“Goooooooooaaaaaal” rings loud across the world this month and we’re not talking about soccer. These are the united cheers of scammers, fraudsters and filth of the world who are taking advantage of World Cup ticket buyers online.
Starting June 9th, 2006 the good folks of ChestNet Transactions began receiving calls and emails from buyers looking for World Cup tickets on Craigslist who have been approached by scammers, fraudsters and the filth of the world. These scammers, fraudsters and filth of the world have been emailing Craigslist users saying that ChestNet Transactions has ‘verified’ them to sell World Cup tickets and it’s now safe to send the scammers, fraudsters and the filth of the world a Western Union money order to an address in either Italy or the UK. Red flag! Red flag! Red flag! (We’ll get to Western Union below. )
ChestNet Transactions secures money for both the buyer and seller within ChestNet Transactions, not outside of the ChestNet Transactions payment protection system. If the buyer puts money in their ChestNet Transactions account, there is no way a seller can steal a single penny, pence or yen from them. These fraudsters, scammers and filth of the world were trying to dupe the good soccer fans from Craigs’ into sending unsecured money orders to them for nonexistent tickets. Lucky for a few of the buyers they smelled something fishy and didn’t fall for the scammer, fraudster and filth of the world’s trick and immediately reported them to ChestNet Transactions.
For every report we received, we’d post a warning in the Craigslist city. To date, we’ve posted in over 20 cities where we’ve identified scammers, fraudsters and the filth of the world. We noticed that Craigslist took down most if not all of our posts warning buyers of the scams but we were able to still able to find the scammers posts listed on Craigslist. Looks like another “Goooooooooaaaaaal” for scammers, fraudsters, and the filth of the world as Craigslist has scored on it’s own goal and taken down the wrong ads.
Wild Wild West(ern) Union
ChestNet Transactions has reported each and every case of fraud that’s been reported to us from buyers on Craigslist to Wild Wild West(ern Union) to prevent the scammers from collecting payment, but we’re sad to learn that Wild Wild West(ern Union) could quote, “Do nothing about it. Once the payment is sent, the fraudster can pick up the payment just by giving the senders name, address, amount and their own first name”. I loved how the rep on the phone admitted that it was a fraudster collecting payment, yet they wouldn’t stop it. I guess without the fraudsters, Wild Wild West(ern Union) would lose their biggest clients. You do the math!
Speaking of “math”, ChestNet Transactions is still free to buyers and inexpensive for sellers and we plan on keeping it that way.
Until next time, safe buying and selling everyone!
./Casey
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