Cex scammer

ProStreet

ProStreet

ProStreet

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I've been buying vouchers for cex on here and on a different forum. On this different forum a guy messaged me and said he had a voucher for 80% face value and he would send it to me first. I tested the voucher and it went through. His email address looked a bit dodgy, so I setup the payment on PayPal and googled his name. A reddit post appeared and hes been doing this on loads of forums.

The odd thing is the voucher worked. Hes now saying I scammed him. I've contacted cex to cancel the order and return it to the original voucher but I dont know what they'll do..

I can only imagine hes been stealing people's vouchers and selling them? Then the person who uses it gets caught. Cex say they will assist with the police for any vouchers used fraudently.

Just a bit of an odd one and a bit worrying!
 
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The only way I could see this one working is that you pay him when the voucher arrives, he then cancels the voucher before you have the chance to use it so it then becomes invalid.

In your case he's seen that you've used it and accused you of scamming him because he wants you to do exactly what you've done. CEX won't send you back the voucher, they'll issue a new one to the original purchaser.
 
ProStreet said:
I've been buying vouchers for cex on here and on a different forum. On this different forum a guy messaged me and said he had a voucher for 80% face value and he would send it to me first. I tested the voucher and it went through. His email address looked a bit dodgy, so I setup the payment on PayPal and googled his name. A reddit post appeared and hes been doing this on loads of forums.

The odd thing is the voucher worked. Hes now saying I scammed him. I've contacted cex to cancel the order and return it to the original voucher but I dont know what they'll do..

I can only imagine hes been stealing people's vouchers and selling them? Then the person who uses it gets caught. Cex say they will assist with the police for any vouchers used fraudently.

Just a bit of an odd one and a bit worrying!
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Instant red flag.
 
ProStreet said:
I've been buying vouchers for cex on here and on a different forum. On this different forum a guy messaged me and said he had a voucher for 80% face value and he would send it to me first. I tested the voucher and it went through. His email address looked a bit dodgy, so I setup the payment on PayPal and googled his name. A reddit post appeared and hes been doing this on loads of forums.

The odd thing is the voucher worked. Hes now saying I scammed him. I've contacted cex to cancel the order and return it to the original voucher but I dont know what they'll do..

I can only imagine hes been stealing people's vouchers and selling them? Then the person who uses it gets caught. Cex say they will assist with the police for any vouchers used fraudently.

Just a bit of an odd one and a bit worrying!
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No, he's probably a wheeler dealer who sells lots of crap to CEX and gets tons of vouchers, we have a guy in work who is endlessly selling crap to them and sells vouchers on many forums, he's had about 60+ vouchers this year for around £100-£200..

The occasional hiccup he runs in to is some of the crap breaks, or he's bought something dodgy and CEX start moaning at him, but since he sells so much he seems to get by OK and they seem happy enough to keep allowing him.

Or it could be something more nefarious, but I can see how it isn't a good thing either to use the voucher, have some remorse, not pay and cancel with CEX just based on the guy selling lots of vouchers?
 
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Diddums said:
You've not discovered Vinted yet then?

I used to be like you, never buying used stuff, but when you see what's being sold on Vinted, and at what prices, you'd be mental to still pay full price for new goods.
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Oh no, I've done vinted. Only to get shot of a load clothes when I lost all the weight. Not done it for a while now though.
 
I haven't paid for the voucher as I read online hes been scamming tons of people. This is on reddit tens of posts. I've asked cex to cancel the order and return to original voucher..

I dont understand what I'm supposed to do here. People say pay him but why are people saying hes sending fraudulent vouchers on reddit
 
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ProStreet said:
I haven't paid for the voucher as I read online hes been scamming tons of people. This is on reddit tens of posts. I've asked cex to cancel the order and return to original voucher..
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But if you've got your money (I presume actually have a product you bought with the card) then paying him is you scamming him?

Doesn't matter if he's illegally scamming others, doesn't give you excuse to be criminal
 
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