[Kenwood] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX

Wed Jun 15 14:21:53 EDT 2011

PayPal is notorious for overcharging when used between currencies.Would you 
use it if they charged you ~20% of the transaction value...?
73...Jordan VE6ZT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Eimer" <ad5pe at sbcglobal.net>
To: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Kenwood] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX
> Not being willing to use paypal is not a sign of a scam - there are a 
> number of us that have been burned by paypal or that object to their (lack 
> of) security and privacy protections.
>> Agree though that if the callsign doesn't check good in QRZ or similar I 
> wouldn't even reply to them.
>> Jay
> AD5PE
>> --- On Wed, 6/15/11, David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net> wrote:
>>> From: David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
>> Subject: [Kenwood] Watch out for a scam by Alex Barski. VE3XAX
>> To: "amps" <amps at contesting.com>
>> Cc: kenwood at mailman.qth.net, "Discussion of precise time and frequency 
>> measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>, "Yaesu" <Yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 10:42 AM
>> I advertised on eHam.net and qrz.com
>> that I was looking for a Kenwood
>> AT-230 ATU. I got a reply from someone claiming to be Alex
>> Barski from
>> Canada with the callsign VE3XAX who has an email address
>> of
>> ve3xax at blumail.org.
>> I've no idea if his real name is that, or if he
>> holds that callsign, but I'm suspicious.
>>>> This person offered me the ATU for 220ドル shipped to my
>> house, but there
>> were a number of things that make me suspicious this is a
>> scam.
>>>> 1) When I checked on QRZ.COM, the address and name did not
>> agree with
>> the callsign. The only similarity was they were in Canada.
>> Today when
>> I checked, the information agreed.But yesterday they were
>> definitely
>> different.
>>>> 2) When I offered to pay via Paypal, I received this:
>>>> "Thanks for the response to my email David but i am sorry i
>> don't use
>> paypal or bank transfer as means of payment due to the
>> instruction
>> giving to me by my bank and lawyer but i will entertain any
>> other safe
>> and reliable mode of payment. Also what is your full
>> shipping
>> information and we can discuss about the payment over the
>> phone, give
>> me your number and i will give you a call to talk."
>>>> This immediately made me "smell a rat", but I decided to
>> play along
>> and gave him my mobile phone number.
>>>> 3) Today he rings me, withholding the number, and says
>> Western Union
>> would be a safe method of payment.
>>>> I'm rather sorry I did not play him along a lot longer, but
>> I told him
>> the deal was off. I might email him and say I had second
>> thoughts, and
>> will string him along for a bit of fun. But basically be
>> aware.
>>>> Today I looked on qrz.com and found others have basically
>> formed the
>> same conclusion of this person
>>>> http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?300792-Fake-VE3XAX-Scam-from-wanted-add
>>>> The strange thing is, the other person reporting the scam
>> also played
>> along with it. Sometimes these scams can be fun! I think
>> I'll play
>> along a bit more too.
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