hellonwheels8
11-30-2007, 12:24 PM
While reading my yahoo group "HOWORLD"
Just thought you all should know. :thumbsup:
Helen
HO "Charlie" slot Scam ALL READ
Posted by: "ghdrake@aol.com" ghdrake@aol.com thunderjetmadman
Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:04 am (PST)
This is to alert ALL in the HO community that there is a scammer out there.
To those of you on multiple HO BBS, ML, DL, etc, PLEASE post this there as
well. I am only on the HOWORLD site these days.
This guy goes by the name "Charlie Scott", and phones from 309-966-4025. He
is very lucid, but claims a "disability", (but most likely he has none,
except for a sick head). He stutters a bit, repeats himself frequently, and is
almost always is out of breath with excitement. He works a "too good to be
true" story about a batch of cars he just bought at an auction/estate sale, but
doesn't have enough money to complete the deal. He is well versed in HO
knowledge, and will tell you he met you at a show, got your number from so-and-so.
DON'T BE FOOLED!
It's uncertain where he's getting numbers of people to call in the hobby,
it's either online (craigslist, etc), or it's possible he's an hobby insider
that some of you *may have* unknowingly dealt with at some point.
He will ask (more like insinuate) that you send a fairly small sum of money
via a wire service. Tell him you will, but DON'T DO IT! Call Peroia Police
immediately (309-673-4521), and let them know his is at it again. With any
luck, they might be willing to meet him at the pick-up point (usually a
Kroger, Wal-Mart, or other Western Union, or Money Order spot).
Here is his information as he presented it:
Charles (Charlie) Scott
1820 Pioneer Way
Peoria, IL 61615
309-966-4025
He is what I can tell you about what is known to be true...
The phone is an internet land line, belonging to a "Lisa Scott", who has at
least three known prior Illinois addresses, and at least as many possible
aliases (mostly by changing the middle initial, which I'm told is very easy to
do).
"Charlie Scott" may, or may not be an assumed name. It matches the ID of an
individual my local police have verified as a "person of interest" because
of his prior history, and movements.
1820 Pioneer Way is a bogus address. There is a "Pioneer Parkway" in
Peoria, but the 1800 block is entirely commercial, with no residential
structures at all. I have verified this with the Peoria Fire Dept.
Peoria, well, it's real enough, and apparently has it's share of thieves and
@$$#%!!$...
If anyone is contacted by this jerk, please let me know.
Thanks,
Geoff Drake
Just thought you all should know. :thumbsup:
Helen
HO "Charlie" slot Scam ALL READ
Posted by: "ghdrake@aol.com" ghdrake@aol.com thunderjetmadman
Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:04 am (PST)
This is to alert ALL in the HO community that there is a scammer out there.
To those of you on multiple HO BBS, ML, DL, etc, PLEASE post this there as
well. I am only on the HOWORLD site these days.
This guy goes by the name "Charlie Scott", and phones from 309-966-4025. He
is very lucid, but claims a "disability", (but most likely he has none,
except for a sick head). He stutters a bit, repeats himself frequently, and is
almost always is out of breath with excitement. He works a "too good to be
true" story about a batch of cars he just bought at an auction/estate sale, but
doesn't have enough money to complete the deal. He is well versed in HO
knowledge, and will tell you he met you at a show, got your number from so-and-so.
DON'T BE FOOLED!
It's uncertain where he's getting numbers of people to call in the hobby,
it's either online (craigslist, etc), or it's possible he's an hobby insider
that some of you *may have* unknowingly dealt with at some point.
He will ask (more like insinuate) that you send a fairly small sum of money
via a wire service. Tell him you will, but DON'T DO IT! Call Peroia Police
immediately (309-673-4521), and let them know his is at it again. With any
luck, they might be willing to meet him at the pick-up point (usually a
Kroger, Wal-Mart, or other Western Union, or Money Order spot).
Here is his information as he presented it:
Charles (Charlie) Scott
1820 Pioneer Way
Peoria, IL 61615
309-966-4025
He is what I can tell you about what is known to be true...
The phone is an internet land line, belonging to a "Lisa Scott", who has at
least three known prior Illinois addresses, and at least as many possible
aliases (mostly by changing the middle initial, which I'm told is very easy to
do).
"Charlie Scott" may, or may not be an assumed name. It matches the ID of an
individual my local police have verified as a "person of interest" because
of his prior history, and movements.
1820 Pioneer Way is a bogus address. There is a "Pioneer Parkway" in
Peoria, but the 1800 block is entirely commercial, with no residential
structures at all. I have verified this with the Peoria Fire Dept.
Peoria, well, it's real enough, and apparently has it's share of thieves and
@$$#%!!$...
If anyone is contacted by this jerk, please let me know.
Thanks,
Geoff Drake