Ok, here is what I sent to Blaine,MN police department:
Dear sir or madam,
I am writing to report a fraud attempt committed against me, and against other people by a company, which was reported to me to be a Blaine, MN resident.
On Nov 09, 2006 I have bought an 4GB MP4/MP3 player on
www.ebay.com from the seller with username blown-z, who represents the Supreme Solutions company (see the message in evidence/The item is won.msg). The item was paid (evidence/The item is paid.msg), and received on Monday, Nov 13, 2006.
The item was tested after receiving. The item worked, and showed that it has 4Gb of memory. However, being aware that some players are hacked to show more memory that they have, I ran a special test to reveal the true player memory capacity. As a result, the real amount of memory in this player was only 1Gb. This was not a malfunction - the item flash memory was intentionally modified
to show higher amount of available memory that the device really has.
There are several things that make me believe that the company which sells those players on eBay knows that they are selling 1Gb players as 4Gb, and getting much higher price. I was not the first customer complaining about the received player was hacked, and has much less memory that advertised. The company feedback page on
www.ebay.com shows that several people reported the
same problem just this month. Since the company started getting complains, they did not try to fix the pissue - instead they made their auctions private, making it much difficult to contact the buyer, who did not complain. There are no other reason to make auction private to sell cheap MP3 players - private auctions are mostly used to sell sensitive items, like adult toys, so the buyer does not want himself to be listed as a buyer. Clearly not a case for this player.
I have got the company contact details from ebay, contacted the company, and explained all the details about the fake player they sent to me. The company silently ignored me, no reply. And they still selling the same players on ebay, deceiving their customers, who may not have enough technical knowledge to check that the player has really as much memory as they paid for. Therefore I can only attempt to stop this fraud by reporting it to law enforcement.
Here is the contact information for Supreme Solutions I got from ebay (evidence/User blown-z contact information request.msg):
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The player I bought is still in my posession. I am going to ship it back, but if you need it for your investigation, let me know, and I ship it to the Blaine police department with all the evidence you request.
I can be contacted by e-mail, phone number or via regular mail.
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I certify that the facts I have reported are true to the best of my knowledge.
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