Recently posted a WTB ad on the buy & sell here and the EE on another forum. Had lots of positive and helpful responses pointing me in the right direction but I also got a suspicious one too.
Seller joined this month and had ZERO POSTS!!
I was VERY skeptical but decided to do some sleuthing.
I asked for pictures and got some off of a retail site in ON. BIG FLAG!!
I asked why he was selling and he said it was to fund something else & that the gun was "presented to him" by his father in law. Who sells a gift? Who sells a collectable like a CZ Canadian Edition and who uses the term "presented to"? MORE FLAGS!!
Phone number was from an escort service in Winnipeg.
BEWARE OF SELLERS USING 204-514-5874
I told the mods about this and they told me the IP address he was using was from BC. This guy told me that he was from
RIVERTON MB. If you search these forums apparently the scammers use this town in their stories all the time. So BEWARE of sellers claiming to be from Riverton, MB.
Obviously this WAS a scam so and this thief had been passing off someone else's PAL as his own. I ended up tracking down the original owner of the PAL and he unfortunately had just been scammed and given "my scammer" a picture of his PAL, that this guy was trying to use on me.
So please, please be careful. This low life has been deleted here but who knows how many account he or she has on here and elsewhere.
My scammer was using the name Albert Richard from Riverton, MB.
Unfortunately the real Albert got scammed by using a PAL with the name
Michael James from Saskatoon?
The scammer used the following email address
panamagreenlanders@outlook.com for contacting Albert and me. He was also using the screen name
Suzukiman on other EE's.
The RCMP have been contacted in NB where Albert lives and while I hold little hope that this scum bag will be caught I hope that by making his info public that no one else will get burned.