Comments on: VirtualGet.net is a CREDIT CARD SCAM

By: MetaNews Daily – 113 – 7th October 2009 / Rezzed.TV

MetaNews Daily – 113 – 7th October 2009 / Rezzed.TV — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:51:04 +0000

[...] VirtualGet.Net is a Scam [...]

By: Ghanima Uriza

Ghanima Uriza — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:30:41 +0000

funny how they try to cover their butt now… I saw my products there, they had taken my artwork posters and even copied my SLX description… SCAM SCAM SCAM.
The funniest part was: "we have not sold ANY of your products and do not intend to display them without your permission, it was an automated mistake".
mind that, they had ALREADYused our artwork for display. If it's a scam, they got called out.. and if it was really a test… wtg morons… now no one will ever want to buy anything from. Ha HA! Content creators spend long hours working on the stuff they proudly sell, and even a chimp would know that it only takes the content creator about 2 extra minutes of their life to add the artwork in the disc toghether with the content before dropping it at the place we register the intellectual property of our products.

By: Quinn

Quinn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:48:02 +0000

I’d never heard of this site til this post, which is warning sign 1. That you have to use a credit card is warning sign 2. If anyone gets phished off this site, they’re probably the same kind of people who respond to emails from their “bank” asking them to send in their social security numbers or are more than eager to help a struggling Nigerian prince with his long-lost fortunes. Fiscal Darwinism at work.

By: Business-in-your-box

Business-in-your-box — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:56:38 +0000

okay, judging by their name and logo, their obvious intent is to sell Second Life stuff, using Xstreet's template and images confirms this… Question is… why would anyone want to use this service instead of going to XstreetSL???

By: Shamrawk

Shamrawk — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:32:19 +0000

Yep i received the same message. I don't believe the email or the main page explanation of their actions for one second

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:56 +0000

"To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products."

That cover-you-ass attitude is not going to fly. My advertising art is as much my intellectual property as the product myself. Every xstreet merchant ought to be talking to their lawyer.

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:01:29 +0000

How does "theft of intellectual property" go down as me being a victim?

By: scd

scd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:39:58 +0000

I received an email this morning basically saying that the site was a live tester, was not meant to be seen by the public yet (???) or something like that, and the MX Server was not set up for memberships yet – but it was. They didn't leave a name of any sort for a signature. They did not bother to explain why they went ahead and lifted information from XStreet for their site, instead of making template/faux images like most normal development companies do.

I still call bullshit on this.

By: scd

scd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:37:06 +0000

You're leaving a faux name, there's no "Joe Herts" in Second Life. At least leave your SL name – since you aren't doing that, I'm going to call your comment out as crap.

Also, what Ryker said.

By: Business-in-your-box

Business-in-your-box — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:18:10 +0000

SCAM SCAM SCAM, they just shut the site temporarily because they got called out.

By: Heidi Halberstadt

Heidi Halberstadt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:57:56 +0000

Um, zero traffic on the site, yet Joe Herts got his money back. Huh?

By: Business-in-your-box

Business-in-your-box — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:20:31 +0000

MUTHFUCKAS

By: Hev

Hev — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:02:59 +0000

This is what I saw posted on there last night, but looks like my comment was eaten:

Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase.

The products on this site have been loaded for visualization purposes only. Please contact support@virtualget.net for more information.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products.

We appreciate the traffic, but please wait until the site is launched before making press releases.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet

By: cheeba

cheeba — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:33:42 +0000

Looks like it was swatted! Did anybody actually sign up to the site??

By: Shamrawk

Shamrawk — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:10:15 +0000

look at the message you get when you try to access the site now..

The site is currently down for maintenance. Please excuse the dust, and try back later.

Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase. Update: We have taken the store completely offline until we get things straigthened out. There is alot of misinformation about fraud which we would liek to address. We had 0 traffic on this site as it was for demonstration purposes only to show a client what the commerce script was capable of. Nowhere on the site were users able to put in billing information. There were 5 accounts created other than the development and system accounts and they were all created today. They have also been removed.

The products on this site have been loaded for visualization purposes only. Please contact support@virtualget.net (update: the mx server was not even setup for emails, we appologize, it now works) for more information.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site, it was added via a crawler to populate the site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products and do not intend to display them without your permission, it was an automated mistake.

Any complaints sent to the host of the site and the registrar have been dealt with and we apologize to anybody who came across the site during its development phase.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet

By: Nykti Harcourt

Nykti Harcourt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:22:44 +0000

What? It doesn't matter if they refunded you or not. I have gotten at least 5 notes from various sub-o groups and real groups in game in the last 12 hours, ALL OF THEM stating that they found their stuff on this website and THEY DID NOT AUTHORIZE IT.

They are not actually selling these items at all. They just put them up so people will think they are buying them, when they really are not. Not to mention it is already HIGHLY unethical to put up items for sale when the person who owns the items did not give the okay to. That is on the verge, if not entirely, already content theft.

By: An Artist

An Artist — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:07:20 +0000

This now on their site.. Just FYI..
Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site, it was added via a crawler to populate the site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products.

We appreciate the traffic, but please wait until the site is launched before making press releases.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet

By: 3blahs1whatever

3blahs1whatever — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:57:54 +0000

"Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site, it was added via a crawler to populate the site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products.

We appreciate the traffic, but please wait until the site is launched before making press releases.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet"

By: pooh

pooh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:50:03 +0000

Swat that fly fast!

By: Shelly Oanomochi

Shelly Oanomochi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:44:24 +0000

It's so disgusting that some people just want to steal your Credit Card information. Hope that site gets taken down soon.

By: Ryker Beck

Ryker Beck — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:43:07 +0000

Credit card transactions (which is what this would've been) take between 5 and 7 business days, typically, to refund. So unless you did this over a week ago – I call BS. And if you're not lying, how about prove it – could you show us your credit card statement where the charge/refund was made? That should be a relatively easy thing to do if you're telling the truth. And it would let us all know who to look out for on our credit card statements.

By: ~H~

~H~ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:09:32 +0000

This is now posted in bold red on that page:

"Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase.

The products on this site have been loaded for visualization purposes only. Please contact support@virtualget.net for more information.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products.

We appreciate the traffic, but please wait until the site is launched before making press releases.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet "

By: Lei

Lei — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:38:52 +0000

this posted this on their site:

Registrations have been temporarily suspended due to members signing up during our development phase.

The products on this site have been loaded for visualization purposes only. Please contact support@virtualget.net for more information.

To all product developers and creators: we apologize for using your content on this site. Rest assured, we have not sold ANY of your products.

We appreciate the traffic, but please wait until the site is launched before making press releases.
- The Administrators of VirtualGet

By: joe herts

joe herts — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:32:31 +0000

excuse me? i was just sharing my experience

By: Ann Otoole

Ann Otoole — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:22:26 +0000

Atlantic Towers Holding Corp. sold 1237 Avenue Z, #6B on Jul 25, 2005. The property was bought by Moisey Uretsky for $227,000.

Hosting seedy porn and other questionable web sites seems to be a hobby for this guy. Only around 5 domains or so.

Perhaps a front for the russian mafia?
Should LL be concerned now?

Is "What Me Worry?" the label under LL's top dog's picture?

By: scd

scd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:21:35 +0000

"Joe Herts"? WHAT? Get a real name, jackass. Don't bait people.

By: joe herts

joe herts — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:07:24 +0000

Just wanted to share this with everyone.

I signed up for virtualget.net in hopes that i would receive what i wanted…instead i was waiting for it so i decided to cancel, i emailed sales@virtualget.net and asked for a full refund.

I received all my money back…

They didnt nothing wrong to me and i have my money Just ask them for a refund if you have signed up

By: Cajsa

Cajsa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:07:12 +0000

Thanks for posting this – I hope everyone gets the word out quickly as identity theft is no joke. A colleague of mine was actually arrested and detained a few days because a thief who had been caught had stolen her identity and gave her name and a fake id, etc to the police when arrested. When the thief did not show up for the court date, my colleague was arrested and sent to Seattle. It took a few days for her to prove she was not the thief. This was in addition to the more standard credit card and financial damage she went through from the id theft.

Anyone who thinks it's okay to risk a few people getting swept up into this sort of fraud so folks have time to complete their paperwork simply has their priorities out of whack.

By: es0 torok

es0 torok — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:57:57 +0000

I just read this in their "Shipping Policies" and _had_ to share it:
"
In the event that your items are not received within 24 hours of order confirmation (NOT from order placement), you may contact support and ask for the status of the 'delivery'. Some items are not sold directly by us and require that we first obtain them or confirm that they can be delivered by the third party."

By: Shamrawk

Shamrawk — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:41:21 +0000

OH MY GOD!!!!! they have a gesture i made on there. ok i know gestures arent up there on the content creation but wow.. that is just freaking not good at all.

By: es0 torok

es0 torok — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:31:56 +0000

You can contact realitychecknetwork via abuse@realitychecknetwork.com.
Send them email explaining the abuse. They are the network providers for the "bad guys", and should take action.
To take additional legal/law enforcement action you will most likely need a victim.

By: DeloraStarbrook

DeloraStarbrook — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:29:59 +0000

I have contacted reality check network with a DMCA takedown notice already on the artwork of mine virtualget is using without consent. I will be contacting the FBI if nothing is done. Yay go me. >.<

By: eku

eku — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:45:44 +0000

Hostname:69.55.54.154
ISP:Reality Check Network Corp.
Organization:Reality Check Network Corp.
Proxy:None detected
Type:Corporate.metro
Reality Check Network Corp

1213 Avenue Z Apt D38
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Phone (866) 726-4678

Reality Check Network Corp Business Information

Reality Check Network Corp is a private company categorized under Computer Graphics Service and located in Brooklyn, NY. Our records show it was established in 2004 and incorporated in New York. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $280,000 and employs a staff of approximately 5

http://www.realitychecknetwork.nl/about.html

By: scd

scd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:14:31 +0000

You guys are lucky you're hearing about this now and not later.

By: DuskyJewell

DuskyJewell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:02:16 +0000

Geezus frickin' Krist…if it isn't one thing…IT'S SOMETHING ELSE.