Scammers Wading Thru Our Classifieds, Don't get swindled! Options

[lepetitmartien]

A few members have given us proofs that some scammers are trying to swindle people here. They usually contact sellers of items to propose them some serious material under false identities/nationalities.

The mechanism is this one: Mr Scam contacts you, want's to buy your stuff. He has some complicate story upon some money a guy must pay him for some time etc. The third guy will pay for your material and you should send the difference to the buyer.

I'm talking about a $700 transaction transforming into a $4000 one!

No need to tell in the end, you are short of $3300…

A news will be on MM very shortly, I have banned already a few avatars of these guys, if you fell something is fishy with a buyer/seller, be very cautious. Don't accept Western Union for exemple. A short list of do/don't will be available too.

In need ask me for counsel here.
These guys don't belong to our musical world

[brybon]

I too have met up with these same scammers on a different audio classifieds webpage. (They wouldn't even mention the scammer problem on their website, so I don't intend to publicize them here!)

Nevertheless, the names of the two scammers who contacted me were Noble Store and Peter Wreth. Both claimed to be from England. Store wanted me to ship $100 worth of audio tape to Nigeria for $9000 (!) and Peter wanted to send me $2000 and then have me give $1800 to his "agent", who would pick up the tape at my house.

Peter Wreth's email is < aidanbutler08@hotmail.com > and Noble Store's is < noblestorelimited@yahoo.com >

The odd deals weren't offered at the beginning, BTW. I merely asked them a few questions about audio and could easily see that they were not of our field.

I have no way of knowing if they work together, or are the same person, or will ever use those names or email addresses again, but I DID want to share this information with all of you..

"Peter Wreth" just tried to buy my BMW and wants it shipped to England! Definately watch out for this one! He also signs email with both Peter and Aidan. My Bank is tracking the cashier's check that he sent and then forwarding it on to the FBI. Just thought I would chime in!

[lepetitmartien]

Thanks for the hints

[lepetitmartien]

Note for everyone

we just banned a member using two IDs here: silvrmbr and nsgoit

He tries to sell a neumann, you send the money and no more answers. If you have done so a 2 of our members, please contact your police service in charge of this!
We keep the records we have for the police if need be.

Please : no direct deposit beyond small sums. Use a money escrow system! No money transfers, no paypal, no checks! This way you can't be stollen.

[lepetitmartien]

I've just made a blog post (my first) to sum up what to check, what to do, where to go… to be extended, translated.

[Mark Owen]

Hi,

This scammer's pretty careless so I don't think the police will have too much trouble picking him up.

He was using silvrmbr (Silver Member) and nsgoit (Noise Gate) advertising Neumann U87 vintage, claiming it was used only for guitar.

Here are the details he provided in case he tries it out again:

Name : CEDRIC FLOCH
Address: 42 rue saint pierre 26200 Montélimar FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0)6 88 05 99 46
Bank Name : CAISSE D' EPARGNE

Stick with the echrow!

[lepetitmartien]

I've just banned other identities of him, no classifieds linked to them seemingly.

[lepetitmartien]

He's banned under the logins:

silvrmbr
southerndeathstyle
stangelox
amazzic
nsgoit
zikornus
vintolin
griinlite
wendygogone

If any of you have been trading with these, please contact me ASAP. We're on the watch as to prevent him to do more harm, and will do what we can to learn him not to f… up with our members.

[lepetitmartien]

Just added new logins to the list above. We have already 3 members swindled, be very careful: no money transfer !!!!!!