ebay - criminal intent (a little off topic)

[lharri3600]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131098686553...84.m1438.l2649

[cardsfan73]

You would think ebay would just ban the seller already. Reported again.

[sports-rings]

some of the people who bid on his bogus golf simulator told me that he creates new ebay accounts all the time and that he tries to con them into sending money. He even sends a bogus ebay invoice to them that looks real.

Ah, ebay, gotta love it!

[sports-rings]

some ebay bidders are as outraged as I am. One promised to help and conned the conman into supplying wiring instructions.

Here they are:

I don't have a phone number but here are the wire instructions he forwarded to me

Beneficiary: Kenneth Washington
Bank name: Wells Fargo
City, State: San Francisco, CA
SWIFT Code: WFBIUS6S
Routing Number: 121000248
Account Number: 2454280369
Country: United States


If you were me should I email this clown and threaten to contact the bank? Or the local authorities?

Or publish this on my website?

Or can someone contact ebay (they don't seem to care).

any other ideas?

thanks

[drmondobueno]

Hmmm. Wire fraud?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by sports-rings

some ebay bidders are as outraged as I am. One promised to help and conned the conman into supplying wiring instructions.

Here they are:

I don't have a phone number but here are the wire instructions he forwarded to me

Beneficiary: Kenneth Washington
Bank name: Wells Fargo
City, State: San Francisco, CA
SWIFT Code: WFBIUS6S
Routing Number: 121000248
Account Number: 2454280369
Country: United States


If you were me should I email this clown and threaten to contact the bank? Or the local authorities?

Or publish this on my website?

Or can someone contact ebay (they don't seem to care).

any other ideas?

thanks

Why threaten? Just report him. I'd start with the postal inspectors and just lay out all the facts and have printouts of the pages. Eventually it will involve the mail, and that's their area. As a bonus, even if they don't do anything, if he gets on their radar there's no statute of limitations on crimes involving the mail.
After that, the local authorities and the bank. and even if they don't care, Ebay/paypal.

Eventually someone might care. Although it's likely too small at this point.

Steve B

[sports-rings]

I'd start with the postal inspectors

Which postal authorities and how do I do this? My local postal authority? I'm on the east coast and I have no idea where he really is located.

Do I contact a postal authority in San Francisco?

How do I contact them?

As far as contacting ebay, I send emails and never hear from them.

[drmondobueno]

Originally Posted by lharri3600

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131098686553...84.m1438.l2649

Is this guy shilling his own crooked auction? Unbelievable.

[sports-rings]

not only is he shilling... he set up a domain...

get this...

He has created a domain (fvn-ebay.com) through Tucows only 3 weeks ago.
link here...
http://who.is/whois/fvn-ebay.com

this way he can send bogus emails that look like they came from ebay.

You think ebay would care....

[callou2131]

Ebay does not care. They have now gotten as bad as auction universe was and Yahoo auctions were. I have literally reported hundreds of Fraudulent Cards, Sigs, Counterfiet items, Fake Game used items, (i know, ebay police blah blah) and I have never had a single item get pulled. Most recently was a fake patched Gretzky Auto card that was numbered. Sold for over $3,000. They now wont let you see the buyer of the item to warn them either. EBAY is setting their own site up to help with fraud while screwing honest sellers.

[callou2131]

BTW I am the high bidder.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by callou2131

BTW I am the high bidder.

I bid on it also but the buyer cancelled my bids and blocked me. I asked for his phone # or address so I could pay in cash with no luck.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

The two agencies you should contact are the USPS and FBI. That being said I doubt they will assign this a high priority.