Caught a scammer on Armslist today.

[michaeladkins]

Here is the link to his ad.

www.armslist.com/posts/3804895/indiana-handguns-for-sale--ruger-lcp--380

I have to upload our text conversation but later. It's quite a few images. Once I caught him in a lie, I knew it was a scam. He wasn't a happy camper in the end. Finally I just had to stop texting or it would have drug on. No 380 for me. Lol

Here is the conversation.











So at this point I had already found the exact same pictures on another Armslist listing from Michigan. So I just presented him with a picture of that listing. Note that he is not a registered user in his listing but the other listing which was put up in oct, was by a registered user in Michigan. He said he had just taken the pics yesterday. - WHAT A JOKE!

[Woody Williams]

BUUUURRRRNNNN!!

[dbd870]

Armslist has a continuing issue with scammers.

[Woody Williams]

How can they allow a seller or buyer to be Account: Unregistered?

I'm pretty sure some other gun auction sites do a little background check...

[Woody Williams]

I think he moved to Tennessee...


www.armslist.com/posts/3804909/tennessee-handguns-for-sale--ruger-lcp--380


Someone needs to alert the site what he is doing..

[michaeladkins]

I flagged it as scam. Not sure what else I can do. I would like to earn more people if possible.

[stevein]

I am hearing about a lot of scams on ARMSLIST. Some of them lift images from other auction sites and use them in their scam.
I had a guy attempt to scam me on a lift chair I was selling on craigslist. Called the ACPD and they said their hands were tied and they could not go after them. They said it often involves crossing state lines and getting that prosecutor to take action is just about impossible so they were told to stay out of these cases. It appears to me there is almost no chance of getting arrested so it will just keep getting worse.

[michaeladkins]

It looks like the ads have been pulled. for the good guys! ;-)