Someone pretending to be swamphunter took my money

At this point, all deals should be conducted by PM. 95% of the time it's faux emails and not hacked accounts.
 
Where did this $30 a month idea come from?
 
mr_anderson said:
Fixed income, it takes me time to save up to buy these things. I'm not rich. Can't afford $30 a month when most of the time I don't have the money to buy anything. It's been reported to the bank for fraud, they are pretty good about getting things sorted out.
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Fixed income, cant afford $30
but....
$450

Again...
Sorry you got scammed.
Buy a membership or continue to take a chance on getting scammed again
 
Blues said:
A basic membership, which gets you a small number of DMs is $10 for the year.
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It's changed then. Last time I looked was like 9 years ago, lol. I'll have to check it out. I do want to get back into knives, it keeps me from going insane from my intractable migraines.
 
uxo2 said:
Fixed income, cant afford $30
but....
$450

Again...
Sorry you got scammed.
Buy a membership or continue to take a chance on getting scammed again
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How about you say something useful instead of repeating the same thing. Good to know people out there that never make mistakes.
 
I am sorry to hear about this mr_anderson. Others have reiterated how it might be avoided in the future, no need to beat that into the ground at this point... But please let me add a suggestion that has worked for me 100% buying online for 25 years now. If you are even a bit unsure just ask for a picture of the knife with the user's name and date in the same pic. It's pretty common around here and other forums, not everyone posts a pic like that but most anyone could certainly take one for you.

Good luck in the future, don't let this sour you. Actual members here are 99.999% solid.
 
ACfixer said:
I am sorry to hear about this mr_anderson. Others have reiterated how it might be avoided in the future, no need to beat that into the ground at this point... But please let me add a suggestion that has worked for me 100% buying online for 25 years now. If you are even a bit unsure just ask for a picture of the knife with the user's name and date in the same pic. It's pretty common around here and other forums, not everyone posts a pic like that but most anyone could certainly take one for you.

Good luck in the future, don't let this sour you. Actual members here are 99.999% solid.
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I know. This is the first time being scammed like this. I bought here for 15 years no problem. I've had more problems with knife makers.
 
mr_anderson said:
I know. This is the first time being scammed like this. I bought here for 15 years no problem. I've had more problems with knife makers.
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Also, stop using PayPal friends and family, Zelle or anything else that lacks protection. I have been using PP goods and services since its inception and have never had a problem; and have also walked away from deals if the Seller refuses to accept it.

N2s
 
Sorry you got scammed.

Interested to hear if MasterCard refunds you. That would be good to know.
 
You are far from the 1st to fall for this scam. It has been a very successful scam, too the point some are getting competing emails from scamers. Not much more the administration can do, other than try to get the message out about the scam, and how best to avoid it and others, which they have worked hard to do. However not all get the word, or in some cases ignore it and so on it goes.
Sorry you got scammed, none of us are happy about this.
 
I would report these scams to PP. While they don't offer protection on ff, it is against their rules to ask for it on goods and service transactions. I don't believe you break any rule by paying as asked
Hopefully they will close some accounts, and could take mercy on the buyer and make a refund-it is in their ability if they choose
 
toker said:
If it was F&F, I would say the chance is little to none.
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That should be unrelated. MC would decide on its own, and method of PayPal payment plays no part unless MasterCard cares. Some people have had success with various cards and banks in the past.
 
kreole said:
Sorry you got scammed.

Interested to hear if MasterCard refunds you. That would be good to know.
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Also interested to see how paypal takes to this practice, regardless of how legitimate the claim.

I was under the impression they get a bit huffy when people run chargebacks, but maybe it's circumstance dependant.
 
Chase can definitely stops it and just sends u a new card. I remember because a few months back, some one had hacked an acquaintance of mine on facebook and was pretending to be them and was selling knives with stolen pictures from various knife groups. Fortunately the knife groups usually tend to be a small community so everyone has seen the pictures. They were able to cancel the transaction and I was mildly inconvenienced for a few days.
 
not2sharp said:
Also, stop using PayPal friends and family, Zelle or anything else that lacks protection. I have been using PP goods and services since its inception and have never had a problem; and have also walked away from deals if the Seller refuses to accept it.

N2s
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That was a first, But I was going by his rep on the forum. Like I said, It didn't even occur to me that some rando would do that. I learn from this stuff. Last lesson was in 2013 when 2 different knife makers got me for a total of $1500. What really sucked, both were paid makers both here and usn. I almost didn't use the F&F and just up however much it would be for the fee.
 
Peter Hartwig said:
I would report these scams to PP. While they don't offer protection on ff, it is against their rules to ask for it on goods and service transactions. I don't believe you break any rule by paying as asked
Hopefully they will close some accounts, and could take mercy on the buyer and make a refund-it is in their ability if they choose
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If the question has anything to do with buying they don't care, even my bank said pp are awful with this stuff.
 
SwissHeritageCo said:
Also interested to see how paypal takes to this practice, regardless of how legitimate the claim.

I was under the impression they get a bit huffy when people run chargebacks, but maybe it's circumstance dependant.
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I've been on pp since "98, and I've only needed to get refunds 3 times.
 
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