Hi,
As you know our scouting group has had several fundraisers in the past year selling some extra Firesteels and Glowrings.
We still use the principle of sending payment after having received the goods and this has worked without a hitch for almost all transactions we did, this just shows how good a bunch of people Forumites are
We have run however into one not so nice person, Mr. Randy Herring, who scr.w.d us for 4 Glowrings and used a most elaborate way to deceive us.
He used an address were a person lives with the same last name as himself somehow he managed to get the Glowrings we send to that address as he confirmed to us that he received the Glowrings that we send to that address.
Payment didnt arrive and when we asked about it some vague email arrived that it supposedly was send from his work but he would check.
Then silence and we never got an reply back anymore to our subsequent emails (at least 5).
Upon doing some checking with the help off a fellow forumite I got the telephone number at that address + the persons name who lived there (same last name other first name)
Also the address where Mr. R. Herring now seems to live with an telephone number.
I reached the person living at the address we send the Glowrings to and he was shocked, he was a 70 year old man living there for the last 18 months he didnt know who Randy Herring was (strange but could be true he sounded honest).
I havent been able to reach R. Herring at his new address, but him not replying to all our emails and the info I got from the old man leads me to believe that one should be extremely carefull when doing business with Mr. R Herring.
He used randyherring49@hotmail.com as an email address.
Be warned, best Scouting wishes from Holland,
Bagheera
As you know our scouting group has had several fundraisers in the past year selling some extra Firesteels and Glowrings.
We still use the principle of sending payment after having received the goods and this has worked without a hitch for almost all transactions we did, this just shows how good a bunch of people Forumites are
We have run however into one not so nice person, Mr. Randy Herring, who scr.w.d us for 4 Glowrings and used a most elaborate way to deceive us.
He used an address were a person lives with the same last name as himself somehow he managed to get the Glowrings we send to that address as he confirmed to us that he received the Glowrings that we send to that address.
Payment didnt arrive and when we asked about it some vague email arrived that it supposedly was send from his work but he would check.
Then silence and we never got an reply back anymore to our subsequent emails (at least 5).
Upon doing some checking with the help off a fellow forumite I got the telephone number at that address + the persons name who lived there (same last name other first name)
Also the address where Mr. R. Herring now seems to live with an telephone number.
I reached the person living at the address we send the Glowrings to and he was shocked, he was a 70 year old man living there for the last 18 months he didnt know who Randy Herring was (strange but could be true he sounded honest).
I havent been able to reach R. Herring at his new address, but him not replying to all our emails and the info I got from the old man leads me to believe that one should be extremely carefull when doing business with Mr. R Herring.
He used randyherring49@hotmail.com as an email address.
Be warned, best Scouting wishes from Holland,
Bagheera
. May have been his modus operandi for all we know.
(it's just an unfortunate coincidence
I can assure you that there's no relation between us). I've never dealt with Piet, but it's clear from his presence here on BFC that he's a man of impeccable integrity
it's infuriating that someone would take advantage of his trust. I don't know if anything can be done about the situation, but I agree with copfish's recommendation to report this to the Postal Inspectors. 
I received an email from the person in question in which he explained the situation of not having replied anymore.
. I just overreacted a little when I saw the name of the person with whom you were having problems. Ive been caught up in cases of mistaken identity before, and Im probably a little paranoid 
). Hopefully this situation will be resolved to everyones satisfaction soon
