Something looks weird about this auctions?

There are two bids on the Dynaudio stuff. This could be a problem for the two bidders. - Dan

Thanks for the listings. These guys use stolen credit card numbers to place the ads. The guy who owns the credit card probably lives in the UK, and they had to use his location to get the card number to clear. They will ask that the money be sent to Barcelona, Spain. These are all fraudulent ads, and there are many more.

As near as I can tell, the card holders many times don't know that the card numbers are being used, as they are probably obtained by hacking into e-tailer's files. The most recent of such occurences traced the source of the information flow from the e-tailers files back to Yemen.

If you are familiar with my previous thread, you know that they were using Western Union almost exclusively for the money tranfer. That's because Western Union was only requiring 1 form of ID in Spain, and fake IDs are easy to come by over there. Now they are requiring 3 forms of ID because of these problems. Now it seems Western Union is not as viable an option in Spain as before, hence the money order, personal check method of payment. These guys are posting ads with US addresses again also, and are still using Western Union for the transfers within the US. Western Union still currently only requires 1 form of ID in the US, but is working on getting that changed. Keep in mind that the address for a recipient listed on a wire tranfer may not (and in this case will not) be anywhere near the location where the money is received. It can be picked up in any Western Union office in any adjoining State where the recipient lives (or claims to be living). Romania is another location they have been giving in some of the ads.

Information passed along to other potential buyers is, at the moment, the best way we have to shut them down. They are using the accessibility and broad reach of the internet to perpetrate these frauds. We can use the advantages of internet too, just as you did with this posting. Also, when you see these ads, please notify the posting site so they can investigate and remove the ads.

Thanks for the info...I wish we could take this SOB 'out to the barn' for a little ol'fasion lesson in etiquette

I emailed the 2 bidders this afternoon on the speakers and told them to look at the ads here and that this person or person's were probaly putting up false ads. I also emailed the seller asking him or whom ever how they just happened to have 3 identical ads from here at Audiogon including the home or business pictures of the speakers. I notice now that when I go back to ebay that the speaker ad is gone, but the McIntosh and the Pass Labs ad is still up, almost word for word as they were before. I'm going to keep checking these ads to see if anybody bids on them, and if they do I will email the bidders. We don't need people like this and I believe it's up to us to help out other audiophiles. As if I watch out for you, I hope someone is watching out for me.

The seller emailed me back and said he was legit - I told him he was being questioned on another site about possible fraud ads. It is very interesting that the Dynaudio ads disappeared. Let's keep up the work on getting these frauds! He told me I could go and see the amp if I didn't believe - I felt like saying I would be right over - just happened to be in the country.