Teenager Gets Three Years For Ebay Scam

[sera_beetle]

A Californian teenager was sentenced to three years for defrauding users of eBay's auction services. The 19-year old, Cole Bartiromo, was ordered to pay $20,000 back to his victims and spend 33 months in prison.

The teenager pleaded guilty in February to putting items up for sale on eBay, collecting payment and not sending out the goods. He was also found guilty of bank fraud for trying to convince a Wells Fargo employee to wire $400,000 to an offshore account he had set up.

Bartiromo has previous form: as a 17-year old high school student he obtained $1m from investors who believed his claim to offer "risk-free" bets on sporting events. The Securities and Exchange Commission were less convinced and made him pay investors back $900,000. ®

[ZeroBlade]

yay, scum deserves to be locked up!!!!

on a side note some banks dont consider taking payment and non-delivery as fraud, crappy banks such as HSBC!!!

a hint for ne1 that gets caught by this. u havta LIE to get ur money back. Basically tell the bank you DID NOT authorise the transaction, if it was done over the fone/internet where u gave card details. u'll be able to do a charge-back thsi way and get ur money back, as theres no way the scammer can prove you authorised it.

-Z

[sera_beetle]

A good little tip!

i will put that one in the bank for when i need it.

[vmail]

yay, scum deserves to be locked up!!!!

on a side note some banks dont consider taking payment and non-delivery as fraud, crappy banks such as HSBC!!!

a hint for ne1 that gets caught by this. u havta LIE to get ur money back. Basically tell the bank you DID NOT authorise the transaction, if it was done over the fone/internet where u gave card details. u'll be able to do a charge-back thsi way and get ur money back, as theres no way the scammer can prove you authorised it.

-Z

recorded calls?

logged IP addresses?

[ZeroBlade]

yay, scum deserves to be locked up!!!!

on a side note some banks dont consider taking payment and non-delivery as fraud, crappy banks such as HSBC!!!

a hint for ne1 that gets caught by this. u havta LIE to get ur money back. Basically tell the bank you DID NOT authorise the transaction, if it was done over the fone/internet where u gave card details. u'll be able to do a charge-back thsi way and get ur money back, as theres no way the scammer can prove you authorised it.

-Z

recorded calls?

logged IP addresses?

these kinds of scammers don't do that m8.

if ur payin via the internet PP, NoChex etc then u could still claim they got a hold of ur info somehow, and used that.

the ip address can't really be used as a means of saying u gave something. coulda been ne1.

-Z

[jaxx]

recorded calls?

believe it or not but you can get screwed over big time for that if you dont inform the person on the other end of the line or they have a legal document that tells them that the call will be monitored!

you can get done through breach of the data protection act!

[sera_beetle]

you can fake ip address very easy.

Less than 5 mins work maybe another 5 for the time stamp! but not very hard to do