Adoos.co.uk:

Vital_Spark_2

Hi folks,

Have any of you ever heard of Adoos? Does anyone know whether or not that is a bonafide site?

I posted an advertisement on this site on 20th Jan, thinking it was connected to the Scotads paper (that was what I had entered in my Google search). When I finished the posting, I realised my error also that it had very few advertisements in my area for furniture as I am selling. However, it was late so I left it be.

Next morning there was an anxious response to my advertisement claiming that the prospective buyer was desperate but there was something about the response that troubled me. I don't know if I just couldn't understand the urgency for dining room furniture or wether it was the way the English was poor rather than that it was poor or maybe it was just the "Redneck" part of the yahoo address but I didn't rush.

Next morning, I received another response, this time from a brighthullz@yahoo.ca address. Again there was something about the way the mail was couched (again with asap requested) and the manner in which the English was poor: again I felt suspicious.

I replied answering their questions while stressing that I was not prepared to release the furniture for collection until any cheque was cleared by my bank and expressing that I would really prefer a cash payment. Received a reply stating that their client would send me a cheque for £3000 (I had asked for £595 for the lot), and I was to retain my share then forward the rest to Western Union who would pay the reputable shipping company they proposed to use.

It struck me that there are agents in the US who buy up British furniture and I know that original G-plan is very much in vogue right now but wouldn't such an agent have an ongoing arrangement established with a shipping company established? They wouldnt be asking me to pass on moneys, would they?

My "normally not suspicious enough" mind went into overdrive with suspicion. My thoughts were that this "agent" wanted my details for identity theft reasons so I explained that I was reluctant to reveal these details for the purpose of posting payment until I had at least a company or personal name which I could check out.

That was a couple of days ago and I haven't heard a thing since so I presume that, for whatever reason, the response was bogus.

I don;t know whether the site or the prospective buyer was a sham but I am sure either one, at least, was.

I tried mailing the company at the address given but my mail wouldn't send. The telephone number offered, by Adoos, for reporting a fraud is: 00 34 91 351 5140 Calls have to be made between 15:00 hrs and 19:00hrs, I think it was.

Does anyone know for what country this code is? Don't want to make a call and end pu paying a fortune for it.

Would appreciate any help and some as to where to advertise my furniture for sale whcih will offer me some security.

By the way, for any with whom I've chatted in the past, you may remember that I fractured my left foot rather nastily last September the night before my granddaughter was born. Still giving pain and collapsing under me occasionally. Well, I fractured the right one rather nastily on the 9th this month. Not really feeling much like being online so my absence is thus induced.
Ta.

Browntoa

0034 is spain

Domain name:
adoos.co.uk

Registrant:
Julian Martinez

Registrant type:
Not supplied

Registrant's address:
San Juan de la Cruz 2
Pozuelo de Alarcon
28223
ES


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Vital_Spark_2

I don't suppose you know if it's an extraordinarily high cost number, do you, Browntoa

Browntoa

looks like a normal dialling code for Madrid

I'd write off the money.....suspect you were scammed

Browntoa

interesting spelling

Interaction between community members is very important at Adoos; therefore we need to ask our users to follow certain guidelines when using our service:

• Do not waist anybodies time

Vital_Spark_2

Oh, no money lost: I didn't go ahead with the transaction.

I did mail another advertiser (at least, I think it's a bonafide advertisement,) to ask if they recognised the e-mail addresses and to enquire about any dealings they'd had, to date. No response as yet, though.

Will post any developements for the protection of others , if ther are any. :-)

By the way, my spelling can be just as interesting: more artistically creative ;o)

simon123

I replied answering their questions while stressing that I was not prepared to release the furniture for collection until any cheque was cleared by my bank and expressing that I would really prefer a cash payment. Received a reply stating that their client would send me a cheque for £3000 (I had asked for £595 for the lot), and I was to retain my share then forward the rest to Western Union who would pay the reputable shipping company they proposed to use.


Complete scam. Have you seen the Nigerian 419 scam?
They send you a cheque for way over the cost of the product. You wait for it to clear and transfer the overpayment back to them via western union.
In the meantime although your cheque has cleared it will then get sent back to you via the bank as a forged/fake cheque. You've then lost thousands in the money you sent back to them. There's nothing you can do to get your money back from the bank.

STAY CLEAR!!!

Vital_Spark_2

Hmmm, wonder if the entire site's fake or merely an insecure gateway for scammers. how would one find out? Anybody any ideas?

Does "Money Savers" have a branch, which checks out sites for authenticity?

simon123

It's almost certainly not the site. This scam happens all the time on pretty much all the successful auction/classified websites. These scamsters crawl all over ebay so Adoos will probably have their fair share too.

For more info on the 419 scam try: https://www.419eater.com for some strange reason their site is down today. Hopefully its only a temporary problem as its a good site.
It will explain the scams to you in full plus if you go to the letters page there are loads of geeting back at the scammers ploys. The funniest one is 'the road to nowhere' You'll need to set aside a whole evening cause its so long but well worth it.

Good luck!

Vital_Spark_2

I did have a wee plan of getting back mysself but thought better of it s I don't want to become anything like them. I really can't abide folk who live from the cheating of others.