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Kaja Wombles
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I called and spent 30 minutes on the phone with FedEx explaining this to them and desperately asking them to help. A nice lady on the other end took the time to send me an email showing the address that tracking number was actually delivered to, and I called Paypal and provided them with this information for the "appeal".
Another strange thing about it is that the name on the package said "To the realtor of" and then the other address. (It was an address in my city, state and zip, but not the same street and not the same street numbers).
I really cannot for the life of me understand how Paypal could allow such scams to take place. It would be SO INCREDIBLY EASY for them to check with the shipping companies on these tracking numbers when a case is opened but they seem completely unwilling to do so, and it seems the scammers know it and are willing to exploit it...
Sellers who have high volume sales along with high number of negative or neutral, raises a flag. Are these sellers just catalog / middleman sellers? Are they buying pallets of return items or items that were RTV's?
I'm currently dealing with this scam. I ordered a 3 piece patio set from this website called mallflashsale.com. As soon as I paid I realized the fake nature of the transaction. I tired to reach out to PayPal to cancel the transaction but PayPal was too quick to pay the vendor and I had absolutely no chance to cancel it. I never got any invoice from the seller except PayPal payment confirmation. Today, I got a tracking number which of course is a fake tracking number as per BBB complains from many other victims like me. The UPS tracking number appears legit however when you go to the tracking, it say .20 lbs weight which should be over 40 plus lbs considering the item I ordered.
We are experiencing an incline of fake leads being submitted and bypassing the current CAPTCHA we have on select forms. There is one person in particular that has been submitting leads with different name variations and emails but with this woman's number. She is absolutely being spammed to the point where her voicemail is pleading with people to stop contacting her.
I was wondering how do you fight fake apple support numbers. Today I had an issue with my browser and searched google for an apple support number and came up with **** and the call dropped, then i recieved calls from ****, two no caller ID numbers, ****, another unknown caller, and then six missed calls from ****. They were guiding me through the process of fixing the browser problem I was actually having but the first people demanded $100 in iTunes money that I did not pay and the second person showed me their LinkedIn page with Apple Technician as the title and then asked for $1.23 to secure my computer. I hung up and deleted the means of screen sharing and turned on the firewall which I did not know was not on in the first place. Someone else took the time to look up the Apple Support number because the number itself is not easy to find. How do you fight this issue of being unable to find the Apple Support number? Would you have to contact Google or other Internet Browsers to put the correct number up?
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When I was looking for the Apple Support number on my phone, I could not find it at all with ease. I got to a contact page for apple on the apple website and came up with nothing in relation to calling
quite often we have posts asking us to ID a guitar as real or fake. that's great and the right way for people to do things. be sure before you buy! however, it is too often that someone gives a serial number and people point to this site: if they don't point to the site directly, then they run it through their database and give the results. sometimes they just figure it out in their head and post the answer. NONE OF THESE OPTIONS WORK THOUGH!
all that site does is decode the numbers based off of the number scheme that Gibson uses. it tells you nothing about whether or not it is a valid number. it's easy to make up a number that fits that scheme. for example: 10211025. could you ID a guitar as real based off of that? of course not. i just made it up. that serial COULD be legit though. the guitar would have been the 25th guitar made on Friday, January 21, 2011. but what's to say the guitar you are holding baring that number is legit? nothing. i could have made a fake and just put that number on it. Calling Gibson to verify that the REAL guitar assigned that number is the same model as the one you are looking at is a great first step, but not the last one. a forger could simply have an example and then put the same serial on several fakes of the same model.
again, i am sorry if i ruffled feathers here. that is NOT my intent. i simply want to dispell this myth. if you are SURE the guitar is real then that site is a great way to decode the number and tell you what you have. it CAN NOT be the first step to ID though. i post this ONLY b/c i fear someone getting burned. none of us want that. please. PLEASE! get the word out and let's not quote that site when checking real vs fake. heck, that site even decodes numbers saying Bozeman is in "MA" really? decoding the serial in your head and posting it is the same thing BTW. it's just knowing the method Gibson uses. ANYONE can do that.... especially the guys making fakes. as a matter of fact, if i were making fakes, it would be a genius idea to create that site. tons of people would go to it and verify my guitars as real!
That said, how prevalent are fake Gibson acoustics? In all the years I've been playing, I can only recall seeing one fake Gibson, and it was a hollow-body electric. I just can't imagine fake Gibson acoustics is a pressing issue.
I mean, if I wanted to defraud someone on a guitar deal, I'd find a similar guitar posted here or on Ebay with a serial number listed. Then get a set of metal stamps and stamp that number into the back of the guitar Headstock. Valid, number, no disputing it.
Some good websites: NOTE.....I would contact Gibson about EVERY guitar I was considering buying, unless a real vintage guitar. ALL EBAY NEW GIBSONS, I would check serial numbers with Gibson as (Gibson customer service suggests) with pics and serial numbers for help with verification BEFORE buying.....it is a pity we have to do this, but buyer beware, is the mantra here...
if you check on ebay there are chinese sellers advertising Acoustics which have gibson labels in the soundhole and look to the untrained eye almost identical to gibson.. i have reported a few of them to ebay and contacted gibson as well as fender regarding various sellers and obvious fakes
BUT....serial number and pics sent to Gibson customer service, can clear up just about all doubts. Gibson is in the fight over clones and knockoffs, so best to use their services....If a seller won't give you the serial number or has fuzzy photos.....just pass....
Everyone can put on their website "Officially supported by Gibson"'; that's what makes it misleading. If people are checking numbers on that website and it doesn't show, then it makes people worried !
i've seen two custom shop les pauls with the exact same serial number. i thought they were both fake until i contacted gibson and found "that doesn't mean we stamped 824 guitars in one day, it means that was number 824 in the production sequence." i was really confused about whether one or both were fake until i looked at the bridge. the epiphone flat head mounts don't lie, do they? but seriously, everything else about the fake was really believable, until i plugged it in. "whhhhhhhhhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" vs "silence".
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