Scam Site - MTB Warehouse

[Quagga]

46 minutes ago, BaGearA said:

are you preparing A case or something ?

Not at all. 
Nick and Matt’s response made me me email the correct body asking them to investigate this site. 

[Danger Dassie]

8 hours ago, Matt said:

Not sure how much sarcasm was injected here, but as @Nick has expressed there are just too many red flags on this one and we're happy to take the risk of calling this a scam outright. 

Don't be too trusting of a "guy on the phone". 99% of the scams reported on Bike Hub are for a deal that's a little too good to be true, but the seller (a newbie on Bike Hub), "sounded like a lekker oke on the phone". Social engineering is all part of their game now. 

Pretty much this. And every other observation posted here. 

Dodge AF with stolen images and highly dubious claims. Red flags for days.

[Craai]

Looks like it's been taken down; getting prompted for authentication now

 

[Tatt]

On 2/1/2022 at 8:51 PM, BaGearA said:

specs and the bloody picture is wrong on this one , price also 

A 9.7 with a 750Wh battery and full carbon frame (nope, only the 9.8's and up have this), and for only R89k! Definitely a scam!

[Fisan]

1 hour ago, Craai said:

Looks like it's been taken down; getting prompted for authentication now

 

Does that mean the 99 Scott Spark RC 900's I ordered won't be delivered?

[Quagga]

Seems my report worked 😀

If you want to report a scam site you can use this site to find out where it is hosted 
Thanks @Nick

https://www.registry.net.za/whois/

Then you go here and submit your complaint. You can use other forums are references 

https://ispa.org.za/tdn/

For excample, I used this thread so they can come and look here to see why we say it is a scamming site

 

 

[Danger Dassie]

1 hour ago, Quagga said:

Seems my report worked 😀

If you want to report a scam site you can use this site to find out where it is hosted 
Thanks @Nick

https://www.registry.net.za/whois/

Then you go here and submit your complaint. You can use other forums are references 

https://ispa.org.za/tdn/

For excample, I used this thread so they can come and look here to see why we say it is a scamming site

 

 

A few people had reported it, including the social profiles along with the local cell number for investigation. Know of at least one brand that has taken it up formally. 

[MORNE]

1 hour ago, Quagga said:

Seems my report worked 😀

If you want to report a scam site you can use this site to find out where it is hosted 
Thanks @Nick

https://www.registry.net.za/whois/

Then you go here and submit your complaint. You can use other forums are references 

https://ispa.org.za/tdn/

For excample, I used this thread so they can come and look here to see why we say it is a scamming site

 

 

ISPA is super efficient. had a problem with an ISP in hard lockdown in 2020. couldnt get hold of them...even opened social media accounts to get them to come to the party. one email to ISPA and i got a phonecall, progress reports, apologies, free upgrades etc etc etc lol

[Matt]

10 minutes ago, Danger Dassie said:

A few people had reported it, including the social profiles along with the local cell number for investigation. Know of at least one brand that has taken it up formally. 

If you're in contact with anyone investigating they should report to / request info from Facebook too, if this hasn't been done already. From some comments here it seems people found the site via a Facebook ad. Facebook will know who (user account) paid for the ad and the credit card used.

Could well be fake info and a stolen card and Meta might not actually reply, but worth a shot. 

[The Ouzo]

17 minutes ago, Matt said:

If you're in contact with anyone investigating they should report to / request info from Facebook too, if this hasn't been done already. From some comments here it seems people found the site via a Facebook ad. Facebook will know who (user account) paid for the ad and the credit card used.

Could well be fake info and a stolen card and Meta might not actually reply, but worth a shot. 

I reported an ad on FB that was using Takealots logo but was very clearly not even an SA scamster. FB did nothing, but at the same time also tweeted about it. About a week later one of the local news sites was reporting on it, still nothing from FB.

[Quagga]

2 minutes ago, ouzo said:

I reported an ad on FB that was using Takealots logo but was very clearly not even an SA scamster. FB did nothing, but at the same time also tweeted about it. About a week later one of the local news sites was reporting on it, still nothing from FB.

YIP Facebook does not do thing

They dont even have the correct options in the "reporting" link to repot scammers

Bottom line FB does not give a crap

[HenryS]

1 hour ago, Quagga said:

YIP Facebook does not do thing

They dont even have the correct options in the "reporting" link to repot scammers

Bottom line FB does not give a crap

The only time they're going to stop that ad is when the credit card paying for it doesn't work any more.

[ChrisF]

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