Date:         Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:58:50 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Warning about PayPal
Comments: To: wasserbox@yahoo.com
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Me and 18 other people filed charges on a crook that was selling on Ebay.
We put him in jail, he is now on probation for 5 years and paying
restitution.
He only got me for $78.00 but he took others for over $1800.00 each on
laptop computers.
His total theft was about $8000.00
It only took about two weeks to get him jailed, three months to get him
sentenced.
His attorney bills were over $5000.00 plus he had court cost.
E bay had him monitored within 24 hours of their first viable complaint.
They shut him down. He came back on under an alias and they caught it
right away and his hometown police arrested him.
The story is pretty much complete here.
I get checks every month from the Victims Recovery Office of his home
town police department.

Stan
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:02:25 -0800 Mark Mages <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
writes:
> Yup - they advertise the "safe" banking, just like a
> credit card, but they offer little to no protection
> from fradulent sellers or buyers.
>
> I got hit to the tune of $850.  Luckily I paid them
> with my CC, so I was able to deny payment of the
> transaction.
>
> They are not a bank - they just play one on TV.
>
> Mark
> --- Andrew Grebneff
> <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote:
> > I suggest anyone considering using PayPal check out
> > <www.paypalwarning.com> and others; Google for
> > paypal. Looks like
> > it's in trouble for fraudulent banking, as well as
> > baing a ripoff
> > outfit.
>
>
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