and buyer have those sunglasses, both names were made earlier this month. the seller has also tried to unload this
bmw for sale

a few things while writing this post. maybe they do not have this url, because the bidder also won this auction (and the seller has about 5000 positive feedback)
also, the seller took pictures of the lightning off of mustang world.com, and the bmw from fedtrust.

i'm not quite sure what i would do right now. i think someone who has been emailing the seller about buying it should try to get another email back from them. if they do then richard gills is not them (considering he bid and won on some lights for a cavalier, he could always just be a new user to ebay.) or else the person would be retarded to respond to an email like that.

 

some good news. if richard gills is indeed the fraud "artist", he made a big mistake.
check high bidder
they used buy it now, so it was not used to drive up the price. which means it would have actually been shippied, which means the seller in that auction has his address. you may be able to get the shipping address out of the seller by showing him this thread, or claiming to be richard gills saying your old email address is not working well and say you need the confirmed shipping email or tracking or something like that.
or, if richard gills is not this con artist, they then do not have this link and are unaware of any of this.
i also contacted fedtrust.com to tell them that their pictures were used for fraud, and if i was the owner of that company i would be pissed. i'm sorry, aplenty posts, but they should be helpful. i will now be much more careful on ebay.

 

sorry about another post, but i thnk that richard gills is definatley not the person trying to sell the lightning. it looks like the guy got the account to get those cavalier lights, as his account was created the same day as he did the buy it now for that auction. and i'm pretty sure that if you use the "bid butler", and you are the seller, it tells you bid butler price and price actually bid. if you check out the bid history the guy was moving up in just 200 dollar increments. if it was the seller it would have been one bid. and the last bid was about an hour before it closed. if the seller was trying to raise the price, i'm sure that they would have canceled the bid when no one else bid on it, escpecially when there was only a few minutes left. i believe it's just some poor guy who didn't know exactly what he was doing (or hopefully didn't do that fake escrow) and all he wanted was a lightning. it's kind of sad really.

 

I'm going to bid on every auction offered by MariaClark2003 and NOT PAY so that she/he stick paying the eBay bill.

-Monty

 

If the winning bidder does not pay, the seller can relist the item at no additional charge. You just have to follow the Ebay requirements to do it, which likely this person will do. If you bid on a bunch of their auctions quite likely they will just start a new ID and keep on doing the same thing. Quite likely they change IDs after every successful scam, so simply bidding on their items wont do you any good.

Basically it comes down to the fact that today you have to be paranoid, because everybody is out to get you, one way or another.

 

i havent gotten another email yet. but i will try the trojan horse later today...chris