Quite unsurprisingly, PayPal refunded payments for domains that were fraudulently sold, but not those sent as a “gift.”
A massive new fraud incident that was squashed at NamePros, unveiled some interesting facts:
About 80% of all fraud that has taken place on NamePros over the past couple years, which is still a relatively small number, has been carried out by a single person.
Arunas Zygis, apparently a Lithuanian, has been a member of NamePros for a very long time and was able to game the system, getting likes, trader reviews and gaining the trust of other members.
He also created several sock-puppet accounts, evading the alarms that are in place to notify moderators, but eventually he was caught.
After selling the same domain – which was stolen – to two different buyers, the victims filed PayPal disputes.
A $400 dollar payment made using the gift option was not refunded by PayPal; another victim’s loss of $900 dollars was refunded in full.
“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.”
According to extensive research done by the moderators, the domain fraudster used the following email addresses over the years:
arturjohnson74@gmail.com
arunas.zygis@gmail.com
arunasmacky@gmail.com
arunaszy@gmail.com
arunaszygis@gmail.com
arzysart@gmail.com
auksaplunksnesdarbai@gmail.com
ethanswilliam@gmail.com
goodsoloads@gmail.com
jeremykinston@gmail.com
johnpemberton340@gmail.com
kimberlyamelian@gmail.com
mamazyg@gmail.com
mikejohnsonsn@gmail.com
noahgallagher75@gmail.com
robby7craig@yahoo.com
vaitkaus9@gmail.com
xarunasx@nkm.lt
zarunas88@gmail.com
His accounts are now closed, and NamePros is safe, once again.
Thumbs up to the moderators for their good work at namepros.