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I got scammed on a Nightfirce scope. The scammer sent me a scan of a RPAL showing his name, photo, and gave me an address in northern Alberta and a phone number. I phoned him and everything appeared ok, so I EMT'd the funds to him and never heard from him again. His phone number was a mobile and it was taken down. I traced the email address to Africa, so I reported it to the RCMP. They couldn't do a thing to trace how he got the RPAL forgery or trace the email to him. My bank could not recover the funds either. This took place on another gun trading site, and the administrators could not provide me with any info. on him. I now only deal with traders with a 100% rating over 25 transactions, and every time I send an EMT I expect a possibility of fraud. What we need on all sites is an escrow service to handle the funds until the product is delivered. I would gladly pay for such a service.
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
I got scammed a few year ago on a gun I bought from firearms canada site the rcmp have bigger fish to fry,they don't care about these scammers.some of these scammers get away with tens of thousands of dollars worth of scams a year with no repercussions.I never heard of anyone getting thier money back.What needs to happen is give these guys a one year mandatory jail sentence that will make them think twice.
Scams are just the nature of the beast here. If you don't want to be scammed either buy new or meet face to face, inspect the goods and pay cash. I will sell goods to anyone here but wont buy from anyone new with a trading under 25 thats not perfect. No offence to our new guys either.