FBI States Online Auction Fraud Biggest Source of Complaints

dipfan writes "The FBI says internet auction fraud was the biggest source of complaints last year, according to the annual report by the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre. The Nigerian bank scam still remains popular, even after all these years. Quote: "During 2001, Internet auction fraud was by far the most reported offense, comprising 42.8% of referred complaints .... Non-deliverable merchandise and payment comprise 20.3% of complaints, and credit and debit card fraud make up 9.4% of complaints." The report is a 27 page PDF file while the Washington Post wrote up an article about it." Just ask CowboyNeal about some of his fun with dealing with dealers in Hong Kong.

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ME TOO!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I claim this frist post in the name of the .test community. Cherish Jorie's left tittie.

On line auctions are a haven for criminals

[asmithmd1]

Those on line auctions are just an enticement for criminals, they should shut down quickly before another person is ripped off. I am going to call senator Hollins, he has shown himself to be savy in these areas and is a leader that is not afriad to take action

Re:On line auctions are a haven for criminals

[KilljoyAZ]

Get him to shut down IRC too, while you're at it. I read on CNN that hackers use it.

Dealers in Hong Kong??

[JZ_Tonka]

"Just ask CowboyNeal about some of his fun with dealing with dealers in Hong Kong. "

I really don't need to explain how shady that sounds, but one would think CowboyNeal would have learned, by now, that all those Chinese mail-order-bride scams were bound to catch up with him.

Two words

[Anonymous Coward]

Spell Checker

Re:One word (hopefully spelled right)

[rubicelli]

I think you were going for "escargot".

Re:In other news, some human beings suck.

[dillon_rinker]

Dealing with idiots is not worth the $$$.
Hundreds of thousands of retailers nationwide disagree with you.

My experience with a cockfaced liar

[Profane Motherfucker]

You have to hound some fucking people until they submit to your sheer genuius.

Some cockfaced twit was selling shit on eBay. I bought a cheap fucking router from this twink. Typical fucking scenarios: asspussy ignores emails, then claims item is 'processing' in their warehouse -- what was actually his fucking trailer home.

This motherless fuckcock ass magnet still never shipped the fucking thing after week. I discover, in talking with other buyers, that the bulk of his ratings were faked or manipulated (selling zillions of $5 things to friends). Classic fucking scam.

So I dig around and find that this shitfodder is running for political office. Nice and fucking sweet I thought. Low and behold, he has his cell posted on his soandsoforoffice.com page. So I make a few late night calls and politely tell him that I will fuckstart his head if he continues to be a dogshit tit slave.

Still no respone from this cunt after a week. Well, thinks me, I'll just call his local newspaper and spill the beans to them about this faggoty fucking felcher. Reporter calls back, and I tell him the story and how this might be a nice little piece on this fucker.

Apparently that got the bitch working because the shit came within a week. This was after I called both the CC company, PayPal, and the state attorney general to file a fraud claim.

The fraud claim was filed before the item came, but I figured I'd let that bastard worry about it. The attorney general office never followed up either. Pathetic. Stupid motherfucker got his eBay account cancelled within a week, but continued to fuck people on other auction sites, based on what was reported in his feedback.

Moral of the story: PayPal is worthless for consumer protection, eBay is worthless for consumer protection, and only huge extremes are able to do any good.

I won't even go into how worthless low budget places like Buy.com were for customer support: shipping broken items, hard to get in touch with, incomplete item descriptions.

Not to mention how shitty some retailers on pricewatch are. Fucking motherfuckers are a bunch of twat sponge cockfucks. New shit that is actually refurbished. Don't waste your time with those places.

I've only found one decent discount retailer: mwave.com. Good prices, always honest. You know how fucking hard it is to find someone who is not a serial rapist wanting to fuck you? Imfuckingpossbile.

First Post?

[Anonymous Coward]

did i make it in time?

Re:How can this be avoided?

[turg]

Merchandise that was ordered online but was never paid for or shipped accounted for 20 percent of complaints last year, the IFCC said.

Now if only we could just match up the people who don't pay with the people who don't ship, the problem would be solved