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Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

If Korea's finest actually get off their butts and solve this cyber crime. I will give them the respect they usually don't deserve.

goesslry · Joined: 19 Jun 2007

kiwispanker · Joined: 10 Mar 2009

happy new year with a bump.

i'll send ya an email

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

If the seller is any kind of criminal at all...and I suspect he is, he's going to have spoofed that bank account information. It's probably a stolen ID that he is using.

Stop sending money to strangers!

aek541 · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Location: Anyang Si, South Korea

It's really not cool that people steal money and take advantage of others like this. Honestly makes the rest of us look bad. I have sold many things on here for over 200,000 and people have been very satisfied. I kinda wish dave's had a rating system kinda thing. that way if you were very happy with your purchase you could click on the persons profile and select a rating, and also if you were unhappy or were scammed, you could select a low rating. I know you say that people should always meet in person, but some people are trust worthy. So, I guess I would feel more comfortable talking to the person before I purchased something from them rather than not talking at all. And ofcourse, I'd say purchases over 50,000 would be a pick-up, even though I sold my oven for 200,000 and never saw the girl face-to-face.

rvintage · Joined: 05 Jul 2005

I have also sold and bought lots of things on this forum and never once had a problem with anything. I have met f2f maybe once out of about 5 years using this site! I hope you find this guy so he stops doing things like this and making everything look sketchy and dishonest. It would be a shame to loose trust amongst each other because of this a$$hole!

JFuller317 · Joined: 10 Oct 2008

Yeah, I bought a PS3 and 360 last year on this site, as well as an ipod. All of those sellers were longtime posters on this forum though, so I felt comfortable. This guy Schweitzer had only made a few posts. Weird that one of his posts was a long anti-dishonesty rant in that thread about the other guy ripping people off.

stefan.verleysen · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Location: chungnamdo

when you transfer money from an ATM or online there is always a confirmation screen., that screen shows the amount of money your sending and who the receiver is.. even if you missed that the first time around you can easily go to the bank with your passbook as ask the tellers to update it.. whomever's account that you sent money to will be listed. I think the ppl on this board that say the police will not help you and there is nothing you can do and your a dumbass blah blah blah would not know how to get their money back either. Get the persons name from your banking records and go to the police station.

Informer · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Location: Bundang

stefan.verleysen · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Location: chungnamdo

fdwilliams · Joined: 28 May 2005

Unless I am mistaken, you have to have a Korean or Resident Alien ID to open a bank account. My guess is that this crook is strictly a small time guy, picking up change from the street. He's counting on the fact that most foreigners don't know enough to take any real action -- and on police who may not want to bother with small amounts.

On the other hand, the immigration people might have a very different idea. Someone should send this little con artist back to his home country -- as a favor to Korea. Not just because he steals, but because he makes the rest of us work a lot harder to make transactions -- since we can't trust anyone.

air76 · Joined: 13 Nov 2007

From the info that we've put together, the guy is gyopo, so he may not have an alien card, he could be on a Korean passport.

CrikeyKorea · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: Heogi, Seoul

I hope the OP gets their money back and the stooge gets their comeuppance. I don't see why people don't add someone to their facebook before they do a trade, at least than you are in more contact with them, or at the very least their friends, no one is gonna rip someone else off if you could just send all of their friends/family messages telling them what they did. (thats what I did last year when I collected about $2,400 worth of money from people for soccer tickets)

Gideon · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Location: Seoul

no updates from the OP yet? hmmmm.. is it a lost cause?

If the OP doesnt get on the ball soon he wont have a chance getting his money back.

But like i said, i dont see it happening.

good luck!!