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Possible LT scammer warning!!

briolette|1477063974|4089272 said:
ededdeddy|1477018703|4089117 said:
Thanks everyone, I'm taking her check down to the police in the morning. Should I just block her, or should I let her know that the check is going to the police in the morning and I know that she's a scammer.
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Oh wow. I hope she gets caught.

In my last interaction it seemed like she was making up story about sending a check and since she was starting to change her story as a set up to ask me to send her money. She had claimed that her debtor accidentally sent too much money and asked if I could please wire her funds to help with her daughter's sudden accident to cover medical bills. That's when I stopped interacting with her (few days ago). For the record she called me a heartless bitch via email...so tempting to engage, but chose not to.
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The "sending too much money" is definitely a classic scam. It is tempting to engage, but that makes my blood pressure rise, so I recommend ignoring, too :)
 
katharath|1477071902|4089314 said:
briolette|1477063974|4089272 said:
ededdeddy|1477018703|4089117 said:
Thanks everyone, I'm taking her check down to the police in the morning. Should I just block her, or should I let her know that the check is going to the police in the morning and I know that she's a scammer.
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Oh wow. I hope she gets caught.

In my last interaction it seemed like she was making up story about sending a check and since she was starting to change her story as a set up to ask me to send her money. She had claimed that her debtor accidentally sent too much money and asked if I could please wire her funds to help with her daughter's sudden accident to cover medical bills. That's when I stopped interacting with her (few days ago). For the record she called me a heartless bitch via email...so tempting to engage, but chose not to.
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The "sending too much money" is definitely a classic scam. It is tempting to engage, but that makes my blood pressure rise, so I recommend ignoring, too :)
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I went to the police department and they took pics of the check and correspondence I had with her. The fake check is a federal crime, but he said it would be hard to track her down because they change their numbers so much. He's starting a file but because no crime was committed on me (I didn't send her money or the stone), there wasn't too much he could do right now. I live in a medium size town and the police officer told me he sees this every single day and most of the time people fall for it.
 
ededdeddy|1477079193|4089361 said:
katharath|1477071902|4089314 said:
briolette|1477063974|4089272 said:
ededdeddy|1477018703|4089117 said:
Thanks everyone, I'm taking her check down to the police in the morning. Should I just block her, or should I let her know that the check is going to the police in the morning and I know that she's a scammer.
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Oh wow. I hope she gets caught.

In my last interaction it seemed like she was making up story about sending a check and since she was starting to change her story as a set up to ask me to send her money. She had claimed that her debtor accidentally sent too much money and asked if I could please wire her funds to help with her daughter's sudden accident to cover medical bills. That's when I stopped interacting with her (few days ago). For the record she called me a heartless bitch via email...so tempting to engage, but chose not to.
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The "sending too much money" is definitely a classic scam. It is tempting to engage, but that makes my blood pressure rise, so I recommend ignoring, too :)
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I went to the police department and they took pics of the check and correspondence I had with her. The fake check is a federal crime, but he said it would be hard to track her down because they change their numbers so much. He's starting a file but because no crime was committed on me (I didn't send her money or the stone), there wasn't too much he could do right now. I live in a medium size town and the police officer told me he sees this every single day and most of the time people fall for it.
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I think it's great that you followed through and went to the police. It's unfortunate that they could do so little, but you did the right thing.
 
I got a check and took it right to the issuing bank who was going to take it to the FBI. It looked like it was printed off a home computer. It was also sent FED EX if you can believe it!
 
FedEx eh? Maybe they can trace at least to who paid to have that check sent. Hopefully collectively, the FBI will have enough to investigate further.
 
If she wants you to pay her the difference or give her money back somehow or send her the good she will HAVE to give you her shipping address, if any of you have that give that to the police and also if there are a few of you with cheques report her to the cyber crimes unit, if there are a number of people rather than just one, the more victims there are reporting it to the same place, the more likely they are to do something about it.
 
DeannaHanchey tried to scam me too a few weeks back. My spidey senses went off when I got her message on LT and I never responded to her, him, whatever it is.
 
add me to the list:

Oct. 14
You got a message from DeannaH110

DeannaH110 is contacting you directly about your listing: BGD Huggies for annam . When you reply to this email you will be emailing DeannaH110 directly at [email protected]

BGD Huggies for annam

Hey, how you doing today, my name is Deanna am making an inquiry about your post, do you still have this for sale? I am Interested, Please kindly reply back as fast as you can with more recent pics to [email protected]....Thanks


What tipped me off was the "reply back as fast as you can with more recent pics." The earrings haven't changed, bucket head.
 
These scammers have been around for ages. The messages are always vague "your item" because they've sent 100 or more message all over the place trying to get a bite. The cheque is always a fake. The banking system usually means it's a few days before it bounces. They hope you have already shipped the item. The other version of the scam is where they send you a cheque for too much, oops, and ask you to send them back the extra via Western Union. Again, the cheque is fake and your real money sent by Western Union to the scammer is unreturnable and not traceable either. And the third scam is the fake PayPal site. NEVER click on a link in an email or message, to log into PayPal. Some of these fake sites are very genuine looking. They can hack your real PayPal account for your money or take it over to then con other people into sending goods or purchases to the thief hacker! But, most people are nice and most people are honest, my motto is "in doubt? Then don't"!
 
And they are most likely in Nigeria, not NC.
 
Another Scammer contacted me today - through DiamondBistro

Unsure where to post the information so no one gets scammed...? Here?
 
I've been contacted in the past so thanks for the heads up Rubylou!
 
Rubylou said:
Another Scammer contacted me today - through DiamondBistro

Unsure where to post the information so no one gets scammed...? Here?
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Post it here.
 
Please post so we can all be aware. TIA!
 
Here is the information from the message I got...

[email protected]
Contact Name: God
Contact Phone: (565) 675-0968

You've received an inquiry regarding an item you have for sale at DiamondBistro.com - details below:
Hello seller,
Just wondering if you still have this item for sale as well??

Thanks.
 
I was a bit surprised, anyway! I responded and said yes it was available but they don't want to follow through with PP as they are have a little problem with their account. They only want to send a checker check...?

I don't want anyone to get scammed...
 
Rubylou said:
I was a bit surprised, anyway! I responded and said yes it was available but they don't want to follow through with PP as they are have a little problem with their account. They only want to send a checker check...?

I don't want anyone to get scammed...
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I had this same email. From God (aka: Rev Hector Meza).
These people are ridiculous. :angryfire:
 
Sounds like we got the same message. - I certainly took a double look when I got it, lol!
 
I’m sure I read somewhere that a guy got revenge on these type of scammers by sending a box of fishing lead sinkers (very heavy) and putting insufficient postage on the package meaning they had to pay money to collect it.
And the other one was giving the scammer fake Western Union reference numbers (that’s how they can claim the money) time and time again, making out he was a completely dumb and the money had come back uncollected.
 
I've never done this but be warned it is an addicting site. There has got to be an easier, and definitely more honorable ways to make a living than what these "people" do.
http://www.419eater.com/
 
I once asked a scammer to send their check via Fed-Ex to my address. I gave them the address of our police station. I am sure nothing came of it but it was fun knowing they paid Fed-Ex to deliver a fake check to the police.
 
ame said:
See, this shit really bothers me because I keep getting ghosted on my listing... or scam offers, and there's no way to prevent the scammer shit from happening.
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Hi, can you or someone else please elaborate on what ghosting means? I wonder if this is happening on some of my listings or not.. TIA!=)2
 
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Taurus2313 said:
Hi, can you or someone else please elaborate on what ghosting means? I wonder if this is happening on some of my listings or not.. TIA!=)2
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Ghosting means you've spoken repeatedly with the buyer, worked out an arrangement for them to buy it, and they disappear off the planet, never pay and never reply to you again.
 
Okay, thanks so much @ame! ;)2 I have had people asking me if my item was still available and when I replied yes it was, they disappear like that.. Just wondering if that was related.. Thanks again for clarifying that for me.=)2
 
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Okay, thanks so much @ame! ;)2 I have had people asking me if my item was still available and when I replied yes it was, they disappear like that.. Just wondering if that was related.. Thanks again for clarifying that for me.=)2
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I never know if they're just playing games, were aiming to scam me, or were genuinely interested and decided to get something else.
 
ame said:
I never know if they're just playing games, were aiming to scam me, or were genuinely interested and decided to get something else.
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IKR!!:mrgreen2: It does get frustrating sometimes..
 
I'm guilting of forgetting to respond to emails. I get so many which means the ones I forgot to respond to end up advancing to the next page & I totally forget. :oops2:

I have never been contacted by this person with the cheques but I did want to post on what steps I took to buy the BGD Truth micro pave ring recently. I got lucky but I also had help from Jamie at BGD.

As soon as I saw the listing, I contacted the seller & while waiting for a response, got on live chat with Jamie who asked me to get an order # from the seller. The seller was very prompt & provided the information I asked for. Once I got that #, Jamie confirmed the ring was indeed sold to a person from the State he said he was in & that the initials matched up with the email address he gave me. Jamie said they would arrange for a shipping label to the sellers address & if I wanted to take a chance on the listing, they would help me out in that regard.
I found, through my searching PS, a post for a person looking for a stone with the exact same size that was described that had been set in the ring on the listing which was sold by BGD. The name of the poster was similar to the email I had been given for the PayPal account. Requested an invoice as I was not comfortable with the Friends & Family option & I paid the fees ($13 odd dollars). So with Jamie's help & finding the old threads (he had 2), went ahead with buying the ring. Don't get me wrong, I was a bit anxious to know if I was indeed the owner of an empty box of air or if the box would actually be mailed. It turned out I had a horseshoe up my a** cause the micro pave Truth setting was indeed shipped to BGD. The ring looks more worn than the pics described & I doubt that it was 3 mths of use. I did find the old thread after all. ;)2 Jamie confirmed with me that yes, they have inspected it & the head will need to be replaced because whomever removed the old diamond mangled it a bit. At this point, I don't know what I'm doing with it. I do know that I will have the pink stone replaced & the engraving removed, & ring polished. I'll probably have the head repaired & stick it in the "future projects bag". Had I not had Jamie's help (BIG shout out to her for doing so), & Leslie sending positive vibes the 3 times I got on live chat to find out if the ring was received, LOL, I wouldn't have had the courage to buy an item from a 1 time poster & same day account on LT.
 
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