This is just an information suggestion post to anyone unfortunate to come accross any forum scammers as well as any mafia style wholesale criminal organisations and how to pick out anyone linked to them(i mean people who advertise the scam websites on
forums to direct people to the website(a simple form of advertising)
If you visit the US dept of justice website ....you will see this story:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/Nov...5_crm_582.html
It highlights the `shadow crew` organisation which specialised in fraud fraud and more fraud.
Its most likely that there is a nice little(or big) wholesale fraud organisation in operation right now
with multiple(if not hundreds of members) who set up a LOT of scam style websites whether it be
fake escrow,fake shop,fake shipping sites (all it takes is a couple of good web programmers......a
couple of good identity theft pros and some nice proxies to hide ips etc) and voila! a criminal
organisation.Location doesnt mean anything also......these organisations can comprise members
in multiple countries with the power to forge a document and open up a temp bank account in
ANY country.
These organisations obviously need people to advertise thier scam sites right?
A nice place to start is b2b portals like alibaba(most commonly used i think)
Another place is forums like this
The scammer will usually just give out a random scam website `asking are they ok` to make it
look like they want to find out something.....when the REAL reason they posted it was to
advertise the site.Usually they wont respond to any replies as well they just post the website and
thats it.And remember they can use proxies to register at other forums under a different username and ask the SAME`anyone heard of them` QUESTION!
Then we have the classic forum scam whereby a person will post a RECOMMENDED
site which they claim is legit and claim they ordered/recived products
from...................then...........register under another proxy and and userid and then back themselves
up with a nice little `i too received my product` post to make it all legit(this can be done multiple
times of course).
So far while being on this forum all i can say is ive come accross 2 people who look to me like
they are attempting to scam people.
The first person posted a website and claimed they received thier goods.............then
later on we saw it moved to name and shame and other people have inturn lost money to them.
The second person suggested a website and told everyone they look legit and had enquired via
email about thier products.Then only a matter of weeks later.....the SAME person is suddenly
defending the site and claiming they are the owner/entrepreneur.
So my 2 suggestions to everyone is:
1-- beware of criminal organisations(they are rampant).....always chek domain registrant info if they are non freeweb(freeweb usually means they are scammers anyway) try and add 2 and 2 together and never underestiamte the abilities these organisations can have.Remember locations means nothing in todays world of forgery and internet.
2-- beware of forum scammers....they can also use tricks to mislead people(most people class forums as a place of trust)......ALWAYS check a members POST/THREAD HISTORY before doing any dealings with them or thier related sites/suppliers.Check for any similarities in messages..........and a suggestion to mods once again...........if it is proven that someone is has mislead other members of the forum then.........get rid of them............before they go and mislead someone else.
Beware of forum scammers and mafia style wholesale organisations.
Linear Mode
November 2008
