Identity theft - Eric16

[DomainEmpire.com]

Please, be careful ! A scammer got access to Eric16 account at dnforum and namepros, he came from us in chat to propose the sale of some LLL in bulk at USD 1,000

Whois haven't been changed since several months so we believed we were dealing with the right person (not knowing the real eric17 data) especially when he pushed the names to our dotster account before receiving our paypal payment.

I've good reasons to affirm he's stealing tons of other accounts including luigi@aol.com that he tried to sell to me for USD 200, he stole matt@aol.com that he's using to cheat other people through AIM and so on ...

I suppose he can steal almost anything and I'm seriously worried by this situation.

[DomainEmpire.com]

I received an email of apologises from "Eric16" or from the guy who affirms to be Eric, he affirms to have been a victim of this scammer who asked him to sell these domains on his behalf, he has also promised a full refund in a couple of days.

Now, considering I opened a dispute at PayPal, it's also possible that this person who stole Eric16 identity, played his last chance to convince me to close such dispute in order to take his money and to disappear.

In any case, I can't win the dispute for some reasons it's not important to mention here but, unless I'll not be able to proof this person is the real "Eric16", I can ask to paypal to verify the identity of that account holder and, so doing, he'd lose the money as well ... While, if he's the real Eric and he has been a victim of a scam, I'll post an update here at the end of this investigation.

[DomainEmpire.com]

I've now no doubt, Eric16 is the real person who scammed us so I can now disclose the whole story here.
He's cooperating with a guy having matt@aol.com as AIM (stolen account of course). He steals AOL accounts to resell them as good screennames, he can steal any domain registered under an @Aol.com account so don't use such emails in your whois or important staff, ever !

Nobody will stop his activity, he's now online on AIM (online since several days, fulltime connected), he proposed me to buy sold.net, shadow.net and other domains I can't recall to my mind now, any domain use diff. registrant data but all the admin emails are on @aol.com ... Obviously, to avoid any possible suspect, he doesn't change the original registrant data and he pushes the domain to the victim accounts probably directly from the original acct so these registrants have no way to stop him until he'll not have sold and pushed away their domains.

Now my question is: how nobody investigates about him and how can he continues to go ahead with such fraudolent activity and staying connected online fulltime with no intervention/investigation from AOL/FBI or any other competent authority ? This's not justice !

---------- Post added at 02:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 PM ----------

The story in brief: on 16-Oct a guy came in our chat at DnEmpire.com proposing us to buy these names at USD 1,000 in bulk ... I suspected they might have been stolen, I checked whois updated last time on April 2010 so I believed to his good faith without thinking (stupidly) to email to their admin contact. He pushed the names before getting the payment so I had no reason to suspect a fraud until Dotster took them back the day after.

Names were:
dyu.net
dyu.org
nolemons.com
quy.net
qyu.net
ruy.org
shj.net
tattle.net
tuy.net
we-deal.com
wyu.org
yrw.net
yyu.org
zyu.net

The first problem is I changed whois once received, I've contacted Dotster explaining the situation but they didn't change whois back so far, we're now risking to be accused to have stolen (or tried to steal them) in a next future, we'll contact them again to impose an immediate whois change.

I opened a dispute at paypal and immediately after I got an email coming from Eric16 (the scammer) but I didn't close it yet and now I'll ask to paypal to verify his identity so, even if I'll not get my money back, he'll never get it as well.

***Eric16 message
I am sorry, I am very sick to my stomach that my friend is scammer.. I got these from my friend. I didn't know that these domains were stolen. I will refund $ back to you since I don't want to be labeled scammer.. I hate scammers along like you. I will take care of this asap and I will have a talk with these people I dealt with. I am going to cut them off.

You know I put my pic on dnforum and namepros and i give out my info so that way they can see Im legitmate. I will fully refund 1,000 back to you and Im very very very sorry about that... Scammers is ZERO TOLERANCE for me. Im very upset right now. I am in shock that I thought I trusted these people but I guess not.

All I can say is that Im really sorry about that and please give me couple days to refund you $ and see, I gave you my contact and stuff to get ahold of me, please please get ahold of me when you can. I am really sad right now. I

Look at my feedbacks for dnform and namepros .. all of em are positive and none negative.. I never have experience like that before. Its my first time now. It sure slapped my face hard.

Eric
***

I waited for 8 days for a refund but he never got back to me until now.
Now I can publicly affirm with no possible doubt that Eric16 is a scammer, stay away from him.

[Ukrainian]

Thank you ver much for a warning.
This person (Eric16) was interested in my domains and wanted to buy it. Of course, I'm not going to sell it to him.

[DomainEmpire.com]

Wise decision Ukrainian, probably he'd pay you in advance from a stolan paypal acct. so you'd lose both domain and money.