SCAMMER ALERT! Crocodilus

dickgrande

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Crocodilus tried to scam me. I have a knife for sale here and he sent me pay pal funds and at the last minute asked me to send the knife to his "Friend" at another address because he would be out of the country:confused: Seemed fishy to me so I contacted pay pal via email with his name and story and they got right back to me and said that he was no good. I returned his funds with the note that he is a scammer.
Beware Every one.

Doc
 
good to know... assuming he was scamming. i absolutely hate that garbage. I had tried to sell my tacoma last fall and got nothing but paypal scams from people who were "happy with the price... don't need to see the vehicle... will send to have the vehicle picked up... can deposit the money today" i swear if i could have caught them, or found out where they lived, consequenses would follow.
 
rustyrazor said:
good to know... assuming he was scamming. i absolutely hate that garbage. I had tried to sell my tacoma last fall and got nothing but paypal scams from people who were "happy with the price... don't need to see the vehicle... will send to have the vehicle picked up... can deposit the money today" i swear if i could have caught them, or found out where they lived, consequenses would follow.
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Same thing happened to me when selling a trailer a while back. Moron forgot western union and paypal don't work together so having there stamps at the bottom of a sketchy paypal invoice was a no go on that.

Lesson leaned on that experience
 
Yea, classic scam. I'm glad you noticed it and high tailed it outa there asap. Actually, PP doesn't enforce this stuff. Sure they claim it's against their policy, so they won't get in trouble with regulators, but in practice they leave it up to users to stop the transaction and refund immediately.

Is this person operating under multiple user accounts on BF?

I've dealt with this before and I'm sure I'll deal with it again. It's as simple as refunding the PP credit and walking away. Then send a friendly e-mail to the loser and tell them where to go.
 
I had a positive transaction with him, even though it was conducted through a third party (3rd party is established member here, I shipped to the US Paypal address provided, 3rd party forwarded the knife to Crocodilus). Crocodilus isn't a US resident, so maybe there's a language barrier?
 
way to go paypal. I am happy that they told you about him. if they know about him then why don't they close
down his account??
 
Classic scam, especially with overseas buyers. If they want you to ship to a third party, tell them you need a PayPal confirmed address to ship to. As in the OP, PayPal will tell you when they are no good.
 
There are American scammers too, and every foreigner with a US address is not a bad guy. We had a couple Russians I would have shipped to. You have to know your buyers, and BFC is a good place to get to know them.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
There are American scammers too, and every foreigner with a US address is not a bad guy. We had a couple Russians I would have shipped to. You have to know your buyers, and BFC is a good place to get to know them.
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BladeForum member, "Prosstak" (whose name is Pavel), is definitely one of the good, honest member's who can be trusted here.
 
I would say that between 80 and 90% of the blade *I* buy in the US are sent to a single US address and then on shipped to me here, I don't know Crocodilus' story at all, just saying that not all foreign (from the US) based buyers that us a US address are scammers... ;)
 
Andy, the problem is, if the US address is not on the buyer's confirmed PayPal address list, The seller is not protected if the deal goes bad.
 
I understand that, there is in any of these transaction a certain level of trust involved, the important part is knowing who to and how far. I need to look again but it use to be the case that "international addresses" , such as my own in Paypal were not "confirmed" as the US ones were. This may have changed now. I also include the required US shipping address as one of mine IN paypal and as part of the correspondance (through paypal).

But sadly there are also scammers that abound the Internet, and as a group we have a responsibility to both paise the good ones and out the bad ones.
 
dickgrande said:
Crocodilus tried to scam me. I have a knife for sale here and he sent me pay pal funds and at the last minute asked me to send the knife to his "Friend" at another address because he would be out of the country:confused: Seemed fishy to me so I contacted pay pal via email with his name and story and they got right back to me and said that he was no good. I returned his funds with the note that he is a scammer.
Beware Every one.

Doc
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Just concluded a transaction with crocodilus (I was the seller).
He mentioned he usually uses a 3rd party (established member on this forum) just because he's overseas and many seller are reluctant to ship internationally.
Have to say his communication was great, payment was fast and everything went smooth.
I think calling him a scammer is not realistic. Actually it's unfair and really hurts someone trying to build a good reputation here. ( I found this thread before committing to sell to him, but the vibe I got from him didn't go with what the OP is insinuating, so I went with my got instinct)
The way I see it - he didn't actually scammed anyone (no goods/$$ were exchanged) and based on my personal experience with him I would think he's quite the opposite of a scammer.
Not sure why paypal would say he was no good, since his account with paypal is confirmed.(??)
Anyways, let's not jump to conclusion here and trash someone's reputation just like that.
I know I would deal with him again without hesitation given the opportunity.
 
Andy the Aussie said:
But sadly there are also scammers that abound the Internet, and as a group we have a responsibility to both paise the good ones and out the bad ones.
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Agreed. Praise the good ones and out the bad ones. But let's not get them all mixed-up.
 
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