Help- My Site was Stolen From Me- Scammed

[Ladybbird1]

I didnt pay him the $500 just for the Domain name, that was my first payment to set things up and buy the name and the server for it, but he needed more for software etc. so he received another $500. I know I was stupid and too trusting, my mother always told me that when she was still with me. (She is with the Angels now)

But today I checked godaddy again and found this info;

Registrant:
Domains By Proxy, LLC

DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DREAMTEAMDOWNLOADS1.COM
Created on: 17-May-11
Expires on: 17-May-13
Last Updated on: 02-Aug-11

So I may have to wait until August to approach godaddy to buy it and the price might be cheaper than the $69.99 plus their commission of 10%, that they ask for now. I need to go through them as I dont want that thief to know who is interested in it. But I dont have the money right now anyway.

That site is still down and I doubt will be back. It went down because the server was hacked and this affected many sites and some went down including DivxTurka, one of the biggest on the net (about 350,000 members). Thankfully my new site didnt as I heeded the servers warnings and changed my root password and did an immediate back up. Thief didnt and DivxTurka didnt. I however still have a back for my orginal site that he stole, from Aug 2011, but he will never get that info.

I dont need, nor want, to get revenge on him, that seems to be being handled by the great "Boss" above quite nicely!

I will keep you all updated and I really appreciate all your support, thank you all so much. Your comments and help are invaluable.

Barbara xxx

[MyDarkTower]

that address is for "Domains by Proxy". It is "hiding" his address. I beleive if you look up the company you will find that is the address for it. He tried to hide his tracks, he just didnt do a good enough time of it.

[foxman]

Sorry for your loss.

[awaiz007]

Registrant:
Michael Menard

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DREAMTEAMDOWNLOADS.COM
ICANN Registrar:
GODADDY.COM, LLC
Created:
2011-02-24

Expires:
2013-02-24

Updated:
2012-03-03

It expires on 24 feb 2013 its still there

[immu]

Ladybbird1,
The best thing you could do now is, get your money back start an dispute on Paypal or call them and explain everything. you will get your money!
as far as domain names are considered they are GONE now!
if you have access to php-myadmin promote your self to Admin, ask another admin (expecting to be your friend) to remove your IP from Banned list. Bingo your Admin again and Delete that Mike Account from DB!

in all and all, if Fortune favors you wil get your
DB + PP Money + Members with you. So probably a new site!

Good Luck.

Another Lesson Learnt: DO NOT TRUST PEOPLE ONLINE EASILY!!

[george101]

are you using dreamteamdownloads db on dreamteamdownloads1? coz i can login with my username on dreamteamdownloads and i dont think i registered on dreamteamdownloads1

[conn0r pr0']

You gave him too much money to start with.

You should call the local police and tell them your story, and just ask them to give him a little scare which may prompt him into giving you your cash (or some of it) back. Just ask them if they could visit him and give him some words which might scare him a little and hope for the best.

[Ladybbird1]

are you using dreamteamdownloads db on dreamteamdownloads1? coz i can login with my username on dreamteamdownloads and i dont think i registered on dreamteamdownloads1

No I have everything new, thats why it costs me so much, but I did move all the members over so they wouldnt lose their status. You are showing as a member on my site under the same user name;

george101 registered under email addy malegeorge97@XXXXX.com

---------- Post added at 03:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:29 PM ----------

You gave him too much money to start with.

You should call the local police and tell them your story, and just ask them to give him a little scare which may prompt him into giving you your cash (or some of it) back. Just ask them if they could visit him and give him some words which might scare him a little and hope for the best.

In the dangerous country I live in, the cops dont give a "scare" or a warning, merely a bullet from usually a 9mm.....dont tempt me LOL

---------- Post added at 03:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:31 PM ----------

Ladybbird1,
The best thing you could do now is, get your money back start an dispute on Paypal or call them and explain everything. you will get your money!
as far as domain names are considered they are GONE now!
if you have access to php-myadmin promote your self to Admin, ask another admin (expecting to be your friend) to remove your IP from Banned list. Bingo your Admin again and Delete that Mike Account from DB!

in all and all, if Fortune favors you wil get your
DB + PP Money + Members with you. So probably a new site!

Good Luck.

Another Lesson Learnt: DO NOT TRUST PEOPLE ONLINE EASILY!!

Did all that, no luck and he blocked the other Admin too.

Anyway that site is closed now, although I hear he is reopening it again. Because of his bad rep maybe using a different username, but he will have to start from scratch, as he never had a database, but I do and he sure aint having it.

He is appealing for Admin help to do it and promises he will pay them..... Ho Ho Ho, maybe he will or maybe not, as he didnt before to the admin that helped him, and if he does, he will pay with all the thousands of $$$ he stile from those poor donating members that didnt get the benefit from it as he closed. (He did that many times, then wrote to them saying he couldnt pay his server, then reopened to allow them to donate again!)

I doubt he will get any staff though, too many know him now.

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that address is for "Domains by Proxy". It is "hiding" his address. I beleive if you look up the company you will find that is the address for it. He tried to hide his tracks, he just didnt do a good enough time of it.

You are so right and one of my staff has reported he now owns 43 Domains!!!! Goodness knows now many he has scammed and I am disgusted that Paypal will not take any action, even though I gave them a lot of info on him many times.

[Delta2012]

I would call them up and report them to the owner if you can that is the best u can do at this time.

[animaksiat]

such a complicated case, you're in, while cybercop never deals with this kind of scam.
uhm, it's not like im encouraging this 'mike' here, but i can bet he's a 1st class con-man, that could manage to con many people.

judging from your case, this 'mike' here was taking the advantage of internet privacy flaws. which is even if you reported them either to the server or even the paypal, they'll just simply ignored it, giving you any answer they could think of and thinking you're trying to deceive them.

here's a piece of advice, never make a business with someone you never met in real-life.
even we sometimes got deceived in real-life, what would make the net better?

again, im so sorry to hear your loss