New scam doing the rounds at the moment.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/russian-link-to-alleged-ipod-tv-web-scam/2006/12/19/1166290543861.html

So basically the new 50" HD Plasma I bought for my old man won't turn up :(

$299 was a bargain too :p

who would have thought u still cant get something for nothing

Wait, so you got scammed?

Damn that sucks man :(

if its to good to be true then it isn't true..

Of all the things people can choose to do with their lives, it sad that the best thing these people came up with was, lets take advantage of people and rip them off.

Should be harsh penalties for people who do this kinda thing.

p.s. I didn't get ripped off...

I was reading the article so shared, mmmkay

heardy is a noob

word dawg

Heardy,
Did you pay for it with a credit card?
If you did, simply inform your bank that you wish to dispute the charges (repudiate) an you'll get your cash back

I think Heardy was being sarcastic about being ripped off.

The only people who'd fall for that sort of scam in this forum would be heardy and hunter.

imo. Heardy got scammed. Next time have a bottle of Gypsy tears to protect you!

Thead's title should instead read: "Note to self"

seriously, anyone who gets scammed by these sorts of deals, deserves it

i also laugh at people who save previous pennys buying stuff off ebay and then get had as well (note, thesse are people who buy off ebay to save money, i dont mind buying stuff off ebay you cant get anywhere else)

i do my grocery shopping on ebay and save AT LEAST 10 dollars a week

LOL

seriously, anyone who gets scammed by these sorts of deals, deserves it

WTF are you talking about? There are threads in this very forum about HD TVs selling for sub$1000 from Coles and Aldi, so an internet deal advertised in the press for effectively the same thing (or very close) seems reasonable.

I blame the newspapers for publishing business adverts they didn't confirm were from legitimate businesses. They are supposedly respected mediums and need to put the same token amount of control around their (non-classified) advertising that they give to their letters pages. $16K without an ABN or anything? Next they'll be taking full page adverts in exchange for money in brown paper bags.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I DID NOT GET SCAMMED

f***ing idiots on this forum, honestly

Got the link to the tv heardy? $299 sounds like a f***ing sweet deal.

I heard about this on the radio & thought to myself anyone dumb enough to think they can get a 42" plasma for $300 is a bloody moron and deserves to be parted with their money. (radio said 42")

http://www.tahoefutures.com/

these guys somehow contacted my father on his mobile phone, who got his number off one of my fathers mates. They lost $10,000 in total after they didn't get paid after they asked for their money(sell the shares). I just looked at the source code and found that the gif in the middle was from a third party site, so I emailed them asking if they knew this company or that they were getting payment off them. They replied with no, they did not, and so far have issued their site with a gif saying something about unauthorised use.

My father has had stocks for many years and these guys sounded legit too him, until they changed their phone numbers and stopped answering phone calls. The police and ASIO are looking into it as there are a lot more people getting scammed everyday.

At least I did something about it.

i am somehow getting these f***in emails sent to me from completely random email address' with f***in stock tips, it's really f***ing annoying cause i've kept my email spam free for years and i can't stop it



last edited by paveway at 22:37:59 20/Dec/06

No one deserves to be taken advantage of

I've been getting those "stock tip" emails for months, fortunatly Thunderbird drops them straight into the Junk folder.

No one deserves to be taken advantage of

greedy/stupid people do

They must be detectable because after a few months the IT guys at my work (i'm too busy doing cool games related stuff :)) managed to block the stock tip emails.