http://www.fightthescams.com/2009/05/06/scam-via-magnusjohn31gmailcom/ Classified ad rip offs near you Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.fightthescams.com/2009/05/06/scam-via-magnusjohn31gmailcom/comment-page-1/#comment-46 jeannemonk Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:57:46 +0000 http://www.fightthescams.com/?p=461#comment-46 I initially fell for this guy's ad this week as well. Right now I'm playing along with him just to see what info I can gather from him. In my case, he is Lt. David Larson, stationed at Grand Forks, ND, deploying June 15 to Iraq. He had two other Craigs List ads running locally (Seattle, WA area) at the same time, under different names, which were removed the day I found them. I requested info on all three, but the ad that caught me was just like the one mentioned here. The vehicle was a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country for $3700. Interestingly, I used my real name on all three emails, you would think the guy would suspect something himself, but he must have so many ads going that he pays no attention to the names of his victims. Besides the price being "too good to be true", several other things didn't seem to be right. One was the Palm trees in the background of the pictures, so I knew it wasn't in North Dakota. The fact that the seller would ship for free didn't make sense. He wanted to use EBay as the third party for their protection service, but when I checked with EBay, that service was only available with vehicles listed on that website, which this van was not. When he emailed me the "official" EBay request for funds, the protection was for $20,000 max, whereas EBays amount is actually $50,000. (EBay says if you get an email supposedly from them, the same message will be in your "Inbox" in your account.) I have now started playing along with one of the other ads also, this one for a 2004 Honda Accord LX for $2200. The "seller" is Juan Villamizar, deploying to Afghanistan with the Army in July. The car is in Salt Lake City, Utah. In both cases, he is using DAS shipping. EBay and Craig's List both have warnings regarding this scam and others like it, but I imagine with the economy the way it is, this creep is making a killing off of people trying to buy a vehicle at a really low price. I joined this today just to contribute this info, hoping someone else will benefit from it. Thank goodness I have a habit of researching anything I buy before I do. I still ALMOST got caught, even though I warn all of my children about the scams going on! I initially fell for this guy’s ad this week as well. Right now I’m playing along with him just to see what info I can gather from him. In my case, he is Lt. David Larson, stationed at Grand Forks, ND, deploying June 15 to Iraq. He had two other Craigs List ads running locally (Seattle, WA area) at the same time, under different names, which were removed the day I found them. I requested info on all three, but the ad that caught me was just like the one mentioned here. The vehicle was a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country for $3700. Interestingly, I used my real name on all three emails, you would think the guy would suspect something himself, but he must have so many ads going that he pays no attention to the names of his victims. Besides the price being “too good to be true”, several other things didn’t seem to be right. One was the Palm trees in the background of the pictures, so I knew it wasn’t in North Dakota. The fact that the seller would ship for free didn’t make sense. He wanted to use EBay as the third party for their protection service, but when I checked with EBay, that service was only available with vehicles listed on that website, which this van was not. When he emailed me the “official” EBay request for funds, the protection was for $20,000 max, whereas EBays amount is actually $50,000. (EBay says if you get an email supposedly from them, the same message will be in your “Inbox” in your account.) I have now started playing along with one of the other ads also, this one for a 2004 Honda Accord LX for $2200. The “seller” is Juan Villamizar, deploying to Afghanistan with the Army in July. The car is in Salt Lake City, Utah. In both cases, he is using DAS shipping. EBay and Craig’s List both have warnings regarding this scam and others like it, but I imagine with the economy the way it is, this creep is making a killing off of people trying to buy a vehicle at a really low price. I joined this today just to contribute this info, hoping someone else will benefit from it. Thank goodness I have a habit of researching anything I buy before I do. I still ALMOST got caught, even though I warn all of my children about the scams going on!

]]> http://www.fightthescams.com/2009/05/06/scam-via-magnusjohn31gmailcom/comment-page-1/#comment-41 mtnfok Sun, 24 May 2009 15:07:34 +0000 http://www.fightthescams.com/?p=461#comment-41 Sounds exacly like the Wrangler ad, only a different Air Force Base and different deployment date. Subsequent e-mails from this fraud gave a different vehicle and different deployment date. We didn't realize how many scam artists are out there. It is bad enough to be scamming people for their hard earned money, but to play on peoples sympathy that they are in the Armed Services and being deployed, that is an absolute outrage! Sounds exacly like the Wrangler ad, only a different Air Force Base and different deployment date. Subsequent e-mails from this fraud gave a different vehicle and different deployment date. We didn’t realize how many scam artists are out there. It is bad enough to be scamming people for their hard earned money, but to play on peoples sympathy that they are in the Armed Services and being deployed, that is an absolute outrage!

]]> http://www.fightthescams.com/2009/05/06/scam-via-magnusjohn31gmailcom/comment-page-1/#comment-40 cmgoodlin Sat, 23 May 2009 04:37:00 +0000 http://www.fightthescams.com/?p=461#comment-40 Im a victim and I want him caught and lets find a way for us to get our money back......... Im a victim and I want him caught and lets find a way for us to get our money back………

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