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Bad Guy Pixie77 - fraud

Dan - I had already done enough research to know who you were before I contacted you to correct your profile. Please contact WebSlave to have him correct your DOB - it isn't visible to anybody unless you choose to make it so.
Do what you want as far as the email is concerned; but don't be surprised if it causes issues with your buying and selling - as I pointed out earlier in this thread, a person using two different names should make anybody <STOP>.
My only other suggestion is to put the kid card away. You were functioning just fine - your little only 15/just a kid spiel was annoying...not even necessarily because of you; but because of the all the other people that played that card in exactly the same way. If you want to be kid, be a kid - that's no problem, and you're old enough to be here; but if you don't want your age to influence how people think of you, don't make it an issue.
 
Dan (turtledan77),
I believe you stated at one point that you had not received any communication from spickedan - I just want to confirm that. Please check your Spam folder, as well...I think many, if not most, of the emails that get sent that way end up there.
 
Yeah double checking my spam, trash (and sent for fear that my account had been hacked) folders was the first thing I did. I had nothing from spickedan but that doesn't definitively mean he didn't send me something. My trash folder only saves deleted stuff for a couple of days and it's entirely possible his message went to spam and was cleared out with the dozens of other junk mails I get daily.
 
All I know is that a lot of people request Paypal gift or for customer to pay fees. Whenever someone asks me to gift (even trusted friends), I just say that I'll pay the fees or I decide not to do business.
Again, IDK but a lot of people (even ones you may know) have done this sort of thing (with Paypal) but did not scam the buyer.
I do not agree, with it (seller getting out of paying Paypal fees), and I do not do it myself.
Seems nobody understands what I was trying to convey.:shrug01: Oh well.
 
spickedan said:
Robert Walker I put my email out on Dan's profile so I guess he saw it publicly and that's how I he contacted me, although the first email I received from him was an answer to a question I asked via email.
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This is the part I don't understand Dan, "answer to a question I asked via email." So you sent "who" a question via email. This makes it sound like you were the first person to send an "email". Did you send it via Fauna email to TurtleDan77? Thanks
 
Piecing this together, I think it's pretty clear what happened:

1) Spickedan saw my ad and wanted the turtles. He then posted his email address in two different places. A) in the thread itself: "Btw my e-mail is [email protected]" and B) as a comment on my profile: "Very interested in the concentric DBT's available, please e-mail me at [email protected]"

2) Based on his eagerness, I would not doubt that he also sent an email using the in site function, though I have no record or recollection of that specific email.

3) Pixie77 (yes the 77 in his username is an unfortunate coincidence but I can assure you we aren't related!) saw his email address in one of the two places he posted it, and emailed him pretending to have the terrapins. It looks like his first contact was:
"On Nov 14, 2014, at 9:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Yes how many Terrapins were you interested in"

4) Spickedan operated under the assumption he was dealing with the poster of the ad he saw and the deal went forward from there.
 
Also, based on his communication... I'm not even sure that pixie was pretending to be me so much as he was just cherry picking people looking for specific animals and emailing them claiming to have some.
 
A seller who asks that the buyer's payment be sent as a gift is scamming Paypal. But it is more than that, such a request is asking the buyer to cut the safety net he has by using Paypal for covered purchases, because once the payment is sent as a gift it is not eligible for Paypal's buyer protection should something go wrong.
Pasodama said:
Seems nobody understands what I was trying to convey.
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I see what you are trying to say. I'm thinking that there is simply a difference of perspective, with some feeling that since someone who asks for a gift payment has already ripped off Paypal and has cut the safety net from under his customer IS a bad guy and the initiation of the thread made to alert others of the lack of ethics and risk inherent in such requests.
 
It's a tactic that has been used by many scammers here over the years...and, unfortunately, it is one they can employ even after they are banned; which is why it is important for people to THINK before sending their money.
Pixie77 knew he was running out of time here because of his incomplete profile (that was made clear to him via infraction notices and PM). He deleted most of his own ads, in favor of contacting people directly.
 
The entire proposed scenario that you have laid out TurtleDan77 makes complete sense. The only obstacle I see is Dan R. having said he was contacted in direct response from an "answer to a question I asked via email."

Perhaps Dan R. is not recalling the story correctly. Dan R., what specific question did you ask via email? Did the scammer answer you specific question, or did he simply come out of the blue with, "Yes how many Terrapins were you interested in".

We need Dan R. to step up and answer this question which in my mind solves everything and puts this to rest.
 
So I am the one that got scammed by Pixie77. They posted an add with Uromastyx for sale, no photos. I contacted via Fauna and asked for photos. I got nice photos and asked them to call me to discuss. Everything sounded kosher but I screwed up in trusting him.

Right after I sent the money I found through google images a post with the exact same 3 images I was sent as current from 2 1/2 years ago on a uromastyx.org site. I reached out and he said oh they would take current shots and send them. He kept stalling on the photos for a day or so until he took down his adds, etc. He called me by phone a couple times but no caller ID registered any time that I could post.

Here are the details for my dealings with him:

Fauna User - Pixie77
Paypal Name - Charles Washington
Paypal Email Address - [email protected]
Additional email address used to send me the images originally - [email protected]
 
Daniel (turtledan77), that reads as plausible to me. It seemed odd to me that it would have been you since I have observed your posting demeanor in the past and it did not fit with a scamming persona. I apologize for potentially adding to any confusion.

Deb, I get where you are coming from. You have clarified that you are talking about the fact that there are (many, many) people who request the money to be sent as a gift and then still follow through on their transaction with the buyer and that, in that way, doing that is not necessarily connected with a scam perpetrated against the buyer. The fact that it does rob Paypal, the transfer service, of its money is a separate scam from the relationship between seller and buyer. I think that message was easy to understand, but we all differ.

Maria, that email address really, really gives me a Nuttall vibe. You may wish to do a search and see if there are any points of overlap. Especially in the language of any emails received from the scamming party.
 
nickolasanastasiou said:
Deb, I get where you are coming from. You have clarified that you are talking about the fact that there are (many, many) people who request the money to be sent as a gift and then still follow through on their transaction with the buyer and that, in that way, doing that is not necessarily connected with a scam perpetrated against the buyer. The fact that it does rob Paypal, the transfer service, of its money is a separate scam from the relationship between seller and buyer. I think that message was easy to understand, but we all differ.
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BINGO! :thumbsup:

All that aside, I like to have facts, proof, see/hear some 1st hand experience/s, etc. before making conclusive judgment upon a person.
Thus far, from what has been posted after the initial post, Pixie77 does appear to be a scam artist and someone to avoid.
When I have time, I may have to go see if there is anything I can dig up. Although, there are a few good people already on the job.:)
 
Nice to see that the sideline PayPal discussion/debate can finally come to an end. :shootfoot

Still waiting on the PayPal screenshot from Mr Roselli; but I guess his help was limited to dragging turtledan77 into this.

Maria was the account you sent funds to verified?

The name McDaniel was not unexpected in this thread; though I wouldn't have posted it without some form of confirmation. Since that hasn't happened, adding Lamont could be nothing more than a wild goose chase...but I'll toss it for the sleuths to check.
Don't expect Miami to turn up much, I think that's as fake as Mr C. Washington.
 
To any of the people that corresponded with pixie77, how well did he communicate? (Sentence structure, word choice, etc) Did he seem to understand well, and respond appropriately? Did you get the feeling that English was his primary language? Or did something seem "off"?
 
spickedan said:
Speaking with dcfrye and he forwarded me his conversation with "Dan". The e-mail address "Dan" has is totally different from the address of the person i'm talking to. The one dcfrye is talking to makes complete sentences with punctuated grammar. The person I spoke to has almost broken english and incomplete grammar. I think it's two different people
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Here you go.
 
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