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Milwaukee Tool Scam?

Buddy appears to just have been scammed yesterday. He was looking for a riding utility vehicle for his place, and found a steal of a deal on a community facebook page.

basically 75-50% off from the normal range with a story about someone dying, and them wanting it off the property.

Sends deposit to hold it until today, and I was about to set my trailer and car ready to go pick it up near Algonquin tonight.

No response from seller, the ad is gone, and messages are being ignored.

That's $500 gone.
 
jc100 said:
I read a piece somewhere that stated the scammers often use obviously idiotic scams at times to draw in the real dumbasses that can be fleeced for even more.
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I've heard that the poor spelling and obvious grammatical errors are purposely to weed out the more intelligent people who would be more likely to cause them problems.
 
mimico_polak said:
Buddy appears to just have been scammed yesterday. He was looking for a riding utility vehicle for his place, and found a steal of a deal on a community facebook page.

basically 75-50% off from the normal range with a story about someone dying, and them wanting it off the property.

Sends deposit to hold it until today, and I was about to set my trailer and car ready to go pick it up near Algonquin tonight.

No response from seller, the ad is gone, and messages are being ignored.

That's $500 gone.
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Needs to report that to the police. The only way you put even a small dent in this crap is to slam a few of these ******** in jail. Take it there was a fake Facebook profile attached to the seller? Google the email used for the transfer? See if it’s being used elsewhere. Guaranteed this person is doing this kind of thing regularly.
 
jc100 said:
Needs to report that to the police. The only way you put even a small dent in this crap is to slam a few of these ******** in jail. Take it there was a fake Facebook profile attached to the seller? Google the email used for the transfer? See if it’s being used elsewhere. Guaranteed this person is doing this kind of thing regularly.
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Yup. Told him that also, as well as call his friend that's a bank manager and see the process for pulling the funds back.

There's definitely a way to pull back fraudulently obtained funds...but I'm sure it's not as easy as saying 'hey, I was gullible and sent some money to a fraudster'.
 
mimico_polak said:
Yup. Told him that also, as well as call his friend that's a bank manager and see the process for pulling the funds back.

There's definitely a way to pull back fraudulently obtained funds...but I'm sure it's not as easy as saying 'hey, I was gullible and sent some money to a fraudster'.
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A police report is most likely part of that process.
 
Aren’t there any legitimate escrow services for these kinds of transactions? Forcing users to use one for deposits and purchases might stop the scamming.
 
jc100 said:
Aren’t there any legitimate escrow services for these kinds of transactions? Forcing users to use one for deposits and purchases might stop the scamming.
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I haven't seen a well-functioning escrow service for general transactions. As with the LTB, what seems like a good idea at first can be gamed by dickwads. For instance, ebay/paypal had (I haven't used ebay in so long, I have no idea if it still exists) a mechanism to file a dispute (eg I paid and never got it). If you want to be a dick, the trick is only one side can file a dispute on an item. The responses to the dispute can only respond to the dispute and can't raise new issues. The scammer sells you an item, you pay, they file a bogus dispute, you argue that the dispute is crazy as you paid and never received the item and ebay/paypal closes the dispute as failed to resolve, transaction complete. Your money is gone.
 
jc100 said:
Aren’t there any legitimate escrow services for these kinds of transactions? Forcing users to use one for deposits and purchases might stop the scamming.
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Well the scammer will just say, I don't use that service and move on to a next target. Just like today selling stuff people want to send money via whatever ap, no thanks cash only in person. Goes both ways scam or not.

Many times (and this thread as an example) they use the good price (sometime too good) and the buyer having the fear of losing out on the deal... I have other offers so you need to send money now...
 
jc100 said:
Needs to report that to the police. The only way you put even a small dent in this crap is to slam a few of these ******** in jail. Take it there was a fake Facebook profile attached to the seller? Google the email used for the transfer? See if it’s being used elsewhere. Guaranteed this person is doing this kind of thing regularly.
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Police don't care I had the same thing happen. Police say not their problem bank says same. Even though the etranfer should be traceable no one cares or is willing to help.

Sent from the future
 
jc100 said:
Aren’t there any legitimate escrow services for these kinds of transactions? Forcing users to use one for deposits and purchases might stop the scamming.
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EBay has one now for watches
 
Scuba Steve said:
I deal with simpli so no manager to talk to oh well was years ago no point in crying now.

Sent from the future
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He's with BMO and his financial advisor buys him and his family movie ticket nights every few months, as well as sends him tickets to concerts.

So I'm sure he's got a bit of pull there.
 
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