[Amps] Watch out for a scam by...

[Rob Atkinson]

On 6/15/2011 11:00 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
> I too had my call "highjacked" on QTH.com. The scammers look for good
> feedback on the feedback page and uses the call.

>I regularly get "spam" from me and that's an address that's a bit
>difficult to filter out, unless you can get to the IP.

>73

>Roger (K8RI)


> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
>
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> From:<left at rogers.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:36 AM
> To:<amps at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX
>
>> David,
>>
>> you are dealing with a case of stolen identity. Alex is a respected member
>> of the Ham community in Toronto and a known contester. And I can not
>> recognize the "bluemail.org" email as his that the other person made a
>> reference to in the link you provided. Also, Alex is not 16-20 years old,
>> as you can see on his WEB page
>>
>> http://www.qsl.net/ve3xax/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ivan
>> VE3iVM
>>
>> --- On Wed, 6/15/11, David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> From: David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net>
>>> Subject: [Amps] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX
>>> To: "amps"<amps at contesting.com>
>>> Cc: kenwood at mailman.qth.net, "Discussion of precise time and frequency
>>> measurement"<time-nuts at febo.com>, "Yaesu"<Yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 10:42 AM
>>> I advertised on eHam.net and qrz.com
>>> that I was looking for a Kenwood
>>> AT-230 ATU. I got a reply from someone claiming to be Alex
>>> Barski from
>>> Canada with the callsign VE3XAX who has an email address
>>> of
>>> ve3xax at blumail.org.
>>> I've no idea if his real name is that, or if he
>>> holds that callsign, but I'm suspicious.
>>>
>>> This person offered me the ATU for $220 shipped to my
>>> house, but there
>>> were a number of things that make me suspicious this is a
>>> scam.
>>>
>>> 1) When I checked on QRZ.COM, the address and name did not
>>> agree with
>>> the callsign. The only similarity was they were in Canada.
>>> Today when
>>> I checked, the information agreed.But yesterday they were
>>> definitely
>>> different.
>>>
>>> 2) When I offered to pay via Paypal, I received this:
>>>
>>> "Thanks for the response to my email David but i am sorry i
>>> don't use
>>> paypal or bank transfer as means of payment due to the
>>> instruction
>>> giving to me by my bank and lawyer but i will entertain any
>>> other safe
>>> and reliable mode of payment. Also what is your full
>>> shipping
>>> information and we can discuss about the payment over the
>>> phone, give
>>> me your number and i will give you a call to talk."
>>>
>>> This immediately made me "smell a rat", but I decided to
>>> play along
>>> and gave him my mobile phone number.
>>>
>>> 3) Today he rings me, withholding the number, and says
>>> Western Union
>>> would be a safe method of payment.
>>>
>>> I'm rather sorry I did not play him along a lot longer, but
>>> I told him
>>> the deal was off. I might email him and say I had second
>>> thoughts, and
>>> will string him along for a bit of fun. But basically be
>>> aware.
>>>
>>> Today I looked on qrz.com and found others have basically
>>> formed the
>>> same conclusion of this person
>>>
>>> http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?300792-Fake-VE3XAX-Scam-from-wanted-add
>>>
>>> The strange thing is, the other person reporting the scam
>>> also played
>>> along with it. Sometimes these scams can be fun! I think
>>> I'll play
>>> along a bit more too.
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