Thanks to our recent run-in with a scammer this site makes me feel good. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time to be honest, the stories are just hilarious.. This site is full of stories of people scamming the scammers. It makes me wish I could get a scam email so I can now practice what I learnt. I would assume it would take up quite a bit of time, and the imagination required for it might be a bit beyond me, but the justice served.. Good to see too that the money scammed from the scammers goes to charities. A nice touch.
I definitely recommend going through the first couple of letters. Just to see what it's about. Funny stuff too.. long though.
I've sent this same message over the flashcom mailing list but I wanted to post to a wider audience just in case.
Unfortunately we have just been bitten by fraud of a paypal account from a client and I thought it best to send out a warning to all who may get involved with this guy as he seems *very* interested in Flash and Flash Communication Server applications.
I know this is a bit OT but I wanted to warn everybody that may come in touch with this guy who calls himself Steve. He has 2 email addresses that we know of:
clu3less@gmail.com
and
sales@maryamtariq.com
He will usually go by the handlename of "escape" and we think he is located in the India/Pakistan area though the domain is registered in the UK. Unfortunately most of the information is bogus which makes the guy pretty untrackable.
The paypal account that was used was registered to an Adam Benware (I'm pretty sure Adam has figured out his account has been hijacked though so I doubt it will be used again)
I had been warned about using paypal in the past and actually stopped using it due to hearing so many bad things about it but went for this last . This is just one more thing in the history of Paypal I guess and now I am joining the ever-growing crowd of those that say "DON'T USE PAYPAL!!" It is not secure and there is nothing you can do when they do bend you over and take it up the ......
Of course if anybody has any information on how to track this kind of thing, please let us know in the comment area or even an email to info (at) solid-thinking.com
Any leads or ideas will be very much appreciated.