Beware of Dealing with Lei HurstPosted By Jihong Choi |
i just confirmed that i lost money to that name.
C9.25 EDGE HD @ $1000 was on Ad. i contacted him and asked how he wanted it to be paid.
he asked if i can transfer by Zelle. after checking shipping cost of $91, total $1091.
i sent the money feeling that i was lucky for this good deal and being the first one to get hold of it.
he replied that it will be shipped that afternoon. but no tracking# for that day. next day i asked again and he sent 3 pictures of the OTA in the shipping box, saying he's shipping it that day, but still no tacking# for another day.
at this point, i started to feel it might be a scam and emailed several more times for the tracking# and he replied that he was out of town for family matter and gave a tracking#. USPS tracking showed the package created and in transit. My nervousness was half gone and i started to wait to get the OTA, tracking daily for next ~10days. it has been moving toward my address.
Today, the package finally got delivered... in a much smaller box than expected.
in the box was a 'stone drink dispenser', a $45 thing that was ordered by someone in other part of the state but with shipping address to me. Looks like an order from somewhere was hacked and shipping address changed to me, or hacked someone and ordered something to ship to me to create a track#.
i've had several good deals in Astromart before and was too naive... , and was in hurry to get hold of the good looking deal.
another hard lessons learnt... never ever use Zelle.
attaching one of 3 pictures i got (cannot attach all 3 pics. maybe a stolen pic from somewhere??, did google image search, but didnt get a match)
C9.25 EDGE HD @ $1000 was on Ad. i contacted him and asked how he wanted it to be paid.
he asked if i can transfer by Zelle. after checking shipping cost of $91, total $1091.
i sent the money feeling that i was lucky for this good deal and being the first one to get hold of it.
he replied that it will be shipped that afternoon. but no tracking# for that day. next day i asked again and he sent 3 pictures of the OTA in the shipping box, saying he's shipping it that day, but still no tacking# for another day.
at this point, i started to feel it might be a scam and emailed several more times for the tracking# and he replied that he was out of town for family matter and gave a tracking#. USPS tracking showed the package created and in transit. My nervousness was half gone and i started to wait to get the OTA, tracking daily for next ~10days. it has been moving toward my address.
Today, the package finally got delivered... in a much smaller box than expected.
in the box was a 'stone drink dispenser', a $45 thing that was ordered by someone in other part of the state but with shipping address to me. Looks like an order from somewhere was hacked and shipping address changed to me, or hacked someone and ordered something to ship to me to create a track#.
i've had several good deals in Astromart before and was too naive... , and was in hurry to get hold of the good looking deal.
another hard lessons learnt... never ever use Zelle.
attaching one of 3 pictures i got (cannot attach all 3 pics. maybe a stolen pic from somewhere??, did google image search, but didnt get a match)
