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

---

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]

 

[dntaps]

GOOD NEWS!



.......

We've finished reviewing your unauthorized activity claim and you'll
receive a refund for the transaction amount. It may take up to 5 business
days for the funds to appear in your account.

Refunded

 

[uglydork]

I finally received all my money back today, I went through my bank who forced Paypal to reverse the transaction. I just had to jump through hoops with Paypal to prove I wasn't using the account for fraud - my account is restricted until they prove my identity. Ridiculous after all these years of no issues with them ever

 

[dntaps]

Congrats!! great news

"I finally received all my money back today" thus all that matters.

 

[anantj]

I finally received all my money back today, I went through my bank who forced Paypal to reverse the transaction. I just had to jump through hoops with Paypal to prove I wasn't using the account for fraud - my account is restricted until they prove my identity. Ridiculous after all these years of no issues with them ever

Great news.. Congratulations. The situation with PP sucks though

 

[ProvenPro]

A big hassle, but nice to hear that you're getting your money back.

 

[Ted.T]

Finally, the scammer went away with nothing and empty pockets... A lot of users learned the basics of domaining from this thread!

 

[uglydork]

This was a much needed thread - it can happen to you!
I verified everything with Paypal and its back to normal. Small price to pay

 

[wwwweb]

Many times on namepros, I have seen a new person show up, and try to sell a 5-6 figure name in auction that is stolen, maybe there should be a cooling off period, or they should be forced to do transactions to kind of prove payment methods, and that they are not just here to swindle.

A new signup has to wait 10 days before selling, or reach a 3 feedback level.

Usually it takes a few days, or weeks to see a domain has been stolen, the turn around to signup a namepros account, and just go for it, puts members in a tough place. I know many can figure a sideways deal out, but we have many newcomers here also who trust the system, and can be easily caught up in trying to get ahead quickly.

This person not only took from people on a sale level, but every auction he was bidding in he cost those other bidders lots of money, the damage is much more far reaching.

 

[Mister Funsky]

great news that you got your money back!

 

[Evija]

But there is possible to check in the whois - to see who owns the domain...if the person sells - like me - I own just some domains but some of domains are owned of my partner who gave me accept to sell them...I think - if any doubts about buying from someone - there must be possible to prove the identity of the seller...

 

[uglydork]

Honestly, I usually only try to do deals in Paypal with VIP's because I know that isn't handed out to just anyone. I got ahead of myself and was distracted by my daughters BB game - it was all my fault working mobile and distracted. I only blame myself

 

[4pm]

Honestly, I usually only try to do deals in Paypal with VIP's because I know that isn't handed out to just anyone.

VIP status means nothing. you sign up and post welcome messages in "Say hi to new members" thread and $x,xxx's in Appraisals section for a couple of months, you get likes and post number needed to get the status. not much work/time to spend. at the same time buy any 10 domains in Bargain section for total $50, give them all away for free in Freebies, gets you 10-20 positive trader reviews. then you become a VIP and can post 4 fig privacy protected names for sale fishing for a victim ready to pay via paypal gift to a VIP member with sales, likes and a cool avatar.. then when you got caught, change your vpn proxy from NY to CA, sign up again, rinse and repeat. dont forget to change your avatar...

 

[Recons.Com]

VIP status means nothing. you sign up and post welcome messages in "Say hi to new members" thread and $x,xxx's in Appraisals section for a couple of months, you get likes and post number needed to get the status. not much work/time to spend. at the same time buy any 10 domains in Bargain section for total $50, give them all away for free in Freebies, gets you 10-20 positive trader reviews. then you become a VIP and can post 4 fig privacy protected names for sale fishing for a victim ready to pay via paypal gift to a VIP member with sales, likes and a cool avatar.. then when you got caught, change your vpn proxy from NY to CA, sign up again, rinse and repeat. dont forget to change your avatar...

Come on, now! No need to be so negative! Yes, you have to take precautions, but all that work needed does provide additional layer of protection in dealings. It does take brains and time to write good posts, get likes etc.

From that perspective, nothing means anything! I assume someone like Dicker could have gotten all levels on any forum, which would not protect you from being cheated by him.

 

[4pm]

Come on, now! No need to be so negative!

sorry, in a bad mood... my neighbor's cat turned out to be way fatter than mine, going to be deeply depressed over that for a couple of days... fucking neighbors and cats ...upping all bin prices on sedo plus 100% now

 

[anantj]

Honestly, I usually only try to do deals in Paypal with VIP's because I know that isn't handed out to just anyone. I got ahead of myself and was distracted by my daughters BB game - it was all my fault working mobile and distracted. I only blame myself

Shane Bellone was a VIP too iirc...

 

[Recons.Com]

Shane Bellone was a VIP too iirc...

For one such negative experience as above, there are tens/hundreds of positive ones. I have done many paypal transactions here, including "gift", fully realizing the risk (and deeming it very low once I knew enough about my counterpart). For example, if a guy has a thread on NP and sells tens of domains for months/years, the chance that he'd screw me over $1K is less than 0.1% (subjective probability).

 

[Eric Lyon]

give them all away for free in Freebies, gets you 10-20 positive trader reviews

As I already said, that is not allowed on NamePros.

then when you got caught, change your vpn proxy from NY to CA, sign up again, rinse and repeat. dont forget to change your avatar...

That will result in the person being branded as a scammer forever. A very steep price to pay for a couple small scams that have a small chance of working (As we saw, the scammer gained nothing from these two scams). Also, we block all abused proxies/VPNs.

Given the consequences of being caught and the level of difficulty due to our technologies, it is not worth the effort for any sane person. Very little gets by us and the repercussions are severe. We take fraud seriously and have zero tolerance for it. Let that be a warning to anyone who ever considers it.

 

[anantj]

For one such negative experience as above, there are tens/hundreds of positive ones. I have done many paypal transactions here, including "gift", fully realizing the risk (and deeming it very low once I knew enough about my counterpart). For example, if a guy has a thread on NP and sells tens of domains for months/years, the chance that he'd screw me over $1K is less than 0.1% (subjective probability).

Sure.. Please note, I'm not claiming that VIP members are crooks or scammers. I was only pointing out that it is not necessarily a 100% safety accreditation. While the chance may be less than 0.1% (Though I don't agree with the figure), it only takes 1 bad transaction to cause substantial loss and lose faith!

That said, it is, as always, your prerogative to trust who you want. I prefer not taking a risk (I'm probably more risk averse) for amounts larger than a couple of 100 $$$s

Ps. My original comment about Shane was tongue in cheek and not generalizing or characterising the rest of the domain community (especially VIP).

 

[arend]

The guys adress is readily available on the net.

 

[wwwweb]

Here is another shill bidding auction at namerpros, they had one on the hook for sure.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/recruitments-com.1010582/