Beware of a Christopher Stewart of Manchester UK----he is a scammer!

DDReptiles · #1 02-23-2010, 03:04 PM

Hi,

I know this isn't the bio, but I thought this would be the best place for this since there is such a high concentration of gecko people here

Anyways I had a guy-Christopher Stewart email me this morning with this email:

His email address is: chris.cstewart1@gmail.com

Hi,

I'm located in the UK-Manchester and it's quite unfortunate, but i'm offering my breeding pair of Saltuarius Wyberba for sale since i'm having a very busy schedule at work and cannot look after them any longer! I think you are an experience breeder in keeping them and please should in case anyone is interested in this pair,you can direct them to me! What a regretful sale! I'm thinking of 2500 for this pair! What do you think? Cheers

Stewart

I responded to him asking for pictures as well as some other information. He responded by sending me a picture of an animal taken by my good friend Clark Tucker (the same animals Clark has in the trade section currently).

Anyways just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Thanks Derek

Justin · #2 02-23-2010, 03:25 PM

Thanks for the heads up Derek. Sounds like the same guy who put up some N. asper for sale not long ago.

Geitje · #3 02-23-2010, 03:29 PM

Thanks for sharing Derek. Hopefully, the moderators do not get upset about this post, because they have for me making these posts before. Perhaps a forum header "scammers" could be added at some point, but the moderators fear of not starting another "BOI" might prevent that. In my opinion, there is certainly nothing wrong with warning the community of potential thieves since many people in our community have been robbed of thousands of dollars from these very crooks who can simply change their names at the drop of a hat.

Jon

MXWreptile · #4 02-23-2010, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Justin

Thanks for the heads up Derek. Sounds like the same guy who put up some N. asper for sale not long ago.

His "Name" was Tino Hoftman.

Max

Justin · #5 02-23-2010, 03:46 PM

Ahh yes, that guy also went by the name Christopher as well...

!!!Attention - Scammer Alert!!!

Happygecko · #6 02-24-2010, 12:19 AM

Thanks to all of you!
Got the email myself, offering N. asper adult breeding pair for 1800 euro. But no delivery to Hamm but shipping .... yea..... Got it yesterday. When I searched google I could not find anything. So I sent an email to some people I knew that they would know him if he had such animals and would be breeding them!
Name I got the email from:
Christopher Stewart [chris.cstewart1@gmail.com]

Thanks to everyone in the gecko community who makes it possible to talk about such stuff and beware people from getting tricked!

TM Geckos · #7 02-24-2010, 05:18 AM

An other of his nicknames is tino85 (Tino H.) on this forum.
He tried to contact me for geckos I am looking for.
I have never answered him.

Best regards

MaX06 · #8 02-24-2010, 07:45 AM

Thanks for the infos

Tom Martensson · #9 02-24-2010, 08:38 AM

Thank you Derek.
We need more of this kind of post.

**Marty** · #10 02-24-2010, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DDReptiles

Hi, I know this isn't the bio, but I thought this would be the best place for this since there is such a high concentration of gecko people here

No, please use the BOI for this. Scammer posts and ripped off deal posts and this guy's a schmuck posts tend to stir a lot of shit, create drama and mess with good forum dynamics. Wars and discussions erupt over this kind of information that we just don't need on GU. The fact is that if you're willing to get suckered into an email scam like this promising pie in the sky deal, you have no one to blame but yourself. You can then make all the noise you want, but in all honestly I'd blame the buyer just as much as the scammer. It's buyer beware! Get references, check the seller out first, if they can't show references, no deal - simple, no matter how good it sounds!

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Originally Posted by Geitje

Thanks for sharing Derek. Hopefully, the moderators do not get upset about this post, because they have for me making these posts before.
Jon

Yes, I agree it can be useful information, but having one central place like BOI is much better then having to check 10 different forums to see if the guy is a crook...we should all insist to use the BOI - that's what it was made for.

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Originally Posted by Tom Martensson

Thank you Derek.
We need more of this kind of post.

Yes we do, just not on GU, but on BOI. If you guys are really strong about this, I could make a permanent link to BOI from the forum links..this way it would be a bit clearer to everyone that we should make these kinds of posts on BOI. http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...splay.php?f=13