First let me start by saying that the information I am listing is of my own opinion and findings; and what I have done in this kind of situation. And just as a side note: I have spent; so far, a full week researching and gathering information on this and I will continue to do so until I feel I have made my pint, so if anyone would like to help in adding information please feel free to do so.
On 07/17/2007 I had purchased a 8GB mp3 player on E Bay. I received it in a shipping box from China. I opened the box and found that the box inside containing my player had already been opened. It was missing a software CD. In its place was a print out on how to use the player and where to "buy" the software that should have been included. I plugged it into my computer and formatted it. After doing so I had a 1GB player. I also had a new virus on my computer that was transferred from the player. It had many problems for a week; mainly with file corruption and format errors. The day after my warranty expired it stopped working completely; I would turn it on and it sits on the hour glass. So I came here for assistance and saw all the info on the one person who ripped me off. I requested a refund and filed a claim with E Bay and Pay Pal. After I did this the man is still refusing to pay for this so I have taken further steps against this guy. First I called Pay Pal and let them know that I have become a victim of fraud. They in turn gave me a web site to report to. Now I did not think this was enough so I did some home work.
I found many sites to report this person too. I am still in the process of filling out reports to my local government and international agencies. At this point I have a friend; who is a lawyer, who has written up papers for me to file a law suit against him if it is needed. I am calling people all over the world about this to have this mass fraud brought to the attention of every one. Now I have to say the sad thing about this is that E Bay already knows this man is committing fraud and they do nothing to stop it. What is really funny about the whole thing is that in the past seven years Pay Pal; whom is owned by E Bay, has had four (from what I found) charges of money laundering brought against them for allowing funds to be transferred when a crime is involved. Does this seem wrong to anyone else? So with this being said I will give you as many links, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, fax numbers, and names as I can to help you if you have become a victim of fraud or even if you are just sick of seeing all the fraud running around with nothing being done about it. If you still have questions about what you can do or where to go please feel free to ask; if I can't answer your question I will try to find someone who can. Thank you all for reading and for all support givin on this topic.
The links I have listed also have great ways on how to protect yourself against fraud.
Please be aware that some of the links I am listing for international claims can also be used for the US.
International Links:
http://www.icpen.org/
http://www.ftc.gov/oia/consumer.shtm
http://www.icrpc.org/
http://www.econsumer.gov/
http://www.cardserviceinternational....n-services.htm
www.consumerfraudreporting.org
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.c.../report-fraud/
Mostly US Links:
http://www.fcc.gov/
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/reporting.php
Edit:
http://www.ic3.gov/
http://pages.ebay.com.au/securitycentre/howcontact.html
http://consumeraction.gov/state.shtml
www.consumerinterests.org
www.fraud.org/aaft/aaftinfo.htm
www.consumer-action.org
www.consumerfed.org
www.consumerreports.org
www.cwt.org
www.consumersunion.org
www.nacaa.net
www.nclnet.org
www.consumerfraudreporting.org
(Note: If I find anything that could help I will post it here. Also I am not done adding information so you may see my information grow larger and larger over the next few days.)