You know.. People using serious family/relative illness as an excuse are the worst kind of them all. .
The only people that use that as an excuse are con-men and woman.
If your buttons are pushed, the buttons are being pushed on purpose.
A sucker is born every minute and/or a fool and his money soon parted.
No one legitimate needs a few hundred for a day or two with nothing but a forum name as security. Holy smoke bullwinkle trust no one, least of all yourself.
Your right, and I agree.
The hard part is when USA-Domainer gets scammed by European-Domainer. Who's laws does Euro-Domainer get persecuted under?
And if it was for sums like $300, is the fight worth it?
A step in the right direction but nearly impossible to implement.
A "heads-up" service is definitely easier, but keeping up with such a service could be daunting. There are so many places to be scammed, although the stupid ones do seem to pick the biggest boards.
Maybe a user-submittted type of site, but all submissions would have to be followed up on, and possibly (hopefully) resolved (in means of compensation and/or imprisonment).
Or maybe a service that represents ripped off domainers and helps with the resolution of the situation, a colation of lawyers and domain investors in each country, but collectively one group, to help combat and resolve these types of situations.
The hardest part of all would be getting the domainers to pay attention to such a service.
I don't know, just some quick thoughts. But Arco has the right idea.
-Zh
Bounty hunter needs to be paid, under 5k why would someone get his pants on to do this?
In Paris 50 euro will get you someone to cause several hundred euros damage wherever you wanted and about 100 bucks in NY. Chicago about 20. Other cities on request. But for a couple hundred it is not worth squat.
That is why they pick under 1000 but over 100. In the end there should show 3 to 10 people under this scam. I really hate the scammers with the lame excuses using the nice people like puppets. Nice people make easy marks.
But you guys have to take some shame on your vulnerability and tighten the seals around your windows so the wind does not get through. You don't physically know them and have physical touch with them you cant be lending money with the idea it will come back.
Even the holy man watches his bags in the train station.
By the way, get onto Paypal and demand that money back before the time limit expires. I think it is 90 days. He is suckering you for that time limit. Once it is past so are you. You should have done it at 30 days giving him the 15 extra days grace (why give grace to a liar?). You need to understand your time has been eaten too and it is more valuable!
A con-man, confidence man. A confidence man must first gain your confidence. Real people - real confidence, virtual names - no reality no confidence.