MacFanaticShop is a fraud! Website to prove.

You've done an excellent job of summarizing the offenses of Mac Whiz/MacFanaticShop!

I would recommend that this thread - or rather, your initial post with the website, as the other comments aren't necessary - be sticky. Making the original thread(s) sticky would require too much reading on the part of many people. Your summary is by far better.

excellent summary. thanks for putting it together.

you may want to mention on your website that at least three posts were made at MR on the original thread that are sympathetic to the entire scam operations: post #18 by jamekurtis, #203/212 by lawmanca and #219/224 by wwjdsong.

one of the admins mentions that that IP address of jamekurtis is not near the business address of the scamming sites. (post #63 by rower_CPU.)

the founder of MR also provides further info on others elsewhere being sympathetic to the entire scam operations. (post #70 by arn.)

NICE JOB putting that together. Nice Nice job.

Outstanding!!!

This is a fantastic job of summarizing this scam.
Everyone shopping for a mac should know about this.
Based on this scam's history, lets all keep a look out for the next incarnation.

Very well done, svenr.

Interesting to note

Thanks for the info, I almost bought a 20" display off them, always found it to be a bit fishy that you couldn't submit credit card info to them online..
But is interesting that even though they are fraudelent, they pretend to be sold out of the low end eMac. Why, I have no idea...

w00tmaster said:

But is interesting that even though they are fraudelent, they pretend to be sold out of the low end eMac. Why, I have no idea...

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it's easy, they want to scam the most amount of money as possible. it's far more effective to advertise a high end model at a discount because you still have higher "profit" than offering similar "deals" on lower end machines.

i rarely wish anyone ill, but i hope this guy gets busted so hard into a living hell.

Great job, and a great service to the Mac community. Thanks for the hard work. As usual, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is...

CAn a mod make that link a sticky so people visiting this site will be informed?

eMac's not available

Well there might be some truth to the eMac's not being in stock, you see I am getting an eMac for school next year, and my dad knows a developper who is also a reseller. Anyway, he says he can't order iMacs (we know that) OR eMacs. Can anyone else verify this?

Sharewaredemon said:

Well there might be some truth to the eMac's not being in stock, you see I am getting an eMac for school next year, and my dad knows a developper who is also a reseller. Anyway, he says he can't order iMacs (we know that) OR eMacs. Can anyone else verify this?

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Well, the point that was being made was since this guy's a fraud, & has no actual computers to sell, it seemed odd that he would label the eMac "out of stock"... He has no "stock"...

w00tmaster said:

But is interesting that even though they are fraudelent, they pretend to be sold out of the low end eMac. Why, I have no idea...

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they act like they are out of everything below like $700, all accessories are sold out, airport, ipod, etc...

mac fanatic

Hi,
I hope there is a way to bring these guy's down because I have been framed as well. I would like to know what kind of steps are taken and what would be the best thing to do, if you have been framed

thanks there!

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mistral said:

Hi,
I hope there is a way to bring these guy's down because I have been framed as well. I would like to know what kind of steps are taken and what would be the best thing to do, if you have been framed

thanks there!

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Here's the saga of Macwhiz aka Macfanaticshop. Please read it and get up to speed. At the end of it you might have a better idea of who to contact, based on where you live, how you paid, etc. Good luck.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/41856/

Also, the website in the original post is a SUPERB compilation of the scam at hand. Hats off to the creator.