I am selling a natural yellow diamond on Ebay and I was contacted by a user who said they were having issues receiving email from their ebay account and they gave me a yahoo email address. I contacted them (she/he) and answered their question. 2 days later the auction ended without bids and I was again contacted from this user, they said they are 100% going to buy the diamond but wanted to use recommend-trans.com as they have done alot of business there and it is a good safe escrow company. I tried to email this user back at that time and it came back undeliverable, twice. After that I searched on recommend-trans and came up with listings on
http://www.scamfraudalert.com and on escrow-fraud.com that this site is a fraud and a scam.
I used a 'contact us' button on their website telling them this and asked why, I havent received a reply back from them yet and it is day 2. I also contacted the potential buyer via email and this time I got through and told them what I had found out and asked why. They replied
"Hello,yes i received the emails , i don't understand why you said the recommend-trans is a fraud site since i just ended yestarday 2 transactions through them and everything was ok, i have a lot of positive feedbacks on this site and i prefere to continue to use it, i have found other sellers on ebay with itmes like yours, i'm very interested to buy your item but i want to start the transaction today, the anniversary will be soon, so i please you to take a decision today and email me back, if you decide to make this deal with me, today i will go to my bank and make the transfer. Wait your decision."
So needless to say I am very leery of this person, their ebay user id is dwilsonngl and even has 212 feedbacks at 100%, whats up with that?
I think I am going to be done with this interaction
I hope this helps other peeps as I think I averted being ripped off because of the info I found here and other fraud listing websites.
Bill