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Profit Facility was founded in january, 2002 and is a privately held company headquartered in Lithuania, our focus is offer the greatest black market goods vastly exploited in Eastern Europe due the fact of the border advantage with Russia where the relationships extends to asian countries, such business is not illegal in Lithuania and many others country over in Eastern Europe.

Sounds like a winner!

LOL and LMFAO

You gotta be kidding shyy!!!

Im fairly sure no one was gonna buy from them

We've been through more "real looking" scams that I wont even mention - this is an amateur website and their website is pathetic!!

smileytim's quote is from the About ProfitFacility page. They say right on their website that they're "black market" goods, LOL. But in all likelyhood even that isn't true; it's a scam. That link you posted, shyy, is really pretty incredible -- people actually give thousands of dollars to a ludicrous company they know nothing about. I guess they don't value money very highly.

hahaha oh man this site is funny! You can enjoy a wide range of options such as the Black Market zones where you can acquire products below the original price table of neighboring countries. can you say illegal?

LMAO

Why hasn't it been shut down or reported?

At any given time there are a dozen Ebay Area51m scams going. It's actually quite sad because people are using legit accounts with excellent feedback. I guess there are all kinds of packet sniffers out there. If you look at the past auctions that these people have taken part it, its a dead giveaway.


Case in point:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=46323

Look at the last thing this person (daydreamer) sold. A doll house chair? And now they're selling Area 51m's at half price? For fun? Riiiight. Look at how awful the actual information within the auction is. Sheeesh...

I stopped reporting these people to Ebay a long time ago but for a short while felt it was my moral duty to email bidders and let them know they're being taken for a ride.

-Craig

ps
Yes, I'm holed up in my house...waiting for the Fed Ex guy...someone please keep me company :^(

Those Ebay scams are pretty easy to spot now. They never have actual photos, and when you request photos they never answer you back. They will also never divulge the serial number to you either.

Secondly they always "private auctions" with alternate email address's given through the private interface. Why Ebay even has this private system I will never know.

This started with cars a few years back, and they were forced to implement a VIN verfication process, then Rolex watches, now Alienware. I also hear that Plasma TV's are big problem on Ebay as well. What I can't understand is why this is so easy to get away with? Certinally someone looses, either the credit card companies or the end user, and its not like we are talking $5!

I think i'll call them today and speak in Lithuanian. They might be a bit more truthful with someone from Lithuania.

Cool! Can you say Snagglepuss in Lithuanian?

-Craig

I think Snagglepuss will still be Snagglepuss.

ebay scams

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

I checked ebay before ordering from Alienware and it was weird how many legit accounts were posting obvious scams for alienware laptops. I figure the thieves probably got the ebay account information via the numerous ebay and paypal email hoax scams.

Here's one that just came out yesterday: http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identi...203-ebay-2.php

A list of all the most recent ones:

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identi...ge-library.htm

Templar
(hoping to have my Area-51m delivered before christmas)

Craig, this is not surprising, because the accounts have been stolen or otherwise cracked into. eBay is usually pretty good about responding to cases of scams and such, but there is only so much they can do. Sometimes there isn't enough proof to actually close down the auction according to policy.

I'm not generall an "angry" guy, but I was scammed on a rather high dollar item a few months back. Thankfully Visa's steller protection plan covered me and I got my money back.

However myself and others that were involved in this issue had a large paper trail on the individual that perpertrated the scam, and we tracked him down. He used a PayPal account that was actually owned by his college roommate. This roommate was not at first willing to tell us much but in the end he gave us the phone number of the scammers cell phone, his parents address and his school address.

Of course with twenty angry people calling his cell phone he shut that off promptly. But thats didin't stop us, we contacted his parents and demanded the money from them (This was in the area of 7K.) They also refused to cooperate with us at first.

I did however learn that Ebay scams fall under Federal Jurisdiction since they cross state lines. The FBI was more than happy to question and ultimately arrest this individual. Although he had spent all but $200 of the money on car parts for his Volkswagon, he was expelled from school and sentenced to a load of probation and community service. (he was not expelled due to us, he had used the schools computers for a criminal act.) Anyway I guess there is not justice since he did not have to pay anyone back, but I doubt he will try it again.

Sorry for the book, I just don't want anyone here to fall for one of these scams.

I agree with you 110%...I just wish there was a "Smite" button instead of a Windows button on my keyboard for such occassions

-Craig

If there was a smite button, everyone would now be dead...I really hate that button, its always in the way!