Fraudulent Directory Submitter - Dirmania.org and Webdesignoffice.us

[onlinedude]

I just wanted to warn fellow directory owners of a fraudulent submitter I keep getting.

I keep getting paid submissions for the urls dirmania.org and webdesignoffice.us. What happens is that someone pays to submit these sites then a few days later paypal puts a hold on the funds saying that they are investigating. After the investigation, the funds are reversed.

Then, the sites get re-submitted with a different paypal address and the process repeats itself.

This has happened across several directories, and several times for each directory - it's not a one-off occurrence.

I did a search of the archives and turned up this thread:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=125320

Although the scam was different, it does seem that the owner of these urls is less than completely honest.

Don't bother approving these urls.

[Blogmaster]

It's really sad to see paypal being used to easily for something like that. Thanks for pointing him out!!

[ssnet]

yes thanks for letting everyone no,

[iowadawg]

Thanks for the heads up.
Will keep this in mind if it happens to me.

[britishguy]

Jeff thanks too for the heads up
Let's keep working together to assist all genuine Directory Owners

[sarahk]

So, we're talking about webfreak80 here?

[an0n]

Alive Directory was gettng them too, for the same site.

Thanks for the heads up to everyone else.


you must spread some Reputation around before giving it to onlinedude again.

[CReed]

Thanks - will ban the domains ahead of time.

[romow]

Thanks for the heads up!

[mystikmedia]

Yes, same received on two directories. Definitely not a directory to do business with, it would seem.

[Rod_Purnell]

Thanks Onlinedude!

I've put some filters on these. The warning is much appreciated.

[! Ask !]

Thanks,
Really stupid guy, to submit using fake credit cards or other form of fraud.
You just take the link out on reversal, he gets the link for 1 week.
Really stupid.
Cheers

[Richie_Ni]

Thanks Jeff..
I'm going to ban this directory

[deluxdon]

Thanks onlinedude (Jeff) for inform us regarding this. Will take care of it.

BTW when i search this in DP then i found this dirmania.org link in DP user webfreak80 signature so maybe he knows the owner of this directory.

[agnivo007]

Well, he claims to be Roberto Duran and recently bought a frontpage featured link at www.permalinks.org

And yes, the funds are now held by paypal currently.

Upon personally contacting him, he says that he has spend a good sum on advertising in a short period...so paypal has put a hold on the transactions made by him. He has faxed his papers to paypal for verification.

PayPal sent me a mail regarding the hold and asked me to furnish details about the transaction to make the review process faster. I did so and waiting for it.

BTW, he is not using credit card or echeck...but paypal balance to fund this transactions. In my PayPal account history, I see the payment sender's name matches with the one in his email id...so, lets see how this goes.

Also I dont think prebanning someone for the sake of a suspected scam is any good...what will you lose if the payment is reversed ? Just take the link off... I think that's a good business practice.

[aspidov]

I have the same issue going on with this guy submitting to www.bestdirs.com . PayPal froze the funds and investigating the case. I'll just remove his link and done deal. I will also forward PayPal to this thread so they know whats going on.

[agnivo007]

I just sent him a mail to check this thread and clarify whats going on...
Let's see if he replies.

[aspidov]

I also added negative itrader for him.

[CReed]

Originally Posted by agnivo007

Also I dont think prebanning someone for the sake of a suspected scam is any good...what will you lose if the payment is reversed ? Just take the link off... I think that's a good business practice.

I have no problems with anyone being proactive and pre-banning someone with a past history of scamming others.

[onlinedude]

This happens regularly and I normally wouldn't bother posting about it. This guy just sticks out because it has happened repeatedly, across several directories plus more than once to the same directory.

I get a similar scam all the time and it is frustrating that paypal allows it. I mean, if someone really used your paypal funds without authorization, why did you they use the funds to submit your own website to a directory? Let me get this straight - they stole your money and used it to help you? GRRRRRRR.