Scammer posing as WB3BEF

[ke6kjd]

Beware of anyone using the call WB3BEF offering to buy your equipment.
Scammer offered to buy my AL-80B but said he was in PA, but IP address went to Kentucky.
My ad says item in Arizona.... local pickup preferred.
Person sent me a message and asked if I would take a check... RED FLAG for me.
I went and looked up WB3BEF on QRZ and it was different e-mail address than what is listed here on QTH.
I messaged WB3BEF from the QRZ e-mail and he answered that it is NOT him wanting to buy the amp.

Please be aware of this scammer ..............

Bob - ke6kjd

[k4tor]

He wants my Amp too. He's clearly not a smart cookie

His IP details:

IP Details For: 104.55.92.146

Decimal:1748458642

Hostname:104-55-92-146.lightspeed.knvltn.sbcglobal.net

ASN:7018

ISP:AT&T Internet Services

Services:None detected

Assignment:Likely Static IP

Country:United States

State/Region:Tennessee

City:Knoxville

Latitude:35.9606 (35° 57′ 38.30″ N)

Longitude:-83.9207 (83° 55′ 14.66″ W)

Of course, he might be using VPN, so the above location info might not mean much.


Tor - K4TOR

[kc4hw]

I had someone posing as WB3BEF using email address daleunger023@gmail.com trying to buy my amp also

Jim/KC4HW

[AA2DS]

He wanted to buy my antennas I had advertized on his terms, not mine so it went no further.

[K4IDC]

Same guy posing as Dale Ungar WB3BEF & has inquired with me about two different amplifiers; another turd scammer.

Also a weird response from "Brenda Novis" expressing interest in my "Gadget":
Brenda Novis 09161978 <no-reply@qth.com>
3:12 AM (12 hours ago)
to me, Brenda


Dear Robin Midgett K4IDC,

You have received a response to your ad, titled "ALS-1300 w/PSU", that you have running on the QTH Free Ham Radio Classified Ads.

BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER, you are highly encouraged to:
1) Read our VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE about avoiding scams and ripoffs at https://tips.qth.com.
2) Use our Feedback Forum to see if the person you are about to deal with has any good or bad feedback from previous dealings. See https://feedback.qth.com

The response is from:

Name: Brenda Novis
Callsign: 09161978
E-mail: brendanovis1@gmail.com
IP Address: 84.239.17.151 -- ( Check IP at https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/84.239.17.151 )

The response is:

Hello Robin
Please am interested to buy your Gadget
Hope its still available for sale
Kindly get back
Thanks
Brenda Novis

[AB2DP]

This guy and his companion impersonating wb3bef did the same thing to me trying to make me to accept a check written by mistake for $1200 instead $200., after some text messages.I guess the next step was to return the rest of the money and eventually a fake check.

[K4IDC]

I've had text messages from "Dale" (supposedly Dale Unger WB3BEF, but really an imposter) from the phone number 661-660-8837 relative to an ALS-1300 amplifier. Similar to many others, the messages is "I'll send a check and you'll have it in a few days". I asked several times in the text message exchange for the person's callsign because I suspected it was the same scammer. At first they dodged the question, and when I asked for the person's callsign again, I received the response "What does that means?"
Clearly up to no good, a liar and a thief.

[KA2FIR]

WB3BEF has a published email address on qrz.com. Did you attempt to contact him using that email address or send a QRZ PM to him to confirm whether or not it was him responding to your ad?