warning Arunas Zygis stole $900 USD from me

[decades80]

Hi,

I've bought a 4L domain under the privacy protect, now I think it was not his and he insisted to pay as a gift 900 USD by PayPal. So I did yesterday,, because I don't like for sellers to pay 5% mostly and offer them gift payment.. Now as of today his account
@ZArunas is auto closed.
What can I do? I just made a dispute on PayPal for unauthorized transaction.
Thank you all in advance,

Robert

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Details about ZArunas, ArzysArt

Name on PayPal Account:

• Arunas Zygis

Email addresses:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected] (.lt is the ccTLD for Lithuania)
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Location:

• Continent: Europe
• Country: Republic of Lithuania (lt flag)
• State/Region: Kaunas
• City: Kaunas

Real IP addresses (not proxies):

• 78.62.223.73 * Used often by this member
• 84.55.51.252 * Used often by this member
• 194.126.252.241 * Used often by this member
  
• 84.15.190.206
• 213.226.131.133
• 84.15.186.23
• 88.119.140.11
• 90.134.151.134
• 37.0.245.102
• 88.222.95.123
• 83.188.43.152
• 213.130.202.89
• 37.0.230.185
• 84.15.184.51

GoDaddy Account / Customer Numbers:

• 147174832
• 132621499
• 140330781

NameSilo Account Usernames:

• arunasmacky
• xarunasx

Phone Numbers:

• +370 867480566 (real number)
• +370 68578945
• +370 67480566 (whois)

Skype:

• arzys1

Domain Name: BXA.CO (Whois Record for 2017-03-30)

• Registrant Name: Arunas Zygis
• Registrant Organization: Zygis CO
• Registrant Address1: Nidos 5-32
• Registrant City: Vilnius
• Registrant State/Province: Vilniaus Apskritis
• Registrant Postal Code: 06298
• Registrant Country: Lithuania
• Registrant Country Code: LT
• Registrant Phone Number: +370.67480566
• Registrant Email: [email protected]

Domain Name: 0111.INFO (Whois Record for 2016-02-11)

• Registrant Name: Arunas Zygis
• Registrant Street: Jaunimo g.7
• Registrant City: Jauniunai
• Registrant State/Province: Vilniaus aps.
• Registrant Postal Code: 19008
• Registrant Country: LT
• Registrant Phone: +370.67480566
• Registrant Email: [email protected]

 

[anantj]

If any of you that were potentially defrauded in these transactions reside in the U.S. or you believe the perpetrator resides in the U.S. then this should be reported to the Internet Crimes Division of the FBI here:
https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
It's important that fraudulent activity is reported to the authorities that have the ability to do something about it, so they may try and prevent this from happening to someone else! I'm sorry to hear about this!

Someone mentioned the scammer is potentially from Lithuania

 

[anantj]

Also, this thread should be moved to the Warnings and alerts sub-forum

 

[uglydork]

 

[Ted.T]

So, buqe.com sold twice next time even for more... Yeah, it's a success for scammer.

 

[uglydork]

So, buqe.com sold twice next time even for more... Yeah, it's a success for scammer.

Great business model. Its my fault - I don't like losing money but it didn't hurt me. I want others who cant afford to lose $400 o be more careful. Im an idiot - don't be an idiot too.

 

[Ted.T]

Why didn't you report him after his disappearance? I think such a deal should be closed in max. 24h. If the seller doesn't respond within 24h, send a message informing him that you are contacting the admins for possible fraud.

 

[Rinkuji]

Recently one of my auction winner was Auto Closed. I sold domain to another bidder. These kind of things happen here. I think you have to contact NP Mods and Eric. As per my knowledge Auto Closed done by system when there were two accounts get open from same IP address. If that's true then fraudster still here on NP with another account.

 

[Livepar]

I purchased Buqe from him for $300 last week and backed out bc I felt it was a shady deal. I quickly Contacted the mods and put them in on the thread. This was Saturday. Shocked to see this post was made TODAY.

 

[uglydork]

I purchased Buqe from him for $300 last week and backed out bc I felt it was a shady deal. I quickly Contacted the mods and put them in on the thread. This was Saturday. Shocked to see this post was made TODAY.

I bought the same name Saturday

 

[Livepar]

I bought the same name Saturday

Looks like we are part of a club

 

[uglydork]

Why didn't you report him after his disappearance? I think such a deal should be closed in max. 24h. If the seller doesn't respond within 24h, send a message informing him that you are contacting the admins for possible fraud.

I gave him a day and contacted Eric - Eric is aware

 

[uglydork]

I made Eric aware of the issue yesterday - he knows already

 

[namesilo]

@namesilo how would be best way to handle this situation?
Sorry to hear bro, not likely i would send 900 to some unknown quantity violating paypal tos on a name under privacy
Need to find if he is the owner
@Eric Lyon this not good at all

As the registrar for the domain, we are always upset and concerned to hear about situations like this. There is a lot of good advice for best practices offered by NP members in this thread. If anybody reads this in the future, you can protect yourselves with domains registered with us by asking the Seller to list the domain in our Marketplace. We then guarantee immediate domain delivery to the Buyer. Unfortunately, in cases such as this one, and there is not much we can offer in the way of recourse. As much as we would like to, we cannot intervene in private-party sales in which we were not involved in the transaction(s). We are sorry again to hear that apparent scams such as this one persist, and we encourage all domain Buyers to follow the best practices listed in this thread and others, and to certainly proceed with caution when not using a third-party intermediary such as a trusted registrar marketplace or escrow company. We again feel very sorry for @decades80 to be the victim of this apparent scam and hope that a resolution is somehow found.

 

[Livepar]

His buddy who was mentioned in the thread with the freebie sold me Repulsive.com and then sent Replusive.com instead. Then skipped town. I then put two and two together and quickly contacted the mods. Luckily I did not send friend and family so I can do a claim.

 

[4pm]

In case you hadn't already found it - this guy has some history here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/paypal-chargeback-scam.981401/

^^^ this -- Oct 31, 2016

how could that happen twice here on NP?
why was not his account closed back then?
why had he not even got a bad trader review 5 moths ago?

NP still needs simple and efficient paypal/cc escrow service. probably more than anything else...

 

[biggie]

hmmmm


correct me if i'm wrong, but looks like a "vrLL com and a cvcv com" were sold pretty cheap

so, getting a deal, may not always be a good deal

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imo....

 

[Livepar]

I think friends and family should be oopenly frowned upon. As a seller you pay the fee and realize it's the cost of doing business. Or you ask for fees to be included. It's not like the auction sites are going to waive their fees for people so they can make more money. There is always a cost to do business. Paying a few % for a safe transaction should not be frowned upon

 

[uglydork]

hmmmm


correct me if i'm wrong, but looks like a "vrLL com and a cvcv com" were sold pretty cheap

so, getting a deal, may not always be a good deal





imo....

Don't need a lecture or ask for pity - just want the guy shut down

 

[biggie]

I think friends and family should be oopenly frowned upon. As a seller you pay the fee and realize it's the cost of doing business. Or you ask for fees to be included. It's not like the auction sites are going to waive their fees for people so they can make more money. There is always a cost to do business. Paying a few % for a safe transaction should not be frowned upon

a fee is not the problem.

deception, is the issue

stay focused


imo.....

 

[Livepar]

a fee is not the problem.

deception, is the issue

stay focused


imo.....

Not really, I am super on focus. The guy paid friends and family. Now he is not protected. Crummy people are all over. If your saying curing deception is the answer good luck. BC the bottom line here is the Gentleman paid using friends and family.