Since I see our newest member is from Beijing it reminded me of a little thing that happened to me this year.
I flew from Los Angeles to Tokyo with a layover in Beijing, China. To catch my flight to Tokyo from Beijing I was in a secure waiting area of their very impressive airport. I had to go through a thorough screening and show my passport and ticket. While waiting, two 20 something Chinese girls came up to me and in very good English said "can you change my $20 for two $10s?" I took the U.S 20 dollar bill and held it up to a light and exactly as expected, no watermark on the right. I gave it back and told them it was a fake, they said sorry and quickly turned and disappeared into the crowd. I thought about it for a few seconds and decided to see if I could find them and see who else they would try this scam on. But alas they blended in real well. Of course, I was in China, I expected scams like that but what got me how did these two girls get into this highly secure area?
Now let me remind everyone I used to be a cop many years ago, so basically I am leary of many things till I check them out. Also, I am retired and don't have anything else to do right now and it is 39* outside.
I checked out searchrare.com It looked pretty legit so I joined. Then I was able to find out about it more. There is a fee involved which was never mentioned by our newest member. It is only one cent per keyword per search and they do the search every hour. So if I was looking for something with one keyword it would be 24¢ per day or $87.60 a year. It is very hard to narrow down anything with one key word.
I also did a search to see who owned searchrare.com and guess what? HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD. owns the website. So I did a search on this company. They have many websites, no big deal I have 4 or 5 myself. But i did a check on just one and this is what I found out. The Daily Scam website said this:
it turns out that the domain tips4spyware.com is owned by HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD. In Beijing, China and hosted by Alibaba. Some of the ownership info is hidden by a proxy service. This is not what we expected for a website that seems very American and intent on helping netizens avoid or clean up spyware infections. This bit of information led us to run a Google search of the company HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD and we saw many negative links from people to avoid this company including this thread from Scamwarners:
It also looks like the "famous" company Alibaba owns Hichina and we all know how many fakes come from that website.
Boy did I get carried away on my research. Sorry about that.
But I ask one last question, does tocollect work for HICHINA and how many other places did he spam this message to? (sorry 2 questions)
what I'm trying to find is something listed on eBay monthly or yearly.
