Hiya,
I was scammed for €2500 (my rough '
guesstimate' was $3000..the exact exchange rate is of no interest as i haven't been to the states since 2000) through offering to buy the bitcoins through a small add on the quoka.de website.
I'm just back from the police station where i gave them copies of all my email transcripts,
the form that i got from the bank proving that the name and account# conincide,
and the deposit slip for the €2500.
I, personally, never recieved the scammers real name directly as i've been trying to find the wrong person on google
and it appears through talking with
Scammed#1 that i was #2 on the list.
Chronology as follows:
Scammer ->svk**
007@gmail.com / Steven P**k*rt / spcc*.c*.*k
Scammed#1 ->The person i thought was scamming me but had allready been scammed
Scammed#2 -> Me
Scammed#1 gets an offer from
Scammer to buy laptops he's offering (but claims to want proof that
Scammed#1 is not a scammer)
So he request a photocopy of
Scammed#1's ID and sends a copy of his own Scammer-ID (this seems too stupid to be true but read on nonetheless)
Scammed#1 sends the laptops and recieves no money but chases the scammer for 3 weeks before the scammer promises
to return the laptops. He sends back an empty box and subsequently claims he was playing a practical joke on his friend and the boxes got mixed up.. "but the money or the laptops will be there next week when he's back in the country". More delays and excuses...
In the meantime.. i offer to buy bitcoins thus becoming
Scammed#2The
Scammer sends me a copy of
Scammed#1's ID (with which he has opened a bank account which i have verified through my bank, so i
send him 50%. (€2500)
3 Weeks of emails ensue..with excuses "i'm in london", "my laptop crashed", "next week", "i'll do it tomorrow", "really busy, sorry" etc. etc.
By now i'm getting worried and start searching the net for all variations of possible nicknames, date of births for
Scammed#1's ID (who i still believe to be the person that has scammed me!!!) and find in archive.org a refererence to an ex-employer..several phone calls later i've found the current employer and a real email address/phone# for
Scammed#1.
I phone him up and ask where are my f#cking bitcoins.. he doesn't even know what bitcoins are and is absolutely shocked that someone can
open up a bank account
in his name with a photocopy of his ID. Now, things start to click and he tells me the story about the unpaid laptops and forwards all his correspondence with "steven piekert".
So now we have as fact: A "Steven Piekert" using a photocopy of someone else's ID to open a bank account and scam me.
This has only come out through my googling and phoning my way through multiple people to finally find that the person that i thought was
the scammer is in fact
Scammed#1.
As to why the
Scammer was so stupid as to send copies of his own ID to
Scammed#1 is pure conjecture on my part but
when i was at the police station today he let me look over his shoulder at all the prior convictions (of "St*v*n Pi*k*rt"!!) and the fact that
he was in prison (for fraud) from 2011 untill March of 2014.
So it may well be that he now that he's back out, he was just starting to get back to his old ways and we were the first 2 people he scammed which is why he only had one photocopy of an ID and he most certainly didn't expect that his two ongoing scams
(Scammed#1 & Scammed#2) would get in touch whilst the scams were ongoing.