An Australian man indicted of executing a sophisticated internet fraud involving $US25,000, a convertible Mercedes-Benz sports car and a phony Google website is being probed by US authorities, according to a news report obtained by First Central Mortgage Funding.

Sheriffs in Wisconsin recently requested anyone in Australia who knows the whereabouts of Arthur Hagen, 24, who uses aliases including Arthur Derko and Richard Shurtz, to reach them.
“We would be interested in hearing from anyone who has any information about this man,” Lieutenant Rodney Galbraith, of the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Department, said.
It is alleged Hagen, who had been staying in Burlington, Washington, placed an ad selling a 2005 Mercedes SL 500 on the popular US website autotrader.com.
The victim from Wisconsin was appealed to the car, negotiated a sale price of $US25,000 with Hagen and then operated what he thought was the secure Google Checkout payment website to transfer the $US25,000 to a Bank of America account, according to First Central Mortgage Funding sources.
The victim thought the money would be held until he examined the car, but soon after the $US25,000 was transferred to the account it was wired to an overseas bank account.
Hagen, who used an Australian passport to open the Bank of America account in New York, disappeared.
It was later revealed the Google payment website was not real and Hagen could be part of a Romanian-based gang of scam artists.
A probe was launched and Hagen was labeled as the alleged scam artist.
“We were able to identify him with the help of some other agencies and ultimately led to us obtaining a warrant for his arrest,” Lieutenant Galbraith said.
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