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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:43 am Post subject: Fraudster used eBay to steal $333,000 |
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A 35-year-old Vernon, B.C., man, who claimed he lived in Calgary, has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud for selling vintage cars he did not own through eBay and other Internet sites in 2007 and 2008.
According to a statement of admitted facts entered as an exhibit by Crown prosecutor Jenny Rees on Monday, Akthem Saadi (Robert) Yousif agreed to sell a total of 14 such vehicles and accepted more than $333,000 in whole or as deposit from two victims in Sweden and eight victims in seven different states in the United States.
Yousif would agree to ship the vehicles to the U.S. for pickup, but never did send them, and once he received the funds he refused to answer victims' phone calls or e-mails and did not return the deposits sent to his accounts at Calgary banks and PayPal.
According to the court document, Yousif did not own any of the cars, but provided pictures on eBay and through e-mail to the victims.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Fraudster+used+eBay+steal/6118322/story.html |
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luckyalive
Joined: 27 Apr 2008
Posts: 590
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe it! One of last buyers left positive feedback saying the mixture of items contained a lot of "X", but thanks anyway. Now they are too lazy to scroll down to the second picture in the listing to see what's in the lot. The only people that read the listings are scammers who think they have discovered something in the listing wrong so as to steal it. Before that it was a bidder who thought they had gotten an item shipped ot them based upon whats printed on the ourside of a used box which was reused for shipping - they didn't even open it. I think it must be the TV they were raised on - it trains them not to think. |
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