Reporting Scams And Online Ripoffs Since 2007
Finance Shine International: Russian Scammers
Back at it again, the Russian remailers are working the credit card fraud as usual. This time, they used the name Finance Shine International. They used the site WWW.FSHINE.NET and used addresses in the US to receive packages purchased with stolen credit card numbers. [...]
eBay Scammer Gets 18 Months Jail Time
United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that Johnny Lee Tan was sentenced on August 30, 2007 to 18 months in prison for money laundering and that Kevin Pua was sentenced to a five-year term of probation for conspiracy. The convictions grew out of the men’s participation in [...]
Fake Job, Fake Checks
Here’s a real common scam that a surprising number of people still fall for. It’s the “fake job cashing fake checks” scam. It starts with the scammers sending out emails with lures of easy money, etc. If you reply, you get an email like [...]
eBay Scammer Sentencing Scheduled
The United States Department of Justice has notified us that the sentencing hearing for defendant, Nancy Pua, has been set for December 6, 2007, 02:30 PM at San Francisco before Judge Jeffrey S. White. Sentencing for Defendants Kevin Pua and Johnny Lee Tan will go forward on August [...]
Design-America.com: Return of the Russian Remailer Scam
They’re baa-ack. You might remember these guys as Arico-Designs, now they are calling themselves Design America and set up that same old cheesy looking web site at http://www.design-america.com. The contact this time called himself Michael Hawkins. They recruited remailers the same way, through Monster.com [...]
Arico-Designs.com: Another Russian Remailer Scam
This time they operated under the name of Arico Designs out of Texas. Of course, this was just a fake company at a mailbox address. They lured in several graphic designers and others looking for freelance work and then had merchandise purchased with fraudulent [...]