scam alert

[norm43]

Scam alert computer parts

I 'm just postin to create an awareness of a possible scammer in the name of tommyboy.I paid for a computer part to tommyboy emt on the 1st of april have not received anything yet.We agreed on expresspost which would have been 1-2 days fron brampton to oshawa.I have given him the benefit of the doubt waitin all this time with almost no replies to my pms..Actually he replied only once thurs.the 6th to tell me he sent it on the 5th.I still havent received anything yet and will be going to the police..I know he must be readin this and laughin well have a good laugh its not goin to last fraud is a crime .
He doesnt answer my phone calls ignore my emails....
So untill this matter is resolved dont do business with tommyboy...this is his thread its still active
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272343

Norm

[Super strokey]

bummer duder

[Oversized Rooster]

Sounds possible - the guy has 6 posts only and no feedback.

[gamer123]

I'd give him another week. After that, leave him a message that if no response, legal actions (ex: calling police) will be taken.

[VirusSyn]

:arrowu: bump hope you get this figured out, 6 posts with no heat no log sinec april 1st, is kinda sketchy

[edgedamage]

Always do face to face.

[norm43]

I wouldnt think nothin off it if he would answer his cell and tell me even he needs some time to get stuff of the computer.But nothin no replies to pms no replies to emails nothin...

Even if he simply just told me to wait but nothin...

Norm

[lowryeder1]

hey Norm - got his address? i'll drive you out to Brampton on Sarurday and do the nose to nose thing!

[tim-x]

i'm frightened by the internet.

[Noob1ee]

Sorry to hear that Norm, hope you get it resolved soon...keep this thread up!

[speedracer]

i was in process of buying the x2 4200 from him, was going to go down to his location in Oshawa, he told me he'd contact me about the place and time he'd meet up with me two sundays ago, however, I never hear back from him, thus PM him to ask what's up... still got "1 unconfirmed private message receipt" for that PM.

edit: just noticed "norm43" is from Oshawa, and said the guy is from Brampton, sorry dude, I think this guy is scammer for sure.

[anabeces]

Tommyboy
Newbie
Last Activity: Apr 1st, 2006 03:58 PM
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you got scammed big time.

[7jaii]

Scammers go away!

[AHHHRT]

Dude, that really sucks. I'm located in Brampton, so if you need any help, feel free to shoot me something.

[balou911]

sorry to hear that man.

damn shame.

[Happy13178]

Agreed. For all the newbies out there, if you're dealing with payment online via EMT, paypal, etc and getting items shipped, don't send any money unless the guy has very good heatware and/or you get ALL personal contact info verified. That means a phone number you can reverse trace to an address, a name attached to a bank account, etc. If you're not sure, don't go through with the trade. Meet face to face and build up a heatware rep.

[squall458]

ouch, sorry to hear that, bump for exposure

[dkmwong]

:arrowu:

[BUGNUT]

I feel for ya bro. Been there. Now I only do local face to face transactions and whenever possible see what I'm buying installed and running before $$$ changes hands.

[xwar]

sucks dude. I hope u find him

[stdu007]

sorry to hear that man :confused: ... hope you gonna have your thing's this week ... and maybe it is just night mare ...

[norm43]

He seems legit i know all he has to do is call or answer my calls...I have his cell and to know he doesnt answr makes me wonder..

Norm

[norm43]

Oh its traceable wrong on your part ..
Norm

[VirusSyn]

you live, you learn
agreed once i got ripped on a ipod:( i learned my lesson really fast, good luck though man hope you find him and get your items

[machiavelli]

doesn't look good for you norm. free bump is the least I could do.

[Hogo]

Sorry to hear man, but i live in brampton too...Might be time to pay this guy a visit...

[cfgunner]

Good for all the Bramptonites to come out and show support.

[speedracer]

Please read my last post... norm43 lives in Oshawa, so tommyboy says he lives im Brampton... I told tommyboy I live in Markham, he told me he lives in Oshawa... I do not think he lives in Brampton, nor Oshawa...

[MARZ]

This sucks, but why the hell would you give a guy with no H/W and only six posts so much cash?

Newbies learn by this unfortunate mistake

[ALstonLoong]

bishhhhhh another scam ! :evil:

[tim-x]

I just don't know how someone can rip someone else off like that. I mean, being discourteous is one thing, but to deliberately try to steal money from other honest people is so despicable. I hope you get this guy and he pays his penance.
bump

[Siefer999]

in his sale thread he says hes from toronto...

someone also said they saw him on bigfoot. maybe theyre after his ***** too.

[evanx]

This is disgusting. Isn't there a way to complain to the bank? Like trace the account for fraud.

[AK47]

let's find him and chop his arms off :evil:

...or not

dealing in person is the best way

[buffet boy]

i almost always deal in person, unless:

1) I get money emt'd first

2) I am shipping a low-value item ($50 or less)


Plus, I don't buy anything without seeing it first. The rare exception was again small items, such as some led fans or what not.

[rename]

sorry to hear that, I hope you'd find the guy man... good luck


warning on HoFo
http://www.howardforums.com/announcement.php?f=152

this happens lots of time on this kind of situations. I wish ppl are more friendly and carefull as well.

[micl]

hey guys kinda new to this online banking, paypal thing, my question is that if you pay someone through paypal for an item agreed upon through a forum for example, and they don't come through, can you get your money back? kinda in the process of buying something but the guy wants me to paypal him before we meet, communication not the greatest either. . .thanks guys/gals

[machiavelli]

hey guys kinda new to this online banking, paypal thing, my question is that if you pay someone through paypal for an item agreed upon through a forum for example, and they don't come through, can you get your money back? kinda in the process of buying something but the guy wants me to paypal him before we meet, communication not the greatest either. . .thanks guys/gals
You got no protection from a private transaction. I'ts not like buying something from ebay and he has the Paypal logo on his listing which means you got some sort of protection from Paypal themselves.

[norm43]

I wish he was sometime to get back to me.I have been tryin to figure why would someone do this on this kind of board.I will get to he bottom of it....dont deal with him till i do..

Norm

[Happy13178]

Yeah, bigfoot modified his thread to warn off people dealing with him. Spread the word to any other forums he may try.

[Nubee]

Posting the link to bigfoot BST (http://forums.bigfootcomputers.com/showthread.php?t=19642) for those curious members.

[evanx]

hey guys kinda new to this online banking, paypal thing, my question is that if you pay someone through paypal for an item agreed upon through a forum for example, and they don't come through, can you get your money back? kinda in the process of buying something but the guy wants me to paypal him before we meet, communication not the greatest either. . .thanks guys/gals
Ask to meet somewhere with internet computers. Then perform the trnsaction in front of each other. Remember to clear history and cache.

[ALstonLoong]

I wish he was sometime to get back to me.I have been tryin to figure why would someone do this on this kind of board.I will get to he bottom of it....dont deal with him till i do..

Norm


why on this kind of forum ? well simple enough , cuase here has no police. Is easy for them to get away from it after scam.

[micl]

You got no protection from a private transaction. I'ts not like buying something from ebay and he has the Paypal logo on his listing which means you got some sort of protection from Paypal themselves.

so if i ask him to put it on ebay, i'll be safe? thanks

[mariachi81]

BUMP

Sorry to hear Norm, that could have been me in your position. LOL, he told me he was from Oshawa and wanted to meet in TO. He probably got the idea from Brampton because that's where I told him I was from. Hope he gets caught soon. FYI on the bigfoot forums, in one of his old posts, someone vouched for him as a good trader, you might want to contact this person and see if you can get some more contact info.

[poppa]

Wouldn't be surprised if he (scammer) replies with either:

Death in the family or out of country. It's always one of these that befalls scammers...

[norm43]

Hi i am pretty close to him now its just a matter of time and when i do he will either give me my money and more or pay the court costs because its all on record ...His choice wait till i come to him or come forward as someone who di dsomethin wrong and try to forget it or go on till he his is caught..

norm

[LeeBoA]

hm... best advice... Never ever emt liek that to newbies, and think of reasons why maybe a newbie would sell expensive stuff first? This doesnt apply to all users, but for myself i always research the guy, possible feedbacks, basically anything that would come to my mind that might be a scam. Research his last posts, and local meet up with newbies. Also communicating with them through msn will also help you out if its a possible scam or not. This is because ive caught about 3scams from msn conversations,, when the guy cant reply back after hes been talking non-stop. Its one of those scamming tactics.. Anyhow, im really tired, i dont evne know if what i wrote makes sense. GL

[Balthzar]

Hi I am new here but I am a seller on a number of other forums. But I just got an Email from a guy asking me if I was trying to sell him somthing.

Apparantly there is some idiot using my Heatware and username (username on a number of other forums)

my heatware id is Bal`thzar and so is my user name on most other forums that I frequent.

IF you have been contacted by a user named Bal`thzar on this forum (he apparantly signed up today) he is a scam artist trying to bilk some people using my rep.

[sjt]

A person name Bal`thzar offered me two of the things I wanted in my WTB posts and it was easy to tell there was a scam from the very general reponses I got. Could only ship and couldn't provide photos. I see they are now banned.

By the way, do PM's from banned members get deleted from your inbox automatically?

[Dennis_Ottawa]

Man that sucks to hear. I am in the opposite boat. I am new to this board and am still reluctant to do my first transaction. Plus being from Ottawa doesn't help when most sellers are from Toronto. :(