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Bad Guy SCAMMER Brian Timony "Mr. Parsons"

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I live in the next town over from this guy and when I saw the post I was ecstatic to be able to get a Chameleon without having to worry about shipping. I contacted him and have multiple e-mails in regards to our transaction. I met him in person to pay him and he said the chameleons would be ready in about a week. Well it's been 10 days now and I've tried e-mailing and calling him with no response. I know where he lives so I can file a police report easily enough but I just don't want anyone else to get scammed by this guy. He even closed his threads so no one can post anything warning people!!!

Here are his classifieds

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=306012
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305305
 
Lauren I'm sorry this happened to you. Could you please post up your emails? I went to the ad using the classified links you provided, and the 'BOI' button brings up this thread, so if people do a search they will see it.
Have you notified him of the thread yet?
 
No I have not notified him of the thread yet. Here are the e-mails

Lauren on 3/2: Hey Brian, I'd like to put a deposit on a male. I live in Riverdale NJ so you wouldn't have to worry about shipping. =]

Brian on 3/2: Hi Lauren thats not a problem Im taking 300.00 deposits on males and 250.00 deposits on females. You can either send me a personal check since your so local or a money order or a certified bank check. Whatevers easier for you. Or we could just meet somewhere and you could pay cash and i can email you a receipt of deposit. Its up to you my address is 22 Jackson Ave. apt. 4 Pompton
Plains nj 07444. Let me know what you wanna do. Thanks Brian Timony

Lauren on 3/2: Would you do any cash discounts if I paid you cash in full?

Brian on 3/2: Ill do a male for 450 if you pay cash in full. So your gonna give me a full deposit of 450 now and he should be ready in about a week I think so I can just meet up with you again to drop him off to you. Ill make sure I give you the biggest one and a 10 day health guarantee. Just let me kno where and when you wanna meet to give the deposit. Thanks Brian

Lauren on 3/2: I'm trying to get a mental picture of what you're near. We could meet at the Quick Check in Pompton Plains if that's convenient for you.

Brian on 3/2: That's perfect I can meet anytime that's good for you.

Lauren on 3/2: Tomorrow afternoon would be good for me. How's 4pm?

Brian on 3/2: Sounds good ill see you at 4. Thanks

Lauren on 3/3: Brian, my number is 201-953-3608 if you need to reach me. I'll be driving a light blue Rav4 Toyota. See you at 4pm in the Quick Check parking lot.

Brian on 3/3: No problem see you in 10.

Lauren on 3/9: Hey Brian, I'm wondering if you have a better idea of when the chameleon will be old enough to go.

Since then no response to e-mails, calls, or texts.
 
Lauren, you gave cash to someone you did not know and who does not seem to have any sort of history here other than the ads?
I'm not jumping on you, I'm sorry you are having a problem, but if I could offer advice it would be not to use cash, and to deal with reputable people who you have checked out prior to your deal. I know you were happy to find a geographically close seller, but sometimes that can be outweighed by other concerns.
 
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Lauren Morris

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to cbt9
I'd like to put a deposit on a male. I live in Riverdale NJ so you wouldn't have to worry about shipping. =]
Brian Timony [email protected]

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to me
Hi Lauren thats not a problem Im taking 300.00 deposits on males and 250.00 deposits on females. You can either send me a personal check since your so local or a money order or a certified bank check. Whatevers easier for you. Or we could just meet somewhere and you could pay cash and i can email you a receipt of deposit. Its up to you my address is 22 Jackson Ave. apt. 4 Pompton
Plains nj 07444. Let me know what you wanna do. Thanks Brian Timony


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Lauren Morris wrote:

I'd like to put a deposit on a male. I live in. Riverdale NJ so you wouldn't have to worry about shipping. =]

Lauren
Lauren Morris

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to Brian
Would you do any cash discounts if I paid you cash in full?
[email protected] via srs.bis6.us.blackberry.com

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to me
Ill do a male for 450 if you pay cash in full. So your gonna give me a full deposit of 450 now and he should be ready in about a week I think so I can just meet up with you again to drop him off to you. Ill make sure I give you the biggest one and a 10 day health guarantee. Just let me kno where and when you wanna meet to give the deposit. Thanks Brian
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: Lauren Morris <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:18:18 -0500
To: Brian Timony<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: cbb Blue/purple bar ambilobes
Lauren Morris

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to cbt9
Brian,

I'm trying to get a mental picture of what you're near. We could meet at the Quick Check in Pompton Plains if that's convenient for you.
[email protected] via srs.bis6.us.blackberry.com

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to me
That's perfect I can meet anytime that's good for you.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: Lauren Morris <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:33:33 -0500
To: <[email protected]>
Lauren Morris

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to cbt9
Tomorrow afternoon would be good for me. How's 4pm?
[email protected] via srs.bis6.us.blackberry.com

Mar 2 (9 days ago)

to me
Sounds good ill see you at 4. Thanks
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: Lauren Morris <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:27:36 -0500
Lauren Morris

Mar 3 (8 days ago)

to cbt9
Brian, my number is 201-953-3608 if you need to reach me. I'll be driving a light blue Rav4 Toyota. See you at 4pm in the Quick Check parking lot.
[email protected] via srs.bis6.us.blackberry.com

Mar 3 (7 days ago)

to me
No problem see you in 10.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: Lauren Morris <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:35:41 -0500
Lauren Morris

7:42 PM (17 hours ago)

to cbt9
Hey Brian,

I'm wondering if you have a better idea of when the chameleon will be old enough to go.
 
Lucille said:
Lauren, you gave cash to someone you did not know and who does not seem to have any sort of history here other than the ads?
I'm not jumping on you, I'm sorry you are having a problem, but if I could offer advice it would be not to use cash, and to deal with reputable people who you have checked out prior to your deal. I know you were happy to find a geographically close seller, but sometimes that can be outweighed by other concerns.
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Yes...thank you...live and learn. I got that. I'm just trying to warn other people.
 
I hope the address he gave you is his actual address. But to think that it is, is just wishful thinking. I would save everything you have, and submit it to the local authorities. An ip check could be possible to find his actual location. Did he ever give you that receipt? Do you remember what car / plates he had? Like I said, get everything together as neat as possible and address it with the police.

Lucille is spot on, avoid doing transactions of that magnitude without referances or reputation. You may be getting a fantastic deal, but things like this happen. You could have just as easily received an animal that died the next day. Live and learn as you said, and we all appreciate the heads up.
 
I'm familiar with the address. The front is a doctors office but the back has a number of apartments. I'm assuming it is a real address since he told me to send him a check there. I'm going to file a police report tomorrow and hope for the best.
 
Um... while the whole situation does, in fact, sound dubious with the high cash value transaction, it's been *less than a day*--over a weekend, no less--since you last tried to contact him and/or the point he said they'd be ready.

He said they'd be ready in "about 7 days". I don't see any reason he'd have contacted you in that week prior if they weren't ready to go.

Isn't it jumping the gun just a little bit to be posting a bad guy thread and filing a police report just because someone hasn't emailed you *within a DAY* of when they said the animal would probably be ready? I mean, life happens.
 
That said, the color on that animal looks, well, unreal.

The branch it's sitting on is so blown out dark it's unreal, which makes me dubious as to how true the animal's color is. (Whether or not it's intentionally manipulated is another question entirely, but it seems to fail to be an *accurate* representation, to say the least.)

Here's a photo from screameleons of an animal from the same line as an excellent example of how a cham on a branch in front of a black background should look:

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Not like this:
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(Oddly, the seller has a quality photo of a cham posed in a similar manner in his other ad:

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Also odd is that the photos in the 2 ads seem to have been taken on 2 different cameras...
 
I understand it was only a 24 hour period and it may be jumping the gun but he told me he'd send me a receipt after I paid and still hasn't done so. He said they'd be ready in about a week. So I waited 10 days before trying to contact him. His e-mails go directly to his phone so it's not like he hasn't had the time to check his e-mails or anything.
 
I don't know the seller, but emails going to a phone isn't foolproof (speaking from experience, on this one). There are numerous things that can go wrong, and either cause delays in receiving, or failures in sending emails by phone....and the problem doesn't always manifest itself with an error or time out.
Maybe he DID avoid your emails, and plan on keeping your cash; maybe not.
Has anybody alerted him to this thread yet??
 
broken phone perhaps? its a possability considering he is not answering calls or emails or getting on hear. He could have the web on the phone? Just a thought. Hope it works out!!
 
Yeah, I am going to say the same thing that everyone else said. Why? Why would you give cash to someone that you don't know? I am not going to sugar coat it and say it isn't your fault because it is. I do feel bad for you though. Nobody deserves this but that is just a lot of money to basically hand to someone and not know them. I hope that maybe he is just busy and he will get back to you but who knows. Good luck with everything.
 
The second photo is clearly edited. Its magenta levels are WAY too high. I have a degree in photography and quite a bit of experience editing photos. It would take only a few seconds in photoshop to do that.
 
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