American Boat Listing ripoff dishonest, not letting customers know about other customers being ripped off, will not return telephone calls, and won't help to try and catch the criminals. Baldwin, New York

Hello my name is Ray. I am writing this letter to you about the trouble I have had with my boat being listed on the ABL(American Boat Listing).

When I first contacted ABL they told me that it would cost me $190. I went ahead and had my boat listed. ABL asked me what i wanted for my boat and i told them that I was asking for $4300.

ABL said that that was a too low of price and remember ABL had not seen any picture of my boat or anything. They said that they were going to list it at $8500.. Its not that I mind the extra money but come on, double my price.

It took about a month until i started to get any calls from anyone. Then I received two calls from a couple of buyers.

Only thing they were from Australia and Canada.
If you have had any contact from these people please do not I MEAN DO NOT deal with this people. I received two checks from them because they both wanted to buy my boat.

I told them that whomever got the money to me first then they can have the boat. Well that is why I received two checks. I told the ocean procurement that he could have the boat.

Well he sent me Certified Cashiers Check from the Bank of America for the sum of $16000. he said to take the cost of the boat and then send the rest to the shipper. Meanwhile I was going to bank wire the money from the second buyer back to him, that was $14700.

The man said to put the check in my account and then wire the rest. The bank had already cashed my check for $16000. and I was suppose to wire him the difference way of MONEYGRAM.

The bank told me that I should wait just to make sure, but the first buyer said he needed to get the shipping money back to him asap.

So the next day I went and sent the shipping money back to the first buyer. Then later on in the day my bank call and said that the $16000. cashiers check was a counterfeit check.

Boy that freaked me out, because I never though it would happen to me. I called the MONEYGRAM office where I sent the money and asked them to stop the money transfer.

Thank God they were able to stop the money. But that is not the best of it. The first buyer called me the next day and asked where his money was.

In the meanwhile I decided to wait for the other check to clear. This one also was a Bank of America, then the bank called again and said this check also was counterfeit.

So I don't know how you feel, but when I emailed the ABL to let them know nobody ever got back to me and I just wanted them to warn others.

So if you have any dealing with these two people and ABL doesnt want to help please contact either the FBI or Secret Service (cybercrime) to file a complaint.

There is also the BBB(Better Bus. Bureau) and also the Federal Trade Comm.. I would like to stop ABL ( if they are involved ) and other scam artists who take advantage of unsuspecting people.

I have tried contacting the FBI, FTC, BBB, ITC, IFTC, Secret Service and my local Sheriffs Dept. and they all have not responded. Why? Is this a waste of time or just dont care.

Ray
Wheeling, West Virginia
U.S.A.