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Judge not, lest ye be judged...
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You're judging those who have judged him, and you haven't even bothered to read the thread...
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| I pity the guy who misses a payment due to unforeseen circumstances only to find his life ruined a few days later. I haven't read the mentioned threads, but failing to pay for sneakers or a cell phone is hardly just cause to commit libel and fraud against someone. I'd argue that the persecutors have more bad karma coming their way than the original non-payers, even if they actually were scammers. |
Reading the thread (even a little bit of it) would be helpful, don't you think?
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Have not read the forum or the post, but How do you know he actually been scammed. What if the guy is just lying to get kicks out of it.
I just don't like stories that are one sided. Do you know any other information other then from the OP?
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Reading the thread (even a little bit of it) would be helpful, don't you think?
About the first 10 pages of the thread are pretty good, then the next 10 pages get filled with a lot of junk and you don't see any real progress, and then the last 17 pages (there were 37 pages when I read it) were pretty much useless.
The kid who did the scamming joined the thread for a while before being banned. He's a complete idiot and actually admitted that he scammed many people, supposedly because he had been scammed himself, but his posts really aren't very credible at all.
I was hoping that there would be a conclusion in terms of whether the OP would get his cell phone back, but the last word was that the scammer had given him a USPS tracking number and he was waiting on the package. In the meantime, someone else joined the thread from another forum saying that he too had been scammed by the same guy and had been given the exact same USPS tracking number from him. So it would appear that the OP is not getting his cell phone back.
They have the scammer's name, several phone numbers, his address, pics of his parent's house, pics of him, his myspace blog, his IP addresses, all sorts of usernames he's gone by at a couple of different forums to rip people off, etc. But he says that he doesn't live at that address, although clearly he did at one time. They are trying to get local law authorities to step in, and apparently have info that these same authorities are already onto this kid for other internet scams that he's done.
Many members of the forum are LEOs (law enforcement officers) and together have all sorts of connections and a determination to get this kid behind bars. I wish them well. Having been robbed twice in Florida this past year and now being about $10k out of pocket as a result, I think these kinds of scum bags belong in jail. I hope they build a solid case against him and don't rush it just to satisfy the 100,000 viewers of that now famous thread.
That thread has now spread to hundreds of other forums and all sorts of people are filling it up with useless posts, saying things like, "Just signed up from the Hybusa forums, and wanted to say that you guys rule!" So you have to fight through pages of nonsense to see if there are any real updates.
A couple of forum members have also notified various news media organizations, such as CNN, Fox, USA Today, and the like, trying to see if any of them will pick up the story in terms of cooperative internet justice.
I think it should be a sticky thread here and everywhere else on the internet, just to show potential scammers what could happen if they run into the wrong crowd!
The only thing that I didn't care for in the thread were a lot of racial overtones, and some outright racist remarks, that the moderators there did not delete. That will never be tolerated here if I have anything to say about it, I can assure you of that (and I'm quite confident that I speak on behalf of Jude and all of the other moderators here in that regard).
If you haven't guessed yet, the scammer happens to be a 20 year old black male. He tries to come across as a street-wise gangster type, but just doesn't pull it off in terms of believability. Instead, he comes across as being quite foolish. But this still doesn't give any of the members there the right to start stereotyping him, and worse.
