GREENI wrote:

Some may know, I 'work' selling bikes.
This past couple of weeks we have had phonecalls on a daily basis regarding people who have bought bikes from a website and they have not been delivered..

Anywho, we have researched the site and it's made of pages, products and information from a variety of other more legit sites, like ours, here in the UK and the States.

It's a padlocked http secure site, but they sell nothing.

For eg. they sell £300 bikes for less than £30... what on earth do people expect !!

It may be a good site to look at, to see signs of what a dodgy scam website really looks like.

If you are looking for a kids bike, please don't fall for scam site like this, like lots of others have already.


www.bikecheer.com

If something is too good to be true, then it usually is, but WOW, some people really are suckers for a bargain.

The sad thing is now, these people who have set this site up will have those peoples bank details, names and addresses. So that info now will be sold on to god knows who! It still amazes me, that people still fall for this sort of , £300 quid bike for £30 etc as you say, its going to cost about that to post it out. The best ones are the call centre ones that say they are micosoft windows lol. Yeah ring me, and i will tell them the only system i have on line is a windows 3.51 system  Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

In the words of my Good Friend, Gary Forrest 1980 -2025
" we will work something out"

Rashers wrote:

I feel for the 'legitimate' retailers out there. It must be so frustrating.

But I have very little sympathy for anyone who thinks that this kind of deal is a bargain. Things that are overly cheap are a scam or are stolen.

Ads90 wrote:

Interesting revealing points about Instagram & FB dodgy ads/scams here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKOs7Xa11s
Skip to around 3:30 for 'what happens when you report a scam to FB'.

I don't trust facebook as far as I can throw it at all, I have often toyed many times on just binning it off. But I do have a pal that lives a good few miles away from me, so its the only means we have in coms. if we were not in touch I would have binned years ago. I wouldn't even trust their daft apps either, so i am not surprised that nothing happens, when you report . Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

In the words of my Good Friend, Gary Forrest 1980 -2025
" we will work something out"

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An estimated £671m was lost to fraud on UK payment cards in 2018, a 19% increase on the previous year.

Zed wrote:

This is frightening:

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An estimated £671m was lost to fraud on UK payment cards in 2018, a 19% increase on the previous year.

That's just the UK!

Taken from this article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49332023