Scammer copying classified posts!!!

[Adam Cotton]

Here are 2 ads posted in the Lepidoptera livestock classifieds, one after the other:

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6699&query=retrieval

Date Posted: 10/04/2012
Expires On: 11/03/2012
Ad Number: 6699

Ad Information

Category: Lepidoptera

Subcategories: Livestock

Description

I have for sale many huge healthy Inphiclides podalirius aleramica pupae. Price is . 40 Euro each.
12 pupae 42 euro
50 pupae 170 euro
paypal+5%

Regards,
franco
Contact Information

Contact: franco crespi
Location: concordia s\s, modena
italia
Telephone:
E-Mail: [e-mail]

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6707&query=retrieval

Date Posted: 10/05/2012
Expires On: 01/03/2013
Ad Number: 6707

Ad Information

Category: Lepidoptera

Subcategories: Livestock

Description

I have for sale many huge healthy Inphiclides podalirius aleramica pupae. Price is . $60each.
12 pupae $62
50 pupae $250
contact for details
Regards.
Contact Information

Contact: mellisa wam
Location: yukon, arizona

Telephone:
E-Mail: [e-mail]



The first advert, from a well known breeder of Italian Papilionidae included a photo of the 5th instar larva of Iphiclides podalirinus. The second advert had no photo, and exactly the same text and spelling errors as the first. Only the price has been changed to $, presumably because the seller claims to be in the USA (although I don't think "Yukon" is actually in Arizona!).

This "seller" has put up a few suspicious ads in the past few days. BEWARE it is obviously a scam.

Adam.

[Adam Cotton]

Here's another ad from the same scammer, but offering livestock of the rarest Caribbean Papilios, and claming to be in Washington this time:

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6682&query=retrieval

Date Posted: 10/04/2012
Expires On: 01/02/2013
Ad Number: 6682

Ad Information

Category: Lepidoptera

Subcategories: Livestock

Description

we have good fresh quality ova of the following rare papilionidae specimens ...
Papilio oxynius ,Papilio caiguanabus, Papilio aristodemus bjordardalae , Papilio aristodemus majasi , Papilio aristodemus from washington .

we also have good quality of other papilionidae from Trinidad and Togago, French Guyana and many south American countries . get to us for details.
Contact Information

Contact: mellisa wam
Location: yukon, washington 20001

Telephone:
E-Mail: [e-mail]

[thanos]

''bjordardalae''

She/he 'killed' bjorndalae..Hahahaha, they are not only obvious, but funny, too .


Thanos

[joee30]

I bet the money will have to be sent western union to Cameroon or Tanzania because they are on a collecting trip there, and those species are probably very abundant there. what a bunch of idiots, but the bigger idiots are the people that fall for ads like these.

[wollastoni]

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=7007&query=retrieval

And today this guy is so stupid, he can't even select a picture of a real butterfly...
Of course he will pretend to send them for free to you but he will ask money for shipping cost first...

[wojturo]

Here is copy of my add, the guy also took my photo:

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=;search_and_display_db_button=on;db_id=7178;query=retrieval


This is oryginal add I had posted:
classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6946&query=retrieval

and photo is from my Ebay auction


Wojciech

[joee30]

I feel bad for the poor sap that will far for this scammers trick. The more people fall for their lies and send money for rare bugs at ridiculously cheap prices, how can you go wrong? It is sad indeed.