Darn, I got scammed!?!

Usually I’m so careful online and I don’t buy from people I don’t recognize but this person participated quite a few posts and different pics so I thought he was legitimate but NOPE! Watch out for this guy if you are online, he sounds real but is not.
He was selling some St Martin rooted cuttings and my dear fig friend just lost his mom, I know he had been looking for a St. Martin so I bought it for my friend and was having it shipped straight out but after days of no answering and then he somehow deleted his whole side of our conversation on Facebook and then BLOCked ME?!?! Tugh, crazy?!?! Sadly I did send him the money thru PayPal friends and family so there is no way to get it back but just a warning to yall if you encounter this person, beware!!
 

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That is crazy, I appreciate the warning so no one else gets scammed.
Sorry to hear about your friends ma.

Facebook is plagued by scammers in every aspect of it's being.
I would say stay away from purchases there unless someone you know is legit or a friends recommendation.

Try figbid.com or put in your wish list here, someone may have it.
 
That is crazy, I appreciate the warning so no one else gets scammed.
Sorry to hear about your friends ma.

Facebook is plagued by scammers in every aspect of it's being.
I would say stay away from purchases there unless someone you know is legit or a friends recommendation.

Try figbid.com or put in your wish list here, someone may have it.
I never joined any social media. The fig forum is the only social media I belong to. I did however last year just before Xmas I kept getting emails from what looked exactly like legitimate PayPal purchases. They were different merchant names but oddly every one of the emails said I had to pay $699.00. Guess they thought I would think I purchased gifts for Xmas and would just automatically pay it. Strange how the emails looked exactly like real PayPal email. I never replied just kept deleting the emails. Finally they got the message that I wasn’t taking the bait and stopped.
 
Usually I’m so careful online and I don’t buy from people I don’t recognize but this person participated quite a few posts and different pics so I thought he was legitimate but NOPE! Watch out for this guy if you are online, he sounds real but is not.
He was selling some St Martin rooted cuttings and my dear fig friend just lost his mom, I know he had been looking for a St. Martin so I bought it for my friend and was having it shipped straight out but after days of no answering and then he somehow deleted his whole side of our conversation on Facebook and then BLOCked ME?!?! Tugh, crazy?!?! Sadly I did send him the money thru PayPal friends and family so there is no way to get it back but just a warning to yall if you encounter this person, beware!!
Message the admins of the groups he’s a part of, like what the fig. They can help neutralize him.
 
There must be a better to way to make a living than taking advantage of people. It makes me sad. Not to mention that this person needs so spend their life dodging people and hiding from people they ripped off.

Sorry this happened. I guess FB isn't there to help either....
The FBI should be helping protect American Citizens from scammers. It has chosen to be a mostly worthless organization up until this point. Hopefully that will change soon. So much money is lost to online scams each year. This is a serious issue which needs to be addressed. Facebook is definitely one of the worst platforms for scams. No oversight at all.
 
The FBI should be helping protect American Citizens from scammers. It has chosen to be a mostly worthless organization up until this point. Hopefully that will change soon. So much money is lost to online scams each year. This is a serious issue which needs to be addressed. Facebook is definitely one of the worst platforms for scams. No oversight at all.

@rnexus - This is one of the reasons we relaxed a bit here on Fig Fanatic. Initially it was absolutely no sales talk as we are NOT a sales platform. I gladly endorse figbid as a safe place to buy figs. I joke about it but I'm happy to let that responsibility fall on Danny's shoulders. No thank you! :LOL:

However, I came to realize that we need a safe open place for growers and sellers to communicate openly maintain relationships... here we can trust the discussion.... We are a community.... we are a fig, family

 
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I'm very sorry I hope you didn't get taken for a lot of money? I have 300 I'm trying to get back myself. The good news in my cases the person looks to be honest. You got so many cutting from the fig gazer hopefully you can find something else to please your friend. I'm pretty positive Harvey's going to include St Martin in his sale (likely tomorrow). Why not just pick it up there? I don't think he charges more than 10 or $15 for a beautiful cutting.
 
The FBI should be helping protect American Citizens from scammers. It has chosen to be a mostly worthless organization up until this point. Hopefully that will change soon. So much money is lost to online scams each year. This is a serious issue which needs to be addressed. Facebook is definitely one of the worst platforms for scams. No oversight at all.

Man there aren't many who hate the fbi more than me but they have a good side too... the psychology is hard as he'll for them and they get more tips than they know how to deal with ... I was fkd over by them hard and so maybe I'll conquer them someday but for now realize it's a mange group of people and it's political ...

the head before was probably into something like nazi engineering or thuke soxiety typed ppl and tied into the bush cabal while bureau intelligence was formed under this rule and is a whole different animal/monster ... its a quagmire that a 'few' ppl contrived to keep several things controllable within...

the voices are not always fbi too ...im not sure which is worse among fbi factions there is more than a mafia inside of there but similar to the cia there are many factions and many a narcissist .. both areas of fbi are imbalanced but both have alot of well intentioned ppl also... I think they will perform a huge crackdown soon that will regain some of their name but at the cost of political balance or just a slaughter period

It's political which means it takes afew super brains and facts to get it to work right... but super brains are usually targeted from their youth and bent and broken until controllable and submissive and so politics takes time... ideas take more than talk

to expect them to solved small cases isn't even likley especially when the talkers keep politizizing it more as if those cases are more important than real ones .. tv cases... but really that's a few ppl operating not the majority in any group..they just know how to eeaponize acronyms and it takes up most of their focus i leanrs how to do that too lafs

how would they choose which case to start with? Its simply not something we can expect from fbi its our responsibility.. sometimes even to counter bad apples in the fbi of they are incapable is how i see it.. period and frankly... it's not legal to target them or even to surveil them but to counter them to any degree is legal .. period mind you the cia always has but recently gathered justification to do that legally .. which is better than doing it walker style on them i guess

there are real ppl and problems and then there are new scammers in every form probably wvery day and so best to become not scammable...if they could care enough there would be a dept for just money scammers even for those who pretend to be the irs or toll authority but those entities pay big to have ppl talk to them in legalese to counter problems .. it's not even worth the investment imo the quality of fbi is either organic or it's junk food depending on who or where you talk... it has a wicked cult mafia side with all sorts of covert cia crap going on and a larger crowd waiting for the genius brain to enable them. If you understand it you can manioukate it to effext its just like knowinf how to fifht trafdic tickets @ gettinf anywhere with the fbi.. i soukd xonsiser beciming a lawyer just for lettehead rights bexuase that is really how the psyche works in most areas of government

. and yet we are close to dramatic change in the fbi... I can feel it for sure
 
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