Fraud Alert: Audio Zoom Zoom, Netherlands

We (the world community) MUST agree on standards to neuter these morons. I see an opportunity to create a business for bonding a website.
A website would be required to display its bonded license number which a potential customer could verify on the bonding website. Something along these lines.
Also, we must demand harsher prison sentencing for perpetrators e.g. 10 year minimum with NO access to ANY electronic devices and confiscation of all personal property. That would be a good start.

Sending money to Nigeria (or the Netherlands, for that matter) just makes NO sense! I empathize with your situation ($15K, yikes), but sending that kind of money is crazy. I hope you get some of it back. Audio Zoom Zoom, really? Caveat emptor!

P.S. If someone ripped me off for $15K, I’d be on a plane the next day.

Further to @prpixel s observations, using Google image search on the thumbnails of equipment will return examples of the same photo, or one very slightly cropped or cleaned up, on the sites of other resellers.

This = https://audio-europa.com/ads/linn-lp-with-radikal-urika/?refsource=hifishark

This = https://www.ebay.de/itm/Nagra-300i-VFS-Isolationsbasis-TOP-Zustand-2-Jahre-alt-OVP-/271669662664?pt=... with just a bit of re-touching.

I think the best protection is to always use a credit card.  Unless you know the seller is legit do not send cash.

Not to beat a dead horse...
When I was trading watches, I always had the seller provide references before wiring funds.
Sorry this has happened to you.
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