BEWARE I Think I Got SCAMMED

Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Dang Jimmy
>
> I cant believe the guy sent a letter with no money
> and made a joke of it...
>
> It will come back to haunt him gurantee that!
>
> You got to be careful ..
>
> Ive got a guy right now that has owed me 75.00
> dollars for over 4 years now....I bought a coil
> form him and he told me so many things that had
> happened that he jsut could not come up with my
> 75.00 to give it back after he said the coil did
> not work and was not comfortable selling it to
> me???
>
> He was Out fo Kentucky...
>
> Now Im in bad mood thinking about it...And
> reliving my anger...Hope the machine was not too
> expensive..
>
> Keith


Keith-------Was that Mike Hibbs out of Kentucky?------He's been a bad news boy to a LOT of people.

Oh O.K.

Now I see ..LOL!!

well at least it turned out good...all in fun!

I missed the price too...750.00..I thought maybe it was like a compadre or something..

If it was I might of done the same thing and let the guy have till payday?

Hey Del

The Guys name is Mitch Stevens...

Keith

jimmyjiver Wrote:
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> Hi,,,,A few weeks ago I sold a metal detector on
> Craigslist for $750.00....A guy answered my ad via
> e-mail and said he would take it and wondered if I
> could hold it for him until he gets paid
> Friday....I answered him back and said no problem,
> we then exchanged addresses etc..... Well the next
> day Tuesday morning, I found out that I had to be
> in his area in the late evening, which was about
> 80 or 90 miles away from my house....Instead of
> waiting and having to mail the detector to him, I
> sent him an e-mail in the morning and told him I
> could just drop it off to him and he could mail me
> the money when he gets paid....Shortly after that
> he answered back and agreed it was a real good
> idea (LoL) and he told me he could just mail a
> money order out Saturday since he gets paid
> Friday.... Trusting him, I wrote back and
> replied,,hey buddy no problem see you
> later....Later I drove up to his area and took
> care of my business first then headed to his place
> to drop the detector off....It was almost dark
> when I pulled into his really in bad shape
> driveway.. He was already outside to greet me so
> we just sat in my car and conversed....We talked a
> bit about detecting & the detector etc., then I
> gave him my address etc. and handed him the
> detector and left.....Read on.....I should of
> added up all these suspicious signs that it was a
> SCAM ahead of time....LoL....Red Flag #1 He lived
> way out in the country with no neighbors close by
> in a very under maintained trailer house....Red
> Flag #2 He had a cheap throw away ceIl phone where
> he bought his minutes and done his e-mailing
> from....Red Flag #3 No cars in the grown up
> driveway....Now on to the actual SCAM....Red Flag
> #4 Days later I actually did get a letter from him
> but with no return address....And finally this is
> what he said in the letter and the actual
> SCAM....Red Flag #5 "Thanks for the detector
> buddy,I think I'm going to really enjoy using the
> detector....I would of enclosed the money order
> but I already sealed up the envelope..LoL..Take
> care things are tough all over".....I'm still
> wondering if I would not of contacted him and
> offered to drop the detector off, how was he going
> to work the SCAM?....Why did he even mail a
> letter?....Yesterday I drove down to his place and
> boy it sure looked really junkie in broad
> daylight....Of course no one was around....I then
> drove into town and contacted the police about the
> incident....I gave them the address etc. & they
> knew exactly the place I was talking about....They
> said that place has been abandoned for years and
> the county owns it now....As far as the cell phone
> tracing etc. goes they said it would cost a lot
> more to get cell phone records,court etc. than
> it's worth.....I have to admit the money & sealed
> envelope statement is kinda a funny..LoL...Just
> click on the link below if you want to see the
> place and PLEASE be on the lookout for this type
> of SCAM......JJ
>
>
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wasn't fooled! didn't think you was that stupid to give him the detector without
securing funds first...great story though!..ehe! he! he! he!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Oh O.K.
>
> Now I see ..LOL!!
>
> well at least it turned out good...all in fun!
> That Mike H
> I missed the price too...750.00..I thought maybe
> it was like a compadre or something..
>
> If it was I might of done the same thing and let
> the guy have till payday?
>
> Hey Del
>
> The Guys name is Mitch Stevens...
>
> Keith


Yeah, I remember that Mitch Stevens guy to.----He was causing a bunch of problems with dealings over there on Findmall.-------That Mike Hibbs character came so close to ripping me off on the price of a F-70 (I had sent him the USPO m.o.).----To make a long & terrible story short--we finally threatened to hit him with mail fraud & he changed his tune--we got our money back.-----He did succeed in ripping poor old Richard (Backwoods Detectors) off---to this day Richard hasn't gotten his money out of him.---There has been other "victims" also.----Watch out for these two characters guys----they are BAD NEWS!

craigslist is absolutely full of scammers and conmen from all over the place i wouldnt trust any buyers on there ,many of them are in Lagos Nigeria using fake photos and credentials .319s are on there aplenty

While we are the subject of scammer's,I heard that guy named Terry Lamb is bad news! I almost. bought a detector off him. At the last minute I didn't pull the trigger as something didn't seem rite. I did some research later and found out he was a scammer with a few alliase's so watch out and if something doesn't feel rite for any reason don't purchase.

Never take a check do a postal money order

LowBoy

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Even though Feebay/PayPal hits you w the 20% there's something to be said IRT peace of mind and protection from scammers and their there to.

Gotta be careful w everything and everybody. "Heck, one never knows"...I even bought a "bum" machine off someone on this forum....

Aaron



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2014 04:12PM by Aaron.

JJ you sure got me all day yesterday felt terrible for you, Then this morning here see you were only pulling our chain.

Why you rascal! May your next gold jewelry find be stamped 14K yet be fake

Paul (Ca)

Now that it is April second, let us forgive and forget. No more BS for a year! Right?

Tom (Sigh)

Past(or)Tom
Using a Legend, a Deus 2, an Equinox 800, a Tarsacci MDT 8000, & a few others...
with my beloved, fading Corgi, Sadie

I wouldn't count on it.......

That absolutely sucks. Sorry for your loss. We all make mistakes. Never do that again buddy. Sorry

Another one bites the dust....Digger, click the link in the orig post.