ACTUAL 'ban' and email from Niantic

[Fadelol]

Lol I have no reason to fake this image. Why would I? However, I've been reading Reddit and this is actually something that people are doing to scam sellers. So, this person's fake email worked in tricking me. I posted here to see if anyone else was having this happen. Why would I try to fake it? Lol. I'm glad that I found that this is a common scam people are doing now. So everyone, beware!

Glad you realized him/her was trying to scam you. Hope you troll that person a little into believing you will actually pay back and then do some odd requests for it to happen

[jts5676]

Glad you realized him/her was trying to scam you. Hope you troll that person a little into believing you will actually pay back and then do some odd requests for it to happen

Unfortunately I believed them and gave them a replacement account. And then he just charged back. So I lost that battle lol but oh well, at least now I know.

[ttsukasa]

Smart enough to bot, dumb enough to fall for something like this.

I just dont understand. I think i'm over estimating my fellow community now -_-. [email protected]? you realize this company ISN'T POKEMON? Aka they cannot legally use the brand name in such a way and all their emails will come from Niantic? Hell Pokemon doesn't even use Pokemon.com

Oh well you're making bank while i'm replying to your comment, you still win this round (which stings because again you're ahead of me in this, but dumb enough to make such mistakes... grumble)

[junjun4747]

fake! just checked all my mails from pokemongo. sender is shown as pokemon customer service. it would not show the email address. secondly, everyone can fake this email. you just have to create a contact named [email protected].

[HackerDex]

Lol I have no reason to fake this image. Why would I? However, I've been reading Reddit and this is actually something that people are doing to scam sellers. So, this person's fake email worked in tricking me. I posted here to see if anyone else was having this happen. Why would I try to fake it? Lol. I'm glad that I found that this is a common scam people are doing now. So everyone, beware!

Nobody said you were faking it. The screenshot you attached just looked suspicious.

[okshasamiadji]

why im so feeling that this has turned into something like drug dealing. :gusta:

anyway, you'd better not selling accounts maybe, or start another attempt to make some bucks by providing botting service of sort.

[chillionair]

Fake email. No refunds will be given and by law you cant sell accounts because they dont belong to you so refunding part is bulshit since its not allowed by law in the US at least.

[Ransu]

Unfortunately I believed them and gave them a replacement account. And then he just charged back. So I lost that battle lol but oh well, at least now I know.

7 years on ownedcore and you have fallen victim to the most garbage trashcan scam in the book. one look at that screen shot says everything, no "from" email, wording, and a company reimbursing for your purchase from another player? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[zaink786]

you're prob gonna get banned if your account higher then level 33 even niantic stated

[Sheetka]

It's probably the guy trying to scam you.

It's kind of sad actually, I've seen people invest even more effort into stealing a 15 dollar account than this

[GotToSpoofThemAll]

Stop pushing their buttons, they might react back with full permaban

[Professor Peeka]

Lol, owned.

Anyone else getting chargebacks? Unless you have a tracking number (the first piece of information any dispute resolution asks a seller for) then the chargeback is almost guaranteed in favour of the buyer.

Seller beware. But hey, it's not like you actually did any hard work on the product.

[Fryc]

Have you considered the possibility that the email was fake, and the person who bought the account is trying to scam you? Just a thought..