Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Anime Festival Warns Attendees of Cruise Scam
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LydiaDianne
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I hope that someone called the cops on this "business" and they get their butts nailed to the wall!
I also hope that someone wasn't stupid enough to fall for it...but I won't hold my breath. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Damn, another opportunity to ****-up another scammer missed.
Back to Nigerian Scammers for me.... |
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fighterholic
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Who the hell thought up that?
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kokuryu
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These guys have been in business scamming people for years. This is their latest business venture out of an abandonded area in NYC itself. They have been operating the "cruise" scam since earlier this year. About time people started to catch on to them.
In the meantime, if you find links and stuff about them, DO NOT visit any websites - they are trapped with trojans to read your credit card info. |
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Becki_Kurosaki
Posts: 19 Location: New York, NY |
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While I was volunteering at another booth, some people walked up to me asking me to sign a form, but said I had to be at least 18. I didn't feel like signing anything, so I lied and said I was 17 even though I really am 18. I'm really, really glad now that I did that.
 I don't know if those guys happened to be the cruise scammers, but they did say something about a free trip, so I think they might have been. o.o
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Lucca_Ashtear
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When I was at the convention, I was approached by a guy with a contest form asking me to fill it out (I didn't). I hope nobody was scammed, their both was in a high traffic area (you had to pass it to enter the screenings/panels hallway)
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calawain
Posts: 192 Location: New York, NY |
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Anytime someone says that you need to pay gift taxes to them you should automatically be suspicious. You pay taxes to the government, you don't give the money to the company
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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After working in a bank for over a year I am no longer amazed at the dumb things people do with their money, nor the shit they fall for. I saw so many cases of people doing stupid things with their money that they might as well have been just handing it out. Oh wait, they basically were. |
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billyarnie
 Posts: 190 Location: San Antonio, TX |
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It's the accurate cliche: "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is". There probably were a few idiots that got scammed; the odds were in the scammers' favor & they knew it from the get-go. It sounds like these guys only had to pay registration to get access & they passed around "entry forms". Reed Exhibitions should have a "No Soliciting" clause on future registration forms, so that vendors & artists have to purchase space & people just registered as attendees cannot solicit others for "contests". |
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Mylene
 Posts: 2792 Location: Indiana |
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No, that is an inaccurate assumption.
They were a real vendor, not random solicitors who merely paid registration. |
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Viga_of_stars
 Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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In another forum someone was talking about this and that he won. I linked this article there too.
I hate it when people try to take advantage of people. I really hate scammers! |
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Chrno2
 Posts: 6172 Location: USA |
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Those [blank blank] [bleep bleep] bastards!! What the [ring-ring] are they doing at a anime con???
I'm familiar with those scams. These companies can somehow get your info from who knows where. Like your phone number. Then they'll just call you up. "You've won a free cruise!" And you're like, "REALLY!! Wow, that is something!" "Yes! But in order to process this great reward all we need from you is a down payment of ???$$$." And they try to get by making you feel bad that you're missing out. I never fell for that because it was as the saying goes, "too good to be true". It's good to be suspicious. DON'T FALL FOR THIS CRAP!! It is a scam. If a trip is free then nobody should ask you for a dime. And never give out your info. It's a good thing they banned them but they should have did a check on them to see who they were. Stuff like this pisses me off. Taking advantage of people in this matter. They ought to fine these guys millions for that type of fraud. |
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naruto fan 09812
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I can believe would actually fall for this obvious scam. That why there will always be scammers because their too many suckers in the world.
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BellosTheMighty
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Idea... Otaku who come to conventions have cameras for catching cosplay and such. I don't suppose anyone got pictures of these guys? Turn them over to the cops, maybe it'll help catch them.
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Horitsuba
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I remember them. My first thought when I saw that booth was, "...is that related to anime/manga at all? o_O"
My friend had asked me, "Want to sign up?" (He likes any and all contests) I was like, "Naah. They want credit card info" XD;. I had glanced at their forms as I was walking by. |
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