Bogus ads on TBN??

[PILOON]

The real scary thing is:

I spotted a similar 'fraud' on EBay, played the fraudster along a bit and called the Provincial Police (like state in USA) and was more or less told to mind my business.
I then called our feds (RCMP) as I felt that we cou;d use the contacts to set up a 'sting'.
I was told to call back 'Comercial Crime Unit monday AM after 9:00 (they don't work on WE's)
They laughed and told me that I watched too much TV and that they did not have the time or resources to investigate such frauds.

In effect it is the safest crime to consider.

The explanation was that the perp was probably offshore and even if caught could result in HUGE costs due to juristrictions, court delays and airfare costs for witnesses.

They don't care!, much easier to give traffic violations.

They did say, however that EBay is the single biggest and best prosocuter of internet crimes and that EBay gives major police forces excellent seminars on scamming and fraud prevention.

 

[PILOON]

The real scary thing is:

I spotted a similar 'fraud' on EBay, played the fraudster along a bit and called the Provincial Police (like state in USA) and was more or less told to mind my business.
I then called our feds (RCMP) as I felt that we cou;d use the contacts to set up a 'sting'.
I was told to call back 'Comercial Crime Unit monday AM after 9:00 (they don't work on WE's)
They laughed and told me that I watched too much TV and that they did not have the time or resources to investigate such frauds.

In effect it is the safest crime to consider.

The explanation was that the perp was probably offshore and even if caught could result in HUGE costs due to juristrictions, court delays and airfare costs for witnesses.

They don't care!, much easier to give traffic violations.

They did say, however that EBay is the single biggest and best prosocuter of internet crimes and that EBay gives major police forces excellent seminars on scamming and fraud prevention.

 

[RickO]

I think it is funny that anyone would even hold any hope in them being legit and make offers on them.... But that is proof that for every scammer their are a lot of overly trusting people. These scammers operate on the law of large numbers principle. The polute a bunch of legit sites like this and e-bay and then wait for that one in a thousand gullible person to come along and wire them money.

So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site.

 

[RickO]

I think it is funny that anyone would even hold any hope in them being legit and make offers on them.... But that is proof that for every scammer their are a lot of overly trusting people. These scammers operate on the law of large numbers principle. The polute a bunch of legit sites like this and e-bay and then wait for that one in a thousand gullible person to come along and wire them money.

So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site.

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue">...their are a lot of overly trusting people. </font>
No, there are not a lot of 'overly trusting' people, they are greedy and looking for something for (almost) nothing.

<font color="blue"> So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site. </font>
Do not use TBN to coordinate or plan activity like this.

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue">...their are a lot of overly trusting people. </font>
No, there are not a lot of 'overly trusting' people, they are greedy and looking for something for (almost) nothing.

<font color="blue"> So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site. </font>
Do not use TBN to coordinate or plan activity like this.

 

[dgl24087]

I've seen both of those tractors on separate ads on ebay. The wording in the ads are exact copies.

 

[dgl24087]

I've seen both of those tractors on separate ads on ebay. The wording in the ads are exact copies.

 

[RickO]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue">...their are a lot of overly trusting people. </font>
No, there are not a lot of 'overly trusting' people, they are greedy and looking for something for (almost) nothing.

<font color="blue"> So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site. </font>
Do not use TBN to coordinate or plan activity like this. )</font>

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt... Not everyone is in the same economic state... I think calling people greedy would be "deliberatly offensive".

 

[RickO]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue">...their are a lot of overly trusting people. </font>
No, there are not a lot of 'overly trusting' people, they are greedy and looking for something for (almost) nothing.

<font color="blue"> So what is there in our power to do? Can we mess up their system by flooding them with bogus info? I would like to hear your ideas. Let's do something back to them to keep them off our site. </font>
Do not use TBN to coordinate or plan activity like this. )</font>

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt... Not everyone is in the same economic state... I think calling people greedy would be "deliberatly offensive".