Peaches Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 eBay scammer gets four years in slammer Busted By Dan Goodin in San Francisco 28th April 2009 00:13 GMT A man convicted of swindling more than $259,000 using fraudulent eBay listings and other venues was ordered to serve 52 months in federal prison and pay $252,000 in restitution. Derrick Lee Swantz, 57, of Lakewood, Colorado, was convicted in January of implementing two separate fraud schemes. In one, he offered luxury automobiles for sale on eBay and Autotrader.com. He used the phone and email to communicate with would-be buyers and directed them to make payments by making wire transfers or sending cashier's checks. RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.security.4159/crime', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs); Once the payments were made, Swantz didn't deliver the vehicles. Among the autos he advertised were a 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280SE, a 2001 Mercedes-Benz S500, a 2002 Mercedes-Benz S500, and a 1997 Infiniti Q45. The scam netted more $121,750, according to prosecutors. The Register for full story - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/eb...mmer_sentenced/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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