Scott's Shipping Services - FORMERLY UNDER "POSSIBLE LIQUIDATION"

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Big Rat said:
Well, you are most welcome to go waste your time, been there, done that.
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Just go to the anti-fraud officer and state that you need a case number for insurance.
They will awake out of their slumber and help you.
 
calypso said:
Congrats to Carbonite for doing the right thing.
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I’m surprised how long it took, it looked like some of the mods were bros with SSS, being a bit more lenient than they would be towards other users, which quite a few people picked up on in the Carbonite thread someone linked to earlier.

Despite all the complaints even just him miss representing his trading position saying he was liquidated when he wasn't and then backtracking that 6 months later should have been enough to have him insta banned. That in of itself has to be fraudulent and that does appear to be the reason given for why he was eventually banned.
 
Longboi said:
Just go to the anti-fraud officer and state that you need a case number for insurance.
They will awake out of their slumber and help you.
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I had to sit and wait for 3 hours before they started feeling in the mood to help me. They enjoyed stamping copied documents more.

It's only when the place filled up and I loudly badmouthed them that they wrote a theft report for insurance.
 
cpu. said:
I had to sit and wait for 3 hours before they started feeling in the mood to help me. They enjoyed stamping copied documents more.

It's only when the place filled up and I loudly badmouthed them that they wrote a theft report for insurance.
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Yeah they expect a 'blue note' (R100) for expediting documentation.

It took them 10 minutes for me from start to finish for a case number regarding theft.
 
Big Rat said:
small amounts, like under R50K they will not waste their precious nap time.
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Indeed.

There's a scammer (which was eventually arrested and charged, so I can say the name) Bosco Automation Maintenance that scammed more than 80 clients in the gardenroute area by taking the 80% payment upfront and then just never coming back to the people. So roughly 10k per person.

Even after he had dozens of clients report him to attorneys and the police, nothing was done. Debt collectors kept contacting him and he kept replying with platitudes.

I'm not sure at what number the police finally took action, but the attorney told me there were 84 cases against him at that time.
When too many people got on to him he just went to the town next door, joined the biggest church and took his wife and small kids with him on stage and pleaded for help as a struggling entrepreneur.

No idea how many people he scammed there or if he's still out there scamming... but I saw that he was arrested at some point and let go on bail.
It seems like you have to really scam a ton of people, or "the wrong person" before something gets done :mad:
 
Longboi said:
Good riddance.

Now he should refund all those affected by his scamming.

The owner of Carbonite advised members who lost money to report it at SAPS.
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Yup, know the owner well; saw the thread. Don't think much will come of it.
 
Conack said:
Indeed.

There's a scammer (which was eventually arrested and charged, so I can say the name) Bosco Automation Maintenance that scammed more than 80 clients in the gardenroute area by taking the 80% payment upfront and then just never coming back to the people. So roughly 10k per person.

Even after he had dozens of clients report him to attorneys and the police, nothing was done. Debt collectors kept contacting him and he kept replying with platitudes.

I'm not sure at what number the police finally took action, but the attorney told me there were 84 cases against him at that time.
When too many people got on to him he just went to the town next door, joined the biggest church and took his wife and small kids with him on stage and pleaded for help as a struggling entrepreneur.

No idea how many people he scammed there or if he's still out there scamming... but I saw that he was arrested at some point and let go on bail.
It seems like you have to really scam a ton of people, or "the wrong person" before something gets done :mad:
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That's why scammers, especially the small time guys, run rampant in South Africa, the police do not give two shts.
 
Nobody wanted to get the ball rolling. Just like you report a stolen cellphone to the police not with the intention of getting the phone back but rather to get a case number that can be used to blacklist the phone/claim from insurance, someone needed to do SOMETHING to get the ball rolling to take action.

It took until last week for someone to do that, everybody else was of the opinion that it was too much effort. There are procedures in place to prevent premature/incorrect action from being taken and all we asked was SOMEONE do SOMETHING, but until the thread started on Thursday last week, everybody possibly affected chose to rather remain silent. He was given the 24 hours we allow (and a bit more - weekends don't count), but a satisfactory response was not given in time.

Also I was on a well deserved holiday, so the ban was late in coming. Just like @Priapus most Sunday nights.
 
Scotty will be back from his fishing trip soon.

Alt account and new company anybody?
 
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