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Post by Beach Police on Dec 4, 2007 13:38:55 GMT -5
Canadian loses $20K in phony eBay sale Account hijacking continues By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Published Tuesday 4th December 2007 01:50 GMT A Canadian man was scammed out of $20,000 when he tried to buy a car through eBay. Shaqir Duraj, a baker from Calgary, said he thought he was dealing with a reputable seller because the person had a 98-per cent customer satisfaction rating. The refugee from Kosovo had already made high-ticket purchases off eBay, having bought a big oven for the bakery he owns. It turns out he was another victim of an eBay account take-over, in which scammers hijack the account of a legitimate seller and then use it to list fraudulent auctions. Six weeks after he wired $20,000, he has yet to receive the vehicle, according to this article from the CBC. When Duraj reported the fraud to eBay, the company told him he should contact the police and FBI. While the vast percentage of eBay transactions are legitimate, the internet is littered with accounts of people who lost large sums of money while shopping on the popular site. In some cases, the con artists infect their victims with a sophisticated Trojan that causes their browser to display fraudulent pages from eBay and third-party websites used by automobile buyers, such as Carfax. One woman lost $8,600 after her machine was infected by the malware, which Symantec dubs Trojan.Bayrob. Duraj is one of about 1,000 Canadians who have been scammed since 2000, according to a RCMP official. eBay guarantees auto purchases for up to $20,000, but only if the transaction is carried out on the website. In Duraj's case, the buyer appears to have paid through a wire transfer, which makes him ineligible for the protection. "Unfortunately, because the transaction occurred off eBay, he/she was not covered by our vehicle purchase protection program," an eBay spokeswoman said. She added that the victim continued to communicate with the scammer even after the hijacked account had been shut down. The company strongly advises customers to use the official PayPal payment system when making purchases. The Register www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/fraudulent_ebay_motors_sale/
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Post by meltdown711 on Dec 4, 2007 13:52:51 GMT -5
I dont think that he has a Serbian passport; nor does he really see himself as a Serbian citizen. But anyway, he has bigger worries then what your trying to push down his throat. I just hope that the next Albanian spends the money on more important things, like helping Florin Krasniqi...
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Post by dsurazal on Dec 4, 2007 14:13:36 GMT -5
Well I hate to say it but wiring money when Ebay provides a safe money transfer service through PayPal is just dumb. Especially when it is $20,000...
No one deserves to be robbed but being ignorant about it doesn't make me sympathetic.
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Post by Beach Police on Dec 4, 2007 19:05:42 GMT -5
I dont think that he has a Serbian passport Toska, I bet he does. There have been numerous reports regarding the hundreds upon hundreds of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia province, going to Belgrade to get one of those passports.
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Post by Arxileas on Dec 4, 2007 19:11:17 GMT -5
I dont think that he has a Serbian passport Toska, I bet he does. There have been numerous reports regarding the hundreds upon hundreds of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia province, going to Belgrade to get one of those passports. I have read many such articles of this to be the case.
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Post by meltdown711 on Dec 4, 2007 20:04:18 GMT -5
In all likelihood. He has a UNIMK passport. Anyway, go ahead, play your little pathetic games over who has the right to post what articles where. Its futile in the end. I dare you, go to Kosova and tell the people in the middle of Prishtina that they are Serb citizens; see if you survive. This article has nothing to do with either Kosova; nor does it have anything to do with Serbia. Its an article about Canada and scams plaguing people there. You posting it here in order to try and make some statement that is completely irrelevant from the article and your vain attempt to portray the Albs are foolish and ignorant wont change the reality of Kosova. It may take 1 year, it may take 3,4,5,10,20, however, the people of Kosova will at one point get their independence from Serbia. This useless post does nothing to change reality(just as a couple of hundred desperate Albs who go to Belgrade to get passports doesnt). Your AID's ridden Russia can only stall the reality. Have a good day!!
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Post by Beach Police on Dec 4, 2007 20:31:45 GMT -5
This useless postThis post is so useless you decided to answer it--- twice.
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Post by Beach Police on Dec 4, 2007 20:39:33 GMT -5
I have read many such articles of this to be the caseMy apologies to Toska, I was wrong, it is tens of thousands not hundreds. Arxheleas, here is but one of many. BERNICE, Serbia (AFP) — Kosovo Albanians who normally shun anything do with Serbia are applying in their tens of thousands for the former Yugoslav republic's passports. The scramble for the travel documents is continuing unabated even as the international community frets about deadlocked Kosovo status talks, and ethnic Albanians' thinning patience for independence from Serbia. Thousands of such applications are awaiting processing, as the independence-seeking Albanian majority in the tiny Balkan territory seeks less restricted travel abroad. Although she admits feeling "bad" about it, 23-year-old Majlinda says she has no option but to apply for a Serbian passport at the same time as wanting Kosovo to become the world's newest state. "We want independence but we also want their passports. But I have no choice," said the Pristina resident. Majlinda, who refused to provide her surname, brushed off the possibility of being branded a traitor by ethnic Albanian hardliners. "If they want us to be patriots, let them provide us with Kosovo passports that make life easier for travelling abroad. If they did so, I wouldn't even think of asking for a Serbian passport," she said defiantly. Ethnic Albanians have been fraught with travel problems since Kosovo's 1998-1999 war, when Serbian forces expelled hundreds of thousands of them from their homes and destroyed their identity documents. The province has since been managed by the United Nations mission in Kosovo, which has been given the authority to issue locals passports bearing the mission's "UNMIK" acronym. More than 40 countries recognise the UNMIK passports, but of neighbouring countries only Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro accept them without restrictions. For Kosovo Albanians travelling under UNMIK's name, a simple journey abroad can turn into a wrangle of red-tape left over from the communist era. Those carrying Serbian passports say they find it easier to obtain visas with the dark-blue travel booklets of the country from which they wish to separate. Ramadan Shala, a 53-year-old maintenance worker from Pristina, travelled to Gracanica, a Serb-populated enclave near the Kosovan capital, to hand over the necessary documents for his son Rifat's passport. "Rifat got asylum in London where he works now, but he has to submit a passport to the British authorities" in order to claim residency, said Shala. Rifat left Kosovo for Britain two years ago, travelling with an UNMIK passport. But it expired and he has asked his father to get him a Serbian one, believing it would make it easier for him to settle in Britain. " Rifat will be fired and expelled if he doesn't get a Serbian passport by the end of this year," a worried-looking Shala said. Milos Tabakovic, a notary and registrar in the small village of Bernice, near Pristina, said he noticed an increasing number of Kosovo Albanians seeking Serbian passports. Tabakovic, in charge of collecting applications for documents such as birth certificates and citizenship papers necessary for obtaining passports, said that "people want to solve the problem of unrestrained travel abroad." "They do it by obtaining a Serbian passport which is valid from five to 10 years and is recognised by more countries than UNMIK travel documents," he said. After filing documents to the administrative centre in charge of the southern part of Serbia proper in Nis, Tabakovic later receives passports to hand out to the applicants. " Our administration has received more than 10,000 applications only in July, while we receive around 500 applications a day," said Goran Djurdjevic, an official at Serbia's Interior Ministry office in Nis. afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWIhQCAuPGDNEruvqQKzy34KkxLQ
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Post by meltdown711 on Dec 5, 2007 0:05:25 GMT -5
Its a temporary thing. It will stop once the country becomes independent and as more EU countries recognize it; not to mention that the people applying for these passports will vote against union with Serbia. But again, this has little to do with the article. 10''s of thousands is still a vast minority compared to 2 million and growing(2.2% population growth). It matters little. Read the article, the woman who took the passport is afraid to reveal herself, shows how pleased the majority of the population is about this.... Where does it say they are specifically Albs of Kosova? Serbs are also in the region; and they have the same passports, this would be natural for them.
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Post by Beach Police on Dec 5, 2007 11:20:41 GMT -5
the woman who took the passport is afraid to reveal herself, Toska, she is terrified of blood vendetta practiced widely by Albanians. 10,000 applications only in July, while we receive around 500 applications a day," Where does it say they are specifically Albs of Kosova? Serbs are also in the regionThe article is about how Albs are applying for and loving Serb passports.
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Post by meltdown711 on Dec 5, 2007 11:29:04 GMT -5
It does people good to get death threats sometimes, some have the tendency to forget the larger picture... These blood feuds also keep our land free of filth since they have the habit of making cowards run. Read the quote. He talks about how the administration of Nis is getting people from the land south of them. This is a generalized statement that Albs are a part of also. Remember, Serbs of Kosova are also given UNIMK passports. Many of them leaving northwards could apply for a Serb passport. There are still about 100,000 Serbs, the numbers work out. Yea, some desperate Albs are going for them also, but this quote does not give us the actual number of Albs, just the number of people in general applying for them.
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Post by Beach Police on Dec 6, 2007 14:39:00 GMT -5
Kosovo Albanians Only Coming to Serbia for Passports August 20, 2007 Toma Todorovic POLITIKA In Serbian Aug 13,2007 pp 1, 6, Belgrade Nis -- What is the business that daily brings senior officials from Kosovo to Nis, Kraljevo, Krusevac, Vranje, Jagodina, and other Serbian towns this summer and what do they want here? What is the need that motivates lawyers, doctors, top officials in the Kosovo judiciary, representatives of the province's authorities, and ordinary people of Albanian nationality that live in the southern Serbian province to spend days in Serbia? Why do Kosovo Albanians that live and work in Western European countries take time to visit Nis and other Serbian towns?
There is only one answer to all these questions -- they request and are granted the right to a Serbian passport. Without it and without other Serbian documents as well, Kosovo Albanians could not stir from Kosovo.
Since the deployment of international peace forces after the air strikes on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 and the emplacement of a protectorate over Kosovo, members of the Albanian national minority have been denying that they are part of the state of Serbia. However, for the sake of a passport, they will accept anything: Serbian regulations, documents, and (the fact that they have) the citizenship of Serbia as evident from their personal details. This is the only way for them to obtain personal documents, passports, and ID cards from the Serbian authorities.
For a short time of a year and a half after the air strikes, Albanians from Kosovo could take out passports in Pristina. However, after several attacks and murder attempts against Serbian officials it was decided to relocate the province's Interior Secretariat lock, stock, and barrel from Pristina to Niska Banja.
Every day, there are huge crowds outside the province's SUP, relocated now from Pristina to Niska Banja.
"We come here from Kosovo, but people that live and work in Switzerland, Germany, and other Western European countries and who could obtain passports in Serbia's consular offices abroad also come here, because it is easier and quicker to do it here, in Serbia. It is easier and quicker because when one submits an application for a new passport or for replacing an old one, one needs to submit also other documents, such as the birth certificate or proof of citizenship, which must not be older than six months. These documents, too, can only be obtained in Serbia. I was here once already, about a fortnight ago; now I have brought in my brother and his wife," Muharem Zeqi told us.
Over the past eight years that Kosovo has been under international patronage, Serbian authorities have issued more than 220,000 new passports to Albanians from the southern province. Of this number of passports issued to [Kosovo] Albanians, a lion's share -- about 170,000 -- were issued in Niska Banja, since that is where registers are kept for Pristina and some other big municipalities in Kosovo, which were and remain the most populous according to the registers; passports are issued also by other police departments in Serbia. Nearly 5,000 registers were saved from being destroyed in the devastating attacks of 1999 and were transferred to Serbia. It is only on the basis of these registers that valid documents can be issued: birth, marriage, and death certificates, proof of citizenship, and so on. According to official figures based on these registers, Serbia annually issues about 50,000 different documents to Albanians, Serbs, and members of other nationalities living in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as to those living in Serbia proper and abroad.
Kosovo Albanians take out also new Serbian ID cards which, along with the passports, are the only documents recognized abroad. Documents that are issued by UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] in Pristina, Urosevac, Prizren, Pec, and other towns are valid for use only in the province. Not even [NATO-led] KFOR [Kosovo Force] recognizes them if Albanians from Kosovo want to cross into Serbia proper, for example; for this, they need to have a Serbian ID card.
Because of a heavy pressure of applicants on Nis, Niska Banja, and other towns in Serbia proper, an outpost has recently been opened halfway between Kosovo Polje and Pristina and is secured by KFOR and UNMIK; Kosovo Albanians have been availing themselves of the services of this outpost lately. The registry office relocated from Pristina and operating since 2004 as part of the Civil and General Affairs Department in Nis has an outpost also in Gracanica, where personal documents can be obtained, but not passports, which are only issued by the Serbian police.
"Registry offices and the Civil and General Affairs Department are regularly supervised by the Serbian Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-government. We have taken a step further in Nis by setting up the outpost between Kosovo Polje and Pristina. The City of Nis defrays the costs of transport and other expenses for employees that go to Kosovo on Wednesdays and Thursdays to collect applications for documents. In this way, we have considerably eased pressure on Nis and the new premises that our city has set aside and adapted for the Registry Office from Pristina and where conditions are the best for taking out personal documents," Goran Djordjevic, head of the Civil and General Affairs Department of the City of Nis, says.
Muharem Zeqi from the Pristina area explained to us very graphically what the Serbian passport means to him and his ethnic kin:
"It is a great asset. Without it all we could do is stay in Kosovo."
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