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Originally Posted by yettihead
I understand that, but once you received the phone with the information that it was an insurance replacement, what did you do about it? Did you contact Sprint and Asurion and are you working with them to go after the scammer who sold the phone to you. If you keep the phone knowing this, why shouldn't someone press charges as you are knowingly keeping stolen property.
This is why I am working with Sprint's fraud department and have not gone to the police. I will let them decide who should be charged for this. I do not want to F***** an innocent person over. The fact is, it is a stolen phone, your actions what you do with it after you found out it was an insurance scam determines what happens to you.
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Originally Posted by bostonshaker
I take exception with this statement as the paperwork that came with the phone uses acronyms and most people would not even know it was a scam, only that it was drop shipped from an address in Kentucky.
Is it common knowledge?................or your's and someone elses.
Point being is that I really think that people who are blaming the buyers are way off. I surely did not have any idea that I would be receiving a scammed phone when I paid for it. Being condescending towards people who this happened to is not constructive and you all need to STFU unless you have something useful or helpful to say.
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Indeed, agree w/ bostonshaker, I'm not sure you can blame any of the buyers here, as before the transaction there was no way of knowing it was a stolen phone - like I said earlier, worst case I was expecting no product (chargeback), or a bad ESN (chargeback with a bit of talking needed, but its pretty simple: clean ESN wasn't delivered, product didn't arrive as I was told).
It took stumbling on this thread while looking for apps to realize I was scammed - Sprint/Asurion incompetence at its best. An average user who bought the phone might be curious about the Asurion paperwork or the return address, and then just shrug and continue using phone.
The way Sprint does things though, I'd say we're all going to have paperweights by New Years - I think I'll be heading elsewhere come February contract renewal if random douchebags can look at my account details at will.
Oh, and the scammers will probably get off. They always do - no one gives a **** about regular folk getting scammed on forum trades or eBay buys, unless the dollar value is high enough. And if its high enough to warrant an investigation, it usually wasn't a type of transaction you carry out on the internet anyways (well, excepting eBay motors or something I guess).