Internet store "Smartphone 44": customer reviews about the store

E-commerce (as a field of activity) is constantly growing and developing, offering the simple buyer an increasingly wide range of services. If earlier, in order to order some goods from the Internet, we needed to conduct some complicated operations on currency exchange and wait a couple of days for the courier - today it is still easier than in real stores. The abundance of payment systems and the efficiency of courier work create the appearance that any online store is closer than we could imagine. Consequently, the user has a real incentive to use his services.

Products online

What exactly do we buy on the Internet? It used to be that people were afraid of making expensive purchases, they were afraid to to some extent transfer their money virtually; Especially those whom they do not see and do not know personally. However, as the popularity of Internet technologies, sales in the network only expanded as a sphere, and became for many a real place to buy cheaper goods.

Indeed, prices operating in the online store, may indeed be lower than in real shopping centers. At a minimum, this can be explained by the fact that organizing your website, promoting it and renting a small warehouse on the outskirts of the city will be much cheaper than opening your own retail space in some popular shopping center. Based on this logic, you can explain the availability of one or another type of product.

Fraud in the network

Together with the knowledge that buying on the Internet is beneficial and convenient, we have an understanding of the great chance to be deceived. Especially it concerns those cases when you deal with untested sellers, which you hear about for the first time. In this case, if you work with such, you must be extremely cautious. Otherwise, you can become a victim of fraud. Unintentionally, in due time, I entered the Internet shop "Smartphone 44" with the buyers. We will provide customer feedback about it in this article (a little further on), and start with a small background on the activity of this site and why he became so famous.

About prices

So, the story should begin with the fact that very often users are "driven" to a lower price, without thinking about whether the seller is really able to offer them such a value. Explain this can be an example of a specific phone - all the famous iPhone 5S.

Shop "Smartphone 44" (which, by the way, continues to work on a different domain) offers to buy this device for 25 thousand rubles. If we look for such a model with identical characteristics (memory capacity is 64 GB) on other sites, then we will see a colossal difference. In "Connected", for example, the price is set at 43 thousand rubles. In another large store - the network "Euroset", the same model will cost you a little cheaper - 38 thousand. The difference is 5 thousand rubles between the two mentioned "giants of the market", whereas "Smartphone 44" - online store, offers a product for 12 thousand cheaper! How can this be?

Site preparation

In fact, the administrators of "Smartphone 44" were prepared with caution. As the comments of buyers show, specifically for working with customers, a company engaged in trade was registered. She had a director whose contact details are already on the network, as well as some hidden from the simple buyers office.

It should be noted that the online store "Smartphone 44" (feedback on it we will necessarily publish) was specifically created to deceive customers. In particular, we can draw conclusions by the fact that all models in their catalog have an obviously understated value, which the seller really could not provide in any way. Our example with the iPhone 5S phone is just one device out of hundreds of models that this store supposedly traded. However, as you guessed it, there was really no goods. As the reviews of the "Smartphone 44" service describe customer feedback, they simply took money, promised to provide the goods, after which the store stopped its activities. Obviously, users simply "threw".

Number of victims

The fact is striking in this situation. There is nothing surprising in the deception on the Internet - the scheme for collecting money for non-existent goods has been in effect for a long time and on a large scale. Users, to the best of their credulity, can transfer funds to their counterparties without further verification of the latter. It is not difficult to guess the results.

So, on the same principle worked "Smartphone 44". The only difference is that here we are not talking about one or two thousand rubles, which happened to be in the fraudster's pocket - but about a mass deception that relates to hundreds of buyers across the country. Each of them paid at least 5,000 for their phone (although in the reviews we saw the comments of those who ordered more expensive Apple hardware). It is difficult to imagine how much the swindler, who organized such a thing, eventually earned.

Deception Scheme

Talk about how the process of receiving money from clients was specially organized. The whole scam was based solely on the desire of users to save a few extra thousand rubles. They went to the site "Smartphone 44" (the online store was previously available at the address ".ru", later moved to the domain name in the ".com" zone), chose the desired mobile phone, and then made out the order. The site (even on the version that continues to operate) states that the company provides free delivery of its mobile equipment across Russia, which is why the buyer had an additional incentive to apply here. After the order was issued, the customer paid for it using one of the electronic systems and waited.

Of course, the mail to the user at the same time, there were various notifications that his order was almost ready, that the desired mobile device would be delivered soon, and it did not take long to wait. In the end, people waited for a month, while they began to do something. Until then, the online store "Smartphone 44" (reviews are a confirmation of this) deceived several hundred more customers in the same way.

Counteraction mechanism

Each of those who transferred their money to the accounts indicated on the website "Smartphone 44" (an Internet store in Moscow that deceives its customers) understands that they deceived and forced to pay money for the visibility of the service, although such was not provided. However, it is extremely difficult to really do anything in this situation. Let's start, perhaps, with the search for a fraudster.

As the buyers' reviews describing the scam with "Smartphone 44" testify, the firm that managed the store is called "TorgInvest" LLC. It was founded by a certain Mr. Kramer Alexander Voldemarovich, whom now, of course, no one can find. He, in parallel, according to reviews, is also the founder of a number of other firms, probably working under the same scheme. It is obvious that a person knows how to deceive people and get the maximum profit from them dishonestly.

Finding this person is not so simple. At the address for which the firm is legally listed, it has long been gone - and no one knows about the existence of anything like that. There is no other information about the whereabouts of the swindler, because he already knows that he will be searched, so he took all measures to "confuse the tracks." Also, given the amount of money that was stolen, the option is also possible that he simply fled to another country. Whether it is possible to get it from there, it is very difficult to say.

Refund

In addition to finding a person who deceived his clients on such a large scale, everyone is also interested in the opportunity to find these funds and return at least a part of them. But this is already very difficult to do.

Even if we imagine a situation in which the founder of the firm was caught and imprisoned (which we all have big doubts), we have no guarantees that he will part with his money in such a voluntary manner. He could hide them both physically and transfer to an account in some foreign bank, so we can not take real action.

The same is said in the police. Identifying the identity of the perpetrator, it will be extremely difficult to get him to return the money to the victims.

Real Steps

What are the really right actions to be taken by those who have been the victim of all this deception? The first thing is to contact the law enforcement agencies with the appropriate application. Whatever happens, they will respond to your request, and if there was indeed a crime, competent specialists will solve the problem. In the case of our "Smartphone 44", the testimonies indicate that the search for a criminal is carried out by the so-called "department K", which specializes in Internet fraud and some online violations.

In this structure there are those who can really track the place from which the criminal came into the network while communicating with clients, find information about the company's website, and also about the company that was registered to work with clients. These and other data collected during the investigation will help to establish more information about the identity of the perpetrator and, perhaps, will bring the resolution of this situation closer. At least, as evidenced by the online store "Smartphone 44" customer testimonials, they really hope to win. Although the chances, frankly, seem rather low.

Reviews

So, in general, the information about the comments left about the store, we outlined above. It should also be added that reviews about the "Smartphone 44" reviews about the store (for the most part) are the same. On one of the sites with recommendations, they are left in the amount of more than 250 pieces. Imagine how many people got hooked on scammers!

So, analyzing the comments, we can say that they all have a similar structure and the same type. All of them are united by the fact that people know how the online store "Smartphone 44" actually works. Reviews of the store list the models of devices that the customer ordered and the amount for which he was deceived. Comrades in misfortune are trying to help each other. Many people are asking to help them write a complaint to the prosecutor's office and the police for more effective investigation of the case about the "Smartphone 44" service. Reviews about the store also describe the indignation of people who have the misfortune to contact him.

Still, reading the comments, you can draw conclusions about who all these people are, who have lost a lot of money on their own naivety. As you might guess, these are not the richest miles of the population, buying equipment for 7-10 thousand rubles. Naturally, you can not include those who ordered the iPhone.

It is also striking how widely the "Smartphone 44" (an online store) operated. The feedback we paid attention to was left by people from various cities all over the country.

Clients contacted the store from all over the Russian Federation, sending money to a Moscow fraudster. From advertising they learned that there is a "Smartphone 44" (online store). Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and a number of other cities - here live those who were deceived in the company and lured money for a cheaper but non-existent gadget. Therefore, it is not surprising that complaints to the bodies of power structures were received (and, probably, continue to be received) throughout Russia. It should have been a signal to the organizer of the site that he should be hiding somewhere. And meanwhile, all this time there is another analogue of "Smartphone 44" - an online store in St. Petersburg, MSK, EKB and so on, represented throughout Russia. He does not experience shortages of orders.

For the future

No matter how badly the creator of all this "shop" did, the share of guilt is in the actions of each buyer. Clients who made out orders and sent money to wherever they went, took insufficient precautions when they were making a purchase. At a minimum, they did not look at the company's contacts.

Every online store that can actually offer you a real product or service has its own registration address - the place where it can usually be found. It can be a simple apartment, business center, some kind of detached house. However, in any case, each structure must indicate its contacts before offering you to buy a new smartphone. This is a guarantee that they really exist and are ready to meet with you at any time. Pay attention to the address every time you make a purchase.

The second nuance is feedback. On the Internet, information that the store delays sending goods, should be, at least, from the first real customers. Accordingly, all subsequent users could find this information, analyze and think about whether it is worth buying a phone here. Probably the most comfortable and reliable way would be to order on the site of proven large networks, even if it's several thousand more expensive.

The address and reviews, of course, can somehow be hidden and shown in a more favorable light (the one that the fraudsters themselves need), however, there is another important point that buyers did not pay attention to - an alternative to delivery.

Imagine that a large online store banned the possibility of cash settlement and would pass only to the area of prepayment and delivery. This would be a stupid step for the company itself and for customers. Therefore, all firms engaged in trade have an option such as "Pickup". This means that you yourself will come to the warehouse / office and take away what interests you. If you notice that this option is not provided for by the store rules, be careful. Perhaps these are scammers who simply do not want to contact you personally.

Finally, another recommendation that I would like to give to prevent unpleasant stories in the future is working with reliable and trusted sites. Any new resource can be fraudulent: we will not be able to find out until after the money has been paid. To prevent this from happening, find out more information about the resource. Look for the opinions of the people who bought there; Look for news about the store, video and photos of goods purchased by other people - and then you will add a full impression of the resource. We wish you the best of luck - be careful with your next purchase!