Erik Hurtado - BAD GUY

Hello,
I am posting the Bad Guy report to save others from what I am going threw right now and what several other breeders I'm friends with have gone threw also.

Erik Hurtado is the biggest Scammed you will meet myself and several other breeders (I am asking for their permission first before listing their names) have been scammed by this guy who is selling feeders. He has no feeders or supplier he simply sais so takes your money and runs he has gone as far as shutting down his pay pal account to try to get out of having to refund my money. I had paid to have 750 horn worms shipped to me and after a week I emailed him and he said his grand father died we I got a bit suspicious at this point and called another breeder who had bought from him he told her USPS called and said her order was lost we all know USPS wont call you have to call them first.

After myself and the other breeders began to go after him he shut his email down and his pay pal to try to escape having to refund money. My one friend was able to get money back due to use of a credit card she reported him for Credit Fraud. As of right now I have reported this guy to the BBB, Pay Pal, Fauna, King Snake, and several other reptile classifieds with hope they will remove his ads for these actions.

This guy started threatening to sue me and told me he is an FBI agent so I checked what is available information wise threw pay pal he is not even a US citizen and he told one of the breeders hes only 13 years old.

So please be warned and don't deal with this guy I hope I can save some people from the same things I had to go threw.

-----

Info

Erik Hurtado
California Cricket Ranch
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pp_c...&cat=45&page=1


----------

When/If I get permission from the other breeders I will list them incase you would like to ask them questions they may also post on here as I will forward this post to them.

I’m sorry you and your friends have to deal with this. I have not dealt with this guy but it was brought to my attention that he stole an image of mine (lobster roaches) and posted it on his site. My image is tagged so he didn’t change it. His site is hosted on a free online marketplace. We can contact them saying he’s a fraud and have the site and his account removed. I don’t know if I can post the link but I can send it to you in a PM.

Cody Castellanos

Yeah, this guy looks like a total scam ... and very busy! However, he is also dumb as a rock.

Here on Fauna, his user is Strazo, registered 8-29-2008, he made 1 post and is now banned. (Thank you, Fauna!) He used the phone number 310-292-620 in his scam ad here. The URL of his first scam website is: http://californiacricketranch.ecrater.com/

I might also add that the photo on his Lobster roach page at:
http://californiacricketranch.ecrate...hp?pid=2979052 belongs (and is appropriately marked) to:
http://www.progeckos.com/caresheets/images/lobster.jpg.
I notified the owner of ProGeckos and I have a saved screenshot should he decide to remove it

User Strazo also had an ad at:
http://www.reptileauctions.com/105669,id,auctiondetails and is using the same photos as his other scam site at: californiacricketranch.com. He claims to be in Harbor City, CA and also is posting an entirely different URL on that ad that points to:
http://www.freewebs.com/beardedragonking/apps/webstore/
Note: that account is now closed as well. Thank you Freewebs!

There is yet another ad at:
http://www.reptileclassifieds.com/fe...-o1641-en.html

And still another site:
http://www.freewebs.com/beardedragonking/
The checkout at this site uses a PayPal account under the name of blazerkingx@gmail.com and defaults to Mexico.

Time to take the scammer out.

Thanks kindly for posting! I'm happy you read my mail and responded so quickly. Best regards

Originally Posted by LauraB

http://www.freewebs.com/beardedragon...store/[/b]
Note: that account is now closed as well. Thank you Freewebs!

Not only did he steal my image he stole my entire superworm care sheet! And too boot all the images link back to my site...

http://www.freewebs.com/beardedragon...eederscare.htm

That guy is dumb as a rock!

I hadn't delved deep enough to see just how much he stole from you! Thanks again for verifying and helping to expose yet another bottom dweller.

Im sorry he got you guys too this guy really needs to go down I'm going after him on his ther pay pal account for my money I reported him to pay pal for this second account also

Pay pal is now in the process of filing Fraud charges on him for holding as I've herd three acounts on there under three different names!