Board Troll Alert . . .

Thanks

Thanks for the heads-up.  Way to do your due diligence.

It's a good reminder to NEVER wire or send money via Western Union or a similar method to someone you don't know and trust.  Another similar scam is for someone to pay for something with a cashier's check or money order for more than the agreed amount, while asking you to send them a check to refund the overpayment.

I posted about this guy a while back but the thread was deleted due to admin rules...

He goes by the name Charles Keepler and Jim Leepler and has addresses in Florida and Texas

Beware!

I was contacted by them also along with several others.

They are a pro scammer and not a dealer/vendor/seller of anything.

Here another post on the same guy:https://ogrforum.com/topic/has-anyone-bought-a-train-via?page=1

Thank you for the tip Bob

We need to find out how this guy is getting access.  I am wondering if the forum can look at the history of who looked at the wtb list yesterday and then accessed all of those on the list affected. Protect the members please!!!!

I got one to from him yesterday.  I responded (sounded like a legit email) but haven't heard back.

Sounds like a job for the LEOs.

Thanks for letting us all know. Public sharing of the info is the best way to defeat his type.

Thanks for the alert about this jerk.

Scumbags abound.  Technology has given them easier access, so you always have to have your guard up.

I just wish OGR would not delete this.

It's a problem effecting the OGR Buying/selling system.

And this person/persons is just cheating more people without public awareness.

Well done.

     You must be a police detective or journalist.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Gary

• Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

Thanks for the heads up. By the way, Happy Birthday.

romiller

Interesting, he just emailed me as well, wanting to sell me some Strasburg coaches I've been looking for. Thanks for the heads-up.

Simple. He registers on the Forum and that gives him access to users' email addresses in their profiles. Reads the various WTB posts and sends emails. I'm assuming he doesn't post here but who knows?

We've had Trolls before but (a) I think the worst offender(s) are eliminated and (b) this is actually much worse, like auction scams I have seen and fraud pure and simple. I would not trust any one without a clearly established track record on this forum.

Any cops on here?  We could run a sting.