BEWARE. I know its partly my fault but i was selling a part on this site and a guy said he wanted to buy it. He sent me a check for the part and for the delivery fee (which i stated would be paid by buyer) but he had set up the delivery company. I deposited the money in my account waited for the check to clear and the western union'd the money to the shipper. It was picked up that day. The next day the guy called me said the delivery guy did not get the money. i emailed him copies of the reciept showing it had been picked up.that was 2 days ago and im still waiting for a responce.

His screen name was something like willy billy and email "willy billy" <w_i_l_l_y_01@yahoo.com>. If anyone has info on this guy or the administrators of this site have anything from when he created an account please let me know.

You might want to PM this message to Al

im pretty new here. whos AL?

So let me get this straight. You sold an item to this "buyer" but he offered to give you more than it's worth as long as you send him the rest of the money via western union?

yes, it is a good lesson when you deposit the check in your bank account and it takes a few days to "clear" before it shows up in your account means nothing. This just happened today so my bank cant tell me why they are just saying the money is getting pulled back from the other financial institute.

Al and Dot own the site.
Sounds like it was a scam from the get go when ever anyone deals with western union. and send money back should have raised a big red flag with that one.

Hi. We have been running warnings about this guy.

http://www.chevelles.com/classifieds/scamalert.html

Sorry to hear about this, I don't know how else we can communicate about these guys. They are all over the place.

Beware!
From Glen:
I have received a email that this person is interested in this item. his email address is w_i_l_l_y_01@yahoo.com. his name is Billy. iam selling my item for 100.00 plus shipping. he sent me a check for 3000.00. that is way more then the selling price. I received his check by ups with a po box address. he had called my house a few hours after delivery inquiring about the check and what to do with it. I was not home when he called. I have a feeling that this guy is trying to steel peoples identity. if you could pass this on to you members that would be greatHe was banned the same day that he showed up. username: w_i_l_l_y

Al that link is dead.
Sorry, we can't find the file: /scamalert.html

I also added that link to ALL the pages when posting a forsale or wanted ad.

krisk. He is working out of Amsterdam from what I can tell.

Lessons to be learned:

1-Don't accept more payment than required
2-Don't use Western Union
3-Don't use their delivery company

Sorry to hear you lost your money. You now know.

I just went through all this a few times with racing junk. Like Bry said, Never use western union. The last guy to try to burn me said he was from out of the U.S. but found out he was a group of college kids in, I think it was Missouri. (I was In the Army and used some favors from C.I.D.) If anyone does this again, don't open the UPS envelope they send you, or at least limit who touches it and take it right to the police so they can isolate finger prints. The college guys got a little freaked out when I said what they were doing and where they lived. Satllites (sp?) are a wonderful thing.

hahaha

Kris,

They did not pick it up...infact i am confuse and my client is really mad at me and i was thinking if you can help with $500 so i can add some money and send it to the new shipper in london ....

here is the shipper info
NAME................IDOWU OGUNKOYA
ADDRESS..........12 HARWELL GROOVE
WINFORD CHESHIRE
CUM 3UR UNITED KINGDOM

AND YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME WITH THE TRANSFER DETAILS ASAP..

AND THE MUST PAINFUL THING IS THAT I JUST LOST MY GRANDMOTHER LASTNIGHT KRIS I AM CONFUSED ......JUST HELP ME AS A BROTHER OKAY..MY CLIENT IS READY TO TAKE ME TO COURT...HELP HELP ME

I WILL AWAIT THE TRANSFER DETAILS

REGARDS

Don't laugh, I'm deadly serious.

Maybe you could get some revenge on him by using tactics like http://www.thescambaiter.com/ does.Send him another "part" that he has to pay shipping on,like a bad washing machine or something.

Tell him you feel sorry for him and to make things better between the 2 of you as friends, your going to send him a bunch of good parts Take photos of good parts, then tell him he has to pay for the shipping and send him a washing machine filled with concrete, so what happens now is he will think he is getting all the parts and when he pays for the shipping cost around $3000 to ship it to UK and pays for it and gets a nice concrete filled washing machine.

Man, I thought I was ruthless! I got nothing on you guys!:thumbsup:

He'll still just pay it with bad cashiers check! Thats what someone did when they hit my "Buy it now" on my '57 chevy 2yrs ago. Only I didn't go for it, and I turned it in. You can say what you want about the CIA, SS, etc... They aren't going to do anything about it! It is happening all over and they can't keep up with it, your on your own.
Pat

earthquake68 i wasnt laughing at what you wrote i was lauging because what i posted he emailed me again for more money.

Am i a scam magnet?


"sam monsurat" <monsurat_sam4@yahoo.com>


Hello,
Am interested in purchased your item
without no delay of purchased the item , i will mind
purchasing the item with the final prices of the
item and get back to me if the item price is firm.
So i want you to know that the item will be
purchased at a final price and before i proceeding to
purchase the item , i will like to ask you little
question about the item .


[1.] Do you accept a ( Cashier Check / Money Order )
as a mode of payment?

[ 2. ] What is the final asking prize you can go at
last?

[3] Will you let our shipping company to come to you
house for the pick up of the item cos we don't want
you to worry yourself about the shipping of the item
.

[4 ] You are to send your NAME,ADDRESS,TEL # to mail
out the payment today.

[ 5. ] Will you be able to send the excess fund back
to the shipping company via western union money
transfer same day you recieve and cash the check for
the arrangement of the home pick up from your house
down to my client.shippment. i'll like this
transaction to be kept in utmost trust
Thanks

NB: if you have sold the item you can get back to me
with another item which i will purchase it with out
any further delay.

Krisk. They work in groups. When one gets a sucker on the line. The others start to make offers.

You can always tell a scamer, they word the responce a certain way, you ever notice that? They ask you questions that are already answered in your ad, and want to give you all kinds of extra money for "shipping" It doesn't take $2000 to ship a wiper motor overseas. (you get the idea) When people try to scam you as much as they tried me, it'll get very clear who's trying to pull a fast one. Almost lost a $13,000 dragster chassis like that. Fortunately, my bank was the one who caught that one. They take 10 days to clear large checks. Thank god or I'd be @$$ out right now. Another thing, ever notice they'll ask if you want a money order or whatever, and no matter what you say, they'll send a check. I'll contact them when I get one and tell them "I shredded the check. I asked for a money order. If you can get to a computer, you can get to a post office!" I'll get off my soap box now, just some things I had to deal with, maybe it'll help someone else when it happens to them.

www.thescambaiter.com

these guys prey on the scammers.

I believe this sort of thing is the beginning of the end for online selling, and associated sites like Ebay. If there is a solution out there, we need our best and brightest working to find it, otherwise, e commerce will be nothing but a footnote in the future. The problem is you cant control who is on the other end responding to an online ad. It seems like as soon as they "solve" one scam or as people become widely aware of it, another two crop up to take its place. Its really kind of depressing, because the 95% of us who are honest folks are the ones who will suffer the most. The computer and the internet are great tools with great potential for both lawful and unlawful activity. The problem is that when peoples perceptions of anything change for the worse, then it is like unscrambling an egg to change that perception back again.