This section is to keep you up to date with the replica
world. Any sites and dealers are quite angry this site
exists. Many claim we sell watches ourselves, we just
love them but don't sell them. Years ago most of the
contributors have gotten burned with replica watches and
some of the dealers.
Common practice with fake replica websites is to take
your money and run. Fakereviews.com as a "watchdog"
keeps records and compares information taken or given by
customers and readers.
For example, huge websites like fakegifts.com was a
powerhouse in the 90's and then gone the next day.
PLEASE READ BELOW
Clubreplicas.com
is leading our 2005 season with major rackets
online. Formerly either of branch of the FakeOakleys
or TheBestReplica.com team they are back on the
scene. Claiming that everyone that lists they are
doing some bad business choices is either there
competior or a scam itself. Delivering in the early
parts of 2004 many Non-swiss models this site
Clubreplicas.com was quickly flagged as a scam site.
Customer photos were emailed to us to show such
flaws and chipped gold paint on Swiss modesl. The
real draw in on this site is the low prices.
Auctions
on eBay can be responded to through eBay's e-mail
service. The majority of e-mails received for better
grade Swiss watches will be from crooks. eBay could
attempt to control these crooks with simple
software...but they don't. eBay is the main internet
tool of the crooks and scammers on the net!
Unlimitedreplicas.
com is tearing up the scam scene with it's
newest website. After it's first website
FakeOakleys. com became the first website to
ever been sued both by UPS and Federal Express for
mail fraud. It would appear, from an email from UPS,
this company is encountering a large number of
complaints about the quality of the watches and the
lack of return or exchange policies. A replica
company that does not stand by their own stated
policies with their customers is like throwing
your money away. One big problem with their
"Swiss" section is that they are only doing COD. COD
is a main method of payment with Swiss sites these
days but NOT when such sites have been reported as
shipping out Japanese or Asian models in place. FRR
reports these two sites as SCAM Sites.
Following suit close behind is Replicagod.
com.
This site was closed months ago but resurfaced
during this holiday season. The websites own "news"
section said they were on vacation. Telephone calls
with company was not answered over a period of 3
weeks. With a warranty of only 90 days and
non-original inventory watches FRR would steer clear
of this shaking site. A handful of customers have
emailed us several problems with some low end
watches that have been reported. FRR will keep this
new alert current with more details later.
You
may not recognize David George, but there's a chance
George may know you. Investigators say the Sugar
Land man has been stealing people's identities for
years. George did what a lot of thieves are doing.
He allegedly stole pre-approved credit card
applications that had been processes on
REALREPLICAS. NET.
Postal Inspector Vanessa Kimbrough says once George
got his hands on an credit card numbers he would
allegedly pretend to represent a business and obtain
a copy of the victim's credit report, or simply buy
it off the street. They are for sale -- sometimes as
cheap as $50.
Officials say George then used the personal
information to steal a person's identity. The payoff
came quick in the form a credit card. It's a scam
that worked hundreds, perhaps thousands of times.
George was eventually caught, but identity theft is
the fastest growing crime.
That's information you should think twice about
giving out, especially over the phone or Internet.
Other safety tips include:
·Placing an order on a scam,
shop with recommended websites,
Site Reviews.
·Refuse giving your credit
card and banking documents. Place COD Orders,
this avoid 95% of fraud.
·And taking a close look at
your credit report at least once a year.
David George may be behind bars, but there are
others simply waiting for you to throw your
financial security away.
Investigators have seized $230,000 from a safety
deposit box and more than $86,000 in various bank
accounts -- all controlled by George. He faces up to
30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for the
charges of mail fraud due to his work online at
REALREPLICAS.NET.
Officers
of the Basehor Police
Department are warning
residents about a internet scam, in which a the
owners of SwissBlowout.com baits unsuspecting
people with "Wholesale Swiss".
Earlier this month, a caller claiming to be a Hong
Kong Wholesaler contacted someone leaving a email to
the website, SwissBlowout.com telling the buyer
that he was holding a $150,000 in wholesale Swiss
models. The wise customer questioned the caller on
their name and years in business and then contacted
his local Police Department. After an investigation,
the police department determined the call was a scam
and forwarded the case to Canadian authorities where
the call was traced too..
"The lesson here is don't ever give personal
information or your credit card numbers to anyone,"
Basehor police chief Vince Weston said. "If you
don't initiate the transaction, then be extremely
reluctant to release information."
If
residents are contacted regarding this scam, they
are to contact the police department at (913)
724-1370.
Major
Shutdown! Rolex, Cartier and Local Customs agents
close down local shipping service in New York.
Sources have confirmed that many websites are
actually run out of New York city's Chinatown
district. A seizure raid conducted on Friday August
22nd to 151 Canal Street was done. 151 Canal Street
was home to a "Speedy Shipping" in the heart of
Chinatown. Packages and over $250,000 in funds were
seize during this new but constant raids held by
local custom agents. Emails from website owners have
flooded in since then stating their shipping times
have been greatly lengthen due to this underworld
blow. Many customers mailing in money orders and
exchanges and/or returns were also at a loss since
their items are now in the hands of a local
authorities.
Fake Reviews Suggests
the following:
Never mail in
payment to a Replica Website. This lessens the
chance of fraud and theft.
Be worried about
giving out personal information, such as your
credit card information.
Only do business
with a website with a customer support telephone
number.
Make sure to allow
1-2 weeks to get your product once confirming your
order has been placed.
These
criminals worked through Fakegifts.com &
Fakewatch.com.
Further information is available through United
States Attorney J. Strom Thurmond, Jr. in Columbia,
South Carolina.
Mark Dipadova, Rufus Jones, Dawn Jones and Robert
Garza, were sentenced in November, 2001, December,
2001 & January, 2002 by the federal courts in
Columbia, South Carolina -
Mark Dipadova was sentenced for Trafficking in
counterfeit luxury items, counterfeit items of Rolex
and Cartier watches, this is a violation of Title
18, US Code, Section 2320.
Dipadova was sentenced by Senior US District Judge
Matthew J. Perry. His sentence was 24 months in
federal prison, to be followed by three years of
supervised release. Dipadova was
also ordered to pay a total of $138,264 in
restitution to the owners of the trademarks that he
infringed upon to offset the expenses they incurred
in attempting to investigate and stop Dipadova’s
illegal activity. Dipadova ran the Internet site
FakeGifts.com.
Rufus Todd Jones was sentenced in the US District
Court by Judge Joseph F. Bataillon for trafficking
in counterfeit Rolex watches over the Internet. His
sentenced to 36 months in prison. Jones was also
ordered to pay restitution of $116,779 and a special
assessment of $100.
Dawn Jones, the wife of Rufus Jones, was sentenced
in November,2001 for her involvement in the
conspiracy to a sentence of 5 years probation and
was ordered to pay restitution of $116,779.
Robert Garza was sentenced in the US District Court
by Judge Joseph F. Bataillon for trafficking in
counterfeit watches over the Internet. Garza was
sentenced to five years probation, 150
hours of community service and ordered to pay
restitution of $35,000 and a special assessment of
$100.
Look forward to more arrests during 2003 and the
future!
Credit
Card Scams
Credit card scams happen every day. Many people
incorrectly think that the net accounts for a
majority of it. I am sure that internet credit card
scams have grown but not to the levels that people
should become worried about them.
Even as recently as the year 2003, almost 90% of
credit cards scams and fraud still occur offline.
Why is that?
In my humble opinion, it is because most credit card
thieves use very low-tech techniques to pull their
scams with: Getting receipts out of trash cans.
Keeping a copy of the receipts where they work at
the gas station. Stealing people's mail and creating
a new address for them and getting four new Visas.
Those are the types of scams that are happening
today.
There have been two or three incidents of online
retailers getting their system hacked into by
hackers but most hackers are not motivated by money.
Most hackers are motivated by a sense of
accomplishment when they break into Yahoo or
Government systems and change something. Not
stealing credit card numbers or committing fraud.
Actually using your credit card online is probably
the safest way that you can buy something. If you
are cheated (for any reason) you can contact your
credit card company and have the charges reversed.
Now, your credit card company is going to make sure
that you were scammed. You can't order a book or a
22" Plasma monitor and say that you never received
it. They just aren't going to buy it.
Just be careful and always check your bill each
month before paying it. That way you won't be part
of the next credit card scam that goes around.
