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Bad Guy Jesus Perez (Scammer)

I knew there would be a Jesus buddy on here sometime. He knows about this thread now. MO have always been excepted for reptile sales.
Thank you too everyone who helped me locate him. I was at a dead end. Now I have options.

And Joe, He could've been right. Anyone could have taken his picture and posted a Craigslist ad and scammed you with the money order bit. Without more information anyone could have pretended to be him and sold you the snake on craigslist and you would have never known who it was. No information, no email, and no phone number. You just sent the money without any information. It could have been you had nothing to go on except the person's name he gave you.

The saving grace was the money order was sent to address that confirms a connection to who was supposedly selling it a then he confirmed all the other information was his and where the funds went. That is if he is being honest. I'll give him the benefit that he is telling the truth and he is going to fix it.

Hopefully he is and you will recover your funds soon and he'll take care of what he needs to on his end.

If not, keep us updated. Reminder to wipe your phone even if you sell it to family. I got the impression what he was stating was that he already had the ad listed before he sold the phone and didn't wipe his email off of it. Then the cousin just responded to your inquiry. That is if everything being stated is correct and it was his cousin.

Good Luck.
 
Listen, I only know Jessie from recent purchases earlier this year and I had no problem what so ever with this guy! I hate to see this happen to people who aren't like this, sucks that his cousin put him into this situation! I know he is a stand up guy I never had a problem and i even sent animals to him before getting paid and he paid me on the scheduled date with no hesitation!
 
It still sounds a little fishy to me. Even if I had sold my phone to someone and left my email signed in I would link it on my new phone and if they had been emailing back and forth Im pretty sure I would have seen at least one of the emails. Even my 70 year old mother who lacks computer skills checks her email often because she uses it to conduct business. If Jessie uses his email as much as any one else in the herp industry I'm sure he checks it often. I really hope for the op's sake what Jessie said is true but I find it hard to believe.
 
Yes I am viewing this thread, I personally didn't want to get into it cause I would rather speak to Joe personally which I have no problem doing. I know it sounds very strange that their is two people with the same name but i come from a Mexican family and we are named after uncles and grandparents etc, anyways back to the story. I did have what joe intended on buying and rarely do I list my animals on craigslist but i chose to for that particular snake. I listed it joe contacted me asking if I can ship it, i said yes I had no problem doing so. I didn't hear anything back therefore I decided to take it to a show. I ended up selling it and got an upgrade on my phone with my earning of that weekend . My cousin who is a 17 kid wanted to buy it off me, he's helped me clean cages and what not so I did. He wanted my music and some of my apps so he asked me if I can leave it as it. My mistake I did. I left everything except most of my pictures ,contacts and important stuff. My email is a very old one and I do not use that one cause I use to get 50 emails daily from spam. The first time I heard of this was labor day when we had a family bbq. My aunt and uncle asked me about this paperwork they received that was from Joe. I asked my cousin and he claimed he had no idea. The next day I received a txt from joe and immediately asked my cousin. He then told me what he did. His story is he received an email from joe saying something about a check, as a dumb and not so very smart kid he agreed and had joe send it. My uncle is the one with the key for the mailbox so he said he had it sent to the neighbors and he just simply went and asked for it. Thats how he got a hold of the check. Now i don't know specifics yet cause i was at work and couldn't talk to him for long. I then told joe that i would be happy to clear this up over the phone as grown men should. I am by no means a scammer nor do I or have ever lived at my uncles house that joe sent the check to. I am more then happy to show joe PROOF that it is indeed my uncles house with the exact same name as me i will also provide proof of where I live and my address. I am by no means trying to hide or runaway. I told joe clearly on the phone that i will speak to my cousin and his parents tonight to get his money back. This is the result of not deleting your info off your phone and sending payment over craigslist. And Julie with my new phone I linked my new email, i was tired of getting spam emails daily and that is a 8 year old email.
 
Yes I am viewing this thread, I personally didn't want to get into it cause I would rather speak to Joe personally which I have no problem doing. I know it sounds very strange that their is two people with the same name but i come from a Mexican family and we are named after uncles and grandparents etc, anyways back to the story. I did have what joe intended on buying and rarely do I list my animals on craigslist but i chose to for that particular snake. I listed it joe contacted me asking if I can ship it, i said yes I had no problem doing so. I didn't hear anything back therefore I decided to take it to a show. I ended up selling it and got an upgrade on my phone with my earning of that weekend . My cousin who is a 17 kid wanted to buy it off me, he's helped me clean cages and what not so I did. He wanted my music and some of my apps so he asked me if I can leave it as it. My mistake I did. I left everything except most of my pictures ,contacts and important stuff. My email is a very old one and I do not use that one cause I use to get 50 emails daily from spam. The first time I heard of this was labor day when we had a family bbq. My aunt and uncle asked me about this paperwork they received that was from Joe. I asked my cousin and he claimed he had no idea. The next day I received a txt from joe and immediately asked my cousin. He then told me what he did. His story is he received an email from joe saying something about a check, as a dumb and not so very smart kid he agreed and had joe send it. My uncle is the one with the key for the mailbox so he said he had it sent to the neighbors and he just simply went and asked for it. Thats how he got a hold of the check. Now i don't know specifics yet cause i was at work and couldn't talk to him for long. I then told joe that i would be happy to clear this up over the phone as grown men should. I am by no means a scammer nor do I or have ever lived at my uncles house that joe sent the check to. I am more then happy to show joe PROOF that it is indeed my uncles house with the exact same name as me i will also provide proof of where I live and my address. I am by no means trying to hide or runaway. I told joe clearly on the phone that i will speak to my cousin and his parents tonight to get his money back. This is the result of not deleting your info off your phone and sending payment over craigslist. And Julie with my new phone I linked my new email, i was tired of getting spam emails daily and that is a 8 year old email.

You have to understand how this sounds fishy.

If I were you - nip this in the bud, pay the man back from your own pocket and deal with getting the funds back internally, on your own time. Your reputation is at stake.
 
Look Jessie, This is the last think I wanted to do. I sent an email 2 weeks ago saying that if I didn't hear from you I would do this but instead I sent a letter in hopes of resolving it and still never heard anything. So After a month of no contact I started this thread in hopes that someone would know how I could get in touch with you and it worked.
I don't want to hurt anyone's name or business, and i dont care how it happened. I just want to get this straightened out.
 
I replied before I saw all the messages, but I remember reading that Jesus didn't have an account here.

Either way I hope he does the right thing and the op gets his money back.
 
The name he gave me was Jesus Perez. I search under that not Jessie. I just recently was given that name. I'm still confused on the whole name think, honestly.The no was made out to Jesus Perez .
 
If the email was very old and hasn't been used in a long time why didn't you use your new email when posting a relatively recent ad on Craigslist?
 
Joe my real name is Jesus but I have always gone by jessie since I was a kid and that is what I go by.
And Julie I have an iPhone and was able to have both emails. When I got my new iphone I chose to add only my newer email account due to the fact that I would receive so much spam.
 
While I understand $350 is a significant amount to find in a rush Jessie, it really would behoove you to try and do so and pay Joe back and then sort your family out.
I dont believe Joe should have to wait for you to try and find out what happened with your cousin.
The longer this goes on no matter what you SAY here, actions will speak louder than words, and your reputation will only suffer accordingly.
Hope you do the right thing sir!
 
Well if that's not your real name then you are in violation of the name rule on fuana. This could have been sorted out early on had you actually had your real name on your fuana and not a "nickname".
 
Why don't you give Joe the number to who stole the money. I'm guessing because he already has it. 619-746-1855
I don't know who your think your fooling but I can say this, this community doesn't fool easily. Give the man back his money.
Hope you didn't plan on making a career out of reptiles because you ruined your own self. It's gonna be near impossible for you to recover from this.
 
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