If you are a scammer I hope you die.
No I was not scammed, but i caught someone who was trying to scam me.
Long story short, I was buying a boat on ebay, the guy said DAS (ebay's authorized shipper) was going to send it to me and handle payment transfer. So i get an email from some bogus das-paymenttrasnfer.com or something like that. No website for the domain, looks bad? The wire transfer info was to a bank in Wisconsin and they wanted me to put in the memo " e-gold account 26484" etc... The whole thing seemed funny. I never founded e-gold before but to me it looked like i was wiring money that was going to be transfered into an e-gold account which no doubt the scammer owned. I contacted DAS sent them the email and they confirmed it was bogus they never handle payment for items, amoung other things this person was saying.
So i contact the bank, they wont close the account down. DAS contacts the bank they still wont close the account down. I leave the guy bad feedback saying it is a scam. LOL i can't contact the other bidders because ebay says I was the high bidder. Yet, the scammer can click a button and contact all of them for " second chance offers". So I log into a friends ebay account to contact everyone who bid to warn them. A couple days go by, I get an email today that one of these people who had bid sent this asshole money.
What is wrong with people. It totally pisses me off that this scamming asshole still gets away with it. That i wasted hours, more so trying to prevent them from successfully getting money, then from protecting the clueless who send money to anyone online.
Nothing burns me up more then people who scam. I work too fucking hard for my money, as I am sure a lot of other people do, just to have some (typically foreign) fucking scammer steal people's hard earned cash.
It also pissed me off that sites like ebay do not educate their users more. The first thing when someone sign up an account, before they can bid should be to educate them on fraud prevention. Explain to people if you sending more then a $1,000 dont use paypal, use ESCROW, that is reputable. NEVER SEND CASH. CHECKS. Money Orders. If you accept Money orders, checks, makes sure they clear before sending.
This should be drilled into people's heads. everytime they log on. Fuckers should also have a 24/7 Fraud hotline. Ebay sucks with trying to report this shit, i have never found a phone number for them.
Ebay is like leading lambs to the slaughter. If i could ever get my hands on one of these fuckers I would strangle the life out of them. It pisses me off they even tried to scam me.