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Now I try to never give advice on something I haven’t experienced either firsthand or watched happening.
In a former life I needed a handbook to immigration published that wasn’t attractive enough as a proposition for the big publishers and e books online hadn’t been invented yet, so I had one choice.
I did my research about who to go with and settled on one with glowing reports from all the authors who’d used them.

Self Publishing Your Novel
Here’s what I discovered in a nutshell.
1. You will sign a contract which is strongly biased toward the publishing company, and have very little control over the finished product or timespan.
2.With slogans like “your book your way” they lure you in, take your thousand dollars before they even see what you’re publishing, although they claim to be picky about what they publish. That’s the last time you will feel like a paying customer.
3. Although you must write, proof, edit, and then format the doc according to their strange tastes, yourself or pay somone to do this for you, when you send it complete with artwork and layout, so that nothing remains to be done, checked, or changed ( a process that normally takes 1 to 2 or more years)
they will ignore your written and signed instructions. Producing covers that look like a middle school project although they have quality photo files and layout from you. They claim to offer advice on size of book, distrubution, price, etc. But once you make your choice they’ll remind you that the premier pack, costing double what you paid, for very little benefit, is what you should have gone for so they could have offered better a service.
4. You may find as I did, that distrubution channels they boasted of fail to materalise.
That the proof copy of your book produced in some flar-flung cheaper land (and looking cheap too) will need to be shipped to you to sign off, and it will be sent at your cost, you pay the shipping. Unless you choose ordinary post from outer mongolia or upper Canada, taking two months to reach you.
That although it’s a proof copy, if you make any chances to it, including any changes needed because they fail to do what you asked, you will pay extra for this.
I found myself asking what exactly the fee you pay is for, as all layout, formatting, covers, writeups, are done by the author.
They give you an ISBN number that’s about it.
Then when you print copies for sale you do so at a premium before you can resell them.
Any copies they sell through their channels will leave you with very little of the cover price.
You will wait to get royalties paid out for months.
So is it worth it? Well most people have no choice as in my case, if traditional publishers don’t pick it up because it doesn’t meet their list or they can’t make big money on it.
You may be better served doing it all yourself on lulu.com and then just paying to print as many as you need. Amazon have booksurge publishing which may in the future give you a benefit of selling on Amazon. They may block the other self publishing houses.
Have you googled the company you want to use with name “……… publishers scam rip off”? Do your research first before you sign.
Heres good advice from a publisher
Do you have a self-publishing story or complaint or comment? Write to us below under comments and well publish it on here.
Wisequeen

The course of true love never runs smooth. Or does it?
those of you who follow Wisequeen’s posts, will remember my advice to one lovestruck women invited to Rome by an Italian.
So I got her update last week.
I was completely unaware of the redtape involved even if he turns out to be the love of my life. So thanks for your good advice.
I have now suggested to him that he needs a nulla osta to prove his marital state. He says it won’t be a problem.
Also I checked back on his letters,and what he said was not “if problem we marry”. but instead, I have no problems about marriage.
I have followed your good advice and he is coming to my country for a month to meet my family and friends, so we can experience each other face to face as you suggested and not just on a webcam.
I have also been honest to him that I don;t have money to offer the relationship. He has no problem with that.
After the holiday we can make a descision.
I was not aware of a large cultural difference and now will be more aware of it when i come to Rome.
So thanks for your advice which came just in time. Shirley
Care to comment, have an opinion to add to those already here on this. Has a similar thing happened to you?

a wonderful thing happened to me - i
> fell in love with an Italian and he will fetch me to
> go and live with him in Rome in October!
> Everything has happened so suddenly and i must admit
> i am still quite overwhelmed by it all, but have
> realised that i better find out a bit more about the
> country, its ways, etc. and this is where u come
> into the picture, because Sue told me u know it
> all. I have googled the country a bit, but i need
> to know more about the nitty gritty aspects.
> I would literally need to know everything, from
> applying for a VISA (i believe it is a shengen visa)
> to possible cultural aspects to look out for. In
> this man’s eyes nothing is a problem (language
> barrier of note still exists, but should be better
> once we communicate face to face - this is an
> internet connection!) and as he said “if visa
> problem we marry!” I know that a holiday visa would
> limit me to a period whereby i would have to return
> and re-apply and at my age (i’m 49 - by the time i
> go i will be 50) a work permit would not be an
> option, so i need to know if u are aware of any
> other ways and means.
> I am literally trying to obtain as much possible
> information and am concerned that i might miss
> important issues because of the excitement
> involved! This is your proverbial “leap of faith”,
> so u can imagine.
> Hope u can enlighten me.

Shirley

I don’t know what to say to you without putting a big pin into your party balloon, other than a big “Be
careful”, that is
Italian men are very romantic, I know. I can sense your excitement.
But as a person who as advised many people on relocations and expat matters, I have to warn you it will be virtually
impossible for you to get residence unless you’re seriously rich,
which I’m assuming you’re not.
Even EU citizens can go through years of hell
to get a permesso. (Permission to stay)

A shengen visa is simply something
a person from a non-shengen country like yours needs to visit the European
countries on holiday.
If you want my unfiltered advice, and I take it you do, as you wrote to me, I’ll say this; without a job you can’t even apply for the permesso. If there was a definite intention to marry, which he will have to prove with the authorites and sign guarantees on your behalf, you could enter Italy again on a new visa, after the holiday, with all this in place.
If this man’s intentions are more than just a fling, and I
hope they are, He must marry you. I say must because
in Italy as a foreigner without EU rights, you cannot stay.

Without a husband, if you were able to get a get a job without a permesso, which is unlikely and illegal, it will be too menial to pay the rent. If found overstaying your holiday visa, you will be deported, never to return.

Whatever you have read, this is a very catholic country, marriage is everything.
Has this man been married before? Have you checked if
he is still married? You won’t be the first foreign women who has arrived in Italy with stars in her eyes, and then after the fling, to find out he has already walked down the isle with his lifetime moglie (wife). Separation is not akin to divorce in Italy. It takes 5 -7 years to get properly divorced
and is crazy expensive. So very few men chose to go that route.

So beware.
My suggestion is this,

Suggest to him that you visit for a holiday, to check things out, then set the
wheels in motion in your own country for a marriage there,
before you give up your job and life. If you are still convinced after the holiday, your local consulate will apply to Italy for a nulla osta for him-
which means a certificate, stating he is free to marry.
When, and if, you have that, he can come out to you for a holiday, meet your family, and then if you are still “in love” with this man, you can marry there.

I strongly advise you not to consider being his
live-in-lover in Italy, you will have uphill struggle in every way. Something you probably don’t need as you enter your fifties.
It’s so much easier for him in Italy. He has nationality, his family,
he can get a job, pension, medical care, everything, without a struggle.

You in Italy, as a non-wife, will have an impossible time, and what’s worse he will not understand this because its not like this for him.
The language problem is a challenge, but the cultural
one far greater. You can’t find a job without fluent
Italian. The English teaching jobs that there are, are
snapped up by the EU foreigners with a permesso who followed a partner.
Whatever your profession is, you probably can’t practice it here
because of language and registration.
Even those who were lawyers, doctors, and dentists in the home countries, do odd jobs trying to translate a document here and there.
Don’t believe the romantic stories of women who come here
to Tuscany to buy a villa and live in bliss with an
Italian stud. They are rich and keep ties with
America. For every one of these, there’s a hundred who return home broke and bitter.
Do you need to work to survive ? If the answer is
yes and you decide to spend your life with him, then you must marry this man before you come, and can therefore enter Italy as a wife of an Italian citizen, a very different story.

If you are not sure about this man who says” if visa
trouble we marry”. You could be putting your life into
real difficulty.
This man obviously hasn’t done much research into what
must be done for you to come. So I have my doubts.

Read the permesso posts here Italy

And the excellent Europe site here

PS. Think hard, read this, and other “real life” Italy sites with
all the links that you need, not just the Under the Tuscan Sun and the “eat pray love” approach to Rome.

Wisequeen.

Do you agree with Wisequeens advice would you like to add something or disagree?

Here’s the place to do it, send a comment.

The more that people report this the easier we can be found on google and the more people will be warned, so leave your comment below. Scores of people have written to me about this scam and some have lost serious money and that gets my goat! Those of you who used to follow my scam busting as moneypenny over at www.digitalmoneyworld.com before the blog was retired, will be pleased to know that I’m doing the same scam busting here on wisequeen.

Greetings from moneybookers.com! We would like to inform you that you have received a payment from merchatrade3@merctrade.com.
Payment details
Amount: USD 320.00
ID: 95229846
Subject: withdraw complete
Note: Click here to accept this payment

Your money is waiting for you in your Moneybookers account.Use this link to accept payment- www.moneybookers.com.We hope you enjoy your cash.

This is what arrived in my mail box today. I went on-line because I thought it was from someone who was paying me today, and logged on. No cash!

So sooner or later everyone gets scamed, as Google tells you! The site is identical. Moneybookers should have a secure lock image like yahoo does.

Anyone else here had this message?

Moneypenny

1. Here’s the message I received back today, when I reported it to Moneybookers.

Thank you for contacting our Customer Service Department.

Following up on your e - mail message, we would like to inform you that
according to our records the following email address
‘xxxxxxxxxxx has been used successfully and a
Moneybookers account is associated with it.

Please be kindly advised that once you have used your email address
within our system in order to register a Moneybookers account, no one else
can use your email address to open up a Moneybookers.

We can also confirm that the email message that you have forwarded to
us seems genuine. However, if you have received a spoof email and
clicked on a so called phishing link, then you need to login to your
Moneybookers account and go to ‘My Account’ > ‘Change Password’ > and follow
the on - screen instructions to change your password.

Finally, please be advised that you have probably submitted your email
address on that link and as long as you protect your email account
password you should not be concerned that your Identity has been stolen.
Also, please note, we have passed your suggestion onto our Management
Team.

If we may be of further assistance, please contact us again via the
messaging center as follows: login > ‘My Account’ > ‘Email Support’.

Thank you for choosing Moneybookers.

Sincerely,
The Moneybookers Team.

We need you to tell us if you’ve been scamed so we can take action! Post a comment here.
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Papa
May 11, 2008 at 10:53 pm

I had one of these “You’ve got cash” messages last week. Mine said:

You’ve got cash

Louis Boileau (setzersetzer@hotmail.com) just sent you money through http://www.moneybookers.com.

Payment details

Amount: USD 599.00
Subject: -
Note: -

Whilst the money would have been nice, I did not bother to follow the link. I do not know anyone with that name and/or e-mail address and (as far as I know) no one owes me that amount of money.
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Donna
May 12, 2008 at 3:44 am

Well done to you! I on the other hand was waiting for exactly that amount of money (bad coincidence) form a new source, and thought they were trying to get me to use moneybookers.
Anyway these scamsters should be stopped I’ve e mailed secuirity at Moneybooker to suggest usig personalised ID locks on their pages, as Yahoo does.
There are no doubt those who have money in their account, set up a new password, as they ask you to do and get it stolen. Or alternatively, they steal your data, either way it must be a concern to moneybookers.
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moneypenny
May 12, 2008 at 4:23 am

leave your comment here so we can take action and warm others about how these scams operate!
Moneypenny
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michael
May 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Is there anyone that can help me on a problem. I should’ve known better and that it was too good to be true. Plus I’m a U.S. Marine and just got back again from Iraq. I have been scammed by some crooks who say they were from moneybookers and they weren’t. I thought I was buying a car from a guy and he wanted to use moneybookers. So, I gave him my info and recieved a bogus m.b. email. After paying for the car, I was told I would recieve it on may 17th, at 6 p.m. pst. I have yet to see or hear anything about the car. There are other victims of this same scandal.
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dude
May 19, 2008 at 6:05 pm

was the car on autotrader? did it have a vin#? did you get to look at car and what make and model? im lookin to buy a car now and the price is to good to be true. the person says there in scottland now and moneybooker has it at their warehouse. i never heard of moneybooker b4. so i im lookin around for scams on moneybooker and came to this site n seen thsi post of marine buying a car. just wanted to see if this the same scam
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michael
May 19, 2008 at 8:42 pm

No, the car was on nola.com. They also use other websites such as autotrader, cars.com and such. IT IS A SCAM, DO NOT FALL FOR IT! I am highly pissed that they took my money and I have no car and it was all fake. I’m trying to take legal action now towards them. They gave me a vin #, make and model and pictures. What you could do is fake like you are going to buy the car and tell me what web page or email they sent you and the names and address and or numbers. So that way, I may be able to catch them. Once again it is not real. Moneybookers is real, but the thing they have isn’t. Unles you set up an actual account yourself on their website, it isn’t real. Please if there is any info you can give, please feel free to share. I am a Marine and I lost $4,900. Stupid me, GOSH! thanks
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moneypenny
May 20, 2008 at 9:00 am

Dear Michael, so sorry to hear this has happened to you. Many wise people have had the same thing happen, don’t dwell on the fact that you should have known better. However, you must report this to moneybookers. Get a report number, take it to the police and then get a govt lawyer to help you under legal aid. Given the circumstances, you being in the army etc. you will have a stronger case than others. I know Mb did not steal your money, a scammer posing as Mb did, but Mb failed to supply a simple personal sign-on seal like yahoo have, and so they are in some way liable for not providing a secure site. I have suggested they now do this in my last post. Because in the army as a marine, you should be able to get legal aid to fight this, the govt should be on your side. I would not advise everybody to do this, but in your case I am, as the army can assist you to put pressure on them. The negative publicity alone can help to make things better for others and perhaps they will even reimburse you under this pressure. Don’t delay! Change all your passwords on all log-ins
Moneypenny
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Octavio
May 26, 2008 at 10:55 am

Hi,

I was about to do the same; a guy from Scotland saying that Moneybookers had a car in their warehouse, asking me to make a deposit $3200; It was good to read you guys before sending any money….they are scamming around the world…
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moneypenny
May 27, 2008 at 10:13 am

Thanks for writing in Octavio, It’s so important that people start talking. If I help prevent one person from being scammed, then its worth it. Maybe your comment will do the same for someone else. Michael come back, and tell us how it turned out.
Moneypenny
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USAF Sergeant..
Jun 9, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Thanks for the warning. I was about to buy a motorcycle that was to good to be true. A 2001 GSX-R 750 for $2,985 dollars. I will be reporting these MTF’s!!!
Here’s the reply e-mail they sent me:

******FAKE*********SCAM*****BELOW!
Hi,
the bike is in great condition, has been properly maintained, has never been dropped or abused in any way. It has a clear title and the price I`m selling it for is $2950, which is including all shippings charges.
I live in Colorado Springs I`m currently working in the UK (London) and I`ll be staying here for the next approximately 7 months, anyway I`m using MoneyBookers services so I can sell this bike without difficulty. I left it at their warehouse before leaving to the UK. They are supervising the entire process from payment, shipping with a 14-day inspection period included, returns (if needed) and refunding.
If you want to purchase it, let me know and I will explain you how MoneyBookers works and how we can move forward.
I am waiting your email.
Thanks
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moneypenny
Jun 10, 2008 at 2:19 am

I am always so pleased if by warning others, one person avoids being scammed.
Well done for reporting this
Moneypenny
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ron
Jun 10, 2008 at 1:22 pm

i guess this scam has been around for a little while. i was dealing with a “woman” from the u.k. who actually emailed me not more than 15 min.s ago to make sure that i had received all the info from moneybookers regarding the car i was supposed to buy. i was talking with the real moneybookers this morning who told me that the trans. # was bogus and the whole thing was a fraud. still didn’t want to believe it until i read this site. glad i did. i have been saving all correspondents with them and dont know what to do with them. i havent contacted her back to let her know that i know. i’d love to catch her for everyones sake while its all still hot. any advice?
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moneypenny
Jun 11, 2008 at 9:19 am

as I have mentioned I am always so pleased if by warning others, one person avoids being scammed.
Well done for reporting this, I think catching these guys is not your job. the best way is to publish your experience and ask others to link to this url. that way we can stop others being scammed. You can report it to the police if you are prepared to meet with her. I doubt the person will be dumb enough to show their face. they change adresses on the web daily so hard to catch. Report it formally to e bookers
Moneypenny
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alharrison
Jun 12, 2008 at 4:55 pm

This same Go***mned thing happened to me a week ago! I agreed to buy a Tenor Saxophone from a guy in Birmingham, UK that left the horn at a moneybookers warehouse in Detroit, MI. long story short, I sent $2500.00 to a Donovan Bratcher (supposed moneybookers.com agent) via Western Union and since then have not been able to contact anyone!! Is there anything I can do? I filed a report with my local police, I filled a report with the FBI and with the Attorney General of my state (IL). Can I do anything else?
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moneypenny
Jun 13, 2008 at 2:53 am

Im sorry to hear you were scamed too Al. I may put this out to our readers to give suggestions as to what to do on this one.
I can only say don’t buy anything of value through an online payment agengy like moneybookers, western union etc. Its too risky there are too many scamers out there!
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Margene
Jun 20, 2008 at 3:16 pm

I had a feeling I was being scammed. Same story… There was a high mile bmw z convertable on auto trader. It was listed at 1190.00. I responded with my name thinking that the car had been mispriced. The seller responded to me with the tone that the sale had been agreed. The car was not nearby as I had thought, but had been sent to a warehouse in another state. The seller was in Scotland and wanted me to send the money to moneybooker so they could complete the transaction…same scam. Thank goodness for this website! I was a cute car…
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moneypenny
Jun 20, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Thanks for your mail Margene. I’m amazed how many people nearly fall into this scam for lots of money. Glad you werent a casualty.
This is my post with the most responses. I’m proud of that, I want Digitalmoneyworld to help people, so thanks for your mail. Send the link to everyone you know, so the google rank can go up and people can find this and not be scammed.
moneypenny.
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kevin
Jun 20, 2008 at 11:07 pm

hey michael i almost just fell for a very similar scam he was asking 4k for a 13k car:
Dear Kevin,
Here you have the VIN# ja3an74k9vy005070 please feel free to run a carfax report to see that everything is OK!
I will try to tell you in few words how the process works through MoneyBookers.
Their primary purpose is to protect buyers and sellers from fraud. MoneyBookers services accept and hold payment from the buyer until the buyer receives and approves the merchandise. Only then do they forward the payment to the seller.
If you are really interested in the purchase please get back to me asap with your full name and shipping address so I can forward them at MoneyBookers in order to open a case and they will guide you through the rest of the process so we can complete this deal successfully and in the best manner !

Sincerely,
Andrew

his email is “andrewwk40_1966@msn.com”

the VIN number checks out but then i googled it and it came up on another site
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moneypenny
Jun 21, 2008 at 1:20 am

Guys keep talking, every message makes it harder for them to scam someone on this fake moneybookers scam!
moneypenny
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G
Jun 27, 2008 at 4:39 am

Hey guys,
I am sooo glad I saw this site this morning! I got the EXACT same email sent to me as the gentleman did about a motorcycle for $2950. The guy said he lives in Wash D.C., but is in the UKnow for the next 7 months. I mean it is the identicle email!!! I am going to play it out, and see if I can catch him! And believe me, I won’t send a penny!! Thanks everyone!
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alharrison
Jun 27, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Okay that’s great! catch that bastard! when he asks you to send the money via Western Union, Tell him that you need to know the exact Location where the money will be paid out, and that western union will not let you send the money unless they know the exact payout. Then when he tells you that, call the police in the UK that police the area of the payout and tell them his name and hopefully you may be able to catch him. Good Luck! I really hope you can catch at least one of these assholes.
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Buddy
Jun 28, 2008 at 9:43 am

Advertisement for sale of bike.

It’s had Vance & Hines pipes installed with the matching jet kit and it has a great LOUD sound! It has also had a nice blue-tinted windshield and leather-studded tank bib installed, as well. It has chrome rear saddlebag brackets~the previous owner kept his leather initialed saddlebags, though. The bike will accept nearly any leather saddlebag set-up. This bike has always been garaged and adult-driven. It has also recently had a new battery installed, as well. This is the best way to get 50+mpg, look cool and have fun doing it!!! This bike has a very low seat height so a person of nearly any stature can comfortably ride it. It starts easily, sounds great and runs out just like new. Very beautiful machine that would make any new owner proud.

This is what the guy told me,
Hi,
Bike is available ,it s in excellent conditions absolutely no issue,clear title,4450 miles.I accept your offert 2500$ delivery from Dallas included.Location shouldn t be a problem as i am using monebookers services so i can sell easily.It is curently stored at their warehouse in Dallas. When i handed the bike to MoneyBookers i mentioned that it’s available only for delivery to the address i will forward them , i also paid all the shipping charges.All i need from you in case you decide and want to buy is the delivery address.As soon as I receive your info, I will forward it to MoneyBookers, they will start the transaction and notify you with all the instructions (payment, shipping, my account status etc.) One of their agents will be assigned to handle the payment. You will have a 14-day return policy, so you will have the chance to test and inspect the bike and decide either you keep it or not. If you decide to keep it, they have the power of attorney so they will transfer the title into your name and release me the funds, if not they will be responsible for the return shipping and you will have a complete refund within 3 days.
Anyway, they will explain you detailed the entire process
Looking forward for your reply,

The guys name that is selling the bike is Dan Horton, e-mail danhor@live .com
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Tim
Jun 28, 2008 at 9:35 pm

I too ran across the same exact deal on an Indian motorcycle for sale on Craigslist in Dallas. It reads like this:
Hi again,
the bike is stored in Austin (at MoneyBookers storage facility). If you want to purchase it, let me explain you how MoneyBookers works and how we can proceed:
To start the official transaction I need your full name and delivery address, I forward it to MoneyBookers and they will notify you with all the instructions (payment, shipping, my account status etc.). One of their agents will be assigned to receive and handle the payment. You have to transfer the funds to their agent as per their email directions and when the payment is complete, you have to send them the transfers information, they verify it, deposit the purchase amount in their trust account and start the shipping process. You will have a 14-day return policy, so you will have the chance to test and inspect the bike before funds are released. If you decide to keep it, they have the power of attorney so they will transfer the title into your name and release me the funds, if not they will be responsible for the return shipping and you will have a complete refund within 3 days.
Anyway, they will explain you detailed the entire process.
I am waiting your email.
Thanks

Of course it’s probably fake as well, but this guy said his name is Ryan Anderson…Beware
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rod
Jun 29, 2008 at 12:04 am

beware of jacob bennett also on that 750 motorcycle
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Fracois
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:15 pm

hi guys
dont believe anyone who wants you to send cash or money orders they are scaming you! i almost got scamed by the same some lady in scotland asking 3300 USD for a 10000 USD car , carfax report cheked out fine, but after reading all your coments forget it . be carefull who you send money!
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matt
Jul 3, 2008 at 7:49 am

yes i got the same email how do u report them to get them caught

Hi again,
the bike is stored in Austin (at MoneyBookers storage facility). Usually they deliver the products with a 14-day return policy right after the payment is confirmed, for inspection and to pick it up instead of have it delivered you have to schedule an appointment, and it could take up to 25 days until you have it which is more than I`m willing to wait.
If you want to purchase it, let me explain you how MoneyBookers works and how we can proceed:
To start the official transaction I need your full name and delivery address, I forward it to MoneyBookers and they will notify you with all the instructions (payment, shipping, my account status etc.). One of their agents will be assigned to receive and handle the payment. You have to transfer the funds to their agent as per their email directions and when the payment is complete, you have to send them the transfers information, they verify it, deposit the purchase amount in their trust account and start the shipping process. You will have a 14-day return policy, so you will have the chance to test and inspect the bike before funds are released. If you decide to keep it, they have the power of attorney so they will transfer the title into your name and release me the funds, if not they will be responsible for the return shipping and you will have a complete refund within 3 days.
Anyway, they will explain you detailed the entire process.
I am waiting your email.
Thanks
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BKevin
Jul 7, 2008 at 10:33 am

I have been scammed by a guy name Peter Murray on craigslist. He “sold” me a 2001 Yamaha R6 for $2500. Does anyone know if anyone has gotten their money back yet?
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alharrison
Jul 8, 2008 at 1:20 pm

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E-mail : dirtbikercg@yahoo.com
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Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=76.93.120.162
Comment:
Haven’t gone through with it yet, thank god, but here is the e-mail I got.
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Hi,

I’m Tylor Kent, you inquired about my 2004 Acura TL.
I apologize for the delay, I’m in the military and now I am in United Kingdom and that’s why I couldn’t reply in time. If you are still interested in buying it, I’m asking $4,800. It has a clean title, very well maintained, always garage kept, no rust, excellent condition, runs and sounds 100% perfect with no leaks or noises. All power and optional equipments are working perfect.
I have to sell this car as fast as I can because in three weeks I will be in Iraq and I think I’ll stay there for a while that’s why I’m selling it so cheap. I intend to buy a new car when I’ll get back home.If you want to buy the car, I can ship for free with one of our military airplanes so you don’t have to worry about the distance. If you are interested we can use a third party escrow broker (Moneybookers http://www.moneybookers.com/app/help.pl?s=escrow ) to secure the transaction and to handle this whole process for us. Using a reputable E-Commerce third party escrow company will secure the transaction and you will receive the car before I’ll get paid and of course I’m also covered because the funds will be kept safety into the escrow account. This is the best way for me even if I’ll have to pay some extra money for their services. I’ll cover the broker’s fee and like I’ve explained, the shipping will be free because I can use one of our airplanes here and I don’t hav!
e to pay anything. Let me know if you are interested.

Warm regards,

Tylor

New comment on your post #1003 “Fake moneybookers scam ?”
Author : John in GR NJ (IP: 68.193.164.198 , ool-44c1a4c6.dyn.optonline.net)
E-mail : MBLegit@chcomm.com
URL :
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Comment:
It is 8/13 and I have been in communication via email with a woman selling a car on Autotrader at a fabulous price in today’s market.
She told me her story. Then I got an email moneybookers.
I was puzzled as to why I had to put a deposit down to see a car.
Thanks to all who shared their experiences. It has helped me decide to walk away.
This may be a legit deal that I am passing up but I believe in win-win.
If the seller is legit. We will work out a way to do the deal.

New comment on your post #1003 “Fake moneybookers scam ?”
Author : bhayes (IP: 75.65.96.145 , c-75-65-96-145.hsd1.la.comcast.net)
E-mail : hayesbn2@aol.com
URL :
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Comment:
This is the email I received about a Honda Pilot, unfortunately I completed the transaction and now they have my money and I have zilch!

Hi,
I’m Lance Garver, you inquired about my 2005 Honda Pilot EX-L (VIN: 2HKYF18595H553540).
I apologize for the delay, I’m in the military and now I am in United Kingdom and that’s why I couldn’t reply in time. If you are still interested in buying it, I’m asking $5,700. It has a clean title, very well maintained, always garage kept, no rust, excellent condition, runs and sounds 100% perfect with no leaks or noises. All power and optional equipments are working perfect. I have to sell this car as fast as I can because in three weeks I will be in Iraq and I think I’ll stay there for a while that’s why I’m selling it so cheap. I intend to buy a new car when I’ll get back home. If you want to buy the car, I can ship for free within US with one of our military airplanes so you don’t have to worry about the distance. If you are interested we can use a third party escrow broker, Moneybookers (http://www.moneybookers.com/app/help.pl?s=escrow), to secure the transaction and to handle this whole process for us. Using a reputable E-Commerce third party escrow company will se!
cure the transaction and you will receive the car before I’ll get paid and of course I’m also covered because the funds will be kept safety into the escrow account. This is the best way for me even if I’ll have to pay some extra money for their services. I’ll cover the broker’s fee and like I’ve explained, the shipping will be free because I can use one of our airplanes here and I don’t have to pay anything. Let me know if you are interested. You can see some pics on the following link from my personal page: http://picasaweb.google.com/lgrvr1/Pilot
You’ll love the car, I can guarantee you that!

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Yesterday I asked what you would do with 20,000 seed money to work on your own business. I’ve asked this question of many people and it’s surprising how few really have a clear vision or dream of what they want. They can tell you what they don’t want, but can’t sketch out their desired future. Can You?

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In these times of greater flexibility, many desire to work at home.

Some giant companies have been started in a garage somewhere like microsoft, and yahoo and grew to giants, while others just make a freelancer a living, and some are simply dismal failures.

Is there a special kind of person who can work freelance from a home office without a boss cracking the whip?

Are some of us destined to always drive 50km to work and sit in an open plan office with a boss watching us from his corner glass-walled office for ever?

Yesterday I asked what you would do with 20,000 seed money to work on your own business. I’ve asked this question of many people and it’s surprising how few really have a clear vision or dream of what they want. They can tell you what they don’t want, but can’t sketch out their desired future. Can You?

What work do you do as a freelancer? write, design, sell, manage?

How do you keep yourself motivated and on target?

Do you hang around with turkeys or eagles?

Do you use use others success to motivate you or depress you?
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Heres another intervew from Zurich startups, this time about wine tech with Fabienne Steiner of a new start up in Europe, winecellarbook.com
Now some of you may know I’m passionate about wine,and collect it. Please click on the link to go to my highly popular and rated wine blog!
Wine

Where is your home town?
Lucerne

Where are you living now?

Zurich, since 8 years, my new hometown!

What were you doing before Winebook?

I worked in Marketing and Sales for such Companies as IBM. After that I started my own start-up during the work for Blogwerk of famous Peter Hogenkamp.

What did you study after school?

Marketing

What did you want to be when you grew up?

No joke: a lawyer. I still think I would have ambitions. But would also going crazy about all the injustice in our world.

Tell me how winebook came about?

Wincellarbook was an idea to make more out of our hobby. After some time we didnt have a clue what we find in our winecellar nor what we thought about the tasted wines some time ago. Therefore we had to find a solution ! And our friends have always been asking for advice, so the solution had to be online for them to look up.

Explain winebook to me.

Write tasting notes for you and your friends and find every wine which you ever did taste. Manage your winecellar with our winecellarbook.com and find your wine in oue hugge database. More tools will be online soon.

What is your vision for Winebook?

To get a really big wine community J but really big!

What would you like to do next?

I have lots of dreams, in business as well. But first I have to bring forward winecellarbook.

What do your family think of your job?

That I am a bit crazy to give up a „secure“ job. Personally I think nothing is secure in our world an definetly not a job as an employee.

What are you most proud of professionally?

To cut of boundaries. My goal is to do what I like to do and not to service people I dont like only for money.

Which book are you reading at the moment?

The kiterunner from Khaled Hosseini. Despite working online all the time I am crazy about books since I was a child!

What other profession would you like to try?
Helping other people to be successful in their lives, however they they define successful, it can be everything.
Fabienne Steiner - winecellarbook.com

So let’s suppose you won 20,000 dollars, Euro, pounds, francs whatever you prefer. What would you do with it?

Do you have a hot business idea you think no one else is doing? What sector would that new business be in.

Just tell us the basic idea, we know you are probably scared someone will steal your idea, so don’ give us all the details just the idea. I’m just curious to see how many peoples’ dreams are on ice because of lack of seed capital.

Is it a grand idea like yattoo free TV on your computer, or laptop, a new gadget or simply to set up a home office and work freelance from home?

Write in and tell us we’d like to share your vision.

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Moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do. Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing some of the hot new Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch.
There were 40 startups there and some really stood out.

Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes.
So many brilliant tech ideas from inside Zurich and Switzerland in partnership with American, French and German, companies from the sharpest minds in the business.
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Here’s my interview with Marc Mongenet of W2ML at TechCrunch Zurich

Where is your home town?

Geneva, Switzerland.

Where are you living now?

Bière, a village between Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland.

What were you doing before W2ML?

I was working as senior software engineer at ELCA Informatique SA
in Lausanne, developing document management software.

What did you study after school?

Computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

What did you want to be when you grew up?

Farmer, but only to drive tractors.

Tell me how W2ML came about

Since the invention of the Web in the early nineties, thousands of
different, incompatible, Web Content Management Systems (WebCMS)
have been created to let people write in web sites: guestbooks,
forums, wikis, entreprise CMS… Some of them are really complex,
but there is no standard solution.

So I thought: is it possible to create a simple and generic solution for
common content management tasks? Is it possible to be as simple,
and generic as HTML is for web pages? (HTML is the language
invented in the early nineties, and still used, to create web pages).

Explain W2ML to me.

W2ML is a computer language to create read/write web pages.
It is an open format: the specification is public and everybody is
free to use W2ML and write software to support it.

What is your vision for W2ML?

I hope that W2ML will be widely adopted by webmasters, that
a community appears, exchanges solutions, and that W2ML
becomes a standard language for read/write web pages.

What would you like to do next?

To found a family.

What do your family think of your job?

Very risky but I have to try.

What are you most proud of professionally?

Nothing until now, that’s why I created W2ML.

Which book are you reading at the moment?

I just finished “One Hundred Years of Solitude” but didn’t
like it much.

What other profession would you like to try.

None.

Marc Mongenet
Creator of the Web 2 Markup Language
http://w2ml.com

Yahoo announced in March 2008 that it will relocate its European head office from the United Kingdom to Switzerland. Yahoo plans to make the move to the shores of Lake Geneva within 18 months.

According to AP, Swiss media reported that Yahoo will benefit from a special tax break by moving to Switzerland.

Yahoo follows companies including EA and Cisco Systems that have relocated European Operations to Switzerland in recent times. The move would indicate business as usual for Yahoo despite Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid and rumored negotiations with other possible merger or acquisition partners.
Swiss info

Why Zurich well here’s the Google office there

Google boss

Why do some startups soar and others nose dive? Do you know? Have you initiated a startup and seen it succeed or fail. We’d like to hear from you good or bad. We learn more from failure than success
sometimes.

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big companies rethinking
moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do, last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch.
There were 40 startups there and some really stood out.
Watch video interviews

Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Poken a new social, virtual gadget, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes.

So many brilliant tech ideas from the sharpest minds in the business.
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Here’s the Yes.com interview with

Daniel Goldscheider

Hi Daniel

Where is your home town?
I was born in Vienna, Austria

Where are you living now?
I live in Lachen, Switzerland

What did you study after school?
I left University of Economics in Vienna

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Crane Operator
Austrian Prime Minister
First directly elected President of Europe

Tell me how yes came about
YES was conceived as a simple way to get the song you hear on radio and grew into a social medium after that.

Explain yes.com and radio reborn to me?
Radio has recently celebrated its 100th birthday. It’s old and it hasn’t changed much. YES adds a number of dimensions:

- see music videos that are synchronized with what you hear
-meet other people listening to the same broadcast
-vote for songs and influence the listener charts
-buy 4 songs from iTunes and win $100,000 if you match the station’s 4Tunes of that day.

What is your vision for this company?
I believe that YES will be a leading platform to enjoy broadcasts

What would you like to do next?
Something completely different.

What do your family think of your job?
My father is an advisor to the company, my mother would prefer a less demanding job offering more security

What are you most proud of professionally?
I am not proud yet.

Which book are you reading at the moment?
“God is not great” by Christopher Hitchens

What other profession would you like to try?
Too many including architect, lawyer, politician

Thanks,good to meet you at techcrunch.
Absolutely!

I hope to see you soon again,
Daniel

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