International Amiga scammer hit squad

[Cyberus]

Thanks for that, I really appreciate what you have done.

As an aside,
All this 'godspeed' and 'god bless all in your house' business is really starting to get up my nose. Not because its religious, as I have a lot of respect for religion, but because he seems to use it to legitimise his dodgy practices. I'm sure a real God-fearing person would behave more honourably :-(

Fingers crossed for the items.

Did you say he sent you a 68k CPU and called it an AdSpeed?!
Its not this is it?
http://amiga-hardware.com/adspeed.html

Anyway, thanks again :-)

[TheMagicM]

thats what he was implying yes. but when you look at it, its just a 68000 cpu (or whichever) with the sticker..the board itself is not there.  I will take pictures of the stuff I got from him and post them later tonight.

[Hyperspeed]

I'd be only too happy to go down to Analogic and kick Raj's backside
but I know from experience he'd just take out a notepad and pen, be
arrogant and dismissive for half an hour and you'd probably feel like
kicking yourself for bothering.

The best thing a site like this AmScam could offer is legal advice on
how to proceed.

For example, someone on eBay lately sold me something which turned out
to be the wrong item, when it was sent back the user went NARU and I
couldn't get in touch.

I spotted the same auction style again, won the auction and
lo-and-behold the same girl/guy was up and trading under a sibling
alias.

Again - arrogance, Not a Registered User then vanished.

I wrote to eBay and they did a bit, both accounts are NARU and the
user's Square Trade identity was highlighted to the site.

I have now obtained a Small Claim Form for the SCC and hope now that
an official summons will scare the pants off them.

As for Analogic, it'd be interesting to see how many other Amiga
owners have had trouble with these chimps.

[sir_inferno]

x56h34 wrote:
@Cyberus:

After we expand enough and become bigger, we could send hitmen worldwide to seak out the offensive bad traders and... ;-)

it might turn into something like the film "Leon"  :-D

i can do some simple to maintain webpage in php. although i'm the laziest guy in the universe, so there's no chance of it looking good  :lol:

[K7HTH]

Maxdoo has done me fine so far, no complaints. He promptly sent my AIDE2/NOVIA kit. Three days ago I purchased an AdSpeed from him. I just received a shipping notification from PayPal that my second purchase is on the way. I want to thank you all for helping Maxdoo to stay on point and I hope everyone gets their purchases, which I am sure they will.  :-)

[scharmers]

OK, I'm looking at this Maxdoo character to pick up an AdSpeed.  Has anybody had any feedback about him since 2004, or am I going to be the guinea pig here?

[weirdami]

and watch 'em squirm.

assuming they care or if the people they scam even know about the bad people list. a list somewhere doesn't help the general Amiga buying public.

[Cyberus]

weirdami wrote:

and watch 'em squirm.

assuming they care or if the people they scam even know about the bad people list. a list somewhere doesn't help the general Amiga buying public.

Lets put a few things into context here:

1) When this thread was started, there seemed to be an unprecedented level of scamming going on. A guy in England ripped off people with promises of PPC cards, and someone called 'Bernd Binder' ripped off more people for a few thousand more Euros.

2) The whole thing was meant to be light-hearted, despite the fact that scamming is not necessarily a light-hearted subject. (Hence me mentioning 'indiscriminate beatings' in my first post, it was meant to allude to the fact that the mob mentality is always silly, always gets out of hand and always affects innocents.

3) The 'Doomie BS' that framiga referred to (and I'm assuming he himself realised this), is about the fact that two of Doomy's alter egos turn up near the end of the thread and have an argument with themselves. (Boing Boss and the other account which has a picture of a bowling ally as its avatar)

[JaXanim]

@Cyberus

Bernd Binder is actually from Germany and scammed around 2,500Euros from at least a dozen people, mainly AOrg members. The last time I heard anything he was going to trial on 'more serious' charges than AmiScamming.

Though the name-naming website being proposed is well intentioned, I just wonder who is going to be the arbitor on who gets listed? Binder, Doomy and their like may be obvious candidates, but they're reasonably well known. And remember that some(many?) of Doomy's customers seem happy with their deals. I could forsee someone getting tarred and feathered based on hearsay or for making an honest mistake. How many transgressions before you're listed? A disgruntled eBayer could invent stuff just to serve his own agenda.

Though it seems you can almost get away with murder on the Internet, there are still laws to protect people.

Just my immediate thoughts,

JaX

[Tomas]

I know you are not being serious, but it still think it would be good if someone actually scared them a bit. I bet just knocking on the door to one of these guys would probably be enough  ;-)

[Cyberus]

JaXanim wrote:
@Cyberus

Bernd Binder is actually from Germany and scammed around 2,500Euros from at least a dozen people, mainly AOrg members. The last time I heard anything he was going to trial on 'more serious' charges than AmiScamming.

Though the name-naming website being proposed is well intentioned, I just wonder who is going to be the arbitor on who gets listed? Binder, Doomy and their like may be obvious candidates, but they're reasonably well known. And remember that some(many?) of Doomy's customers seem happy with their deals. I could forsee someone getting tarred and feathered based on hearsay or for making an honest mistake. How many transgressions before you're listed? A disgruntled eBayer could invent stuff just to serve his own agenda.

Though it seems you can almost get away with murder on the Internet, there are still laws to protect people.

Just my immediate thoughts,

JaX

Jeez, I know I go a roundabout way of explaining things, but I'll state again:

2) The whole thing was meant to be light-hearted, despite the fact that scamming is not necessarily a light-hearted subject. (Hence me mentioning 'indiscriminate beatings' in my first post, it was meant to allude to the fact that the mob mentality is always silly, always gets out of hand and always affects innocents.

[Cyberus]

edit: sorry, double post

[Hyperspeed]

I notice Anal-Logic Computers is selling off CD32s on eBay under the ID analogiccomputers(7).

Be warned that this company has roused anger among a few Amiga.org members and you risk being royally ripped off by them. Reporting them to the Office of Fair Trading, Trading Standards et al has been on my To-Do list for far too long...