Internet Fraude

This morning at work, when I was waiting for someone to create an account on one of the systems for me, I browsed markplaats.nl. I'm always curious to see what camera's there are for what price when I saw the camera of my dreams for an very unbelievable price. Since I did not trusted it at all, I send the guy an email asking if the price was right (I thought he forgot to add a zero behind it) and if so, it the camera was still for sail.

It took half an hour and there I got an email from him. If you want to read to whole mail you can click here but I will quot a the beginning since that was odd enough.

Hi,
Are you interested in buying my product?The price for my item is 600 euro,all included.My item is new,in excellent condition and I am the first owner,everything is OK.
Now I am in London / Uk, because here is my family and my university.

Apart from the bad English, he is talking about "his product" and he had only one on the site. The second one that was odd is the price. That wasn't 600 in the advert!

So I started to look up the company he wants to use for shipping and all I found where warnings of people. I even googled part of his email, and got multiple hits. He did not even changed his story and tries to sell a lot of stuff this way.

I informed marktplaats.nl about what I discovered. Of which I did not got a response yet, but I hope they will delete his advert soon. And as I am, I looked further and found three more adverts for the same product on other dutch sites. I could not resist and send an email from those sites as well, but he is very quiet now. Surely I informed those sites as well.

Work was pretty lame today. Some issues I could not work on and some that took a long time to discover where and how the problem was created. But once at home I started cleaning yet another cupboard, the one with the most stuff in it, which now has some room left :)

This morning and afternoon the score was a 6. Not very high, but more then good enough for me. Not sure what the evening will bring.
I'm going to do some shopping first and will see :)