Were you ever badly scammed online

200yrolecrank

Happened twice to me bought a nokia n something 6 yrs ago in Oz on eBay from Hk,low and behold it was lighter than the one in the nokia store looked just like it but damn fake,luckily got a little back on it.
Recently ordered protein from a site in the Uk who stocked Hungarian products,3 mths later nothing and credit card company said it's a front.
Any other folks get duped

FatherLen

no and HA!

AnamGlas

No, my Nigerian royalties should be arriving any day now.

Micky Dolenz

Bought magic beans on line once. Roll on spring, I'll be rich, rich I tells ya.

carfiosaoorl

No I have never been scammed but just wanted to say be careful buying edible products like protein on the internet you don't know what you are buying.

SureYWouldntYa

Not scammed.
Got virus from a porn site and computer was done for

oppenheimer1

200yrolecrank wrote: »

Happened twice to me bought a nokia n something 6 yrs ago in Oz on eBay from Hk,low and behold it was lighter than the one in the nokia store looked just like it but damn fake,luckily got a little back on it.
Recently ordered protein from a site in the Uk who stocked Hungarian products,3 mths later nothing and credit card company said it's a front.
Any other folks get duped

No I'm not an idiot.

Only buy from reputable sellers.

Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger

Buying protein on the Internet LOL

Rocky_Dennis

I used to get scammed everytime I played poker online until I realised it was a mugs game and I wasn't very good

MugMugs

Subscribed to Boards once...... Does that count?

Miaireland

No. I have had a couple of items I bought from ebay not arrive but either got a refund from seller or paypal.

Posy

Scammed out of nearly 400 pounds (pretty much all the money I had) when I was about 17/18 and paid for something on e-bay using western union.
I was young, didn't have a clue about buying online (only had a PC a few months) and too trustworthy for my own good. :rolleyes:
But, it made me wiser in the long run. I learned a harsh lesson and moved on.

phasers

someone stole all my Habbo Hotel furniture once. I was 12 and was 'dating' a boy (maybe) online, we gave each other our passwords as a sign of our commitment. The next day I logged in and all my stuff was gone and the bastard had changed his password.

Daroxtar

phasers wrote: »

someone stole all my Habbo Hotel furniture once. I was 12 and was 'dating' a boy (maybe) online, we gave each other our passwords as a sign of our commitment. The next day I logged in and all my stuff was gone and the bastard had changed his password.

Someone stole something of you when you were 12 which didn't actually exist??? ookaaaay

JaMarcus Hustle

phasers wrote: »

we gave each other our passwords as a sign of our commitment. .

Rofl

cocoshovel

Nope, never scammed really, I know better than that.

However, before christmas I was selling some snap together model planes on Adverts.ie. They sold pretty well and I usually didnt send them until I confirmed that the buyers had transfered the money.

The previous night a buyer had confirmed he wanted one, so I said Ill send it in the morning if he can transfer the money by then. He said he definitely would and gave me his details etc.
The next morning I waited for the money to be transfered, but I was short on time and wanted to stick to my promise so popped into the post office and mailed it off.
No less than 10 mins after I mailed the package the buyer text me saying he was pulling out.
I text him explaining the situation, he promised he would pay me next week when his paycheck gets through....never heard from him again.

I didnt follow him up or ask whats the story because 1) It was totally my own fault for sending it off without payment, I should have waited. 2) It was only €12 and I was happy to get the plane off my hands.

I wasnt angry or anything. I forgot about it the next day and didnt really care too much :pac:

Senna

I constantly get scammed €5 every month for a stupid picture



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Niall0001

Bought a phone on eBay from a seller in Roscommon for €200. Piece of cráp only lasted 3 months. Connection port came loose & wouldn't charge, vibrate broke, all sound broke & when I took it apart I found a lump of Blu-Tack stuck inside, surely comprising a shítty repair job.

Mugged. Never again will I buy from eBay.

cocoshovel

Niall0001 wrote: »

Bought a phone on eBay from a seller in Roscommon for €200. Piece of cráp only lasted 3 months. Connection port came loose & wouldn't charge, vibrate broke, all sound broke & when I took it apart I found a lump of Blu-Tack stuck inside, surely comprising a shítty repair job.

Well there's your problem!

I constantly get scammed €5 every month for a stupid picture

Doesnt that stay even after you unsubscribe?

Herb Powell

Yup

Amalgam

carfiosaoorl wrote: »

No I have never been scammed but just wanted to say be careful buying edible products like protein on the internet you don't know what you are buying.

We fully sun dry and pepper mill any used cat litter before selling it on. You'll be fine. It's grand.

Ghandee

Nearly.

We were considering getting an English bulldog for AAAAGES, when lo and behold, I stumbled across an ad on done deal, or gum tree (can't remember now) that was offering free ones to good homes!

Now, as these dogs normally sell for upwards of a grand, I was on to the add like a bat out of hell. I thought something was a miss when the 'seller' didn't have a contact number, just an email address. However, when I received the email from them, telling me that the dogs were in Nigeria, and I could have it free when I sent the veterinarian's and transport fees (Fromm Nigeria to Dublin) I knew it was a con!

Close, but no cigar Nigerian scammers!:cool:

Gummy Panda

Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger wrote: »

Buying protein on the Internet LOL

Nutrisport 90+?

Posy

cocoshovel wrote: »

Doesnt that stay even after you unsubscribe?

I don't think so, no.

IncognitoMan

I have always wondered how many people that Nigerian lotto and the likes actually catches out. Surly at this stage any one with access to the internet has enough cop to not fall for this

Ghandee

IncognitoMan wrote: »

I have always wondered how many people that Nigerian lotto and the likes actually catches out. Surly at this stage any one with access to the internet has enough cop to not fall for this

With spam bots etc, they literally send million's of these scam emails out across the world every day.

Not the best at maths to tell you the truth, but even if it was a million emails a year, just 1% of then would be 100,000 so, 0.5% = 50,000 , 0.01% = 1000 People, so using these sums, I'd say over a year they get a good few suckers!

senorwipesalot

Paid £3 for an unlock code for a tesco network nokia.
Didnt work.
cnuts.:mad:

Where To

I got badly conned by this;

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055626095

:mad:

Kimbot

Best one i seen online was a user by the name of Bubbles I think on Boards selling a CD Burner which was in fact a lighter haha

DanWall

Logged on to a site for council tax and they wanted €100

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Nutrisport 90+?

Maximuscle all the way! Then when you buy it in Elverys for an extortionate price throw your change in the bin because saving money is for chumps!

poisonated

I wouldn't say I was scammed but I bought a ticket to foo fighters off eBay a few years ago. I was worried because the day came and I hadn't received the ticket. I went to school praying that the ticket would be delivered that day. When I came home, it hadn't arrived so I sent your man a pretty angry email because I thought he had scammed me. I had to buy another ticket off a scalper outside the point. The next day, the ticket came and i appolagized to your man.

Hank Scorpio

cocoshovel wrote: »

Nope, never scammed really, I know better than that.

However

:pac:

ted1

I got married.

Eggy Baby!

AnamGlas wrote: »

No, my Nigerian royalties should be arriving any day now.

The Esteemed Prince of Nigeria strikes again!

u_c_thesecond

200yrolecrank wrote: »

Happened twice to me bought a nokia n something 6 yrs ago in Oz on eBay from Hk,low and behold it was lighter than the one in the nokia store looked just like it but damn fake,luckily got a little back on it.
Recently ordered protein from a site in the Uk who stocked Hungarian products,3 mths later nothing and credit card company said it's a front.
Any other folks get duped

no but my hubby did- hes a soft touch and a bit of a sucker for a deal, and he found a website where you have a go of the euromillions for free- so the idiot puts in our credit card details (apparantly it was for verfication) and lo and behold our credit card was cleared

I killed him:mad:

Super-Rush

Saw an ad where a guy was selling a monkey, so i flew to England to meet him but the address he gave me didin't exist.

Senna

El Pistolero wrote: »

Saw an ad where a guy was selling a monkey, so i flew to England to meet him but the address he gave me didin't exist.

This sounds like the start of a really good joke, just without the punch line.

Run_to_da_hills

Bought a laptop in Fleabay for 100 quid from a chancer that described it as working with corresponding screen shots of a functional machine. When it was delivered it was obviously tampered with and wouldn't even power up. I suspected the MB was fried. It took several weeks of headed arguments and ended up with negative feedback from myself. About a month later I noticed that his account was removed from the site. He obviously tried to pull the same stunt on someone else.

Ficheall

Senna wrote: »

This sounds like the start of a really good joke, just without the punch line.

He went ape?

holystungun9

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Not scammed.
Got virus from a porn site and computer was done for

That happened me too AND I got an std from some durty bird the same weekend.

Viral clusterfking

smash

Well it appears that apparently there are NOT sexy single ladies in my locality!

Nothingbetter2d

AnamGlas wrote: »

No, my Nigerian royalties should be arriving any day now.

did you also win the spanish lottery that you never bought a ticket for?