Bad Traders Alert! updated 02/14 *

blade · Post by **blade** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 2:47 am

*Updated 2/14

[align=center]Be real carefull when trading with anyone who lives in STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA[/align]

The genuis who used the name Tommy4437(Lam Linh) is one to avoid for sure.
<li>Linh, Lam or Truong or Hoa Vo, Caleb Chin, Steve Mende(a take off on the real steve)
 (keeps changing his name when he contacts others) aka Tommy4437 at anands and ars technica and NewMember at Hardocp. Lives in Stone Mountain, Ga. Has sent others bogus evals and made up all his heatware evals. He's a kiddie and major troll trying hard to rip as many off as he can and has several and some currently(2/14/01). He is recently using Stevem627@hotpop.com as his email and claiming to be the real stevem627 by also trying to pass his evals as his own. BE REAL CAREFULL WITH THIS TROLL, he'll no doubt use other peoples names to try and rip more off. Confirm one is who they say they are! see here for more info..
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=310859
and more recently here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=350365
Phant0m@pop3free.com
stevem627@hotpop.com
Tommy4437@netzero.net
Tommy4437@gamebox.net
66.26.95.84
66.26.95.5
66.26.95.13
4437 Boatmans Cove
Stone Mountain Ga 30083

[*]smogee aka peliwo aka Micchael Peliwo aka gringle aka deliverance is at it again. see here
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... 1=Speedy2k

Another is ripped off by this natorious troll who always whines to others how innocent he is. But now look at his heatware evals under peliwo and smogee. At least others will be warned now.

[*]Ole Eston Green is back at it again using the name falconsgx at hardocp
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=81942

[*]And jdaves(Justin Daves) is still trying to trade..
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=308938

**UPDATED 1/24/01**

Beware user mile_high, Jeff Bloomstrom who lives in Helena, MT. A trader at anands has been waiting since Christmas to receive his end of an intended cross ship. There has been zero comunication from him since then even after repeated emails and messages left on his answering machine. *Now 2 more have said he also owes them items and has not communicated with them.

[*]**Puto Alert** from the Bad Traders list one had this to say..

 Caputo, Nick From Williamsport, PA is geforce3000 on e-bay . and i wish i know about this place before i dealed with him !

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dl ... =455054672

as you can see i paid about 265.00 with shipping for this CPU , that i could not get to run stable at 840Mhz on 1.9 volts , with a BE6-2 REV2 . even at stock speed it would reboot random , after looking at the CPU good , it looks like a hair line crack across the whole CPU .
After lot of E-Mail back to him , he didnt want to do any thing about it , so i filed a Fraud report on him .

So if any trade at ebay beware of geforce3000!

[*]Bobby Dent, weblord_2000@yahoo.com. Lives in Alameda or Livermore, CA. Has owed a trader since December and has ignored all contact attempts since.

There may be 2-3 more added to this list soon. Just waiting to see if they bother replying.

**Updated 1/1/01 Another one!

<li>Hudnall, Kenneth aka Rathskalar at anands. A trader is out $200 because of him. He's a very low scumbag. Convinced a trader to send a lcd screen first after a partial payment but once received he tried to change the deal. And since he's avoided all communication. This all started in November of last year.
*He finally paid up but only because of pressure. Just took him 3 months.
Kenneth Hudnall
2525 Roxton St.
Sulphur, LA 70663
phone: 1-337-721-8037
primary email: rathskalar@hotmail.com
secondary email: kh3920@mail.mcneese.edu
ICQ #27291267
See here for more info:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=339392

**UPDATED 2/6/01**
Excuses, excuses and more lame excuses!

J.B. Cook III aka MercurySphere from Dartmouth college in Hanover, NH but his parents and other address is in Dalhart, TX. Uses the ole "oops, I put the wrong address on it" excuse. Has used that with several traders and even after he got the address "right" he had more excuses. One is still waiting for him while another finally received his end from Nov. 30. see here for more info..
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=343402

Phong Huynh aka Wickedmeister, Magnus PAH and Go_Ath. From Storrs, CT. He's "too busy" to either keep in touch with ones who sent him money and get the items out to them. Funny though, when getting the money communication was good. See here for more info:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=343441

Be Careful Guys!!

For more info see the <a href="http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... d=405">Bad Traders List</a>. And please check that before you trade with any you don't know just to be sure they ain't on da list. Use COMMON SENSE! If anyone gives you bad vibes then simply don't trade with them.

plucky duck · Post by **plucky duck** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 3:22 am

I see you're pretty busy lately eh?

Get out the dogs and lets have a bite @ 'em, hehe

Pluckster

bonkers325 · Post by **bonkers325** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 4:09 am

hey the best time to hit is after the holidays when people arent looking

blade · Post by **blade** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 12:17 pm

tsk tsk, add another to the list.

Mathews, Ken from Traverse City, Michigan. A trader has been waiting over a month(since 11/26/00) for a $130 money order and has had no communication from him. He did ship items to him in a supposed cross-ship. This from either arsetechnica or amdzone forums. Not sure on his username yet.

kru · Post by **kru** » Sat Dec 30, 2000 2:41 pm

omg, after all this time i can't believe eston's still got the cojones to show his face on any of the trading forums. thanks for the heads up.

blade · Post by **blade** » Sun Dec 31, 2000 1:37 am

Ones like he prey on those that do not know of them. If the victim had read the bad trader list he would not have been ripped off.

From the thread at anands jdaves is making new aliases and leaving evals for himself from his other aliases to try and make him look more legit.

Beware guys, these crooks do not give up!

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 3:04 pm

Bringing this up just in case any are lurking here. That tommy4437 keeps emailing members at anands trying to rip others off. And he keeps trying to pass others heatware evals as his. Simply amazing. When he had an iq test he thought it was an icq test.

Here's the latest info he gives..

Ben Armstrong
4437 Boatmans Cove
Stone Mountain Ga 30083

Tommy4437@gamebox.net

He is using various names so be careful of any in Georgia.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=310859

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 3:10 pm

Lets ban Georga!

I dont see why they keep comming back they waist More time trying 2 Find someone willing 2 deal with they could make more $$ working at burger king.

Greg

stevem627 · Post by **stevem627** » Sat Jan 13, 2001 5:49 pm

Be aware he is still up to his tricks...everyone watch out. He just tried using ME as the Heatware ref this time.

TOTALLY check out ANYONE you are dealing with.

stevem627 · Post by **stevem627** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 12:40 am

BEWARE!!! He has ust tried HardOCP forums.

CAREFUL on all deals!!!!

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 1:55 am

What name was he using there, or was he just lurking and emailing people?

He's made it clear he will keep trying and trying. Too bad the cops can't get him for clear intent.

and thanks steve

bonkers325 · Post by **bonkers325** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 2:10 am

newmember

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 2:21 am

thanks

Red Dawn · Post by **Red Dawn** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 2:25 am

Thas asshole is going to get himself hurt pretty bad if he doesn't watch himself.

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 3:17 am

I am convinced he doesn't care and really believes no one can or will do anything.

Hardocp sent in the ip he used there, 66.26.95.13
thanks

Mostly he's a lurker emailing and trying to convince others to send him either money or parts. Gotta stay alert guys!