In case you haden’t heard, Bam Margera’s uncle, Vincent “Don Vito” Margera, who was a popular character on the MTV series “Viva La Bam” has been sentenced in the case that involved him ‘groping’ three young girls, ages 12 to 14 during an autograph signing at a skate park last year. He was sentenced to 10 years to life of intensive supervised probation and was told that he can no longer portray his ‘character’ and appear on television, sign autographs or write a book about his experience.
Don Vito must also undergo mental health and substance abuse evaluations and register as a sex offender. He faces an additional 12 counts of allegedly violating his bonds. He was given permission to travel to Pennsylvania for the holiday season but he must then return to Colorado as part of his probation.
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Last week I was browsing through craigslist to see if i could find a reasonably priced vehicle in my area. I came across a silver 2001 Honda Civic EX Coupe for right under $3,000. The price seemed very nice so I contacted the owner via the craigslist sale email address.
The person replied a few days later with the following email message:
Hi there and sorry for the late reply.
The car is still available for sale. This is a 2001 Honda Civic Ex Coupe, 1.7L 4-CYL VTEC, 5-SPEED Manual Transmission, Silver, 112000 MILES, VIN 1HGEM21951L088189.
It is in EXCELLENT condition; the body and paint are great, no scratches and no dents; the interior is clean; it has never been involved in an accident.
Here you can find more pictures with the car:
http://picasaweb.google.com/joel8matrix/Civic
I’m an US Air Force Lieutenant currently stationed in UK. And the car is here with me. It was bought in the US and shipped to Europe, but it was never permanently registered here, the car is still registered in the US.
The car is for sale locally as well, but there are slim chances of this to happen. First of all this is a US model car, with the steering wheel on the left side, as opposed to a UK model, that has the steering wheel on the right side. And second, in order to be able to register this car here in UK the buyer would have to pay very high import/custom taxes that will double the price. So I decided to sell the car back in the US.
As I’m unable to travel in the near future and I don’t have anyone back home to help me with the sale I decided to make this transaction through eBay.
So how this actually works? Simple: the buyer sends the payment to eBay and they hold the money until the car is delivered; I ship the car to US; I get my money only after the buyer receives the car and makes sure everything is as agreed. I believe this protects both buyer and seller and it’s the right way to do this.
The final price is $2,999 including shipping from Europe to the US and delivery to your home address.
So if you decide to buy this car or need further information please get back to me as soon as possible.
Thank you and have a great day,
Lt. Joel Miller
joel8matrix@hotmail.com
At first it seemed like a very good deal. A great car for an even greater price. I even got a Carfax check on it and everything looked good.
I then replied to the person and asked for more details regarding exactly how it works, going through eBay and all. They replied with pretty much the same information that was in their first email. It seemed a bit vague, so I started getting a little suspicious.
I told him I would give it a shot and I went ahead and emailed him my address and contact information. Shortly after sending him my information, I received 2 emails, both appearing to be from eBay Motors. The emails looked very legit and included my information, a picture of the car and the sellers information.
The thing I noticed, however, was the email addressed they were sent from. They werent sent from eBay.com or any subdomain of eBay.com. The emails were sent from protection-ebaymotors.net. I forwarded the emails to eBay’s spoof department and just as I suspected, the guy is a scammer. He almost got me for $3,000 dollars.
There is no telling how many people actually fall for scams like this. Posting a car or other item that is worth far more than your asking price, just to get alot of replies, making it easy to scam unsuspecting internet shoppers such as myself.
If you receive any emails from protection-ebaymotors.net or any other email address that you suspect may be fraudulent, forward the emails to spoof@ebay.com. They will review the email and tell you if it’s a legit eBay email or if its fake.
A few months ago I received a call from Discover, they said there was some suspicious activity on my account. They Proceeded to list the most recent charges so that I could verify whether a charge was fraudulent or legitimate. There was several miscellaneous charges, such as two $30.00 gas charges within a 10 minute time period, and many other fraudulent small charges that added up to alot of money. One of the biggest charges was in Orlando, Florida. I have never in my life been to Orlando, much less used my credit card there. This leads me to beleive that my card was copied or reproduced and sold. I got that card cancelled, got a new account number and a new card.
Shortly after that, I transfered the balance from Discover over to my Visa card and stopped using my Discover card. Well, guess what? It happened again. I got a call today from Visa saying they found what appeared to be abnormal use and they went over the most recent charges with me, much like when it happened with Discover. This time, the biggest charge was $2,350. Yes, I will repeat that. The biggest charge was for two thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars.
When it happened with Discover, I made a point of keeping the list of charges handy, in case it ever happened again, and It’s a good thing I did. After comparing the most recent charges on both cards leading up to the fraudulent use, the common factor between the two seemed to be Wendys fast food drive thru.
A few days before the incident with my Discover card, I had been to Wendys and paid at the drive thru using the card. I noticed the same thing on my Visa, Wendys drive thru, followed by the fraudulent charges within about a week. I try and always make a point of not letting my credit cards leave my sight. But I could not avoid this at the Wendys drive thru.
I beleive someone working at my local Wendys is writing down credit card information or copying the strip, reproducing and selling them. I especially beleive this after speaking with Visa. They informed me that there have been numerous acts of credit card fraud originating from fast food drive thru charges.
Some of you may have noticed that a few fast food places now have a device that allows you to swipe your card right at the window rather than handing them the card. This is due to all of the credit card fraud originating at fast food drive thru’s.
When you hand your credit card to someone at a drive thru window, you are essentially trusting your credit card with a complete stranger. You wouldnt let someone take your credit card and walk away with it for as little as 30 seconds anyplace else, so why should it be tolerated at a drive thru? Do yourself a favor and refrain from using your credit card at fast food drive thru’s that still don’t use the window swiping machine. If you want it bad enough, walk inside to order and swipe your card. It’s worth it, trust me.
I didn’t think this could happen to me, and it has happened twice within a few months, on two different cards. Getting all of this straightened out is becoming a real headache. I have subscriptions and other things that automatically get charged to my credit card every month, such as the hosting for this website. Now I have to contact every place, explain what happened and give them my new updated credit card information.
Credit card fraud is very real and it happens everyday. Learn from my mistake and dont let it happen to you.
Some of you may have already seen this video, but for those of you who havent, check it out. Its from a pawn shop in New Orleans and shows this guy teaching his 2 year old son how to hold and operate an AK47 assault rifle.
Some of you may have already heard about this, but i found it pretty interesting. It is a trick you can do on a vending machine to make it spit out change. Of course, this would be illegal to actually try, but its interesting none the less.
ABC News 20/20 Featured a story tonight (Friday, March 9th 2007) about this Nigerian con called the “Black Money” scam. He was busted by ABC News 20/20 while trying to pull the con off and gave them all of the information about how the scam works and who he works with. It seemed very interesting and easy enough to pull off, although we do not recommend trying it.
Here is a link to the video clip for anyone who missed the story or hasent heard about this scam:
WATAUGA, Texas — A 17-year-old faces a felony charge of injury to a child after police found a videotape that appears to show him and another man teaching his 2- and 5-year-old nephews to smoke marijuana, police said. The video shows two children being taught to smoke marijuana and the men encouraging them to “get high,” police said. A man can be seen placing a marijuana cigarette into a baby’s mouth and, in another part of the video, a different boy is shown smoking on his own.
“The video contains disturbing images of the young children being badgered into smoking a marijuana cigar, commonly referred to as a ‘blunt,’” according to a release from the Watauga Department of Public Safety.
The bail for Demetris McCoy, 17, was set at $150,000. He remained in jail Friday night, police said.
Police found the video Feb. 22 while investigating McCoy and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some area burglaries. Polty faces burglary charges and is free on $22,000 bail, according to court records.
The children have been in the custody of Child Protective Services since last week, a spokeswoman said.
This is an interesting article from CNN.com. Hard to believe it has come to this. I mean, cigarettes?
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee (AP) — Two inmates housed in a smoke-free prison traded a hostage for cigarettes after a six-hour standoff.
Billy Grubb, 32, and Bradley Johnson, 25, attacked the guard Monday night, said Howard Carlton, warden of the Northeast Correctional Complex.
“As the night progressed they started saying, ‘Look, we’ll give up if you let us have some tobacco. If you do that, we’ll go back to our cell,”‘ Carlton said. “They got them some cigarettes, they smoked them and went back to their cell and locked themselves back in.”
An investigation into how the inmates got out of their cell and their motive for attacking the guard continued Wednesday. Both are in prison for murder.
Prisons across the state are instituting no-smoking policies after the Legislature passed a law banning smoking in state buildings.
I found this article on Softpedia and thought it was kind of interesting:
Although all the time the big fishes seem to win all the big battles all over the world today, I witnessed something worthy to be written down on paper and hanged in a frame on one of the walls of my apartment. Motorola, the big a** mobile phone manufacturer we all know, lost the lawsuit it filed so it can forcedly take the Internet domain motorazr.com from its rightful owner.
Motorola’s complaint said the domain name is very similar to one of
its previously registered trademarks, that the owners of the domain don’t have any legitimate interests or rights to register the domain in the first place and that they have been using it in “bad faith”.
The nice part begins now: the current owners of motorazr.com registered this domain in July 2004, whereas Motorola registered the MOTORAZR mark in June 2005. The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) board asked Motorola to present itself with proof that they have been using the MOTORAZR moniker before the actual registration but Motorola, being as big of a company as it is, was unable (or unwilling) to do so.
Therefore, the board issued a declaration saying that “[Motorola has given] no explanation of why the evidence of [their] real and actual use of MOTORAZR is so thin, why a year passed from product launch to trademark application, and why [they] failed to respond to the [WIPO] Panel’s express invitation to provide further information”.
Next thing they did was to deny Motorola’s allegations that the domain was designed to confuse the readers to visit some kind of advertising website. The ending of it all was very short and sudden, breaking Motorola’s complaint into small pieces: “Please find attached the full text of the decision issued on February 15, 2007 by the Administrative Panel in the above-referenced case. The Administrative Panel’s finding is as follows: For all the foregoing reasons, the Complaint is denied. Yours sincerely, Gabriele Bahr Case Manager”.
Ending conclusion? All the big companies should stop the lawsuit rampage going on lately and think twice before suing anyone if they don’t have enough proofs to back up their claims. Whatever their size and their monetary power, it seems there still are chances you can win a dispute with them in court.
In case you haden’t heard, Bam Margera’s uncle, Vincent “Don Vito” Margera, who was a popular character on the MTV series “Viva La Bam” has been sentenced in the case that involved him ‘groping’ three young girls, ages 12 to 14 during an autograph signing at a skate park last year. He was sentenced to 10 years to life of intensive supervised probation and was told that he can no longer portray his ‘character’ and appear on television, sign autographs or write a book about his experience.
WATAUGA, Texas — 
Although all the time the big fishes seem to win all the big battles all over the world today, I witnessed something worthy to be written down on paper and hanged in a frame on one of the walls of my apartment. Motorola, the big a** mobile phone manufacturer we all know, lost the lawsuit it filed so it can forcedly take the Internet domain motorazr.com from its rightful owner.
