Possible Scam Artist - Beware
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:19 pm
Just a heads up from a fellow enthusiast...
Hi Gang - it's been a while! I still shoot but find much of my extra online time consumed in other forums, for other hobbies - backpacking, for example.
Anyway - as I was frequenting one those forums this morning, I came across a Thread warning members about stolen monies, gear, firearms, etc, from on online scam artist that seemed, at first, to be a good guy... It alarmed me ("us" at that forum) because a few days before that Thread was started, that guy's daughter posted a message to say that her father (the suggested scammer) had died due to health complications. That's sad, indeed...but, there are threads surfacing (more to come, as we keep digging) that suggest he had multiple online accounts over several different forums of different kinds (from shooting, to bushcraft, etc) with varying user names - and he's used those forums to collect money and goods from people without completing his end of the deal. . . He may or may not be alive and all this may or may not add up. It would behoove us to keep an eye out, just in case.
The "sad" thread that made us feel bad at first: One of us has passed away - Bushcraft USA Forums
The "Warning Thread" at the same forum: http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43209
Another complaint elsewhere: Michael Taylor of Cleveland Ohio Stole from me and frequents this board - TheFiringLine Forums
And another, elsewhere: Air Gun Home :: View topic - WTS (Ohio) Crosman M1 Carbine VGC w/Mag RARE Dark Stock
Moderators, please feel free to move this to a sub-forum with higher traffic.
EDIT: a few folks have done some more digging - called the church and funeral home/cemetery where this man was supposedly buried and no one knows a thing.
Hi Gang - it's been a while! I still shoot but find much of my extra online time consumed in other forums, for other hobbies - backpacking, for example.
Anyway - as I was frequenting one those forums this morning, I came across a Thread warning members about stolen monies, gear, firearms, etc, from on online scam artist that seemed, at first, to be a good guy... It alarmed me ("us" at that forum) because a few days before that Thread was started, that guy's daughter posted a message to say that her father (the suggested scammer) had died due to health complications. That's sad, indeed...but, there are threads surfacing (more to come, as we keep digging) that suggest he had multiple online accounts over several different forums of different kinds (from shooting, to bushcraft, etc) with varying user names - and he's used those forums to collect money and goods from people without completing his end of the deal. . . He may or may not be alive and all this may or may not add up. It would behoove us to keep an eye out, just in case.
The "sad" thread that made us feel bad at first: One of us has passed away - Bushcraft USA Forums
The "Warning Thread" at the same forum: http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43209
Another complaint elsewhere: Michael Taylor of Cleveland Ohio Stole from me and frequents this board - TheFiringLine Forums
And another, elsewhere: Air Gun Home :: View topic - WTS (Ohio) Crosman M1 Carbine VGC w/Mag RARE Dark Stock
Moderators, please feel free to move this to a sub-forum with higher traffic.
EDIT: a few folks have done some more digging - called the church and funeral home/cemetery where this man was supposedly buried and no one knows a thing.