Sushipup, your question about being related to my antivirus made me think. I looked back and saw that there was not the usual checked by avg message at the end. So I looked at View Source and at the top, just below the senders info, there is this, which I copied To: Subject: Fw: Some great old photographs Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:34:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01A6_01CCF4AC.EE9CD6B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120226-3, 02/26/2012), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Interesting, but now I wonder why the usual checked by avg message wasn't there? Sue

Hey, I was also scammed by CD (or in the process of being scammed) - it was 10+ days ago - took my money, said item was shipped (via 2 day air) and then nothing...no tracking numbers, no response to emails..and no item...nothing... I went to register.com and found the site owner. Im posting that info below for others (like myself) who's google search for "cartdiscounts scam" brings them to this blog. Contact the FBI at www.fbi.gov, click on the "report internet crime" and file a report - maybe we can get this site shut down and "raymond barbour" thrown under the jail!! your truly, ripped off and pissed off FYI from Register.com: here is register.coms whois info on cartsdiscount.com Registration Service Provided By: Sashbox Interactive LLC Contact: support@sashbox.com Visit: http://www.sashbox.com Domain name: cartdiscounts.com Registrant Contact: RAYMOND BARBOUR (RAYMONDABARBOUR@AOL.COM) +1.3152994356 Fax: +1.3152994356 99 KOPP AVE NORTH SYRACUSE, NY 13212 US Administrative Contact: RAYMOND BARBOUR (RAYMONDABARBOUR@AOL.COM) +1.3152994356 Fax: +1.3152994356 99 KOPP AVE NORTH SYRACUSE, NY 13212 US Technical Contact: Sashbox Interactive LLC Tech Support (support@sasbhox.net) +1.2163932443 Fax: none 5900 SOM CENTER RD #12-160 WILLOUGHBY, OH 44094 US Status: Locked Name Servers: NS1.SASHBOX.NET NS2.SASHBOX.NET Creation date: 19 Jan 2007 13:33:42 Expiration date: 19 Jan 2008 13:33:42 =-=-=-=

This is the problem....I cannot check it out..my 36" all fridge sub-zero comes tomorrow. The kitchen is set. There is no going back. 3 months ago, this would have me all over it. Maybe someone else is interested.

Sadly, this just happened to my 83 year old parents on Friday morning and they called to tell me about yesterday after the scammer tried a second attempt. I am so stunned that they fell for this scam and are now out $4000. They were told to get $4000 in Visa gift cards immediately as their grandson "Tommy" was set to appear before a judge at 11:00am, so they went to Best Buy and purchased several cards. The "officer" that called even said that they may be questioned why they are buying so many cards, but to tell Best Buy it is for a friend you are helping out. The officer told them he would be calling them at 10:30am to get the card info. He called right on time and my mom read the numbers and pins on all the cards. She asked if she could talk to her grandson and they put "Tommy" on the phone who kept begging my parents not to call his wife or parents. Apparently he had been in jail for 2 days. My mom said it sounded just like "Tommy" and he even called her "Nana". Second attempt happened yesterday morning when the officer called them again saying that "Tommy's" bail was increased and he needed another $4000. This time my dad wised up and asked to speak to "Tommy". It took about 10 minutes for "Tommy" to come to the phone and my dad asked what is your sister's name (he doesn't have a sister). Tommy kept laughing saying "oh come on you know what her name is, why are you playing these games with me." This went on for a few minutes and "Tommy" hung up. My dad then called the real "Tommy" who was home with his wife and quite stunned by what my dad proceeded to tell him. It makes me sick as I write this, I can't believe my parents fell for it because they know about all these scams, we talk about them quite often and this incident is so not my parents. FYI, "Tommy" is my son and has never been in trouble with the law. My parents feel so embarrassed and upset about what happened, so there was no lecturing from me. I feel bad for them.