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I am part of the investigation looking into alleged fraud by Ken Babbit aka ArtisticCutleryQuest.
Upon hearing of the nature of the complaint, something's seemed to stick out in the initial investigation as very strange.
I expected that if the nature of the allegations were true, than upon contact, Mr. Babbit would not be very forthcoming with information.
However, to my surprise, Mr. Babbit has been extremely cooperative and supplied quite a bit of information that has lead this case in a little different direction.
After the initial investigation has been conducted, we are left with some very serious questions that need to be answered by the accuser, Mr. Mike Snody of Snody Knives.
To start, almost every single part of Mr. Snody's allegation has been proven to be untrue. The question then arises, why in the world would someone who was the innocent victim of such a serious crime be alleging things that have documentation proving that they are false?
To start out with, in Mr. Snody's "fraud" forum posts, he has made several accusations.
The first accusation, Mr. Snody has provided a picture supplied to him by Forum member Jeff Kaczynski (jkaczyn18) that depicted Mr. Babbit wearing a titanium necklace that Mr. Snody has accused Ken of stealing from him. This member also currently has a GBU thread open about him and their are other problematic postings about him on other forums.
The link can be found here: you can additionally search on jerzeedevil forum to see if the problems he has encountered there have been resolved or not.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Jeff-Kaczynski-(jkaczyn18)-is-NOT-good-to-go?
Ken provided the original link to the transaction and invoicing which showed that he purchased this item as well as several items from a forum member named Cartophilis, of whom Mr. Babbit has done multiple transactions with for several Snody Knives and Keychain fobs.
Here is a link of ArtisticCutleryQuest feedback:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/itrader.php?u=312177
On artisticcutleryquest feedback page you can find transaction from a member named Cartophilis. You can click on the link to this transaction and this is what it will bring up.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/950863-A-few-for-sale
As you can see from the picture of the titanium chisel key fob, this is a very distinct item that features squiggle lines of colors on the front and back. One can easily see that this is the exact same item Mr. Snody claims Mr. Babbit has taken from him. So why would Mr. Snody be telling people that Mr. Babbit took this item from him, when it came from a different seller in a recent Bladeforums thread?
Upon further investigation it seems that this is not even the same type of titanium "Snody logo bling pendants" that Mr. Babbit ordered from Mr. Snody. Nor was this item made as jewelry rather as a keychain. Mr. Babbit acknowledges making the keychain into a necklace. He also has several other similar items purchased from private sellers on eBay, and by email.
There is no logo on this item, and the items ordered by Mr. Babbit had a sandblasted logo in them, he ordered 20 of these. He alleges only one of the items arrived and that it was the exact same one Snody featured in this video with the necklaces and all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BDHkwBN8k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Upon further request, Ken provided a video that was sent to him by Mr. Snody after most of Mr. Snody's packages arrived invoiced to thousands of dollars worth of goods that Mr. Babbit, for months has claimed did not contain the described merchandise, rather containing lesser valued merchandise he owed in the boxes.
Mr Babbit confronted Mr. Snody about this months ago to which Mr. Snody responded to his accusations not with denial, rather with an explanation that "these are custom goods we are making upgrades to you will have all merchandise delivered on May 7th"
Mr. Snody also as mentioned earlier provided a video to Mr. Babbit Showing almost all of the merchandise Mr. Babbit ordered in an unfinished state via delivery to email. This was a private video. this video was entitled "ACQ Order Progress Update" This video was sent and uploaded after the majority of Mr. Snody's packages arrived tracked to Mr. Babbit's home. There also seems to be several email correspondences suggesting that after the delivery date of may 7th rolled around, and nothing was delivered, a weekend soon following that. Mr. Babbit received email that, "you should have all your knives by the end of the week". There was no package delivered that week.
Just prior to memorial day, Mr. Snody sent an email saying your package has gone out this morning have a good one. After allegedly not receiving the goods on several dates before this as promised and even in the tracked packages, Mr Babbit was weary and got in touch with Mr. Snody's local post office as he did many times before letting them know there was a problem.
The post office wasn't the only one Mr. Babbit notified there was a problem, he also said and showed record of contacting several forum members, dealers, Sparks, the owner of Bladeforums, The US postal inspectors, and law enforcement.
Getting back to the package that supposedly went out that morning, shipping records and phone records verify Mr. Babbit's statement that he was told by the US Post Office located in Aransas Pass, that a small flat rate box was brought in after hours after the mail had picked up which conflicts with Mr. Snody's statement that the package had gone out that morning. Using judgement, Ken states that he knew that could not possibly contain the rest of the merchandise he alledges was owed.
Ken then on the same day writes to Mr. Snody listing all of the merchandise and asking when the rest of it will be coming. Mr Snody responds with, "another package will be coming on Monday"
Ken writes back to tell Mr. Snody that Monday is a holiday, memorial day and that he looks forward to receiving it. He also asks for a tracking number.
No packages arrive after this date and no tracking number is supplied.
Further their are emails that show Mr Babbit had asked for invoicing and track numbers when the original packages arrived and to this date, Mr. Snody has not sent invoicing.
This got me wondering, something isn't adding up here.
So moving on to the other evidence Mr. Snody presented was a Bank Receipt that was also supplied by the same member, Jeff Kaczynski, as verified by text message records in which Jeff tells Mr. Babbit that he sent the images to Mr. Snody but did not tell him what knife the transaction was for.
If this is true, that Jeff didn't tell Mr. Snody what knife it was for, why then does Mr. Snody boldly proclaim that, "Ivan Babbit is benefitting from the sale of knives that were defrauded from him.
We have verified that the knife in question, and the payment in question to the bank account of Mr. Babbit from Mr. Kaczynski, was the difference in trade value for a knife Mr. Kaczynski Listed on blade forums in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/958619-Rare-Snody-Warmonger-FT?highlight=Warmonger
The Knife Mr. Babbit traded was also from a private seller and we have confirmed that through invoicing and text message records, this knife was not from Mr. Snody so it couldn't have been stolen or defrauded from him...so why is he stating that it was?
Further Mr. Snody proclaims that Ken Babbit backed out of a deal for knives for the trade of a glock firearm. Mr. Snody adds a brief text along the lines of asking for a firearms dealer to ship it to and something about endorsing sheaths.
Mr. Snody does not state which knives were traded, or provide tracking information. This is his opportunity to respond with any pertinent information to that affect, as well as any other email correspondance where the alleged trade details are discussed, or an email in which he supplies Mr. Babbit with a firearms dealer to send it to.
We have more evidence on this matter but we will give Mr. Snody the chance to respond in full before we release any further details.
In closing, Mr Snody claims that he has information that Ken's Mom is involved in a PayPal scams but does not list any information, we ask that he please respond with any information that she is part of any type of scam, or that there is any type of scam going on.
As well, Mr. Snody claims that Mr. Babbit, filed disputes as an authorized user. Or fraudulent use of the credit card.
In a video he claims that Ken stole his father, Ivan's credit card and that he has disputed the items as a stolen credit card or unauthorized fraudulent use.
I have personally verified that the card Mr. Babbit used was his own, with his name on it, and that all of the chargebacks say nothing of about "unauthorized user" I have statements from the credit card companies that I will release but it's important to note this fact, Mr. Snody claims that the American Express chargebacks are for fraudulent or stolen card use, I have verified one hundred percent the PayPal does not show this for ANY Amex chargebacks.
To Mr. Snody's defense the PayPal chargebacks from discover do show information about unauthorized use, however, upon verifying with Discover card, this is not the case, all of these disputes are for merchandise and say nothing about any type of fraudulent or unauthorized use or any stolen credit cards.
So why is Mike claiming that Mr. Babbit stole his father's amex credit card when in fact Mr. Babbit used his own credit card.
Why did Mr. Snody leave out the fact that their are transactions for merchandise Mr. Babbit did receive that are not in dispute.
Why did Mr. Snody claim the necklace was from him, and why did Mr. Snody claim the bank transaction was for a knife that was from him when I have personally verified and will release the invoicing for this knife that was from another member with a corresponding email.
Finally why did Mr. Snody leave out the fact that Mr. Babbit contacted him informing him that he didn't place any authorized user disputes, in the video it can be seen that Mr. Snody Manipulated the full text message to make it say "The disputes you are seeing for unauthorized user are a clerical error, I did not place disputes"
When the actual message sent by mr babbit said, "the chargebacks you are seeing for unauthorized user are a clerical error, I did not place OF THAT NATURE.
In the video you can clearly see that the scroll bar on his cell phone is not scrolled to the bottom of the text message, so why did he leave out the last few words to tell people that the text message said "I did not place any disputes"?
Why did he also leave out that mr. Babbit had been contacting him telling him the card he used was his own and that he placed the transactions.
Why when confronted with this information by Mr. Babbit by email did Mr. Snody quickly pull the videos down and supply the name of an attorney who handles criminal defense and personal injury?
Last but not least Mr. Snody claims that Mr. Babbit has been contacted by law enforcement, as part of this investigation which is the main investigation occurring no law enforcement has been notified yet, surely Mr. Snody would have to be in touch with this Law Enforcement for them to Have contacted by Mr. Babbit, Ken has stated that no law enforcement has been in contact with him, except for the law enforcement he has been working with to look into the issue of the alledged missing merchandise. Can Mr. Snody please advise of the agency and contact person in law enforcement whom has contacted Mr. Babbit, as Mr. Babbit has supplied the names of the agencies and contacts he has been working with since well before June.
Upon hearing of the nature of the complaint, something's seemed to stick out in the initial investigation as very strange.
I expected that if the nature of the allegations were true, than upon contact, Mr. Babbit would not be very forthcoming with information.
However, to my surprise, Mr. Babbit has been extremely cooperative and supplied quite a bit of information that has lead this case in a little different direction.
After the initial investigation has been conducted, we are left with some very serious questions that need to be answered by the accuser, Mr. Mike Snody of Snody Knives.
To start, almost every single part of Mr. Snody's allegation has been proven to be untrue. The question then arises, why in the world would someone who was the innocent victim of such a serious crime be alleging things that have documentation proving that they are false?
To start out with, in Mr. Snody's "fraud" forum posts, he has made several accusations.
The first accusation, Mr. Snody has provided a picture supplied to him by Forum member Jeff Kaczynski (jkaczyn18) that depicted Mr. Babbit wearing a titanium necklace that Mr. Snody has accused Ken of stealing from him. This member also currently has a GBU thread open about him and their are other problematic postings about him on other forums.
The link can be found here: you can additionally search on jerzeedevil forum to see if the problems he has encountered there have been resolved or not.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Jeff-Kaczynski-(jkaczyn18)-is-NOT-good-to-go?
Ken provided the original link to the transaction and invoicing which showed that he purchased this item as well as several items from a forum member named Cartophilis, of whom Mr. Babbit has done multiple transactions with for several Snody Knives and Keychain fobs.
Here is a link of ArtisticCutleryQuest feedback:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/itrader.php?u=312177
On artisticcutleryquest feedback page you can find transaction from a member named Cartophilis. You can click on the link to this transaction and this is what it will bring up.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/950863-A-few-for-sale
As you can see from the picture of the titanium chisel key fob, this is a very distinct item that features squiggle lines of colors on the front and back. One can easily see that this is the exact same item Mr. Snody claims Mr. Babbit has taken from him. So why would Mr. Snody be telling people that Mr. Babbit took this item from him, when it came from a different seller in a recent Bladeforums thread?
Upon further investigation it seems that this is not even the same type of titanium "Snody logo bling pendants" that Mr. Babbit ordered from Mr. Snody. Nor was this item made as jewelry rather as a keychain. Mr. Babbit acknowledges making the keychain into a necklace. He also has several other similar items purchased from private sellers on eBay, and by email.
There is no logo on this item, and the items ordered by Mr. Babbit had a sandblasted logo in them, he ordered 20 of these. He alleges only one of the items arrived and that it was the exact same one Snody featured in this video with the necklaces and all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BDHkwBN8k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Upon further request, Ken provided a video that was sent to him by Mr. Snody after most of Mr. Snody's packages arrived invoiced to thousands of dollars worth of goods that Mr. Babbit, for months has claimed did not contain the described merchandise, rather containing lesser valued merchandise he owed in the boxes.
Mr Babbit confronted Mr. Snody about this months ago to which Mr. Snody responded to his accusations not with denial, rather with an explanation that "these are custom goods we are making upgrades to you will have all merchandise delivered on May 7th"
Mr. Snody also as mentioned earlier provided a video to Mr. Babbit Showing almost all of the merchandise Mr. Babbit ordered in an unfinished state via delivery to email. This was a private video. this video was entitled "ACQ Order Progress Update" This video was sent and uploaded after the majority of Mr. Snody's packages arrived tracked to Mr. Babbit's home. There also seems to be several email correspondences suggesting that after the delivery date of may 7th rolled around, and nothing was delivered, a weekend soon following that. Mr. Babbit received email that, "you should have all your knives by the end of the week". There was no package delivered that week.
Just prior to memorial day, Mr. Snody sent an email saying your package has gone out this morning have a good one. After allegedly not receiving the goods on several dates before this as promised and even in the tracked packages, Mr Babbit was weary and got in touch with Mr. Snody's local post office as he did many times before letting them know there was a problem.
The post office wasn't the only one Mr. Babbit notified there was a problem, he also said and showed record of contacting several forum members, dealers, Sparks, the owner of Bladeforums, The US postal inspectors, and law enforcement.
Getting back to the package that supposedly went out that morning, shipping records and phone records verify Mr. Babbit's statement that he was told by the US Post Office located in Aransas Pass, that a small flat rate box was brought in after hours after the mail had picked up which conflicts with Mr. Snody's statement that the package had gone out that morning. Using judgement, Ken states that he knew that could not possibly contain the rest of the merchandise he alledges was owed.
Ken then on the same day writes to Mr. Snody listing all of the merchandise and asking when the rest of it will be coming. Mr Snody responds with, "another package will be coming on Monday"
Ken writes back to tell Mr. Snody that Monday is a holiday, memorial day and that he looks forward to receiving it. He also asks for a tracking number.
No packages arrive after this date and no tracking number is supplied.
Further their are emails that show Mr Babbit had asked for invoicing and track numbers when the original packages arrived and to this date, Mr. Snody has not sent invoicing.
This got me wondering, something isn't adding up here.
So moving on to the other evidence Mr. Snody presented was a Bank Receipt that was also supplied by the same member, Jeff Kaczynski, as verified by text message records in which Jeff tells Mr. Babbit that he sent the images to Mr. Snody but did not tell him what knife the transaction was for.
If this is true, that Jeff didn't tell Mr. Snody what knife it was for, why then does Mr. Snody boldly proclaim that, "Ivan Babbit is benefitting from the sale of knives that were defrauded from him.
We have verified that the knife in question, and the payment in question to the bank account of Mr. Babbit from Mr. Kaczynski, was the difference in trade value for a knife Mr. Kaczynski Listed on blade forums in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/958619-Rare-Snody-Warmonger-FT?highlight=Warmonger
The Knife Mr. Babbit traded was also from a private seller and we have confirmed that through invoicing and text message records, this knife was not from Mr. Snody so it couldn't have been stolen or defrauded from him...so why is he stating that it was?
Further Mr. Snody proclaims that Ken Babbit backed out of a deal for knives for the trade of a glock firearm. Mr. Snody adds a brief text along the lines of asking for a firearms dealer to ship it to and something about endorsing sheaths.
Mr. Snody does not state which knives were traded, or provide tracking information. This is his opportunity to respond with any pertinent information to that affect, as well as any other email correspondance where the alleged trade details are discussed, or an email in which he supplies Mr. Babbit with a firearms dealer to send it to.
We have more evidence on this matter but we will give Mr. Snody the chance to respond in full before we release any further details.
In closing, Mr Snody claims that he has information that Ken's Mom is involved in a PayPal scams but does not list any information, we ask that he please respond with any information that she is part of any type of scam, or that there is any type of scam going on.
As well, Mr. Snody claims that Mr. Babbit, filed disputes as an authorized user. Or fraudulent use of the credit card.
In a video he claims that Ken stole his father, Ivan's credit card and that he has disputed the items as a stolen credit card or unauthorized fraudulent use.
I have personally verified that the card Mr. Babbit used was his own, with his name on it, and that all of the chargebacks say nothing of about "unauthorized user" I have statements from the credit card companies that I will release but it's important to note this fact, Mr. Snody claims that the American Express chargebacks are for fraudulent or stolen card use, I have verified one hundred percent the PayPal does not show this for ANY Amex chargebacks.
To Mr. Snody's defense the PayPal chargebacks from discover do show information about unauthorized use, however, upon verifying with Discover card, this is not the case, all of these disputes are for merchandise and say nothing about any type of fraudulent or unauthorized use or any stolen credit cards.
So why is Mike claiming that Mr. Babbit stole his father's amex credit card when in fact Mr. Babbit used his own credit card.
Why did Mr. Snody leave out the fact that their are transactions for merchandise Mr. Babbit did receive that are not in dispute.
Why did Mr. Snody claim the necklace was from him, and why did Mr. Snody claim the bank transaction was for a knife that was from him when I have personally verified and will release the invoicing for this knife that was from another member with a corresponding email.
Finally why did Mr. Snody leave out the fact that Mr. Babbit contacted him informing him that he didn't place any authorized user disputes, in the video it can be seen that Mr. Snody Manipulated the full text message to make it say "The disputes you are seeing for unauthorized user are a clerical error, I did not place disputes"
When the actual message sent by mr babbit said, "the chargebacks you are seeing for unauthorized user are a clerical error, I did not place OF THAT NATURE.
In the video you can clearly see that the scroll bar on his cell phone is not scrolled to the bottom of the text message, so why did he leave out the last few words to tell people that the text message said "I did not place any disputes"?
Why did he also leave out that mr. Babbit had been contacting him telling him the card he used was his own and that he placed the transactions.
Why when confronted with this information by Mr. Babbit by email did Mr. Snody quickly pull the videos down and supply the name of an attorney who handles criminal defense and personal injury?
Last but not least Mr. Snody claims that Mr. Babbit has been contacted by law enforcement, as part of this investigation which is the main investigation occurring no law enforcement has been notified yet, surely Mr. Snody would have to be in touch with this Law Enforcement for them to Have contacted by Mr. Babbit, Ken has stated that no law enforcement has been in contact with him, except for the law enforcement he has been working with to look into the issue of the alledged missing merchandise. Can Mr. Snody please advise of the agency and contact person in law enforcement whom has contacted Mr. Babbit, as Mr. Babbit has supplied the names of the agencies and contacts he has been working with since well before June.
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