Sunday, June 24, 2012

SMS scammers now onto Paypal users


Hello All,Please watch out for the following M.O.:
This crowd sign up for SMS service and tells you they do managed sends.
Then they buy small volumes between 20-50 Euro at a time using different
email addresses.
When you ask about the different email addresses they claim it is to
refer to the client that they are sending for.
No later than a week or so, they disappear and the chargebacks from
Paypal starts. When you present your case to Paypal they refund no
matter what you submit. Two people contacted us and stated that they
did not do the transactions. In the mean time you loose the money they
paid, and they sent SMS which means you paid your supplier. Paypal
refunds every time and you sit at a loss. They seem to do this for a
week or two and then disappear. We advised the people that contacted us
that they should immediately ask their credit card company to change
their card and contact details as these people obviously sit with their
credit card details which they use to do these transactions.
The so-called "clients" appear to give false addresses from destinations
like Malaysia. They used the following usernames to register:
abolasso
bobbydean1
walkingdal
jbless4
We can give IP addresses but chances are that they send from different
locations all the time.

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