http://www.therestartpage.com

Happy days. *g*

UPDATE 08/01:

User ID 		Effective Date 		End Date
inaudible-games62011 	Jan 08, 2012 		Present
persian62011 		Sep 28, 2011 		Jan 08, 2012

Love you too xxx You know, are you ever gonna confirm your real name for us? I’m just dying to find out, and meh, I’m lazy. Guess this means you’ll be switching accounts again now? Well, why not help a kid out and unprivate your old FB eh? Then at least we can document your scams better, like a personal trophy page this ain’t it? It’s not like this one won’t be NARUd in a few weeks. Guess we’ll meet again in a few more months then. Hey, at least you’re showing eBay up for the idiots they are Credit where credits due, etc.

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Oh yes. Ohhh yes yes yes yes… See below posts, and take a guess. More info coming.

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ID: 4d2world
Registered: 14-Aug-11 – Not a registered user (~ 11th Sept) That would be, erm… just after jazz65411 / ghiyas1232011 was last NARUd then.

Couple weeks later…

User ID Effective Date
persian62011 28-Sep-11
Address:
62 Keppel Road
Eastham
E6 2BD

1 month, 6 months, 12 months
Positive feedback rating 5, 55, 55

Private Feedback – This member, persian62011, has decided to make his/her Feedback comments private.

And let the (re)scamming begin! Comments in italics.

Purchases / Soon-to-be victims:

Member ID persian62011 ( Feedback score of 10). 12-Oct-11 19:13. Economics with MyEconLab Book | Mr
Member ID persian62011 ( Feedback score of 22). 13-Oct-11 10:24. Nutrisport Whey Protein Isolate 5000g+500g Creatine (#310256732207) from 23inchguns

Member ID persian62011 (private). 01-Nov-11 22:05. 9780199579044 Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law (#170703442076), £35.72 from serepton INR CLAIMED (see below, seems this guys an even better scammer. you could’ve done with that book too. shame.).
Member ID persian62011 (private). 01-Nov-11 22:10. 9780273722977 Accounting for Non-Accounting Students (#170703431228), £52.42 from serepton INR CLAIMED
310133281734 GBP 19.99 BONE Apple iPod Touch 2G Sports Armband: BLACK/ORANGE Nov 21, 2011 01:41:02 1smltd
170727414341 GBP 2.92 BACK BODY SCRUBBER BATH WASH MITT GLOVE SCRUB GLOVES SHOWER EX FOLIIATE NEW Purchased on: Nov 16, 2011 05:55:18 steves.cool.deals

180511421567 GBP 13.95 500 x DL White Gummed Posh Invitation Envelopes 100gsm Dec 08, 2011 21:22:43 bluecraft2010
270867740521 EUR 733.00 Brand New Black Apple iPhone 4S 64GB – ( Still Sealed) 08 Dec, 201118:03:15 GMT mazaisgurkis INR CLAIMED
300636364959 GBP 799.99 APPLE MacBOOK PRO 13.3″ LAPTOP Feb,2011 FREE EXTENDED APPLECARE PROTECTION 2014 Dec 18, 2011 08:15:15 valueauctionsuk INR CLAIMED
130620594295 GBP 40.79 Wahl 9845 Lithium Ion Rechargeable Cordless Beard Trimmer Clipper Grooming Set Purchased on: Dec 24, 2011 22:24:30 etwist_shop
160553035240 GBP 9.99 14” Laptop LCD Screen Protector Shield NEW Purchased on: Dec 28, 2011 23:15:50 yar1f INR CLAIMED
250942349488 GBP 7.99 10X New Silicone Skin Keyboard Cover Protector for Laptop with 17″ Screen Dec 28, 2011 23:11:03 fulwholesale
260884718425 GBP 6.49 14.4″ Anti-Glare Screen Protector for Laptop/Notebook Dec 28, 2011 23:12:42 nsw-act
400232547863 GBP 18.00 NEW G896 GOLLA METRO 15 INCH MAC FIT LAPTOP SLEEVE – B Dec 28, 2011 23:16:37 tmduk INR CLAIMED

Feedback left:

@ yasirkhan316 THEIF!NOT TRUSTABLE AT ALL,DIDN’T SEND THE ITEM AND STOLE MY MONEY!BEAWARE,CROOK 25-Oct-11 19:45. Buyer: persian62011 ( private )

Comment stolen removed shortly after being posted.

bad cheap copy,seller threatened me to close case with abusive and foul language – persian62011 (private) 01-Nov-11 22:10
9780273722977 Accounting for Non-Accounting Students (#170703431228) £52.42 from serepton
WORST SELLER EVER,GAVE ME THREATHS VIA EMAIL,VERY ABUSIVE AND THE WORST SELLER - persian62011 01-Nov-11 22:10
9780415594141 Text, Cases and Materials on Contract Law (#170703439947) £37.68 from serepton
Worst ever transaction made, this person is absolutely rude and very abusive – persian62011 01-Nov-11 22:05
9780199579044 Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law (#170703442076) £35.72 from from serepton

For once, our favourite scammer meets his match, and these comments are actually true. We’re also looking at a law student. Who knew?

**FRAUDULENT PERSON,SENT POTATOES INSTEAD,LITHUANIAN CROOK,REPORTED TO POLICE** Buyer: persian62011 13-Dec-11 19:16
Reply by mazaisgurkis (13-Dec-11 19:56): Excuse me, but i don’t understand what you are talking about ?! Please explain.
Follow up by persian62011 (13-Dec-11 20:53): THIS RUSSIAN SWINDLER IS SELLING EXPENSIVE ITEMS AND SENDING GARBAGE,REPORT HIM!
Brand New Black Apple iPhone 4S 64GB – ( Still Sealed) (#270867740521) EUR 733.00 View Item

Clearly one of these users was fraudulent. Namely the one who had their comment removed. Guess who?

Address occupants, 2011-12:

Waqas Ahmed, Age Guide: 16-20
Muhammad N Shabbeer (30 – 34), Salman Hameed ( 25-29 ), Zohaib Chaudhary ( 25-29 ), Bilal Arif

UPDATE:

Member ID ruma6930 Not a registered user
This person’s no longer a registered eBay user.

Need I say more? Don’t fuck with iG.

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Guess I’ll just have to post it here for everyone to see then. What a shame. Oh well, another scammer for you all to read about

FWIW, if anyone would like to be invited in to a private Facebook account where plenty of ongoing scams are partially-detailed, please add me as a friend so that I can send you a group invite (it doesn’t work if we’re not “friends” first ). My FB e-mail is christopher_friend@hotmail.com .

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Quick link to my fav. hacker come manufacturer Bunnie Huang’s latest post on counterfeiting in electronics. The same mostly applies to video game hardware (albeit no one quite trying to pass off any truly counterfeit consoles yet afaik), and also why I’m not a huge fan of re-packaged / re-sealed games.

- A design curtosey 1990′s Geocities and Windows Paint, with
- A tsunami.
- And some oversized penises.

Bad enough?

Nope, it gets worse. Much, much worse.

Cheers josh for the heads up. And hi to all iG’s fans in Leeds Grainger Games. Love you really

WHAAAA!!?… Is that an Official N64 controller pad of POWER x 2 ?!!! Ohh yee

Text copied below, as it’ll fall of eBay eventually, a fate it surely deserves better of. Bear in mind this is for simply 2 N64 controllers.

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Seller A – INR (Item Not Received eBay dispute) ~ April 2011
Seller B – INR, £12.49 PS3 game INR ~ April
Seller C – INR, PS3 game ~ April
Seller D – INR, Mobile phone cable ~ April
Seller E – SNAD (Item Not As Descriped), £355 microwave (+ scam return) ~ July
Seller F – INR, £20 IT Cable ~ August
Seller G – SNAD, £300 microwave (+ scam return) ~ August
Seller H – INR, £30 Shoulder bag ~ August
Seller I – SNAD, £35 pair of jeans (+ scam return) ~ August
Seller J – SNAD, £136 bike (+ scam return) ~ August
Seller K – INR, £3.59 makeup ~ August
Seller L – SNAD, £63 pair of trainers ~ August
Seller L – SNAD, £50.39 pair of trainers (same seller, twice) ~ August
Seller M – INR, £1.50 makeup ~ August
Seller N – INR, £3 makeup ~ August
Seller O – INR, £18 iphone 4 case ~ August
Seller P – INR, £50 pair of trainers ~ August
Seller Q – INR, £7 of confectionary ~ August
Seller R – INR, £20 of confectionary ~ August
Seller S – INR, £7.40 of dental tools ~ August
Seller T – INR, £80 pair of trainers ~ August
Seller U – INR, £15 lock ~ August
Seller V – INR, £19 pair of jeans ~ August
Seller W – INR, £20 hoodie ~ August
Seller X – INR, £7.50 of confectionary ~ August
Seller Y – SNAD, £180 cinema system (+ scam return) ~ August

That’s almost an entire alphabet of fraud right there The months are split between two seperate IDs, so my guess is there’s more we don’t know about, and there’s deffinately more sales we’re yet to hear back from sellers about (techy note: should have labled sellers in hex ).

Some people may wonder why I spent so much time detailing the exploits of someone who may or may not be involved in the fraudulent aqusition of a £12.49 video game. I wondered too, and let it go. Until a few months later in September, when this arrives in my inbox:

Jaez Ghiyas is at it again scamming all and sundry via user ID 4d2world – now NARU. As usual Ebay are finding all in his favour – there’s over £1000 worth so far.

And this, folks, is why we try and stop them at £12.49. So, what the heck was going on? (Un)Luckily he scammed another guy just as determined as me to get to the bottom of things. But lets start with the ID.

ID: 4d2world
Registered: 14-Aug-11 – Not a registered user (~ 11th Sept) That would be, erm… just after jazz65411 / ghiyas1232011 was last NARUd then.
Buyer Email: ionlylovemiryam@live.co.uk
Address: Waq A, 62 KEPPEL ROAD, LONDON, E6 2DB
Buyer Name: Jaez Ghiyas

And what’s the user been getting up to?

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=4d2world&ftab=AllFeedback

Chocolate, men’s fashion, lots of jeans, seems to like D2 (maybe that’s where the user ID gains inspiration?), trainers, iPhone accessories, household goods… I wonder what happened to all of these? You guessed it:

Seller A – INR (Item Not Received eBay dispute) for a £20 Cable
Seller B – SNAD (Item Not As Descriped) for a £300 microwave
Seller C – MXQ1010 – INR for £30 Shoulder bag
Seller D – SNAD for £35 pair of jeans
Seller E – SNAD on £136 bike
Seller F – INR
Seller G – SNAD
Seller H – INR
Seller I – INR
Seller J – INR
Seller K – INR
……

My my, who’s been a busy boy then? What’s that you say, tracking details? Oh yes, that’s what all the “Not As Described” cases are for. Most of the obvious tracked stuff can just be “returned”. Of course, helps if you get the details right…

“[Waq A] said he bought a white bike and got a green one, the funny thing is we don’t have this bike in green at all”

Yeaahhh… that’s the thing about scammers, they’re a bit thick, like. But hey, with eBay’s rules, you can just return it for a refund all the same, you just need to provide tracking details. Lets try that with the microwave shall we?

Well, you gotta give it to him. He does love his bass bass bass Kowledge. And a good old scam. What a shame eBay were on to you, and hit you with a NARU shortly after registering. What a shame, too, that all the other sellers were on to you as well. Wonder what gave them the idea you may be a scammer?

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Back to google we go then. And ionlylove the new e-mail, “Syed”…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000633518802
Syed Ali
Gender: Male

Sadly, for ionlylovemiryam@live.co.uk that’s all we’re getting, unless this “Miryam” turns up somewhere. Every other site / google draws a blank. Or do they…

One lovely place we can find out additional details is the directory search tool, 192.com. Lets see how many Waqas Ahmeds live in E6 shall we?

Waqas Ahmed & E6 = That would be 33. Let’s narrow this down…

Waqas Ahmed & Keppel Road (Eastham) = A single entry for 04/05, 06/07, 2010, 2011. Same guy? Same Waqas Ahmed? Well, nothing else stands out, so lets go back a step to the general E6 area, compare, and contrast. It’s like being back in Uni, this.

Waqas Ahmed
E6
Asim Noman, Bibi K Ahmed, Kashif Ali, Mubashir Ahmed, Toqir Farooq, Mohamad Ahmed, Mohammad Hanif, Mohammed Siraj, Musadiq Babar
2004-05

Waqas Ahmed
Age Guide: 20-23
E6
Mubashir Ahmed, Toqir Farooq, Musadiq Babar Shahzad, Kantharajan Arumugasamy, Mohammad Hanif, Rajinder K Bhamra, Raskannan Imperumal, Musadiq Shahzad Babar, Bhupinder S Bhamra
2006-07

Waqas Ahmed
Age Guide: 22-25
E6
Jurgita Kulsinskaite, Jabran Yaqoob, Atif Mehmood, Ahsan Yaqoob, Said M Mulla, Shezad Patel, Syed A Shah, Nabeel Sultan
2010

Waqas Ahmed
E6
Usman Nayyar Butt, Raza Shahid, Urooj A Khan, Inderjit Kaur, Inderjit Chana, Tarlochan Rathore, Syed Asad Ali Shah, Shagupta Anwar
2005

Waqas Ahmed
E6
Muhammad Nouman, Muhammad Farrukh Khan, Syed Asda Ali Shah, Ahmad Jahangeer, Syed Azhar Ali Shah, Jawed Ahmed, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Adnan Hamid, Saqib Naeem
2006

Waqas Ahmed
E6
Muhammad Nouman, Muhammad Farrukh Khan, Syed Asda Ali Shah, Ahmad Jahangeer, Syed Azhar Ali Shah, Jawed Ahmed, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Adnan Hamid, Saqib Naeem
2006

Hmmmmm…

Syed Asda Ali Shah
Syed Azhar Ali Shah

Coincidence? I doubt it Funnily the 04/05 stuff has different names. Could be a different Waqas Ahmed, or a different address. My guess? That’s a heckalotta unrelated people for a basic family household. And what sounds like a lot of late teens, early 20s males. I guess I’m not the only one back at Uni, eh? That’s a bunch of studends. Students who start uni at 18, around 2003/4, befriend a “Syed Ali”, and finish Uni at 21-22, around 2006/7, moving houses inbetween. Possibly the first two are a different person, and the last 4 are the 62 Keppel Road address. Either way, their age would make them 25ish. Around the same age as Jaez / Murid. Funny what you can find out with the right tools.

Lets take a guess and follow some leads, then.

Disclaimer: More innocent people ahoy. Be nice, again.

Latest most obvious housing date is 2010. First name? Jurgita Kulsinskaite. How many can there be.

One.

http://www.facebook.com/jurgita.kulsinskaite

Moved (on 30/11/2010, I’ll save the links to avoid any trouble) along with Ahsan and Jabran Yaqoob. Guess they didn’t like the other occupants? I don’t blame ya.

http://www.myspace.com/549626463
Ahsan Yaqoob Male, 27

But is he the right one? Back to 192.com.

Ahsan Yaqoob
Age Guide: 27-31
London
Grace Aikins, Anthony Aikins, Lucy Mariama Aikins, Syed A H Shah, Syed A Shah, Atif Mehmood, Nabeel Sultan
2009

Ohhh, theres our Mr Shah again. Puts Yaqoob a little too old for the MySpace page. Still, everyone’s too old for MySpace pages these days :d . And that looks like a flat, one with a family, the other with the rest of the Syed / Atif / Nabeel bunch from earlier. Is this the Keppel Road address? Does this confirm Waqas moved in around late 2009 / 2010 after a mysterious absense?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000850864276

Best lead for Atif Mehmood in London. Wonder who he’s friends with?

Nabeel Sultan. Another happy conincidence.

Next time, hopefully, we’ll know even more about our elusive Waqas and his “friends”.

EDIT: Updating residents names above with links to most likely FB pages. Just keep following the trail until Waq A turns up