Got scammed...

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

I went to camaroz28.com and I found some brand new headers from a guy for my new car for 450 shipped so I sent him an email (not looking at his 4 post count all in the same post). Well, I wait about a week and decide I will buy them. The money clears, and I never hear from the guy again. Well, it has been 2 weeks, so I decide to do some research (which I should have done before). Apparently he gives me a fake address 31st street in Madison, NJ. I went on mapquest and there are no numbered streets in madison. He also said in his post that they were on a t/a, but in an email he said he took them off of his camaro.

So I filed a complaint with paypal and they say they will get my money back (hopefully). I emailed the admins on cz28.com and they gave me his IP address: 172.209.164.99

I did a whois and he is an aol user in Dulles, VA. I emailed AOL's abuse email and I am awaiting a response.

Is there anything else I should do?

[KickinAudio 5]

What was his paypal address? Look at your past payment to him, it's gotta be linked to his bank, so it should give you his real name or something.

[KickinAudio 5]

Also the AOL stuff, that doesnt mean he is in VA, thats just where AOL is that gave him that IP

172.192.0.0 - 172.211.255.255

is the range given out at that facility

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

Also the AOL stuff, that doesnt mean he is in VA, thats just where AOL is that gave him that IP

172.192.0.0 - 172.211.255.255

is the range given out at that facility

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His name on the paypal thing is Antony Phillips. It doesn't say anything about a physical address. This was the name he used on his yahoo email account.

[amangle 0]

Horrible story, i was scammed before welcome to the club. At least you went through paypal and not wire (send money directly from the bank), western union, or money order.

I tried to buy two motorcycles over the Internet 13k and 10k, well when u think you just lost 10k large to a scam u feel like sh** for a long time and then u do it again ... u feel eBay has hundreds of scammers online at all time and i believe they are begining to take advantage of weak security and more specific user groups.

i wish u the best of luck, the ip address isn't going to be able to help too much. If u find the guy, i will gladly supply my a$$ kickin' supplies (fists, steel toe boot, and baseball bat) in person. Just to take out the anger i still harbor from my experience.

moral of this story: Don't use wire, western union, or money order for large sums of cash and be weary of the internets "great" deals.

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

Yea, I remember a couple years ago, me and my friends and my sisters and her friends each got scammed out of 60 bucks for some fake id's from some place in south america. Sent money via western union and we really couldnt do anything because it was illegal in the first place.

Hopefully I will hear sumthing from paypal soon.

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

So paypal just emailed me back and said that they can't do anything or disclose any information on him... I am really pissed now. Does anybody know anything that I can do? I don't know what to do now.

[KickinAudio 5]

Post up every bit of info you have on him here, fake or not...even forum screen name.

Also e-mail the owners of camaroz28.com and explain what happened, maybe in order for him to be a member of that board he had to give up some info.

[KickinAudio 5]

Also if you via your credit card - paypal or not....you entitled to take back the money you spent due to fraud or a dispute.

And if you paid via your bank, you may be able to do the same...it might piss off paypal....but you'll have your money.

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

Name: Antony Phillips

Fake Address:

1011 S. 38th Street

Madison, NJ 07940

You have his IP address.

email: [email protected]

User ID tphillips045

site: http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295436

I will call my bank and see if they can do that. I don't really care about paypal, they have some kind of insurance to protect from that. They gave me false hopes at the beginning when I started to resolve my claim (saying that they will most likely get the money back in 10 days, but if not in 30 days it should be resolved)

One of my friends has some hacker friends and he is going to give them the IP address and see if they can get into his computer to find out more info.

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

I just called the bank and they said that they would research it, but they couldn't do it right off hand because the claim was almost a month old. I think they will call paypal and they will say no, you can't do that, so I will be screwed again.

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

They just called me back, they said that all I have to do is go sign a form and they can handle it.

[stiffler] F**kin right doggie [/stiffler]

Thanks Kickin for all the help. I will make sure to be way more cautious next time. I think the beer will go down smooth tonight knowing that I didnt get screwed out of almost 500 bucks.

P.S. Fall break, no more school till monday, I expect a long drunken weekend, so I'll see yall later.

[KickinAudio 5]

Hell yea man....good job!! Sometimes with the bank, they'll charge like $10 to do the reverse funds transfer.

Next time always call them, know they hang around the forum alot that they are posting on, and ask for feedback.

Same with creditcard companies, if you have any dispute...just give them a call and have the payment returned.

PS..

lol I read my posts from earlier..dont know how you understood them, I didnt explain myself that well. I'm on a satellite connection in a mall parking lot lol...

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

I don't think they will charge me, my dad is on the board of directors of the bank, he is high up there too. I didn't find them that bad, I generally read fast, so those missing words don't usually appear.

[dozure 0]

those missing words don't usually appear.

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yea... missing things generally don't appear...

just fukkin with ya. congrats on coming out on top