SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    If you're not careful, you *will* get ripped off online
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
If you're not careful, you *will* get ripped off online Login/Join 
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...880097944#9880097944

Thanks to bayoushooter for outing this Nigerian sack of shit.

Do you see what they're doing, guys? They're coming in, establishing a reputation by posting outside of Classifieds, and then they're pulling their thieving shit.

This is why I do not care if anyone who is attempting to sell items here gets offended because I post in their ad for members to proceed with caution.

If you are not careful, gentlemen, you run a very high risk of being ripped off for hundreds or thousands of dollars.


Be.

Careful.

Be.

Skeptical.


____________________________________________________

"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
 
Posts: 107224 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Conservative Behind
Enemy Lines
Picture of synthplayer
posted Hide Post
Thanks for your vigilance, Para!



I found what you said riveting.
 
Posts: 10695 | Location: SF Bay Area | Registered: June 06, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
And look at this arrogant motherfucker sticking it in our faces:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...900047944#2900047944

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...120047944#1120047944

Now, ain't he just the cleverest little sack of shit ever?


____________________________________________________

"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
 
Posts: 107224 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bolo4tom
posted Hide Post
if I find a weapon im interested in..i cross check all the major gun pages and see if I can find the same pics, different location etc. you cannot be too careful today. good catch
 
Posts: 404 | Registered: October 24, 2018Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
This guy waited months to pull this shit, so, now you know that a few months worth of posts mean nothing in terms of gauging a member's reputation.

I removed another ad he put up just today, for a Nightforce scope, and I removed an ad from five days ago for a Walther pistol, neither of which had any responses in the forum.

I cannot stress this enough- approach all transactions with skepticism. If it doesn't feel right, just walk away.


____________________________________________________

"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
 
Posts: 107224 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Oriental Redneck
Picture of 12131
posted Hide Post
Yeah, there was something about that guy.


Q






 
Posts: 26186 | Location: TEXAS | Registered: September 04, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Thanks Para. The signs were obvious in his reply to me.
 
Posts: 553 | Location: Louisiana | Registered: January 28, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of az4783054
posted Hide Post
embedded troll/scammer


Beware of a man whose only pistol is a 1911, he's probably very good with it.
 
Posts: 11194 | Location: Somewhere north of a hot humid hell in the summer. | Registered: January 09, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bolo4tom
posted Hide Post
I added my gunbroker username and score to my sell ad. I figure an 18+ year history and A+ feedback score will help alleviate any concerns. since im new here, sorta
 
Posts: 404 | Registered: October 24, 2018Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Frangas non Flectes
Picture of P220 Smudge
posted Hide Post
Had a funny feeling about him. Nothing screamed "scam artist" but he pinged my radar as being all over the forum trying to "establish" himself in a forced manner.


______________________________________________
Carthago delenda est
 
Posts: 17043 | Location: Sonoran Desert | Registered: February 10, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Get my pies
outta the oven!

Picture of PASig
posted Hide Post
No pictures on a for sale post is a huge red flag to me.

If you are legit and honest, you'll figure out how to post up a couple of pics.


 
Posts: 33572 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: November 12, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Lead slingin'
Parrot Head
Picture of Modern Day Savage
posted Hide Post
A couple of butterflyeffect post quotes:

"The thing about free Money is that people are gonna keep asking for more".

"Taking advantage of people generosity, SMh. This is as bad as it can be."
 
Posts: 7324 | Location: the Centennial state | Registered: August 21, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bolo4tom
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
No pictures on a for sale post is a huge red flag to me.

If you are legit and honest, you'll figure out how to post up a couple of pics.



that shouldn't neccesarily be a flag, I don't use photobucket anymore and haven't found a new one to use yet. they're just a PIA but I always offer my email to request pics.
 
Posts: 404 | Registered: October 24, 2018Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Ammoholic
Picture of Skins2881
posted Hide Post
How did you figure it out? He doesn't talk like a typical Nigeria scam artist.

One thing I noticed was in this thread he says he buys ammunition locally at a Las Vegas store but listed his location as Pennsylvania.



Jesse

Sic Semper Tyrannis
 
Posts: 20742 | Location: Loudoun County, Virginia | Registered: December 27, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Leatherneck
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:
A couple of butterflyeffect post quotes:

"The thing about free Money is that people are gonna keep asking for more".

"Taking advantage of people generosity, SMh. This is as bad as it can be."


This one from the favorite quotes thread is very fitting:

quote:
“Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for" - Jack Sparrow.


https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...900047944#2900047944




“Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014
 
Posts: 15249 | Location: Florida | Registered: May 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Jack of All Trades;
Master of None
Picture of Tomkat
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by bolo4tom:

that shouldn't neccesarily be a flag, I don't use photobucket anymore and haven't found a new one to use yet. they're just a PIA but I always offer my email to request pics.


Try imgur.com.


_________________________________________________________________________
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
 
Posts: 3518 | Location: Big Sky Country | Registered: December 19, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of bolo4tom
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Tomkat:


Try imgur.com.


thanks, ill give that one a try this evening.
 
Posts: 404 | Registered: October 24, 2018Reply With QuoteReport This Post
The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by bolo4tom:
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
No pictures on a for sale post is a huge red flag to me.

If you are legit and honest, you'll figure out how to post up a couple of pics.



that shouldn't neccesarily be a flag, I don't use photobucket anymore and haven't found a new one to use yet. they're just a PIA but I always offer my email to request pics.


Yea, its a big flag. You are claiming 18+ years of selling on gunbroker but finding a replcement for photobucket is too hard? Most people here figured it out in order to post cat pictures yet you can't figure it out for business?

You may not see it, but that is a hugh bright red flag and its waving like theres a hurricane going on.



“We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna

"I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally."
-Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management

 
Posts: 3835 | Location: Jacksonville, FL | Registered: September 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Peace through
superior firepower
Picture of parabellum
posted Hide Post
So, he registered in July and posted for four months n the forum, establishing a reputation. Then, he posted three ads last five days and failed to rip anyone off.

In other words, he wasted his own time, and now that you see the pattern, be very wary, very skeptical. If a deal doesn't feel right- anything at all- then, just walk away.

If it's too good to be true, it's just that- not true.


____________________________________________________

"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
 
Posts: 107224 | Registered: January 20, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Not really from Vienna
Picture of arfmel
posted Hide Post
He always struck me as a little bit “fishy” too. But I’m curious about how he was planning to run this scam if he posted that he wouldn’t ship in his ad? Doesn’t that leave a FTF transaction as the only choice remaining?
 
Posts: 26846 | Location: Jerkwater, Texas | Registered: January 30, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 2 3 4 5 6  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    If you're not careful, you *will* get ripped off online

© SIGforum 2024