This correspondence, recently sent to ACI executives in Seoul, may well be the beginning of the end of this long standing and blatantly illegal activity where so many honest eBay sellers have fallen victim to this criminal activity. If able, I will continue to post updates. SUBJECT: A MATTER OF GREATEST URGENCY Greetings, Through various means employed by investigative journalists, a major fraud within your company has been uncovered which is vitally important that key executives are aware. Unless immediate steps are taken to resolve this situation, formal complaints will be lodged against ACI with the FBI, the US Attorney General’s office and a major expose released by The New York Times. This fraud, which has been ongoing for approximately six years, appears to be limited to your branch office in Los Angeles (Gardena), California. Surely as you know, that branch office acts as a “buyer”, collection depot, and freight forwarding office for many Korea based buyers on eBay, whose buying activity is funneled through one of many various ACI member accounts with eBay. Essentially what this fraud entails is the use of numerous eBay buying accounts to make purchases from eBay sellers from all over the world, and then to later claim that something was not correct with the shipment or the goods that were shipped. Abusing the eBay “Buyer Protection” program, false claims are rendered to eBay, and those claims invariably result in the eBay seller being given a charge back of the sums received for the initial sale, as well as the loss of the merchandise sold. This ongoing fraud is well documented on the internet. Just a simple Google search under one of the many eBay member accounts set up by the ACI Lost Angeles office, such as kglpass12, will reveal endless individual stories of sellers on eBay falling victim to this scam. After my own exhaustive investigation, I can easily estimate that this fraud involves well over a million US dollars, and with hundreds of cases yet to be revealed. And, you can be sure that this author has absolute proof and documentation of this fraud, as well as the cooperation and willingness of numerous victims to file joint criminal complaints, should that become necessary. These illegally obtained funds acquired by ACI (Los Angeles) are all deposited in its PayPal account. As a corporate executive of ACI, surely you can appreciate that a thorough criminal investigation and the exposure of this fraud by The New York Times will neither benefit ACI, or its global partner, eBay. You are strongly urged to take immediate action and to undertake your own investigation into this matter. ACI and its partner eBay are both good companies providing good service to their clients as well as economic growth and employment opportunities. The illegal and fraudulent activities of one branch or unit of any company should not be the cause of the entire company to suffer legal consequences, untold embarrassment, loss of company image, and costly legal fees. Please also be advised that this formal notice will serve as proof that the executive management of ACI was in fact made aware of this illegal activity at its Los Angeles office. At this time I will leave it to your discretion and adherence to fair business practices to determine what sort of restitution should be made to those eBay sellers who have been defrauded by your Los Angeles office. What is immediately required however is the cessation of this illegal activity and the closing of all currently open false cases filed by your Los Angeles office against eBay sellers. I have high confidence that your company will be objective and fair in its handling of this very serious issue. Kind regards, but choosing to remain anonymous at this time.
