Possible scam

[bigduke6]

I remember the scopes etc, I enquired about a German WW11 scope, I did a search and found the exact pictures, once I questioned the pictures he disappeared. Powel something ? I posted a heads up here.

There is a clever one who portrays to have a cousin in Scotland, he was a member here: erich51, his so called cousin is garretlee27@hotmail.com, pay pal was emilylyons or something lyons, lunfortunately, even I fell for the scam as the details and address all worked out, The advert was all correct, I googled the address and street search, at the time I had so much on with work and house extension, my attention to detail wasn't on the ball, the item in question seemed reasonable (Bren Gun tripod) so sent the cash via paypal, but my mistake it went as a gift instead of paying for an item...... so I couldn't get anything back from paypal, in fact they were as helpful as a chocolate bottle opener.

So lesson learnt, be fresh, look at all emails etc, this is something I looked at after and realised that some of the english in the email and sayings were not Scottish but very American, price drop is something there willing to do, when we ( the honest collectors and shooters amongst us) sell something we want the best price, we wouldn't drop by 30% etc, but scammers will.

Phone numbers, at the time there was a number, I'm sure we swapped Numbers and address, my concern is him/her using my address etc for the next victim.

There is a site regarding fraud etc, you give them as much detail and they will look at the case, I was ****ed off to say the least but it was one occasion were I dropped my Guard, the rest is history.

I just hope erich51 has a slow and very painfull death.

Searching google I eventually found the advert for the Tripod, it was a few years old.