[Ti] Powerbook scamming the scammer

[Sambouka]

Last x-mass my old man almost got scammed on a brand new powerbook from 
Amazon.com. A guy from italy wanted to sell a powerbook that was given 
to him as a x-mass gift. He created a website that was very similar to 
paypal. I think it was called safedeals.com. The website looked very 
legit. It had disclaimers, forms, user feedbacks...etc

A few days later, the site went down. At first, we thought it was the 
ISP's proxy (proxies are pretty bad in Dubai). I did a google on the 
site, and to my surprise, I found a complaint form about the website. 
The same guy had scammed a few other people as well.

Luckily enough, we were able to get our money back before the wire 
actually went through.



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On May 17, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

> Recently an interesting story came out about how one innocent 
> Powerbook owner defeated an ebay Powerbook scammer, and scammed the 
> scammer!
>
> To read the (long 25 page account) look here 
> http://students.uwf.edu/cjg5/sa/thepowerbook.pdf
>
> It's long but worth reading :)
>
> --
> Tarik
>
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