Zapdron
Regular Member
- Nov 9, 2011
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Hello everybody,
I just want to warn everybody to not use the fameswap.com escrow service, those guys are scammers.
I just wanted to sell an account for around 3K$ there and got it almost scammed.
I'm not sure if the buyer was also involved in this but haven't heard from him since.
This is how they did it:
Today I received a message from them that the escrow has been funded by the buyer and that I should submit my login details for approval.
Some hours later I noticed that I was logged out from my account so I checked what was going on. The username wasn't found anymore so I checked the E-Mail account that I also submitted to them along with the account. There was an E-Mail from "Instagram" that said your account was banned.
Fortunately, I kept the OG E-Mail so I clicked the revert E-Mail address change link and noticed that my username was just changed. So I changed the password and secured my account through 2-factor authentication. Fortunately, they didn't do this, otherwise I would have had to go through my account was hacked process with the OG email, which would have taken a lot longer.
Afterwards I inspected the other email account a bit more and went through the logs and noticed that one email was deleted, obviously the "your email has been changed"-Email from Instagram, then I looked at the email which said that my account was banned and noticed that it was sent from [email protected]
So at least those guys tried to be a bit creative and wanted to make it look like that my account was banned.
So please stay away from those scammers
I just want to warn everybody to not use the fameswap.com escrow service, those guys are scammers.
I just wanted to sell an account for around 3K$ there and got it almost scammed.
I'm not sure if the buyer was also involved in this but haven't heard from him since.
This is how they did it:
Today I received a message from them that the escrow has been funded by the buyer and that I should submit my login details for approval.
Some hours later I noticed that I was logged out from my account so I checked what was going on. The username wasn't found anymore so I checked the E-Mail account that I also submitted to them along with the account. There was an E-Mail from "Instagram" that said your account was banned.
Fortunately, I kept the OG E-Mail so I clicked the revert E-Mail address change link and noticed that my username was just changed. So I changed the password and secured my account through 2-factor authentication. Fortunately, they didn't do this, otherwise I would have had to go through my account was hacked process with the OG email, which would have taken a lot longer.
Afterwards I inspected the other email account a bit more and went through the logs and noticed that one email was deleted, obviously the "your email has been changed"-Email from Instagram, then I looked at the email which said that my account was banned and noticed that it was sent from [email protected]
So at least those guys tried to be a bit creative and wanted to make it look like that my account was banned.
So please stay away from those scammers