I was scammed by someone who found me because I was bidding on a Herman Miller chair - they emailed me and, since I lost the auction - I thought I could get the chair more cheaply. Like a big freakin' idiot - I wired $385 to Rome and they took my money (according to my Western Union receipt) and then turned around and emailed me back with: "Sir I don't know what to say .... I don't mean to make you lier but you must prove to me that you didn't retrieved the money....
All I know that I was at the WU and they said to me that the money had been retrieved just before I came there ...explain yourself!"
In other words -"bend over..."
I tried to contact them repeatedly after this - and well - no response.
I contacted Ebay - they said - essentially - because the fraud didn't occur as the result of a winning bid - it's outside the scope of ebay.
I then started checking around - emailing other Herman Miller chair bidders to see if they had seen any fishy activity by "sellers" - a few said they had. I researched the email addresses of these other questionable sellers and at least one of them turned out to be the same person - they have exactly the same comment history from other ebayers - has to be the same.
What the hell can I do? I filed a report w/the FBI internet fraud unit. Anyone know if they will do anything? I mean - Italy has laws too right?
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