Converted Into Sound - fraudulent website

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I want to expose a website Converted Into Sound (<convertedintosound.com) as fraudulent. The website claims to be a broker for used and new high-end audio and impressive with high definition photos of top equipment for sale at very aggressive prices. Invoices and documentation are credible. But as they say, if a deal is too good to be true, it usually is.

How does the scam operate?

1. HD photos are downloaded from a legitimate advertisement; Photoshop enables a verification photo; phony former clients email that their experiences were positive. Due diligence done, you send a transfer to the seller's bank. The ideal seller and he pays the shipping.

2. Now it gets creative. A few days after the transfer an email arrives that a mistake has been made in the bank information and that your transfer will be refunded within a few days, automatically. Then you will be supplied with the real data and the deal can go on. This tactic introduces confusion and delay, and of course the refund never arrives. The site maintains close communication delaying the light bulb from going off that you've been scammed. In this way responsibility for the lack of product is shifted from the seller to the bank.

3. By the time this happens the money will be in an account in the Bahamas or some other tax haven, and the scamming goes on wherever the guy's kitchen table is located, probably not in the U.K. as advertised. The victim can contact the local police, have his bank contact the scammer's bank to return the money, but for a master scammer this is probably impossible. The buyer is left with holes in his audio rack and bank account, and a bruised butt from kicking himself.

The moral of the story? Listen to the slightest hint of suspicion, don't be seduced by fancy websites and low prices, and deal only with known websites. Tell your friends about suspicions in forums like this and take action; it's up to us to eliminate scamming (which is common theft) so that our wonderful equipment can find new owners.