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Post by admin on Jan 11, 2013 17:21:28 GMT -8
Everybody is doing a fantastic job of tracking down these scammers. I'm proud of you. This forum is our secret weapon!
I just want to ask one favor: after you find a bad Classifieds ad, post it here with a link or send me an email with a link.
Thanks!
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Post by creobroter on Nov 29, 2013 13:52:47 GMT -8
what about irrelevant ads? I have this month noticed an ad for a tiger and bank loans in the Lepidoptera section
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Post by admin on Nov 30, 2013 12:52:04 GMT -8
Yeah, we do get some of those. Rather humorous.
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Post by mikelock34 on May 6, 2015 3:50:50 GMT -8
Clark,
There is a person advertising in the classifieds who has stolen thousands of dollars from myself and from other forum members. His name is greg watson a.k.a. roger wilcox. From my personal experience, he has stolen many thousands of dollars from me by offering specimens that he does not actually have. He gets prepayment for the specimens then never sends the specimens or money back to the buyer.
Michael Lockwood
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Post by mygos on May 6, 2015 12:28:46 GMT -8
You again Michael ?
A+, Michel
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Post by admin on May 11, 2015 21:36:27 GMT -8
Clark, There is a person advertising in the classifieds who has stolen thousands of dollars from myself and from other forum members. His name is greg watson a.k.a. roger wilcox. From my personal experience, he has stolen many thousands of dollars from me by offering specimens that he does not actually have. He gets prepayment for the specimens then never sends the specimens or money back to the buyer. Michael Lockwood Thanks for posting. His ads have been removed and his posting IP blocked. |
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Post by sanphilep on Jul 18, 2016 4:05:08 GMT -8
I have been lately corresponding with Thierry Sone from Cameroon and he offered me goliath beetles for a reasonable price.
After showing me his ID card and I copied it on my PC I paid him.Now he is vanished and will not reply to my correspondence.
Do you have any reports about this person.
Thanks
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jul 18, 2016 4:28:14 GMT -8
sanphilep,
Sorry to hear about your problem. You should start a new thread in the trading reports with the seller's name in the subject line. That will attract more attention from members than putting it inside this thread.
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Post by Paul K on Jul 18, 2016 5:02:21 GMT -8
ID card ?
Most likely it is fake and even if real one so what would you think you could do with your copy?
File a small claim court ?
Sorry to say but forget the whole think and move on
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Post by admin on Jul 18, 2016 15:09:34 GMT -8
I have been lately corresponding with Thierry Sone from Cameroon and he offered me goliath beetles for a reasonable price. After showing me his ID card and I copied it on my PC I paid him.Now he is vanished and will not reply to my correspondence. Do you have any reports about this person. Thanks Did you find Sone form ads posted in our Insect Classifieds? If so, please give me the Ad number. |
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Post by ckswank on Nov 16, 2016 17:05:33 GMT -8
Noticed an ad a few minutes ago selling African Lepidoptera with a California address. IP come back from Cameroon. Ad Number: 35841
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Post by admin on Nov 17, 2016 11:44:21 GMT -8
Noticed an ad a few minutes ago selling African Lepidoptera with a California address. IP come back from Cameroon. Ad Number: 35841 He has some other ads up for Goliathus. Anybody know this vendor? |
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Post by mothman27 on Nov 26, 2016 5:57:29 GMT -8
There is a add for "very affordable Goliathus" from Los Angeles with an IP from Cameroon
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Post by admin on Nov 27, 2016 8:41:23 GMT -8
There is a add for "very affordable Goliathus" from Los Angeles with an IP from Cameroon It is a common mistake for non-English speakers to forget to select their Country correctly in the ads. The default is United States and some posters fail to change it. |
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Post by hyalophora on Sept 26, 2017 18:08:03 GMT -8
Watch out for Serge Alain Ebelle. posting adds for saturnidae when asked for images of sikmoth cocoons he sent back images of the wrong species, twice! here is the add:  |
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Post by admin on Sept 27, 2017 10:17:49 GMT -8
Watch out for Serge Alain Ebelle. posting adds for saturnidae when asked for images of sikmoth cocoons he sent back images of the wrong species, twice! here is the add: Download AttachmentThank you for the report. I deleted that ad and blocked the IP. |
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Post by kelebekji on Feb 10, 2018 3:10:29 GMT -8
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Post by greybeard on Apr 7, 2019 2:20:21 GMT -8
To Clark,
I sent the fraudulent trader notice for Ji Sung Koo a few days ago, and the first three comments were thinly veiled insults. Don't have a particularly thin skin, and it was certainly not my best behavior to attempt what I did, but come on. If this is typical of treatment of new information such as this, then I am working in the wrong place with not so nice people.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 7, 2019 6:49:59 GMT -8
Mike, Clark was bought out quite a while ago now, admin is now called Olivier. Sorry you had a bad experience and received some unfriendly seeming feedback when trying to warn everyone, but I suspect the posters meant well even though some of their comments seemed rather harsh. One problem is that the first comment came from a non-native English speaker, which may have made the phraseology rather poor. To be honest, members who have been on here a number of years have seen the same old scams time after time, and they probably assume that it is obvious to everyone that it must be a scam. The only difference this time was that the payment wasn't sent to "Mary Flickr" of Indiana by Moneygram. Adam. |
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Post by greybeard on Apr 18, 2019 1:40:52 GMT -8
Adam,
The Korean guy that recently scammed me has a new ad up in the Cassified's.
"Ji Sung Koo." and he again is advertising Actias dubernardi and chapae as he did before.
FYI!
Mike in Tucson
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 18, 2019 6:49:31 GMT -8
Adam, The Korean guy that recently scammed me has a new ad up in the Cassified's. "Ji Sung Koo." and he again is advertising Actias dubernardi and chapae as he did before. FYI! Mike in Tucson Thank you very much for posting the warning here and in your thread. Hopefully Olivier will deal with it if he's not away for the holidays. I cannot help directly as I can only moderate the forum, not the classifieds. Adam. |
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 18, 2019 13:31:44 GMT -8
Please send a link towards the fraudulent ads.
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