John Preston
, Square Trade ripoff $2800.by a fraudulent ebay web site using Square Trade for money transfe

1/24/06 ebay web site directed buyer to contact seller for bid/buy now approval before I could buy item.
John Preston contact me thru email, described item, buy now price and if I wanted item he needed my ebay ID so they would know I was approved by seller.
He needed my shipping address and said Square Trade would handle the money transfer.

Square Trade sent me an email giving info for transaction.
Fax Square Trade with all info and Western Union MTCN #, once it was verified they would tell seller to start shipment.

I was emailed by seller John Preston who said it would be shipped out 1/25/06 at 10 am thru Samskip.

Square Trade sent me an email saying item would be shipped out 1/25/06 at 10 am also.

This never happened and Western Union said 40% of wire transfer that are scams come from United Kingdom and are hard to get money back or trace.