May 28 2008
Dear Scammers, Netizens will find you.
1. Three people get scammed with a same set of wheels on MBworld.com
2. One person gets fed up and posts about it.
3. They find more information about the scammer linking to other fraudulent eBay auctions.
4. Scammer says he shipped the package via DHL and gives bogus shipping numbers.
5. Word spreads on the net and people come and investigate.
6. People trace his IP to other user names.
7. Scammer keeps claiming he is innocent, even when the actual owner of the wheels speaks up.
8. People find pictures of his actual car and use his license plate to find his address.
9. DH pull packages off with the tracking #’s given and finds them not to be wheels, but empty boxes and books.
10. Scammer caves in and issues refunds to the two people on the forum, but they haven’t actually seen the refund yet, supposedly in process.
11. Criminal and civil court trials are in the near future for the scammer.
If ya’ll want to read the progression of the online investigation click on the bottom link. But beware, it’s 30+ pages. It’s so funny how people think they can scam online: Just because their on a computer, there’s still fingerprints and trails that can lead to conviction.
[SOURCE: MBworld]
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WAY TO GO MBWORLD!! That was the most entertaining 35 page thread EVER! Hope homeboy does time. And thanks dailyyeah.com for posting the story!