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I think I was taken in yesterday. I have been emailing a guy for the last week. His number he gave me was a Oregon area code .He said he had the right rear fender that I had been looking for. He sent pictures of a 38 Cabriolet that he had been working on but lost interest. He also had pictures of other parts that I need. We settled on a price then when I asked where to send the money he told me to send it to his secretary in New York. He said to send cash in the mail and I told him I wouldn’t do that. To make a long story short, I used PayPal then yesterday he told me that he couldn’t get the money to send the parts. I asked why, then I asked if he was in prison. He emailed me back and said to cancel the PayPal payment. I’m working with PayPal to get my money back. I don’t know how he saw my post about wanting the fender, but he did. The guys name was Larry Harper ( harperllc@gmail.com ) and the guy who I sent the PayPal money to was Mark Lynch Address: 85 Watee St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

I just life banned him but that apparently doesnt always mean he cant show up again.
Tony

Thanks for outing a POS

Something like that just happened to me this past week. A guy emailed me about a drag link I was looking for in VCCA Chat parts Wanted. He said he had one he would sell me. He said he lived in Washington State. We agreed on a price and when I asked for his address to send the check he told me to send a money gram to his son, that is his caregiver, in Moscow Russia. I told him that this was starting to get complicated. I was thinking to myself, how can someone in Moscow, Russia be a caregiver to a man in Washington state? Don't caregivers give care on a daily basis? He then said when the money clears he would send the part. He even sent me the address of the closest place to me that issues money grams. His "son" had a long Russian name. His name is Joe Ming. email: joeming0147@gmail.com. He told me I could stop there on the way to work to get it out quickly. I didn't reply to him for 2 days and he emailed me with a sarcastic, "Oh, I guess you don't want it any more". I told him I got very busy and in the meantime someone else answered my ad that was local to me and I could just go to his house and pick it up instead of shipping it. He told me "That wasn't nice". I don't know. Oriental and Russian and caregiver that lives thousands of miles away across an ocean? I don't think so. Beware!

That would be my first thought - a care giver living thousands of miles away? I haven't run into any scams myself on this board, but I've run into many on Ebay and Craigslist. I haven't been taken in yet as my rule of thumb is that if it doesn't feel right in even the slightest way, stay away.

Yeah Joe Ming is a real POS. He tried to get me to send money to Russia too.
Stay away from Joe Ming!

Pete V

How can you see information about someone's profile?

I posted a in the parts wanted for some Chevy artillery rims, got a reply from this person below saying they had a whole set, for a good price, located in WA state, and noticed they just joined this month and this was their first post.

"Jamtacoma
Grease Monkey
J
Joined: May 2021
Posts: 1
Tacoma, WA"

Thanks for any help, have not received any reply with pics or details yet to determine of they are legit.

I believe one must be a dues paying member of the VCCA in order to access profile info as well as a wealth of other goodies.

As for the question at hand, that person joined the site and posted a response to you all within a few minutes and apparently has not revisited since. That could be an indication of a need to be very cautious in any transactions with them? Good luck!

Yeah, and suspiciously said they had them for the exact same price someone else posted for a set last Fall.

I'm a veteran of dealing with scammer idiots so no worry.

Even had one fired from her job and brought up on Federal charges once.

Now that was satisfying....

You have to be very careful nowadays.I have a ad looking for 1949-50 chevy parts, and I get a message that so & so person has the parts I am by looking for. But I ask the person if this person is legit but with no response. Guys are using VCCA as route to scam our members. This happen to me twice already. oldie62 #57900. Stay alert & watchful. oldie62-Greg

I too had a scam attempt occur. I posted a VCCA want ad for some rear wheel cylinders, casting # 5456400. I replied to the fella to send me a photo of the wheel cylinders. haven't heard from him since. mike mccagh

thanks for the heads up, a few other tell tail signs is they only want payment through zelle, will give you a bogus phone number where an automated answering machine from google or some other machine ask's to state your name. Also, if ever sending through paypal only send as goods and services, pay the extra 3% so the seller isn't shorted. if the deal goes bad you are at least covered for your monetary loss. Them scammers are all over facebook and instagram.

There is another scamer that is working parts wanted from this site too. He has 2 names calvin christopher and carey brown works out of henderson texas he showed you pics of parts he don't even have and he got me for297 $then he stole.my facebook account and is now selling parts from it and I can't stop him.he to me the reason he scared me was because I was white..the guy needs to be in prison.

The easy way to avoid scammers is to deal only with dues paying VCCA members. Ask for a VCCA number, and check it against the online roster.

Yes that is one great suggestion Bruce is another one is try to Video call them most people have a smart phone or another suggestion is look up in the VCCA members and see if anyone is near by that could go look at the part or pick it up! most VCCA members are willing to help each other out when they know it seems to be a questionable situation! Also if it seems to be to good to be true it might be a scam!