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Frank B.

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3 Reviews by Frank

  • Outboardmotorstore

3/23/24

A very well designed web site that baits people with listings of new old stock outboard motors a few model years ago at very low, but somewhat credible prices.

Evidently their angle is to catch a few suckers who pay using bank account transfers, and use money mules, either complicit or unwitting, to generate Pay Pal invoices to those who use credit cards or Pay Pal, which they just refund and shrug off.

They use fake addresses of unaffiliated real outboard motor or motor parts dealers for their purported locations. But the lack of a credit card payment option straight away was a red flag.

Moral of the story: if you can't use a credit card or something secure such as Pay Pal, in which you are protected, skip anything that looks too good to be true, even if marginally so.

Products used:
None. The product was evidently a sham.

  • BeenVerified

12/18/23

I'm a real estate agent, and a client of mine told me of a "pre-foreclosure" house listed on this site. First of all, lenders do not use these sites, and such info would be confidential, anyway. They would have nothing you couldn't find elsewhere. If you paid them, got nothing of value, and they don't reverse the charge, dispute it with your credit card. That is the easiest way to get a scam charge reversed. Too much of my clients' and my own time is wasted by their chasing rainbows on BS information sites.

  • mail.com

1/26/19

Like many others said, blocked my account with no prior notification of issues or reason given. I invite everyone else who's been scammed by this sorry lot to contact me so we can get an internet attorney on this. Or 60 Minutes. Or someone who can make these crooks pay!

Update: I sent a complaint to the PA attorney general. 1&1 responded, saying "other service providers identified emails as spam", which of course were poorly programmed bots that false flagged emails sent to more than one recipient (which I do routinely in my business).

The attorney general's reply to me said they could not do anything in my particular case, but they could do so in the public interest if enough people are affected. So if enough of us write, they may take action.

So I wrote back to the attorney general, stating something to the effect of:

"The response from 1&1 that 'email service providers identified my emails as spam' was based on poorly programmed bots that false flagged legitimate emails I sent to more than one recipient. No specific examples were cited by 1&1, as I can prove any and all were legitimately authorized to be sent to the recipients.

Therefore, I would like to pursue this matter further in accordance with item 2 of Question 9 of your FAQs, which states: 'The Bureau May Investigate 2) fraud, misrepresentation and deception in the sale, servicing and financing of consumer goods and products. The Bureau can bring a lawsuit seeking an injunction, restitution and penalties, if it would be in the public interest.'

As you can see from these online reviews of mail.com in the following link, I am far from the only person who has been affected: https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/mail.com.

This having been a widespread practice on the part of 1&1 affecting multitudes of consumers, I firmly believe it is in the public interest to seek such an injunction, restitution, and penalties for all whose email service was wrongfully blocked based on false accusations of spam or other spurious reasons."

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