Fallout 4 PipBoy Limited edition ebay scam, rip off ,con,

Oh dear!. It appears that yet again I may have been ripped off by an unscrupulous seller on Ebay :-(

Why?

Because i had been naive enough to think that being unable to buy my son the Fallout 4 Pipboy limited edition (pre order) from GAME, due to greedy others buying the whole bloody lot within hours to sell for inflated prices on... yep... ebay!! :-/

All seemed well until the release date was upon us. We had received a tracking number from the seller a few days earlier and were assured that the item would be posted on the 10th November to be with us (special delivery) on the 11th....It never arrived. I checked on the Royal Mail website for progress using my tracking number and was asked to "come back later" as there was nothing to track.

Unfazed  I wrote to the seller via both email and via ebay messenger inquiring as to if the item had been sent and if not could they advise as to the status of the order....Nothing.

Eventually i tried to call the number they had provided on both the Paypal and ebay account details...unknown or incorrectly dialed number i was informed by the robotic female voice...Bollocks!!

I did get to speak to Paypal who informed me that i would get a refund...eventually, if it was a scam....but could take some time.

I asked if they checked their members address details were genuine...apparently not...obviously!!.

So when i asked how they intended to recoup the lost money (which amounted to several thousands of pounds) and they told me that "We will if necessary appoint a debt collection agency".....i pointed out that if the address that the paypal member supplied was false....were exactly are you going to send the debt collection company too   ?  I did not get a believable answer :-)

Seller is in Wendover near Aylsebury in Buckinghamshire. Put picture of invoice from GAME on the advert which showed he (allegedly) purchased 10 of these items for £999 in June...or did he?

Been Affected ?

Please leave me a comment

Thanks :-)

UPDTAE 14/11/2015

Details known about the thief.

Different addresses were used as business addresses.

155 Witchell

Wendover

Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire

HP22 6EG

United Kingdom

AND

29 Maunder Road

Wendover

London

London

W7 3PN

United Kingdom

155 Witchell and 29 Maunder road do NOT EXIST. According to Zoopla the house numbers only go up to 19 on Maunder and 41 on Witchell!!. Although on both occasions Wendover is included in the address.
The Postcode is in London but the address places the location in Wendover several miles North West.
The telephone Number 01296 340428 when dialed returns an "Incorrectly dialed number" message.
The Email danielcooper55@outlook.com WAS valid a few weeks ago. I spoke to a seller who sent an order via email to this address.
I have contacted GAME and the Royal Mail to see if they can identify the invoices or the postal details (sender). Game may be able to identify the buyer by the Date/Time/Amount on the invoice. Assuming that the con artist actually made the purchase in the first place their can't be many people who went into a GAME store or visited a GAME wesite on the 16th June 2015@ 1.24 and spent £999.90 using a card. Worth an inquiry and so i have sent a copy of the invoice to GAME to see if they can validate the details.

Is this a coincidence? Either this is the seller or the seller is using this guys info to defraud a lot of people!

Check out this link:  http://ukbizcheck.com/company/09209562/warlord-brewing-limited


The very likely bogus Tracking number was AE803127387GB. I would guess this was sent to ALL buyers?

If all those buying got nothing then this scam artist cleaned up a cool £8000+ from his little sting....and even though Paypal have suggested they will refund me.....I don;t think scum like this should get away without me making some effort to catch him(her!).

This individual increased their positive feedback by BUYING 5 STAR feedback via Ebay! This type of sale needs shutting down NOW as it is exactly the sort of mindless selling that allows scammers to flourish and extort money from other ebayers!!

	Excellent eBayer!!!	Buyer: 5***e ( 17)	During past 6 months
	5 star feedback (#252035085316)	£0.99

They also purchased of a REAL ITEM (which would have had to be posted to their address) from a seller callled Reptileshopper about 6 months ago, So it follows that somewhere along the line a genuine address has to have been provided if the item was actually sent!!

	The item was great! Fast to send. Exceptionally ideal packaging. Recommended. A+	Buyer: 5***e ( 17)	During past 6 months
	Last Action Hero (DVD, 2004) Brand New (#252006065244)	£5.00

Update 17/11/2015

eBay

As per usual they are working hard to erase all traces of this disastrous sale!

Record of the ENTIRE listing has been erased
eBay messages too and from the seller have been erased and his account although still viewable is no longer registered with eBay. Not had ANY correspondence from eBay to date.....seems they prefer to keep this sort of scam quiet and probably don't want the Police Involved.....I DO!!

GAME

Spoke to the manager of a local GAME store who examined the "invoice" and suggested it was actually a screen shot from their web page on-line order facility. And the order never got any further than the basket (Not to the checkout!)

Thinks that the scammer has a GAME account as he appears to have used a known credit card.
Appears to have received an email from the site so could be legitimate email address.
May be able to search GAME on-line order records and cross reference DATE/TIME and TOTAL which are STORED even if the transaction is canceled :-) (Stores IP Address in case of attempt to use a stolen credit card!  Might prove VERY useful :-)

Royal Mail

I spoke to the Royal mail to try and establish how the scammer managed to supply a bogus TRACKING number which it appears was sent to all of his victims. It was a GENUINE number which was probably purchased on-line using an ESTABLISHED account with Royal Mail. She suggested that they could backtrack the tracking number to the account with which it was purchased :-)...Result !!

Will be passing all this info onto the Police at the end of this week. You never know..maybe this fella might get caught yet :-)

UPDATE 18/11/2015

Reported to Police Fraud Unit :-)

Update 21/11/2015

It appears that Mr Cooper is heavily involved in the Brewing industry...but is this the fraudster or is he a victim of identity theft? As you can see from the address and details below a lot of the info supplied by dvdandvideogames2015 appears to match!

Cooper'S Brewery Limited
Register Address	15 Witchell, Wendover, Aylesbury (area code: HP22 6EG)
Company number	08259594
Status	Active
Incorporation date	2012-10-18
Company age	3 years 1 month
Type	Private Limited Company
SIC Code	11050
SIC Category	Manufacture of beer

I was also contacted by the Fraud department of GAME today. I have sent them a copy of the "invoice" to assist with their investigations.....watch this space :-)

KO56 NJT . Apparently i was involved in an accident...but this registration number does not exist !(DVLA)

Having spoken to Adrian Flux insurance services today whilst arranging a new policy for my Scirocco, I was rather alarmed to find that, according to their data base, I had been involved in an accident with someone(unknown) on September 15th 2011 driving a vehicle (unknown) which had a registration which does not exist!.

After some Googling ,calls to DVLA and checking on the ASKMID site I have now come to the conclusion that this is some sort of mistake...but why then does it show up on my insurance claim history?

Anyone else had a similar experience?

So far have spoken to MID (Motor Insurance Database) and DVLA

Just waiting on a call from IDSL (08451652803
idsl)......hope they can throw some light on this mystery :-)

UPDATE 02/07/2015

Interesting facts. The Reg number is almost identical to that of the lorry which collided with me in April 2014 (Except that 2 of the letters in the Reg number have been reversed!)

The Entry onto my Insurance record was made (according to IDSL) by Ecclesiastical Insurance services (with whom i had a policy a few years back) . Having called them today to ascertain how a false entry was made, i am yet again awaiting an anwser.

Been scammed on ebay by Willbay9000 William Peckore

,

Hi Folks. Long time no post.Sorry, been quite busy recently but decided that a recent event which took place demanded for me to post a warning to other potential victims of an ebay scammer named (apparently but not verified!) William Peckore.

It all started when my son requested that i buy him some points to use on xbox live. As it happened i was browsing ebay so decided to see what was on offer.

I found a seller called Willbay9000 who was offering 4200 points for £29.99 and would email the code immediately as payment was made.

My son offered to sell his PSP to fund the purchase so i placed the order via Paypal and waited...and waited..and waited!

2 hours later i decided to request the user information via ebay and was given the name William Peckore and a mobile number of 07565393439 to call. I called several times but each time it was an answephone. I then noticed that 2 negative feedbacks had appeared since my purchase suggesting that the seller was a scammer....mmmm...not good!

I then went to my paypal account and made a note of the sellers details that they had on the invoice.

His email was willia@virginmedia.com and there was another mobile number labeled as being for customer support.....it was a fake unrecognized number! Oh dear!

During the next hour i left a message on the answer phone, emailed via ebay and waited.....nothing.....except that in this time the seller went on-line and changed his user name to hspab3 !! WTF ?

The negative feedbacks began to pile up and by Saturday night they had reached 9! Each victim had lost between £10.50 and £29.99....nice little earner indeed...but it got worse..much worse.

I called Paypal who advised me that because the advert breached ebay rules to do with delivering codes via email, paypal would not directly refund me the money...i would have to go to my bank to seek a refund....oh joy!. But the worst part was that even though i gave paypal (and their parent company ebay) the heads up on the scammer they still allowed his to keep the advert on the site...until it disappeared at the end of Saturday night....and the result? 29 PEOPLE GOT SCAMMED BY THIS MORON!!

Anyway. I did a little research about MR Peckore (or is that your real name?) and this is what i found out.

In 2012 William Peckore registered a domain name BULKROIDS.COM with Go Daddy .
 How do i know it was the same guy? Well he provided this info:

Registered through: godaddy.com, llc (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: BULKROIDS.COM
      Created on: 22-Aug-12
      Expires on: 22-Aug-13
      Last Updated on: 23-Aug-12

   Registrant:
   William Peckore
   112 london road
   hailsham, west sussex bn27 3al
   United Kingdom

   Administrative Contact:
      Peckore, William  
      112 london road
      hailsham, west sussex bn27 3al
      United Kingdom
      07565393439

   Technical Contact:
      Peckore, William  
      112 london road
      hailsham, west sussex bn27 3al
      United Kingdom
      07565393439

Notice the mobile number and the email? 

I checked with Zoopla and the property was sold last in 2002 and not again since then, so i believe Mr Peckore still lives there.

I have used Google street view and now seen 112 London Road (across the road from Leap Cross enterprise park and down the road from the Plumb Centre)

I have a friend who lives a few miles away who is going to verify some details...i will keep you informed :-)

If you have found this post because you have been scammed by this moron, please feel free to comment and we can see if we can "equalize" our situation :-)

Watch out for updates! 

UPDATE!! JUST CHECKED AND NOW SHOWING AS "NOT A REGISTERED USER" 12/03/2014

Natasha Vraets (Al Karim) your sister in christ scam

.

Yes, yet another sick human being who not only tries to scam you but tells you she is a God fearing cancer suffering Christian!.

Anyway, thought you may want a heads up on this sad individual !.

content of SCAM Email:

" I am Mrs. Natasha Vraets a widow suffering from long time illness (Cancer), I have some funds I inherited from my late loving husband Mr. Yusuf Nasri Al Karim, the sum of $9.5 USD Million which he deposited in bank here and I need a very honest and God fearing person that can use these funds for God's work, and 15% out of the total funds will be for your compensation for doing this work of God.



I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. That is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.



I found your email address from the internet and decide to contact you. Please if you would be able to use this fund for God’s work kindly reply me with this email:vraets.natasha@yahoo.fr



Your sister in Christ,

Mrs. Natasha Vraets"

I Like the passage "I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going."...So do we love...and it will be warm and give you a bloody god suntan!.

Mrs Vraets (God knows your real name :-) ) you are one sick puppy......

.

Bride 'Faked Leukaemia To Pay For Dream Wedding'

A US woman has been charged with fraud after falsely claiming she was dying of cancer in a bid to get her "dream wedding".


Well-wishers donated a wedding dress, the rings, and a honeymoon time-share in Aruba to 25-year-old Jessica Vega, who said she had leukaemia.But the New York state attorney general's office said she had been indicted on charges of fraud and grand larceny, after investigating concerns initially voiced by her husband, Michael O'Connell.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said: "By pretending to have a terminal illness, Vega inexcusably took advantage of the community's hearts and minds and profited off of their generosity

To read the full story click HERE.

.

Air Ambulance Service Clothing Collection Scam

.





If you get a flyer through your door from the Air Ambulance Service DO NOT PUT OUT ANYTHING!. It is a scam that gives the impression that the collection is for an Air Ambulance Charity......IT IS NOT!


If you have received one of these flyers please get in touch and let me know. Better still if you manage to get pictures of the people who are involved with this scam or the vehicle that they use, let me have a copy and I will post it on this blog for all to see.

Better still...fill your bin bags with all the crap you have overflowing from your wheelie bin, wrap it in some old rags (in case they have a quick look inside!) then leave it and enjoy watching them snatch it away in the belief that it holds a few quids worth of decent clothing...NOT :-).


I hate scumbags that pertain to be working for the good of many when in fact they are simply lining there own greedy pockets.


The website www.airambulanceservice.org.uk does not exist.


The mobile number 07577940492 comes back as number not available.


Please tell others about this sick scam and don't let these people convert your clothing into beer money!.


To read the story on the BBC website click HERE or to read another story about the same SCAM in Macclesfield click HERE


.

Caught Speeding in the ROI? Paying the fine is no joke!

.

A friend of mine was caught speeding in the Republic of Ireland whilst hurrying to get back to the ferry last year.After being pulled over by the local traffic cops he accepted that he was doing a little over 10 mph above the limit (71 in a 60 zone), and took the news of a fine on the chin and without any argument.

A few months later he received a fine in the post for 80 Euros and so, in accordance with the instructions he filled in the details of his VISA card and sent the paperwork back to be processed.

He was rather surprised then when a few weeks later he had his payment rejected and was told that he was not able to use his VISA debit card, it had to be a VISA Credit card!. He did not have a credit card so he decided to pay via another method, so he sent a cheque.

He sent his cheque to the authorities and expected this to be the end of the matter. A week or 2 later he had his cheque returned stating that as it was set out for GBP and not Euros , this too was not an acceptable method of payment. Just to rub salt into the wounds they also told him that as he had not paid within a specified time period the fine would now rise to 120 Euros!.

He called the office of the people who collect the fines and (in a rather abrupt manner!) was told that he must pay the full 120 euro fine within another specified time or they would issue a court summons!.

He asked if his brother (who lives in the ROI) could pay the fine for him, but yet again was told that this was not possible as all of the documentation had to be handed in with the cash.

He then approached his bank to arrange a bankers draft, but this would take almost 7 days and so the bank manager suggested that perhaps a relative with a credit card may be able to pay the fine and to which ends the bank would FAX the details to the Irish office on his behalf.

He went down to the bank in the morning having been authorised to use his sons credit card and the bank manager then attempted to FAX the details over to the Irish office 4 times!. After the fourth time he was told that he must be sending it to the wrong number, but upon reading the number over the phone it was confirmed that this was not the case!.

This poor chap is not Ronnie bloody Biggs, he is a hard working (retired) chap who happened to get caught whilst rushing to catch a ferry. He has now spent almost 2 months fretting over this issue and, if all costs such as telephone calls, parking charges and bank charges are taken into account, he has now ended up paying (assuming nothing else gets cocked up!) about 140 euros for this 80 euro fine due to a level of incompetence within the Irish fines processing departments that beggars belief!.

I wonder if the Irish are trying to pay off their national debt by using this "we delay and make you pay" tactic ?

I have advised him to seek legal advise as to the legality of enforcing an overcharge due to a poorly designed system and also to ask his MP to raise the point of payment obstruction in the house of commons ,after all he did not argue the validity of the fine, but seems to have more been penalized for not being in the correct "Euro Zone" when he tried to pay it!.

Currency discrimination perhaps?

.

.

Cashback Scam. ALWAYS check your till receipt !

I had this info emailed to me recently.......a very worrying warning!

CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS BEFORE LEAVING THE CHECK-OUT

I bought a bunch of stuff, over £150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of £40. I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it. She said I'd have to take the £40 because she couldn't delete it. I told Her to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it.. I said NO! Taking the £40 would be a cash advance against my Credit card & I wasn't paying interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn't delete it then they would have to delete the whole order. So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan everything! The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a cash-back of £20 popped up. At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it. The total came out right. The cashier agreed that the Electronic Pad must be defective. Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the £40 at the beginning. Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed? Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford , Sainsburys last week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn't give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn't look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for £20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK! My co-worker called Sainsburys who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. This is a new scam going on. The cashier will key in that you asked for cash back and then hand it to her friend who is the next person in the queue. Please, please, please check your receipts right away when using credit or debit cards! This is NOT limited to Sainsburys; they are one of the largest retailers so they have the most incidents. I am adding to this. My husband and I were in Sainsburys and paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer he just happen to notice there was a £20 cash back added. He told the cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has been messing up and she canceled it. We really didn't think anything of it until we read this email. I wonder how many "seniors" have been, or will be, "stung" by this one????

To make matters worse ...THIS SCAM CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE, AT ANY RETAIL OR WHOLESALE LOCATION!!! BEFORE LEAVING THE CHECK-OUT........CHECK YOUR RECEIPT!!!!!

As we all get caught up in the Christmas rush, please take a few seconds to check your till receipt...it may save you a lot of expense!.

.

PDS POSTAL SCAM do NOT call 09066611911 !!

.

I'VE JUST BEEN TOLD ABOUT A NEW POSTAL SCAM.

'UNDELIVERED PARCEL' cards are being posted through letterboxes claiming that a company called PDS or PDC (postal delivery Service/company) have been unable to deliver a parcel. There is a number to ring to reschedule delivery. DO NOT ring it as your phone bill will be charged £315 to a company in Belize.

If you get a card through your letterbox call the Royal Mail Fraud 02072396655 to report them.

Tax Refund Scam.DO NOT GIVE YOUR DETAILS!

.

Today,this email was waiting for me in my inbox:

"
Tax Refund Notification

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 188.50 GBP. Please submit the tax refund request and allow 6-9 days in order to process it.

Click HERE to submit you tax refund request
Note : A refund can be delayed a variety of reasons, for example submitting invalid records or applying after deadline.
Yours Sincerely
HM Revenue & Customs
| © Crown Copyright | Terms & conditions | Privacy policy | "

Admittedly it's a poorly designed example with terrible grammar and a very amateurish look, but potentially it could gain all of your personal details if you were to follow the links and enter the required fields for account numbers and pin codes etc (these pages look VERY convincing!).So be warned, don't fall for this con.

.

When special offers are not really...well....offers at all !

I received an email from my telephone provider today.Its a strange one really because they also own the company that I have my broadband with...but I am not actually a broadband customer of theirs! .Anyway,I digress !. The point of this post is to illustrate how companies can "bend the facts" to make bad deals appear to be very good ones!

This is the email

I received.....

"Welcome to February's TalkTalk Rewards. This month we've got even more great gifts for you - from PC accessories to educational games, music and DVDs.

You could get your hands on a funky laptop sleeve, learn the basics of French, boogie on down with the greatest hits from the 70's and 80's CD or get fit for summer at home with a Body Blitz DVD. With loads of gifts to choose from, there's something to suit everyone.

Remember these gifts are free* - all you have to pay is £2.99 for postage and packaging. It's our way of saying thanks for being a TalkTalk customer. So what are you waiting for? Collect your reward today! "

Sounds good so far yeah ?.....well, not quite.....let me explain why.........

This is an example of some of the FREE gifts on offer:

A Neoprene laptop sleeve."Worth £13.99" + £2.99 postage. I bought one of these in the POUND SHOP 2 weeks ago....yes, for a pound !

An HDMI Cable. "Worth £12.99" Err...sorry again ! £1.99 actually in Home Bargains ...less than the postage for my "FREE" item !

A 12-in-1 card reader. Worth £9.99 (as they tell you) ? No.Bought one the exact same from the POUND SHOP...for a pound (Strangely) 2 weeks ago! And yet again you have to pay £2.99 for their postage !

A 4GB MP3/4 player. Foehn & Hirsch W180 Groove MP4 Player 4GB FM Radio G-Sensor and Charger with 1.8 TFT Screen Black.£ 27.99 (SRP £59.99)+£2.99 P&P. Erm.........Ebay says you are wrong

So be warned, all that glitters is not gold, and all that is "free" may actually be being sold !

Suffice to say that I won't be "buying" any of these "rewards" :-)

.

.

Warning!.This is a SCAM.DO NOT REPLY TO THIS Email if you receive it.

I have had several of these sent to me via the Scirocco 2 Morocco email Address.They are FAKE.Do not fill in any personal details on the link to your bank.

Scumbags who send these toxic and sick "Phishing" emails should be strung up by the Bol..........Bloody well hung !

Tax Refund Notification    After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 988.50 GBP. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 2-3 days in order to process it. Click Here to submit you tax refund request Note : A refund can be delayed a variety of reasons, for example submitting invalid records or applying after deadline. Best Regards HM Revenue & Customs | © Crown Copyright | Terms & conditions | Privacy policy |

PCSO lied about daughter having Leukaemia and conned money from colleagues

I read a story in a paper today about a PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) somewhere in the UK (Can't rememebr the exact details) who conned colleagues out of a substantial amount of money by claiming that her daughter had Leukaemia. She later told people that her daughter had died of the disease, but was caught out when someone spotted the "desceased" child very much alive.

What can you say about these sort of individuals ? No......don't tempt me.

Of course there is a twist at the end of this tale, and that is the fact that she will not be presecuted because they cannot ascertain the exact amount of money that this woman conned out of the kind hearted mates at her Police station and her neighbours. If only she knew what suffering and pain the parents of kids who really do have this disease are going through on a daily basis, perhaps then she might grasp the feeling of outrage that people feel at her sick con.

Lets just hope that she is no longer a PCSO, and if by any mad chance she still is, lets hope that they have sent her to Coventry (It's an English term for not speaking to a disgraced individual!)