How not to get scammed (Verification Method)

[btraill]

NOTE: Use the "How not to get scammed" with a grain of salt.

When someone AIM's or MSN's you for something regarding a trade or sale, and it interests you. Start asking them some simple questions.

Q - How old are you?
Q - What's your name?
Q - Where do you reside?
Q - What's your Phone Number?

NOTE: If they don't answer these questions, that tells you something. Either they aren't comitted to the trade, they have something to hide, or maybe they just don't feel like giving their number out.

But when you do have their number. Proceed to http://www.411.com and goto "Reverse DNS" type in their phone number and see if it matches with the information they give you, if it does, then they probably are serious about trading. No scammer is going to give you his Phone Number, Age, and Name. With that information you can report them to the BBB, and Internet Fraud Agencies. Also a scammer isn't going to waste his time with you, he'll probably come out with an excuse like "Hold on, my mom is calling me" or "One second, I'll be right back" then they'll either log off or ignore you.

I've done this for EVERY transaction that I've done on here. I've only ever been scammed once in my life, and that was an exception to my "EVERY". It was one of my first times, and since then, I've learned from it.

I hope some of you guys read this and use this method, I could save you a lot of money, and some of your accounts.

Thanks,

Bradley

 

[Darklegend]

sweet dude thanks

 

[d4nky]

ya man, very helpful.

 

[sinbad190]

Getting your seller/buyer's contact information is the best thing you can do to protect yourself!

 

[gman]

Very nice.

 

[btraill]

No problem guys. I hope I help some people save some money/accounts.

 

[Ace Logan]

Contacting the BBB isn't going to do anything. The BBB is a membership based organization despite it's name. If the person/company you are complaining about is not a member, the BBB will take your complaint, but will toss it when they can't correlate it against one of their members.

 

[btraill]

bump

 

[ut_fiend]

Here's the thing the more information you can get the better.
So Btraill's advice is sound..

 

[vhsccboy]

nice, thanks for the info

 

[stuntsosa101]

good info, i got scammed yesterday. the scammer suggested to get someone from markeedragon with good rep, but it didnt go good when i didnt get his pw and he got mine. i feel like the middle man aim: funkssoulbrother was in on it bcuz he was the one that traded me the account the scammer got. And hes pretty much doing what u said up there, not really responding to me and helping me out when he said he would. =/ using ur method tho will help alot for future trades =)

 

[Josherat711]

just created my account here and this was the first thing i read, thanks for the info! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

[Trish]

Thanks a bunch for this. =D Found me a scammer.

 

[Xtrader1406]

Just the other day I spoke with some scammers irate parents. I'm not sure why they were mad to begin with, but they didn't like me calling their house phone either. That kid got beaten!

 

[zanucc -banned]

nice

 

[onerike]

thanks

 

[btraill]

bump, hopefully more people can read this..

 

[aheron-banned]

great guide.

 

[btraill]

Thanks

Seeing as you're from the UK you can use http://www.journalismnet.com/phones/reverse.htm#europe as your reverse directory.

Safe trading!

 

[ShineMD -banned]

I have somethign a little bit better young ones...not many people know about this but I'd figured i'd be nice and share with you

http://www.tirs.us/


that is basically the same thing but can get you names as well that go with the number

 

[btraill]

Doesn't work.

And you obviously didn't read the post. This guide is intended for use when you have their number and you want to reverse it for their Name & Address.

 

[ShineMD -banned]

What are you talking about doesn't work? The website I linked IS intended to take their phone and figure out their location, it does the same thing your 411 website does if not more.

I searched a number on my site, I got the persons name, searched the same number on 411 and nothing.. THanks..bye.

 

[btraill]

tirs.us comes up with a 404 error. doesn't work.

don't be a [censored], no one likes them.

 

[ShineMD -banned]

[censored] u talking about no error for me

 

[atraill]

Banned - failed to resolve scam thread - http://www.epicnpc.com/scammers/448007-atraill-bought-leveling-services-but-never-paid.html

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ShineMD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have somethign a little bit better young ones...not many people know about this but I'd figured i'd be nice and share with you

http://www.tirs.us/


that is basically the same thing but can get you names as well that go with the number </div></div>

It's the same, you still need to pay a fee to uncover first/last name.

 

[ShineMD -banned]

untrue, I've looked up many numbers in tirus.us and gotten last names of scammers who have lied about name son accounts.

 

[atraill]

Banned - failed to resolve scam thread - http://www.epicnpc.com/scammers/448007-atraill-bought-leveling-services-but-never-paid.html

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ShineMD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">untrue, I've looked up many numbers in tirus.us and gotten last names of scammers who have lied about name son accounts. </div></div>

.... it's the same thing as 411, you get lucky sometimes and people have their names set to public on their phone service. Most people have it on private now-a-days. Stop trying to fuel something.

 

[ShineMD -banned]

all I am saying is that I looked up a number on my site, I got the persons name, I looked it up on 411 and didn't get the name,

 

[atraill]

Banned - failed to resolve scam thread - http://www.epicnpc.com/scammers/448007-atraill-bought-leveling-services-but-never-paid.html

I've clicked through a few and haven't had first/last names, it's luck of the draw.

 

[Vigilance80 -banned]

Thanks man!

Make this a sticky IMO.

 

[MARCKLAM]

moved to correct section.