Another scammer victim
Yes, I am one more of many scammers victim that fall in a greedy guy hands, lets start how it was.
Two weeks ago I posted a WANT asking for one who might have an old Hammarlund HQ129X receiver front panel that I needed to replace a friend of mine panel that is too deteriorated. Two days after my posting I got an email from a guy telling me he had an old broken HQ129X for parts that If I wanted he could send it to me for $75 shiped to my door, instead I offered him $60 which he agreed and asked me If I could pay him by Paypal but he was very specific saying he wanted to be by the option "Friends and family", because he knew that when we use that option there is no way to open a claim.
Now come the part of a lie, he is using another identity,e since the begining he says he is :
JODY L SPURRELL K7IEU
and his email address is :
<jodylspurrellk7ieu@gmail.com>
So after I sent him my 60 bucks by paypal inmediately I saw that the money was automatically converted to CAD or canadian dollars so there my first doubt jumped into my mind and sent him another email asking why if he lives at the US as QRZ is telling me by his call sign, the money is transfer then to Canada, his answer email said he used his wife PP account instead, using this address:
Osmondtina48@gmail.com
According PayPal his supouse to be wife's name is Tina Osmond, so at that point I knew that I lost my money and this was a scam for sure. The final shot I did was to contact another guy who posted here in this forum a good transaction review from the real Jody Spurrel and this guy from my own state provided me me with the real email address from K7IEU and last night I send him an email about this deal,what was expected his answer was that he is not selling me any HQ129X so that confirmed the false identity of the scammer.
End of the story,I lost 60 bucks, not a big deal, its not a pocket braker but I learned that we have to be very careful with all the scammers who are using this great website to get easy money from us, so be careful guys.
Hector
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As of Dec 9, 2013: ONLY BUYERS AND SELLERS directly involved with a transaction can post here. Do not post replies in any topic if you are not the buyer or seller in the transaction being discussed! If you believe you can help the buyer or seller, please use the Private Message system to communicate with them. NOTE: if you have been scammed by someone pretending to be a ham, please post in the Scammer Reports forum instead. See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136 for additional rules.