Not sure how to handle this....

[gvl_guy]

I want to thank one of the members here who is MUCH more tech savvy than me...IP addresses, VPNs, sites that search for spam emails, etc. looks like this was a total scam from.....wait for it.... Nigeria! (I guess those Nigerian princes who used to want to give out money to unsuspecting grannies have upped their game.)

As much as this is frustrating, it's only $100. It could have been worse. I just want to be sure the wonderful members of this group know what to look out for and hopefully the moderators will be able to deactivate the bogus and potentially hacked accounts.

Thanks again.

 

[ubertrout]

I sent someone who was at least purporting to be his son $50 in 2019 and nothing arrived. To be honest I wrote it off - given the story it sounded like he needed it more than I did. Disappointing to hear about this.

 

[steelydave]

I sent someone who was at least purporting to be his son $50 in 2019 and nothing arrived. To be honest I wrote it off - given the story it sounded like he needed it more than I did. Disappointing to hear about this.

Can you possibly look through your records and see if you can find any names/email addresses anything else and PM them to me? Just trying to see if any of this lines up with it being the same person or a hacked account. Thanks!

 

[ubertrout]

Can you possibly look through your records and see if you can find any names/email addresses anything else and PM them to me? Just trying to see if any of this lines up with it being the same person or a hacked account. Thanks!

After I paid $50 he relisted it here for $85 and I reminded him he'd already sold it to me: https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/wuwh-5-1-disc-bl-ray-from-the-immersion-set.29039/

 

[4-earredwonder]

My business account was recently 'hacked' for $6K and when I went to the bank to report the fraud they said there was no recourse and that one of their other accounts had recently been hacked for $50K [with NO recourse] ...... calling me 'lucky.' "Lucky, Indeed!!!!!!!!!"

I had to get a new business checking account and all my credit cards had to be replaced. And indeed, billions of dollars a year are wrongfully bilked out of unsuspecting denizens and it's ONLY GETTING WORSE!

 

[ubertrout]

This one is honestly pretty minor. I eventually got the Atmos disc for $20 from Amazon. I would have liked the version with the quad mixes but they've long been easy to find.

 

[gvl_guy]

After I paid $50 he relisted it here for $85 and I reminded him he'd already sold it to me: https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/threads/wuwh-5-1-disc-bl-ray-from-the-immersion-set.29039/

Wow. If I had done my due diligence and saw this in our forum, I would have never agreed to a purchase and sent money. Some nasty name calling, apparently.

 

[ar surround]

Apparently we can't be too careful. I was thinking of selling some box sets on our forum, but now I am concerned about revealing my PayPal account name in a PM. Some 'prince' might get hold of it and find a way to hack into my account. Sick.

 

[AudiophileStyle]

Hi Guys, this is likely the type of scam that caused me to reset tens of thousands of account passwords on my site last week. Here’s how it works.

People use the same username and password on many sites. These credentials show up in scammer forums or on the dark web by the millions. You can often download terabytes of stolen credentials if you want.

These scammers find several long established accounts, with a good history, then login to sites like mine and QQ to find targets. One scammer with several accounts will often pretend to sell something with one account and pretend to buy it with another. Leaving feedback like, great seller, fast payment / shipment etc…

Then they look for the Want to Buy type posts and pretend to have the item people have been looking for, and the scam is on. They always, always, always give a reason to avoid using standard PayPal.

Anyway, I highly recommend the mods here expire the passwords for accounts that haven’t logged in for one year. This pretty much stops the scam before it starts.

 

[Jim.olga]

That's disgusting that some people are so morally

 

[Jim.olga]

That's disgusting that some people are so morally deficient. I'm sorry that happened to you.

 

[ar surround]

My business account was recently 'hacked' for $6K and when I went to the bank to report the fraud they said there was no recourse and that one of their other accounts had recently been hacked for $50K [with NO recourse] ...... calling me 'lucky.' "Lucky, Indeed!!!!!!!!!"

I had to get a new business checking account and all my credit cards had to be replaced. And indeed, billions of dollars a year are wrongfully bilked out of unsuspecting denizens and it's ONLY GETTING WORSE!

No recourse? That seems strange. I thought that banks were responsible for safeguarding digital transactions. If you know how it happened, would you mind sharing the gory details?

 

[gvl_guy]

Apparently we can't be too careful. I was thinking of selling some box sets on our forum, but now I am concerned about revealing my PayPal account name in a PM. Some 'prince' might get hold of it and find a way to hack into my account. Sick.

I was wondering the same thing about my venmo account. Venmo and PayPal are co-owned. They don't have my password, but they do have my email address, my home address and my phone number which I gave them to mail the item. That item of course doesn't exist

 

[gvl_guy]

No recourse? That seems strange. I thought that banks were responsible for safeguarding digital transactions. If you know how it happened, would you mind sharing the gory details?

Venmo isn't actually a bank per se. I transferred money from" friend to friend". There is no recourse for this type of transaction.

Here's how it happened. I posted in the forum that I was looking for a particular piece of equipment. A forum member messaged me saying that they bought some equipment from someone else on the board and he knew that he had this piece of equipment I was looking for. He gave me his alleged email address, so I wrote him directly. We made a deal on costs, I sent him $100 via venmo and then never heard from him. When I contacted him again to say, "what's up," He told me someone had offered him $150 for the item and that if I sent him the other $50 he would send it to me. I told him no I wasn't interested anymore and to return my money. That's when he went totally dark.

 

[armyjazzer]

Another safety precaution that could be established on the forum is requiring 2 factor authentication. So when you login you would get a numerical code in a text or email that you then have to enter before you get logged in. It is a added pain, but can prevent hacked logins if you get the code sent text to your phone, since they don't have physical access to your phone. Most places are going to this now for added security.

 

[andyp]

Venmo seems like an amateur copy of PayPal and Zelle. Their registration is so bad that when registering on Venmo, you create a login and then you enter your password ONE TIME and it is not even visible to you! For real?? I have used PayPal since it's inception and also Zelle. I use Venmo only when someone sends me money.