The
guy that stung me and many others, mainly readers from the Sound on Sound online
ads, used the name Mike C Boardman, but he's been known to use the
name Chris (can't remember surname) and probably many others
too...
His
accent was from Merseyside and his bank details (Barclays and HSBC (as Chris))
were also in the same town. Dozens of other people who were conned by the same
guy have since came forward and Merseyside police are on the case, but they seem
to be doing very little, considering this guy has taken 10's of thousands of
pounds between us... Apparently, the laws on fightin this aren't
very good and it is VERY easy to get away with. This information came directly
from the police. They also said the only thing stopping others doing it is their
conscience. Shocking!
Anyway, I hope things change regarding issues such as this and
I hopfully everyone will just be more vigilant in the
meantime.
Peter
-----Original Message-------- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
From: pmjtaysom [mailto:philip@taysom.co.uk]
Sent: 14 May 2004 19:28
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: !!!ALERT !!! E-bay crooks ... AGAIN !!!
> I'm busy 'playing' with him/her. They ONLY accept bank transfers.
> Sounds a bit like the same guy that stung me for £360 (Virus b) last
> year. I wonder!!!
I would be *really* grateful for any information you can get regarding
either his name or bank account details - reason..... last year I lost
£2,000 which was a 25% *deposit* on a genuine (sic) UK 240V 50Hz
Hammond B3 that I won on eBay.
The *seller* (read con artist) was a guy called 'Oleg Matrosov' and
set up the whole thing from an address in Eastbourne (not far from
Hove). Sussex Police have my statement and have asked me to provide
any information I can to help track him down.
For those who are interested he actually had us turn up in a van with
the balance in cash to collect the B3 - when we got there - it was a
dentist surgery :-( I live in North Yorkshire so this was no small
trip! You can imagine my mood for the next 24 hours.....
Aparently he's a very nasty piece of work and eBay scamming is only a
tiny portion of his 'repetoire' which, according to the Police,
include narcotics, human trafficing and online fraud.
If you can get me any information, it might help the Police catch him
- by the time the £2k had gone into his account, he'd closed it down
and dissapeared.
Thanks for listening
Philip