Second Chance offer:Arbycoffee's Star Wars Auction Scam

[Sid]

Loving it James

[vespacar]

So I sent the following e-mail back at JD. I make it sound like he's doing me a favour, lets hope he bites even more. The slam dunk would be if I can get him to buy me something in London to send to me. But we shall see what he does next or I guess his wife.

From : james hanna <vespacar@hotmail.com>
Sent : March 20, 2006 7:15:16 AM
To : jjcoll75@yahoo.com, vespacar@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: eBay Second Chance Offer for Item #6610662689

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Hello JD,
I was just wondering if you could help me out, I'am a big star wars collector and I was wondering if you have anything else for sale on ebay or that you have'nt put up for sale yet. Let me know because that way you can save the ebay fees and I can save by not having to put up with all those people who but in bids to jack up the price. If you see anyything in london let me know. I'am looking for star wars movie props etc.
Thanks in advance, James

Cheers,
James

[arbycoffee]

This is better than Cops!

[Tony Junior]

When this is all over, I'm hoping the Feds have this sucker...behind bars where he should be!

[drcrippen324]

no im behind sid on this one a good ol public linchin mutch more affective (and fun)

cant we get punishment to fit the victim of the crime like we all hold the guy down and arby tattoos SCAMMER on his forhead
that be kinda fitting wouldent it

[vespacar]

Well that did'nt take long, It looks like our scammer is in London, England, the best part is that this did'nt even make it to my regular mail. I found it in my junk mail:

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From : security-center@ebay.com <security-center@ebay.com>
Reply-To : square-trade-forums@consultant.com
Sent : March 20, 2006 7:11:31 AM
To : vespacar@hotmail.com
Subject : Your eBay Second Chance Offer Invoice for Item #6610662689

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• Current status: Payment pending. Purchase protection granted.
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All of the above was done to look like it was from ebay. Ive got another letter from the person which I'll post later. I'am going to wait a day or 2 to see if I can sucker him with my request for anyother stuff. I'll post the other letter later.

Cheers,
James

[Sid]

Just out of curiosity i did a quick search on the address listed for your buddy

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs.../Clapham_South

maybe this is where he plans on spending the cash.

[luckydog]

He lives in a Pub

I bet he really lives in Nigeria, next door to Jano

[Thomas P.]

Hang 'em High !!!!

[logicprobe]

AND using Arbycoffee's good name in it too.

Arby... you might want to get involved in this one? Once the fish is on the hook, that is.

I wonder if this guy actually went to England to grab the money there, or if he's there to begin with. Would be funny if he pre-spent the money on a plane ticket thinking he could pull it off.

Western Union only... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Document!!! Good job, James!!!!

[arbycoffee]

it is a game of feed the hook, James and I spoke about this first. And the odds of catching him is slim, but to screw with his mind is much more fun.

[Tulsa]

Now do we have an enterprising person from the UK that might be near by this place and can go and check it out?

[drcrippen324]

Just out of curiosity i did a quick search on the address listed for your buddy

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs.../Clapham_South

maybe this is where he plans on spending the cash.

A quote from the above pub guide

So dissapointed with this pub.
Only live round the corner so took parents there on a weekday lunchtime a year ago and was impressed by friendly, attentive staff and decent food. Have returned 3 or 4 times since and each has been progressively worse.........The food service is just awful with so many mistakes made and the staff just plain rude and disinterested! Watch out also for the service (what service?), which is unjustifiably automatically added to the bill!

Is his buisness that bad he has taken to scamming on ebay
oh boy arby i would be inking up the gun reddy for his new tat if you cared to send some flash over there are some nasty boys up in london that would probabley be only to happy to do the job for you
im sure they said there second name was Kray :

All joking apart it would be interesting to se if the landlord / lady knew of this hmm i was going to say gent but you get the gist

[Lddrizzt]

I kinda liked the idea earlier of saying that you had already paypaled the money to arby as per the original auction.
It would be interesting to see if he contacts Arby for the cash.

[vespacar]

Here's the latest letter from JD, it's nice to notice that JD is on the ball and told me to look in my spam folder. Like a one off e-mail from someone would actually go into my spam folder. I'am going to give JD one more day to see if he can find me some more star wars crap. BTW I actually got my star wars yesterday from Superpachinko, wow, what a great machine, the light show is just amazing. I got a nice clean machine, comes with a powervolt 6amp transformer and I got an extra 500 balls to boot. Sorry I went off topic. I think I'am going to do the paypal thing to arby because if you read his e-mail on the following western union part:

Because the fee to send a Western Union Money Transfer is high, compared to other methods of payment, we have arranged with the seller to compensate for half of this fee (i.e. if it costs you $100 to send the payment, take $50 from the amount insured and send the balance).


So I'll say something like don't worry, I found a way around the high western union fees, I just paypaled you the money to your paypal account ( arbycoffee) That way I just saved both you and me $50.00. I know that the transaction is not covered by ebay protection: Quote from his e-mail

Sellers located in United Kingdom, are not yet eligible for the PayPal Buyer Protection, which means you are not protected against fraud if you pay this seller by PayPal.

But you seem the trustworthy sort, so I'am not to worried about the buyer protection. The money should be in your paypal account and could you let me know when you ship out the machine and send me a tracking number.

Cheers,
James

[vespacar]

I forgot, I also have to tell him that I have my ebay/paypal coupons to use, so I can even save more money. Being the nice guy that I am, I'll send him a copy, man I'am going to save both of us so much money. $50.00 for not using western union, Pay pal coupons, JD is going to love me!!!!

Cheers,
James

[Tony Junior]

Git him!

[Bigsasquatch]

Do the FEDS actually do anything to stop this kind of thing ?

I got ripped off on e-bay for $630 by a guy in Florida, and filed with IFCC.... 5 months on and I never had a reply.... tried the cops and they just referred me back to IFCC..... seems we make it too easy for these b******s to do their dirty work....


on a more positive note I checked my e-bay postive feedback received is now sitting at 777

10 minutes later the wife calls me to let me know she received a letter that I.m getting a bonus....


spooky !

BIG S

[FatherTed]

Re: Pretending to send the money to Arby via Paypal

Unfortunately I suspect this guy will just say he hasn't received it, as you were warned there's no protection, so can you send it again correctly this time.

Is anyone actually doing anything to report this guy officially via Ebay or the Police?

[arbycoffee]

jd is a real loser