RFD'er Gone Bad **siuyiu**

Greetings,

Ran into my first bad trader/scammer here on RFD. Here’s how the story goes…..

In my WTB thread I listed that I was looking for a P4 2.8Ghz, 533FSB, 512KB L2, Skt 478 CPU (Northwood). I was contacted by a couple traders including **siuyiu**. He stated that he had the CPU that I was looking for and it had the sSpec # of SL6QB and was selling it for $60 Shipped. After a couple of PM’s back and forth asking for confirmation that the CPU didn’t have any bent pins and was in working condition, I sent an EMT for $60 to siuyiu@hotmail.com . There were a couple more PM’s sent back and forth asking when he would ship it out and it was agreed that he would ship it on Sunday Jan 28th or Monday 29th. On Sunday he PM’d me that the CPU had shipped and I should get it by Wednesday.

The CPU did arrive on Wednesday shipped in a plain white envelope (see pic below). The CPU was in an anti-static bag with some foam around it. The envelope looked very wrinkled. After carefully opening it I inspected the CPU with a Magnifying Glass I instantly noticed 4 bent pins and 1 broken pin (see pic below). At this time I stopped inspecting the CPU and sent a PM, Email and pictures to **siuyiu** informing him of the situation and asked what he would like to do about it. After about 15 mins I decided to inspect the CPU some more and this is when I discovered that it wasn’t a sSpec # SL6QB…but was a sSpec # SL6Z5 with a 800FSB (totally useless to me). I immediately sent another PM and Email to **siuyiu** informing him of this and that I would like a full refund EMT’d to me. When the EMT was received, I would ship the CPU back at my expense. About 4 hours later I sent another PM and Email requesting that he continue to reply to PM’s until this issue was resolved. A little while later I noticed **siuyiu** had read the PM about the damage and that was it. All communication has stopped.

Granted, the damage to the CPU "COULD" have happened during shipping because of the improper packaging, but the misrepresenting of the CPU as a sSpec SL6QB is plain scamming. An honest person making an honest mistake doesn't go into hiding...!!!.

Another PM and Email was sent the next day informing him I would start recovery actions if he didn’t start reading and reply. To this date I have 4 unread PM’s and no reply’s.

This guy isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed either. He not only scammed me, he scammed himself out of the $6.32 it cost to mail the envelope. Did he really think I wouldn’t notice it was the wrong CPU. He should have kept all the money and sent nothing….LOL.

A copy of this post was sent to **siuyiu** on Feb 3rd to give him time to respond...nothing.



Here’s the contact info on **siuyiu** I have. I should be getting a phone number from another RFD’er for him shortly.

Richard Kong
20 Carabob Court
Scarborough, Ont.
M1T 3N1

siuyiu@hotmail.com

RFD Account…..Here
HoFo Account….Here
EBay Account….Here
Heatware……….Here



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That sucks.. there's no excuse for crappy packaging, let along sending the wrong item. Hope you get your cash back.

Hope you get your cash back dude. If anyone has got a hold of the RFDer. Help pcgeezer out.

Good luck

I have no expectations of seeing the $60 again. I posted mainly so others are aware and are extremely careful if they choose to deal with this guy. It also amazes me how cheaply people will sell themselves and their reputation over a little 60 bux computer part...!!!.

Yeah, IMHO, it's not worth damaging your rep for a mere $60 we can all make in less than a day with a part time job.

Update......Last night (06 Feb 2007) at 11:13 PM **siuyiu** read the outstanding PM about the recovery actions I'll be taking but still no reply. All PM's I have sent him also get Emailed to him. Still 3 unread PM's. He's lurking here in "Invisible Mode".




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20 Carabob Ct seems to be an appartment building. Do you have the apt #?

Yea, I think it may be more like a townhouse complex. I'll let the Police worry about that when I get some more info I'm waiting for and make my report.

I do believe these are pictures of his car though taken from this post at a website he frequents.....Here

Just got a reply from **siuyiu** trying to deny that it was him. Must have been someone else that sent a damaged and misrepresented CPU to me for no reason at all...LOL. This guys a real joke...!!!.

Here's what he said and my reply......


Don't BS me *siuyiu*. ALL the PM's back and forth and all the Emails I've sent have been to your accts. Your Heatware acct. email address matches the one I sent the EMT to. You sent me the link to your Heatware acct.

But, needless to say, you did send the CPU, it's the wrong one, it's damaged, so what are you going to do about it...?.

Why have you been hiding since you read the PM about the CPU damage on 31 Jan 2007 at 3:52 PM...?.

Are you now denying that you sent that CPU...?.

LOL....your not even a good scammer !!!

Originally Posted by siuyiu
hey man its not me for sure, i'm not even in canada for so many weeks

n for $60 anyone will know this is suspecious
and if i want to scam i'm not going to just scam 60 bucks from u

and that address and everything is wrong u idiot
call police and goto his house catch that richard la bak chi

This is getting really funny. **siuyiu** is sending me PM's telling me I should find out who recieved the EMT, when I sent it to the Email address that he gave me in a PM....LOL.

The comedy continues......**siuyiu** just sent me an Email to my home Email address. This Email was sent from the same address I sent the EMT to. He's saying I should find out who got the EMT........LOL.

Man this guy is a real "winner"

Make a post in the corolla forums he frequents. Car forums seldom ever let scammers get away, and he seems like he's trying to make a name for himself there. If all else fails, the sound of crowbar striking kneecaps is music to my ears. I'd be more then happy to help you out

hey man i got ur msg just now

believe it or not, the one selling cpu to u(from what u told me) is

Richard Kong
20 Carabob Court
Scarborough, Ont.
M1T 3N1

and u use email money transfer so u can just contect ur bank to chase where that money goes to

i wanna know who is that mofo use my account selling u stuff too

also administor can u chase back those ip logging in when pm'ing about the emt detail??

i sell so many stuff online before and i'm not scamming u $60 to destroy all my reputation man, if u say $6mil than maybe i will do it

and btw, that white car is really my car pic on corollacustomz but u dun need to post that up for a $60 scam buddy

if i were the scammer i won't be that stupid show u my car u idiot

Here's then latest PM I just recieved from **siuyiu**

yes siuyiu@hotmail.com is the email address i registered with rfd

if u use email money transfer then thats easy
trace where the money goes to from ur bank account then u know

i only use paypal and its not siuyiu@hotmail.com

this lesson teach u only use paypal which can be trace at anytime

call police if u want

if i were the scammer i dun even waste time to talk to u

He still can't figure out that I have a receipt from my bank saying that the EMT was sent to siuyiu@hotmail.com

He still can't figure out that he is sending me Emails from siuyiu@hotmail.com

He still can't figure out that he told me in a PM to send the EMT to siuyiu@hotmail.com

He still can't figure out that the Email address at his Heatware is siuyiu@hotmail.com

He still can't figure out that the "Secret Answer" for the EMT was given to him here in a PM.

Somebody go over there and give him a kick to wake him up would ya....LOL.