Channel 40 News in the Office

A guy from Connecticut wanted to buy tickets to see the Pats in the superbowl. He goes to eBay for the first time in his life. What luck! Some guy from Georgia was gonna go to the game, but he got transferred to Italy. He has the tickets up on ebay for $2500. "If you want them, pay my reserve price," said the man, in email from Italy. The buyer, named Mark, bit, but when he tried to pay by paypal, he found out that it doesn't work in Italy. He had to pay by Western Union, and well, he watched the game, like you did, on TV.

No tickets, big eBay scam. Now he's got the FBI, local detectives and western union looking into it, more than 14 others also lost their money. CUT TO CLOSE UP OF MAX IN HIS OFFICE. GoNOMAD is gonna be on TV again tonight, this time we're commenting on Internet fraud on Channel 40 ABC news. Thanks to Joe and a friend's research, I found out some good info on how to prevent it and tips like "get more contact info than just an email if you buy something on eBay." Jim, a big friendly TV guy, came to the office here and we chatted. I gave them GN tee shirts and the camera included a shot of the site logo on the wall behind me.