Victory Trading Post Ltd.

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This is a suspected scam escrow site. Web address is www.victorytradingpost.com. They were suggested to me by a seller of a 2004 RoadTrek popular 200 RV on Craigslist. Victory TP offered anonymous purchase and sale of goods where they provide the escrow service. Title of goods is allegedly transferred to them by seller. They 'validate ownership, title, licensing and condition of goods and provide shipping to buyer. Reasons for suspicion of scam are as follows;

1. Seller insisted on them
2. Attemps to validate their addresses (they list a bunch in the US, Canada, and UK) failed except for a payment address listed as Payments - Victory Trading Post payments, 401 Alaskan Way south, Seattle, WA 98104. This address was confirmed as their business by the USPS. The other addresses failed a number of searches, Google, Bing, 411.com, Business directories etc. Some were seen on Google Street View as residential homes in residential neighborhoods.
3. They wanted a down payment, prior to shipment.
4. They have no contact persons listed anywhere and no telephone numbers.
5. The down payment is to be sent to an offshore bank, Barclays in the UK
6. Requests for the vehicles VIN were ignored by the seller and the VTP customer service 'department'.
7. A picture of the RV was taken in front of S & S Motors who were traced to be a defunct company in Texas, the seller of the RV is allegedly in Lafyette Loiusiana.
8. The seller would not provide his telephone number or address and ignored a request to visit.
9. The RV had an attractive price about 1/2 of the market value. Reason for selling "to pay for my daughters wedding". The usual clean, nonsmoking, no pets blather was provided by the seller.
10. When Victory Trading Post was pressed on the issue of providing the VIN for the vehicle, they cancelled the "order"

Not proof positive of a scam but contains all of the usual elements of one.

Item is still on Craigslist under "2004 Roadtrek Popular 200"

A Whois search provided the Seattle Address and the name and telephone no. of what is likely VTP's IT guy.

Caution is strongly advised.

If anyone knows of this as a proven scam, please post same.

[lightfair]

Hello,

well spotted! It definitely is a scam.

If you look at the WHOIS data you'll see another gem:

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Domain Name: VICTORYTRADINGPOST.COM
   Registrar: REGIONAL NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER, JSC DBA RU-CENTER
   Whois Server: whois.nic.ru
   Referral URL: http://www.nic.ru
   Name Server: NS.VICTORYTRADINGPOST.COM
   Name Server: NS1.VICTORYTRADINGPOST.COM
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 19-sep-2011
   Creation Date: 16-sep-2011
   Expiration Date: 16-sep-2012


The registration of the domain is from mid-September; read: brand new.

Now, I've seen this type of site and layout before. Please have a look at the following blog entries (not by myself):

http://netscammers.blogspot.com/2011/09 ... -scam.html
http://netscammers.blogspot.com/2011/08 ... -scam.html
http://netscammers.blogspot.com/2011/07 ... -scam.html
http://netscammers.blogspot.com/2010/11 ... -scam.html

Please post the personal details of the alleged "seller" and - if you already have them - the bank details.