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everyone, beware of someone going by the name edward tan. normally i wouldn't trust someone i haven't met, and send them money but i got to "know" this guy before i bought anything from him. i talked to him on instant messenger for a couple days before any agreement was met. he is from hong kong and was using the email address
outtogetya@hotmail.com. he told me that he had just moved back to hong kong from boston to be with his mother who was in declining health. he gained my trust and i got burned. if anyone has any info on this guy let me know. his esato screenname is Reallme.
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Posted: 2003-12-01 19:39:02
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this is a joke right?
you weren't suspicious with a homail name like that?
edit: I mean I am really sorry if its true but...
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...Unless I'm very much mistaken[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2003-12-01 19:02 ]
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Posted: 2003-12-01 19:51:04
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On 2003-12-01 19:51:04, masseur wrote:
this is a joke right?
you weren't suspicious with a homail name like that?
that is f**ng
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Posted: 2003-12-01 19:56:58
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I would never thrust a guy with a free hotmail acount.
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[ This Message was edited by: speedooh on 2003-12-03 02:50 ]
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Posted: 2003-12-01 23:48:34
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@getagrip15,
I just did a quick check & read all of @reallme's posts, he only posted 10 times on hear & ALL his posts were about money, some desperate to sell a P800 & some desperate to buy one,
PLEASE check things like this when deciding to enter into financial transactions with people, same as you would/should on Ebay, click on the users "profile", then "Veiw all posts by this user" it takes 1 minute to get a fairly good idea of a person, also you can PM people who have done deals in the past to ask them if he is honest.
Finally 99% of REGULAR Esato members are by default nice trustworthy people, post counts is a good guage to use in future, also, the nearer people live to you, the more you can risk trusting them.
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[ This Message was edited by: pachy on 2003-12-01 23:33 ]
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Posted: 2003-12-02 00:07:57
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superunknown Posts: > 500
Thats sad:-(
This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2003-12-02 00:11:18
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On MSNC they interviewed a guy that does these types of scams on a regular basis. They will email you and gain you're trust and tell you a sob story to reel you in, when they get you're money you wont hear back from them again unless to let you know that they shipped the product and sorry it took so long when in truth they did not.
If you have not done so report it to the authorities and ebay if applicable.
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Posted: 2003-12-02 00:26:03
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speedooh wrote:
I would never thrust a guy with a free hotmail acount.
i would never trust a guy with a paid hotmail account.
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Posted: 2003-12-02 02:20:50
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I am sorry to hear about that. But things like this happen all the time, and the only thing to do is to in to the police to see what they will do... Maybe they can't do anything but it is worth an try... That is what i do if it happens to me... Remember to take copys of all deals you make on the net, and if you get any e-mails from the deal show them to the police but remember to enable the header function becourse they hold a lot of info that can be usede to trace him with...
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Posted: 2003-12-02 03:05:02
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@decoy:
that`s not the point.Just pay thru a secure method, that`s all.
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Posted: 2003-12-02 03:06:41
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