Polowatch - caution

[Tony64]

Originally Posted by Yzord

That will not do anything. With proxy or vpn you are back in no time.

Thanks. I'm guess I'm not very tech savvy about such things.

[breitlings]

ok so i think everyone who got scammed should message the Original Poster who will conpile information and bring it to his contact at the fbi. additionally perhaps one of the police officers and/or attorneys here can suggest how to proceed in local jurisdictions and perhaps in civil proceeding

[GLADIATOR]

Originally Posted by Tony64

Well, maybe one guy might...

[GLADIATOR]

Originally Posted by breitlings

ok so i think everyone who got scammed should message the Original Poster who will conpile information and bring it to his contact at the fbi. additionally perhaps one of the police officers and/or attorneys here can suggest how to proceed in local jurisdictions and perhaps in civil proceeding

Agreed 100%.
All effected should private message original poster, and report as a group to both FBI AND POLICE.
adam

[GLADIATOR]

Originally Posted by Shiba Hiro

What can I do now?

See posts above
Work with original poster.

[erhein]

Originally Posted by Tony64

Well, maybe one guy might...

[116710er]

Guys, I'm sorry to say but I think the money might be gone. This guy is most likely not even in the US. The wire accounts are most likely hacked or middleman accounts and the money gets wired out as soon as it lands. FBI won't do anything but take a report, they have bigger fish to fry. Local PD won't be able to help because like I said, I'm pretty sure this person is not in the US and the banks give no F's cuz it's not their money.

OP and Shiba, did you guys ask for and check his references by any chance? If he did give you references, you should publish those references as they're most certainly scam email accounts.

Should also post all his information so that a search will turn up something in case he tries to use the name info again (emails, phone numbers, names used, bank accounts, address, etc.)

[dmac001]

Don't know if phonevalidator is 100% accurate -- my home phone is on google voice, but they show it as a landline (it used to be, I ported over to GV).

[CMSgt Bo]

Sorry I'm seeing this a little late...the email address from post #2 crosses to a member on WUS (username apology) who was banned back in September. His IP address crossed to numerous previously banned scammers.

The problem with verification pictures is that they can be altered, or sourced from sellers in other communities. Case in point; I asked a seller to send me a pic of his BLNR set to 9:22 and date set to 17 while sitting on a piece of paper with my username written on it. The next day another member contacts me saying he's selling a BLNR on another forum (TRF) and a guy contacted him with a strange request. This guy asked for a verification pic of the BLNR set to 9:22 and date set to 17 while sitting on a piece of paper with CMSgt Bo written on it. He recognized my username and promptly contacted me on WUS and I banned the seller. If the TRF seller hadn't contacted me someone would have gotten scammed.

Here's some altered images from my collection.

The original image:




This scammer photoshopped a post-it over the username:




Then he gets fancy and superimposes the requesters username over the original and changes the time on the watch:




Caveat Emptor Y'all...believe half of what you see and none of what you read.

[Lime]

Could the scammed buyers please post update

[77T]

Originally Posted by CMSgt Bo

Sorry I'm seeing this a little late...the email address from post #2 crosses to a member on WUS (username apology) who was banned back in September. His IP address crossed to numerous previously banned scammers.

The problem with verification pictures is that they can be altered, or sourced from sellers in other communities. Case in point; I asked a seller to send me a pic of his BLNR set to 9:22 and date set to 17 while sitting on a piece of paper with my username written on it. The next day another member contacts me saying he's selling a BLNR on another forum (TRF) and a guy contacted him with a strange request. This guy asked for a verification pic of the BLNR set to 9:22 and date set to 17 while sitting on a piece of paper with CMSgt Bo written on it. He recognized my username and promptly contacted me on WUS and I banned the seller. If the TRF seller hadn't contacted me someone would have gotten scammed.

Here's some altered images from my collection.

The original image:




This scammer photoshopped a post-it over the username:




Then he gets fancy and superimposes the requesters username over the original and changes the time on the watch:




Caveat Emptor Y'all...believe half of what you see and none of what you read.

Good on ya’ for laying out the ways savvy scammers can fool buyers.

The smartest ones will defy detection methinks. At least for a while...


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