SCAM ALERT!!!!!! The Chronicles Of Platinum Lantern: My Conversation with a scammer
 

Hey Folks..
Just want to show you how these guys operate...
what to look out for....

I've recently discovered this ring...
They work a few different ways...

1. They impersonate a website owner
a large and professional looking TGP or Moviepost
and contact a sponsor and request a pre-paid deal
*I found out about them because they went to a sponsor claiming to be the owners of my site once*

2. They claim to be some sort of TRAFFIC BUSINESS, and generate leads and traffic and are looking for a home for their traffic
*Thats what this particular conversation was about, it gets VERY FUNNY*



**********OUR AIM CONVERSATION************

trafficmajor: hey
Guest: wassup
trafficmajor: nada
trafficmajor: whats up with you
trafficmajor: its ross remember me?
Guest: ross almeida?
trafficmajor: no
trafficmajor: ross evans
Guest: don't remember you
Guest: refresh my memory
Guest: Ross Evans....
Ross Evans..
doesn't ring a bell..
do you have a website or something?
trafficmajor: yes
Guest: ok..
what is it?
when did we talk before?
Guest: whats your website?
Guest: guess your busy or something
trafficmajor: yes i generate leads and traffic
trafficmajor: sorry busy
trafficmajor: yes
Guest: whats your website address?
trafficmajor: i run several lead generation programs and lots of different traffic programs
trafficmajor: http://www.dirtydollar.com
Guest: oh ok cool
Guest: dirty dollar..
I've heard of them before
trafficmajor: hows it handing
Guest: your the owner of dirty dollar?
trafficmajor: your on my buddy list
trafficmajor: yes
trafficmajor: so we must have spoken before at some point
Guest: right
Guest: what kind of deals you looking to make?
trafficmajor: what you buyin?
Guest: latina traffic and ebony traffic
trafficmajor: have a TON of ebony tons and tons
trafficmajor: through SEO and lookin for a home for it
Guest: what about latina?
trafficmajor: probably about 30-50 joins a day of latina and 50-60 joins of ebony
Guest: GREAT
Guest: what price are you looking for?
per join?
Guest: or per day..
or per week
Guest: how ever you want to do the deal?
trafficmajor: whats your number i will call you
Guest: what's the price first?
I've got free international long distance so I'll do you a favor and call you
Guest: to save you the trouble
Guest: what kind of price are you looking for?
trafficmajor: 30 per join
Guest: alright...
trafficmajor: call me right now i can shift it today
trafficmajor: whats your name again
Guest: you want pre-paid or just a check after the end of the pay period
Guest: Josea Escobar
trafficmajor: prepay
Guest: ok cool
Guest: so let's see
Guest: 7 days
Guest: about 20 joins per day
Guest: about 140 joins a week
trafficmajor: for latina
Guest: ok
trafficmajor: is that all your want
trafficmajor: or do you want the ebony to
Guest: just latina
Guest: thats $4200
trafficmajor: its more like an average 40 a day
Guest: well let's just work this deal out for a smaller amount right now
Guest: then after a week..
we see how things go
Guest: and re work the deal
trafficmajor: not a problem if you prepay me the 4200 and at the end of the 7 days you pay me the differnce that would be agreeable
Guest: so thats $4200
ok
Guest: who do I make the check out to?
trafficmajor: yes thats agreeable
trafficmajor: can you do wires?
Guest: For business accounting purposes I need to do a check
Guest: who do I make the check out to?
trafficmajor: can you do a paypal
trafficmajor: Ross Evans
trafficmajor: but i dont take checks
trafficmajor: i take wires, stormpay, paypal
Guest: oh...
Guest: well paypal doesn't allow payments for adult oriented transactions
trafficmajor: you just do it for consulting services
Guest: best I can is a cashiers check
trafficmajor: and you have more recourse against me with paypal than a check
trafficmajor: i dont take any checks
trafficmajor: especially international ones
Guest: well..
I'm sorry, we couldn't do business
trafficmajor: thats a shame
trafficmajor: i never heard of anyone operating only on checks
Guest: you should really look into taking international checks
Guest: I tell you what this deal is too good to pass up
whats your wire information
trafficmajor: i need to speak to you on the phone first
trafficmajor: can you call me?
Guest: The fee's for your calling Panama are going to be ENORMOUS
trafficmajor: call me
trafficmajor: or i will call you
Guest: thats why I have free international long distance so that I can call people
Guest: whats your number?
trafficmajor: 561-305-9857
Guest: how long you going to be at your office?
trafficmajor: for about 30mins more
Guest: It's approaching lunch time here
Guest: will give you a call when I get back from the cafe
trafficmajor: oh i thought you were gung ho on doing this deal
trafficmajor: ok
trafficmajor: no worries
trafficmajor: i have the office line forwarded to my cell
trafficmajor: when i leave


*********************************************
I knew I was dealing with a scammer...
So I played and baited this individual the best of my ability to get as much information as possible

Notice his initial hesitation in giving me a URL...

I ask him if he has a website..
he responds "Yes"
instead of saying Yes www.whatever.com

The yes answer simply bought him sometime to pull a URL out of his ASS

Notice how the URL he gives me is actually a sponsor..
Not even a "Traffic or SEO Website"

He says "It's Ross remember me"
as to build an initial state of trust


Notice how he doesn't want to give me his phone number...
He would much rather call me..

The reason being he plans on using his cellphone and can easily use a call block when he calls me...

I tell him that my office is in Panama, and that I have free international long distance and that I will do him a favor and call him

MAJOR HESITATION

*5 minutes later while I was typing all this up*

I get a message from the same guy or a member of his team, checking to see if they really indeed have a SCAM near successful completion.


webcreativejr: hey you there?
Guest: hola
webcreativejr: you IMed me last week
webcreativejr: who is this?
Guest: this is Josea
Guest: who is this?
webcreativejr: this is Jim
Guest: how you doing Jim
Guest: don't have a lot of time to talk?
Guest: did you want something??


*The moral of this post is..
There are people who prey on "THIS INDUSTRY"
Some people (Even affiliate program owners) have gotten FUCKED
behind these type of scam operations...

Stay on your toes folks...
One good rule of thumb is that if somebody represents themselves as working for or owning a website..

Do a domain whois and call the number listed and try to get in contact with the individual...

ASSUMPTION is the ORIGIN OF ALL FUCK UPS

i hate scammers :ak47:

HAHAH This thread is wonderful.....

This guy........ webcreativejr spams my icq all the time.

thanks for the heads up

The same guy contacted me yesterdeay as well. Wanting to send joins to Sexkey. Prepay only, suposedly to buy a server to send the traffic through. Total BS. If you can send 100 joins a day, I think you can afford to buy your own servers. I told him to send a test to me for a week, then if all went well i would do a prepay. Amazing that he didn't get back to me after that :)

Unreal.

-Hank

bump for others that missed it

I'll bump this one time because I feel it's important

well if your going to prepay someone for hundreds of joins without even looking into them i think your asking for trouble.

Wow doesn't someone from dirtydollar.com post here?

bump so more people see this

Who can you trust nowadays..he tried to contact Steve as an ARS employee also

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=318899

Yep...welcome to the internet...fucking weasels :BangBang:

pre payed joins are always fishy.. But some people would fall for it in the haze of easy money... bazump!

yea, no kidding... I don't see any logical reason for requiring prepayment unless you are doing something shady...

bump!!

yeah, pre-pays are dead unless you've done business with them for a long time.

Funny he is using dirtydollar as website...Many ppl are still waiting on their money from that sponsor:) He was prolly not really up-to-date:)

Andre

thanks for sharing mate! I'll keep an eyes on that

Thanks for the heads up.

If someone has 50-60 joins a day then chances are you already know who they are.