"While surfing Facebook today, I saw an ad for the Wii going for $99. It immediately set off my spider sense. The site was just registered to a guy out of Fayetteville, AR, but under a false name? The phone number listed is for a different Peter.(Thanks to Justin!)
This is from digg a few minutes ago from someone called "victimpete"
I'm Pete Rankin, and I did just speak to the bustown. For all you guys out there advocating punching me in the face, here's what my day is going to be like tomorrow: 1. Contact the FTC and report ID theft, 2. Contact the fucking morons at Earthlink, again. Hopefully get someone from this continent this time. 3. File police report, 4. File a fraud alert with experian, 5. Change my bank account, credit card, phone number, 6. Worry all day about the safety of my wife and 3 year old son, 7. Try vainly to get the all the geniuses who are smart enough to link to a satellite image of my house ( but somehow too fucking stupid to think the guy whose house they are providing a link to might not be the guy getting all those valuable cc numbers) to remove my personal information from an ever increasing number of forums and blog. Some of you guys are true intellectual titans. So have a great Friday, mines gonna be just super.
]]>This is the email I received back from them last night, if anyone sees this guy popping up elsewhere on Earthlink their case is AB0000000993187 for this gentleman.
Hello there,
Thank you for contacting Earthlink. This issue has been resolved as we have dealt with the user in question accordingly. You shouldn't expect any more trouble from this user. If you see any more evidence of this type of activity from an Earthlink user, please make us aware of this.
Regards,
Earthlink Network Abuse
abuse@abuse.earthlink.net
ASSCORE has been snitched on to the proper authorities to ruin his scam and to just be generally hated on.
]]>I copied and pasted the code from the website to my own, and changed the e-mail address and this is the e-mail that was delivered promptly to my inbox upon completing the form.
"Type: American Express
Number: 12345678910
Month: 0
Year: 0
CVV2:
Name: John
LName: Doe
Address: 123 Main St
Address2:
City: Anytown
State: MA
Zip: 12345
Phone2: 123
Phone1: 4567890
Email: j@b.com
Pass:
Pass2:
cppcontinuebutton.x: 61
cppcontinuebutton.y: 7"
So if anyone was curious as to whether or not this is a scam.... It is.
]]>From the decrypted version of the source code of the website. (The < brackets have been replaced by { brackets so you can read it on Consumerist.)
So it looks like he is using a mailing program based on SafeLink.net, and the information is being harvested at WeHaveWii@mail.com.
]]>Some of your information is getting redirected to safelink.net when you press the "Continue" button.
The plot thickens?
]]>The main page is down, but the purchase page is still up and running.
]]>@Craig: hey I hope that's not the same as MY Nigerian friend...He told me I was special and wanted to share his money with me....I'm starting to feel like I may not be his only special friend
]]>Don't do that! Obviously the site was set up using the listed guys stolen credit card and sending this guy a bunch of crap is just going to make his day worse. The site is set up to forward the CC info to some far away place and not Arkansas.
]]>This guy is a just a regular fella trying to a make a few dollars while providing Wii's to teenages at a discounted price. Shame on all of you! I'm going to buy a few to support this guy. I wish all buisness people had a sence of helping out the little guy by pricing items cheeper than they cost to make, LIKE THIS HONORABLE SALESMAN! Screw you all, I'm gonna go play my WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII's.
]]>Looks like the form basically emails itself (with all of your CC info) to a wehavewii@mail.com.
]]>How does that old saying go? "If it seems too good to be true it probably is"
God some people are walking around with rocks in their heads.
"At the time of investigation the URL opened an active fraudulent eBay site. Additionally, the site made repeated attempts to copy information from the Windows clipboard."
]]>Look at the HTML code on the "buy" website.
{SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">{!--
hp_ok=true;function hp_d02(s){if(!hp_ok)return;var o="",ar=new Array(),os="",ic=0,p=0;for(i=0;i80){ar[ic++]=os;os=""}}o=ar.join("")+os;document.write(o)}//-->
(The brackets have been changed so you can see the text on Consumerist)
The entire thing is encrypted so you can't see what the HTML code is. Is that code ripped from the Nintendo site as well, or did he do it on his own?
]]>He's only a few blocks away from the University of Arkansas, but he doesn't show up in the student directory. I feel sorry for him if someone has hijacked his identity for this deal.
]]>I order 4, but to make sure he wasn't scamming me, I used 4 different credit cards from my mom's wallet. I will trick him!!11
]]>He must have something running that's a little more sophisticated than just a form that feeds CC info into a database. How is he validating CC numbers? I too put in a fake one and got rejected.
]]>Feel free to spam his lists all day long with garbage.
]]>Golly everyone is a bunch of negative Nellies. Maybe each of his friends and relatives got him a Wii for Christmas, and he just had too, too many. And instead of selling them for an outrageous price on ebay he thought "I won't take advantage of the poor souls who weren't able to get one. I'll be kind and generous and sell them for only $99 so those sad, desperate gamers can have one and enjoy the joyousness that is a Wii."
]]>I tried to fill in a fake Credit Card number, and it didn't work. I guess I'll let the po-po bust hs door in. Why do they get to have all of the fun?
]]>Not necessarily the police, but one would hope that it will eventually bubble up to them.
And don't harass the site owner. Either this guy is a grade-A dumbass who doesn't know what WHOIS is, or the actual site owner just scammed this poor guy's credit card. Either way, let law enforcement do their job.
]]>What's a Wii?
]]>I didn't.. I just put in a bunch of fake gibberish. I'm not stupid.
]]>Its a fishing website. DUDE! Dont enter your credit card info!
]]>Well he first messed up by using Earthlink, Earthlink is a scientology ran business, the owner Sky Dayton is a Scientologist and participant along with his wife. They also run Helio the mobile phone no matter what they try to tell you helio is ran by earthlink which is in turn ran by scientologists.
]]>I love how he ripped everything from EB/GameStop.com and the Nintendo Store.
Even when you check out it says.. create a user name/password for the next time you log into the Nintendo Store, lol.
I entered in some fake information.. I ordered 100 Wii's and it went through! lol.
]]>Look what IE said: Internet Explorer has determined that this is a reported phishing website. Phishing websites impersonate other sites and attempt to trick you into revealing personal or financial information.
]]>I also tried to "buy" one using a fake credit card number (but one that passes the algorithmic checks for validity - i use this to test my own shopping carts), and got an immediate error that my card number was invalid - didn't even try to process the card.
I'm sure it's set up to forward all this shit to some guy in eastern Europe.
]]>Did consumerist fail to even report this site to earthlink? Why is it still live?
]]>The site is blocked for me on IE7 as a phishing scam!
]]>well, how much is shipping?
]]>why is consumerist linking to the site? some dumbass will prob buy it
]]>Geez, you would think to make it more believable, the guy would offer only the Wii console.
But no. Instead, he is offering a Wii, 4 great games and a ton of other stuff...for only $99!
I'd love to meet someone who fell for this scam.
]]>[Disclaimer: This was a guy from LivePerson at their support chat, and not someone at Earthlink.]
]]>Welcome to Earthlink LiveChat. Your chat session will begin shortly.
Chat Information'John V' says: Thank you for contacting EarthLink LiveChat, how may I help you today?
noaddress@earthlink.com: Hi John, I'm contacting you to report fraud and ID theft using your hosting
noaddress@earthlink.com: The address is [www.wiifor99.com]
noaddress@earthlink.com: I guess the proper term would be phishing
noaddress@earthlink.com: People have reported that after the Credit Card info is collected, the site ends.
noaddress@earthlink.com: The site is being advertised on Facebook
John V: Hi, I will assist you.
noaddress@earthlink.com: I know you will. :) Scams like this are just scummy.
noaddress@earthlink.com: Granted, not everyone is as smart to recognize how bogus this site is. I'm sure you guys are all for stopping Phishing scams like this from happening.
John V: You need to take down the index page and completely rebuild it and update the passwords.
noaddress@earthlink.com: It's not my site
noaddress@earthlink.com: It's a site one of your hosting customers is advertising on Facebook to scam gullible people.
John V: [www.earthlink.net]
John V: Click on the above link and go through it.
John V: [www.earthlink.net]
John V: Check the above link instead of the first one.
noaddress@earthlink.com: Thank you John, I appreciate the assistance. :)
John V: You're welcome and thank you for using EarthLink LiveChat. Should you need further assistance, please feel free to contact us again.
John V: Bye.
noaddress@earthlink.com: That form only seems to allow me to report fraudulent emails
noaddress@earthlink.com: Not a site hosted on your network
noaddress@earthlink.com: Are you still with me John?
noaddress@earthlink.com: ?
John V: [www.irs.gov],,id=155682,00.html
John V: This third party web site link is provided by EarthLink as a convenience to you. The content or software provided on this web site is not owned or maintained by EarthLink. EarthLink is not responsible for the information, software downloads, or other material, on this third party web site. Any software you download from a third party site is subject to the license terms contained on that site.
John V: Check the above link.
noaddress@earthlink.com: I see. Ok, well thank you again for trying. Hopefully a lot of people won't give out their personal information before the govenment can react.
John V: You're welcome and thank you for using EarthLink LiveChat. Should you need further assistance, please feel free to contact us again.
Chat InformationChat session has been ended by the agent.
]]>LAWLS! Just their perfect target market too, dumb facebook teenagers with Daddy's credit card.
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