Scam Alert

Just thought I would pass this on since the guy took someones knife and faked a death to cover his tracks. Figured everyone should keep their guard up. What a POS thing to do.

http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43209

If putting the link up is not okay please remove. I figured this should be here for the greater good.

Password controlled Link. Does us non-members no good as we can't see the content...
 
Its about a guy named Mike Taylor, stealing knives, faking his own death via forum posts (family member coming on under his screen name). It would appear he has made it to quite a few forum, and has been outed, but who knows whats going on.

He makes deals, lies, flat out steals, and has used contests to steal people personal information.

And he bad mouths Beckers. :D

I mixed it up with him a few times on BCUSA about BKT knives, and now, he used a "giveaway" of BKT's to steal important information about a member there.

More will be forth coming, alot of my Beckerheads are members on the sites where he has caused trouble, they are looking for more information.

Moose
 
Moose thanks for jumping in on this. I didn't know that the link would not work for non-members. This guy is a piece of work. Kinda hard to follow it all if you aren't a member over there as it spans multiple threads and web sites. I'll add what I can here.

Yesterday the Admin over at BCUSA received an email from the daughter of member danceswithatrout....

Hey Gang I received this through a pm from Dances With A Trouts Daughter Sara. She wanted me to share this with all of you

RIP Mike

Hello

My dad had your name written down in case something bad happened. I joined and tried to post this note but the system kept telling me I cannot, very frustrating to me.

This was the note I wanted to post. If you can do this for me, I would really appreciate it. Anyone concerned may contact me at godmademefluffy@aol.com.

Michael M. Taylor. age 53 (born 09/11/1957), of Cleveland, Ohio (born Billings, MT), passed Aug. 13, 2011. Cherished fiance' of Pam and father of Jessica (24) (serving in the US Navy, Afghanistan), Sara (17) and Jackson (6). Survived by Father, Reese (87), Mother, Ruth (84), Brother, Steve of Billings Montana (58), Sister, Christine of Cleveland (55). Michael, was a US. Navy Veteran of 16 years and served combat duty in Desert Storm. Michael was retired (due to disabilities of blindness) as an Design Engineer. Memorial donations suggested to The NRA or Hospice of the Western Reserve. NO VISITATION. Memorial Service. Aug 15, at 9:00 a.m., at Solon United Church, Solon, Ohio. Transport of ashes to Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery will be performed on Aug. 17, 2011 via Honor Guard (private Memorial Service for family).

Hello, my name is Sara Taylor, youngest daughter of Michael Taylor, you all know him as "danceswithatrout." Dad passed this past Saturday.

We will all miss my dad. My dad left sketchy notes on posting here, I tried and the board would not let me, so I am contacting a Sgt. Mac to do this for me, I am doing the best I can given all that has happened. Dad passed of a massive congestive heart failure and was pronounced DOA at Wade Park Veterans Hospital at 10:35am on Saturday morning, this was somewhat expected, but never so quickly. You all will be proud to know that he was out in a local park collecting flowers, plants and tree samples to complete a school he was taking here at this board. Jessica, my big sister will stay in Afghanistan in service. Jackson and I have the family here helping to take care of us. Pam, his girlfriend who lives with us, will be helping out a lot. My Uncle Steve will be taking care of my dads major business deals of the Gun Shop, Fishing Shop and the log furniture sales.

If anyone had any business deals with my dad, I will be completing them in his passing. Please contact me at godmademefluffy@aol.com as we cannot enter his email/net forums or boards as well as his cell phone yet.

If you are owed money, it will be paid promptly with some kind of proof sent to my email address of godmademefluffy@aol.com. If you were sending product or items to my dad, please go ahead and send them, I will accept them for him. I know dad ordered knives and product here from this board, please send invoices to me at godmademefluffy@aol.com. We have no details of any sales or business deals, I will trust you to give them to me at my email.

My Uncle Steve, my dads brother, will be handling estate issues. I can handle small money issues, up to $1000.00 each or product being sent or received issues for you, please just email me with the details.

If someone here knows a Josh from Sandusky, Ohio, here on this board, please have him contact me at my email. I do not know his screen name, but, was the person who done a camping class here in Ohio that my dad attended in early June.

If you need other information, please contact me, I will do the best I can for you.

Sara Taylor


Edit: The family will not be taking any donations at this time


Multiple pages follow with heartfelt wishes and condolences for the death of their forum member.

Then the thread is locked and another thread opens from a nice guy that sells his knives over there.

STOLEN KNIFE !
If this knife is found for sale here or anyplace else, please let me know. It was stolen by someone we know as Mike Taylor aka danceswithatrout. He is a fraud. Do not fall for his bs like a few of us have

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Lots of posts come after this. People have been scammed by the guy. The info about the funeral is checked out and cannot be substantiated. Several links to other sites pop up where he has been banned for the same activity.

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=370549

http://www.airgunhome.com/agforum/viewtopic.php?t=6116


There's a lot more but I just wanted to put it out there to the knife brothers to make sure he does not take anyone else to the cleaners. I'm sure others will be along to add to this.
 
see if anyone can get me the name of the gun shop and i'll have someone check it out. an ip would be nice too so i can check to see if he is on a forum i'm an admin on. if he is, i'll gladly ban him.
 
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