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You are lured in by the promise to bid on items such as i-pods, etc. with the chance of succesfully acquiring these items at low cost. You will see advetisements mentioning some well known company's that are supposedly vouching for this site.
You are then asked to provide registration details in order to be able to start bidding on the items and are asked later for your credit card information. At this point, your credit card is directly and immediately charge 159$. There's no prompt to ask you if you're sure or to tell you what's going to be provided for your money. If you were to go forward, you would see auctions with an almost impossible chance of winning, with most of the avaialble purchase items being chances to purchase more bids. In order to get your money back they want you to mail in a signed-off form, but you need to use up your bids first. To get out of this without mailing in my info, I threatened to involve the legal authorities including the FBI. I then had my charge reversed. You may want to dig deeper into the individual's websites that are documented on the internet in order to be aware.
This is the website: http://www.swipeauctions.com/prelogin_index.php
For more info: http://onlinescamwebsites.com/2010/09/s ... et-is-out/
You are lured in by the promise to bid on items such as i-pods, etc. with the chance of succesfully acquiring these items at low cost. You will see advetisements mentioning some well known company's that are supposedly vouching for this site.
You are then asked to provide registration details in order to be able to start bidding on the items and are asked later for your credit card information. At this point, your credit card is directly and immediately charge 159$. There's no prompt to ask you if you're sure or to tell you what's going to be provided for your money. If you were to go forward, you would see auctions with an almost impossible chance of winning, with most of the avaialble purchase items being chances to purchase more bids. In order to get your money back they want you to mail in a signed-off form, but you need to use up your bids first. To get out of this without mailing in my info, I threatened to involve the legal authorities including the FBI. I then had my charge reversed. You may want to dig deeper into the individual's websites that are documented on the internet in order to be aware.
