We know that there are a huge number of scammers on the Internet who want to get their “easy money” in any way. Unfortunately, some of us even experienced situations where the loss of funds could seem like a bargain at first, and the bitter truth that you did get scammed was revealed after the amount was sent.
If this situation sounds familiar to you, don't worry. This is normal, because the Internet industry is fundamentally anonymous. With this in mind, it would be foolish to blame the presence of the Internet for fraud-related processes. After all, even while in public transport, you should be wary of people who will lure you out of your “hard-earned money” with the help of deceit, under the guise of some kind of donation of money or in another cunning way. This shows that the Internet industry is not the main reason for cheating.
However, today is not about that. We will talk about one online store that “worked out” according to the classic scheme of this genre and eventually closed, taking the money of buyers. Consider the store "Tire 99. ru", reviews, description and other information about which will be presented later in the text.
Specialization and general information
So, let's start with the characteristics of this store, which we managed to find on the Internet. As you might guess, judging by the name of the shop, it sells tires for cars of different brands and varieties. Consequently, here (during the site's operation) a wide range of products was presented, consisting of tires for various types of cars.
To date, the company's website remains unavailable. When you try to access it, the browser shows an error, which only proves once again: the owners of the “store” turned out to be banal scammers who disappeared after they got the right amount of money. Instead, the Internet provides a lot of information from the clients of Tire 99. ru. The reviews left by them serve as clear evidence of fraud on the part of the resource administration.
As part of this article, we will repeatedly pay attention to these user comments.
Scheme of the “store”
So, how was the online store "Tire 99. ru" organized? Reviews indicate that this site worked in the same way as any other Internet project operates today. Entering it, the visitor met a wide selection of different automotive products: tires and wheels (different models, variations, sizes). Thus, the visitor could choose the option that suits him (in terms of cost and technical characteristics) and order it.
On the store's website wereall contact details and legal information about the company that manages it are indicated. At the same time, as many users who wrote reviews found out, even having information about the director of this organization and all the data on their accounts, it is impossible to really do anything with scammers, since it turned out to be not so easy to find them. Law enforcement agencies only shrug their shoulders, accepting numerous statements from other victims of the same kind and are advised to forget about the money spent, as a bitter experience.
Benefits
Given that a lot of negative information appeared about the company on the Internet (for example, reviews describing "Tire 99. ru" from "thrown" buyers), it is quite surprising to hear that orders continued to be made on the site. This shows how careless people can be with their purchases, and how they neglect safety rules, wanting to buy something cheaper.
In fact, the main “feature” of the site, as it turned out later, was the underestimated cost of products. That is, if you could buy one disc in another store for 40 thousand rubles, here it was found for 23-25. This, of course, is a rather tempting offer and, as the reviews of the Tire 99. ru store show, a reason to really think about buying accessories for your car here. So did many users, which they later regretted. Fraudsters, on the contrary, set the pricing policy on their resource so competently that thegoods did not seem suspiciously cheap and at the same time remained quite tempting.
Invoicing and payment
After the buyer chose the tire or wheel he was interested in, he could order the goods, indicating his data and contact information. As noted by reviews of the site "Tire 99. ru", immediately after placing an order, the user received a letter with payment information and the specified amount that he must pay.
For some reason, all the victims did not bother to check the information about the store again, read the reviews of other customers, but immediately went to transfer money. We know the result: the reviews describing "Tire 99. ru" name different amounts lost through negligence: from 15 to 80 thousand rubles. As you can see, some customers were losing money big time, wanting to order multiple items at once and thus save some money.
Payment was made at the bank, directly to the details of the company that served the online store. For this reason, finding a real way to move the funds of those who managed them should ideally not be difficult. However, for some reason, a year after the operation of the online shop, none of its organizers was found, despite dozens of statements to the police across the country.
Search attempts
However, in fact, some information about these people still managed to be found. For example, customer reviews representing the Tire 99. ru store contain information about a number of legal entities,registered by the same director, as well as information directly about this person. In theory, having information about his bank accounts, you can find out the passport data of a person and establish his physical location, but for some reason the special services are inactive.
Chain of “stores”
Interesting information was also established by those who are directly interested in finding scammers. People write in their reviews that they found a number of companies registered for the same personal data. In particular, these are Lider LLC, Mercury LLC, AKTIV LLC and not only. These legal entities (and many others besides them) are engaged in the sale of goods that have a similar direction (car accessories, tires, wheels).
Also, each of these firms (which, obviously, are “dummy”, as they are created a couple of months before the start of work) has several of its online stores. The reviews also included information about several such sites. And all of them, as it turned out, have the same design and content, which proves the abundance of such resources, their “template”. And, given all this, we can safely say about the magnitude of the actions of criminals. Apparently, this group of people purposefully launches “dummy sites”, registers companies for them, accepts money from gullible buyers and continues to hide.
Reviews of victims
According to people who have lost their money, they do not hope to find the criminals or return the funds. Typically, those whoengaged in such activities, they know in advance how law enforcement agencies will act, how they should hide their data, what mechanisms to use to further conceal the proceeds obtained by dishonest means. The individuals listed as directors of their legal entities are most likely bogus and apparently have nothing to do with the whole ongoing fraud scheme.
Victims rather write information about their negative experiences in order to protect others from the same.
Cautions
We would also like to join their position. The company "Tire 99. ru", reviews of which we were looking for, is not the only one of its kind. Today, the Internet media constantly publish information about how some regular resource with very low prices turns out to be fake and simply “throws” buyers for money. This is a sign to be extremely careful when ordering anything online. Try to clarify the information about each of the stores as much as possible, check the statements about their management, find reviews about it on large resources that you can trust. If the buyers of Tire 99.ru (St. Petersburg) did this, the reviews would help them avoid losing their hard-earned money in such a stupid way.
Conclusions
What can be said as a result of this article? Let's hope that the criminals will still be found and they will suffer a punishment worthy of the scale of their activities. And as for the buyers, they are afterexperience, they will certainly be more vigilant in each of the shops where they will place an order. Therefore, this story also served as a kind of “science” for them, albeit so expensive.
