Thought I had bought a cell phone from this James guy so I paid 300.00 though Yahoo checkout. 8 minutes later, got an email from James Macbent saying the credit card merchant is down that I would have to Western Union him the money. Not only no! But "heck" no. But as a test, I asked him where he was shipping the item from and he said the UK, so I said, "OK" He provided me with a London Western Union address which I sent exactly 1.00 as a test. Sure enough, I tracked it to Nigeria where someone had indeeed picked it up. Smelling a scam, I emailed Macbent (James) to cancel the order. The next day, three attempt to post $1,000.00 through Yahoo were made on my credit card. Yep, the one old James said was down. Of coarse the charges were denied and the account closed. I thought Yahoo would be a little more diligent to protect us from websites they allow to post. Buysellmart is a SCAM. Fraud alert!
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