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Friday, November 20, 2009

Ebay Scammer II

A few weeks back I posted on my blog about an Ebay scammer that has scammed a friend of mine. I posted all the information I got on the scammer and there were positive feed backs, where other victims also shared their tale on how they were scammed by the same person. But not long after, I got the shock of my life as when I tried to access my blog, a message pops-up instead, saying 'The blog you were looking for was not found' and I got an error code bX-7ty0br. Apparently my blog was reported to be a spam.

You could imagine how frustrated I was - just when we were going somewhere with the case, I got such message and I could not access my blog. I was blogless for more than 2 weeks and finally and thankfully, I was able to access my blog once again. But the funny thing is, before my blog was blocked, when I Googled the scammer's information (name, cc number,etc) it is directed to my blog. Unfortunately, after my blog was blocked it seemed like he just vanished without a trace, like the scam never happened at all!

I am aware that it is against the policy of blogger to reveal the personal details of anyone. But is it fair when this information is available but it is being blocked and other innocent and genuine buyers will be scammed over and over again. AND the person responsible will never be caught cos there is no information on him being a scammer and other innocent buyers will think that the seller is a genuine seller.

But for me personally, I feel like I am just doing all that I can to prevent others from being scammed by the same person over again. Am I wrong to warn others to not deal with the person? Am I wrong to reveal the information on the scammer that has scammed a lot of people? Is it fair that he is still out there without a care in the world of ever being caught? Is it fair that the information is blocked from others to access and in a way just letting the scammer get away like that?

So, who is at fault in this case when the same cycle repeats again? When this scammer scam other innocent buyers? Is it the one trying to warn others or the one keeping the information blocked from the public?

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