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Musiciansbuyline.com is doing its best to protect you from a form of identity theft where emails of well-known companies or Web sites are faked or "spoofed." Email forgers may use email communications that look like Musiciansbuyline.com emails to collect personal information from you.
To help you detect if an email has been forged, look for the following warning signs:
- Musiciansbuyline.com will never ask you to email us personal information, such as your password, bank account or credit card information.
- Musiciansbuyline.com will never send you an email that claims we have lost or are updating your records.
- Musiciansbuyline.com will never threaten to close your account or cancel an order if you do not provide us with personal information.
If you suspect you have been sent an email that is from a forged email address, please forward the email to United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Division. Please don't cut and paste the email, and don't change the subject line or forward it as an attachment because that makes it harder to investigate. If you are ever in doubt about the authenticity of an email, don't provide personal or sensitive information in an email.
Musicians Buy Line has become aware that scam emails which attempt to fool MusiciansBuyLine.com customers into handing over sensitive credit card account information has been sent to thousands of Internet users.
These fake emails, which appeared to have been sent to users at random, purported to be part of a member update. Musicians Buy Line customers who received these emails are encouraged to enter their details to fraudulent sites. As is common with such scams, the URL used in the emails is cleverly encoded to disguise the true location of the Web sites. The destination pages are designed to look like the genuine MusiciansBuyLine.com Web site. Only tell-tale signs, easily overlooked, like spelling mistakes, give the game away.
Musicians Buy Line is aware of this scam and have advised users to avoid divulging account information in response to these emails. Users are advised to contact
United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Division or FBI - Internet Fraud Complaint Center
to report this scam.
Musicians Buy Line will never ask you in an email for personal information such as credit card numbers, bank information, social security numbers. If you receive an email cloaked as coming from MBL, please contact the authorities. Remember do not give out personal information in unsolicited emails.
If you are contacted by such a scam artist, we recommend you contact:
United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Division
FBI - Internet Fraud Complaint Center
Most people know that old line that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But even so, online Internet scams rake in billions of dollars. Everyday, people all over the world are tempted by one of literally hundreds of easy-money promises received in an e-mail.
The Nigeria Connection - An especially dangerous scam involves Nigeria. Here’s how it works: You receive e-mail from someone in Nigeria who says that he wants to purchase your instrument and he is owed money by an associate in America, he will issue you a bank check, drawn on a US Bank (which is bogus) for an amount more than you are asking for your instrument.
FRAUD BULLETIN - please be EXTREMELY WARY of offers by distant strangers to send you a high value (but counterfeit) cashier's check, and then have you wire the balance to them. These offers are sometimes emailed to Musicians Buy Line posters, often as offers for sale items. Banks will cash these counterfeit checks, but then hold you responsible for the funds when the check fails to clear!
If you have been victimized, you can contact the FTC toll-free at 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357) or use the complaint form at www.ftc.gov, or call the Canadian PhoneBusters hotline toll-free at 1-888-495-8501.
This scam is now originating from places other than Nigeria.
Remember, the Internet can be a dangerous place – but only if you let it. If it looks fishy – hit the delete button and move on.
Please – be smarter than them.
If you are contacted by such a scam artist, we recommend you contact the
United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Division
or
FBI - Internet Fraud Complaint Center
For a safe way to conduct business on the internet , we recommend using Escrow.com.
Thank you.
MBL staff
