IMBLITZVT
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Has anyone else noticed Scams are all over the place all the sudden? I mean its getting hard to buy a gun at all anymore! Just this year:
1. Buying SPAS 12. Had someone send pictures of one in the box. Found pictures in old Auction and offering to me for less than auction price. Claimed he could not send any more pictures. $1500 off Sturmgewehr
2. Colt Registered SP1 FA conversion. Sent pictures and copy of form 4. Price was to good to be true. Form 4 look almost great! Almost! OAL filled out wrong. Marked as if SOT had received it. Redacted seller info. Very very good computer faked form 4. Called and talked to him on the phone. Looked larger than Mike Tyson but sounded middle eastern. Found seller on sex offender registry having done 23 months. Called ATF and confirmed gun was not registered! $10K off Sturmgewehr
3. Registered FNC for a friend. Good pictures but converted by Colt... don't think so. Could not answer any more questions and stopped emailing. $7.5K on Sturmgewehr
4. Registered FNC for a friend. Great pictures, caught by subguns.com. $7.2K
Thats just guns I have been looking for! Where are they high tech scams coming from? These people know a fair amount about the guns and the process. As you may be able to tell, the second scam on the list came very close to fooling me! If I did not have that sinking feeling I would be out $5K right now!
Has the Government created a funding source for terrorists? Its seeming to me that this is a being done by groups of skilled scammers. They are faking form 4s and getting good pictures of the correct guns to go with them. Since these are tax documents most at the ATF will not confirm the serial number is even in the registry unless you tell them you think you are getting scammed. So there is no good way to even figure out if the gun is legally owned. With the prices having grown so high and money sent so quick, it seems like easy pickings for a terrorists trying to fund their evil goals. Just be careful, as you can see they have tried to scam $25K out of me and my friend this year... Its getting to the point where a phone interview and a call to the ATF is required on these large purchases...
1. Buying SPAS 12. Had someone send pictures of one in the box. Found pictures in old Auction and offering to me for less than auction price. Claimed he could not send any more pictures. $1500 off Sturmgewehr
2. Colt Registered SP1 FA conversion. Sent pictures and copy of form 4. Price was to good to be true. Form 4 look almost great! Almost! OAL filled out wrong. Marked as if SOT had received it. Redacted seller info. Very very good computer faked form 4. Called and talked to him on the phone. Looked larger than Mike Tyson but sounded middle eastern. Found seller on sex offender registry having done 23 months. Called ATF and confirmed gun was not registered! $10K off Sturmgewehr
3. Registered FNC for a friend. Good pictures but converted by Colt... don't think so. Could not answer any more questions and stopped emailing. $7.5K on Sturmgewehr
4. Registered FNC for a friend. Great pictures, caught by subguns.com. $7.2K
Thats just guns I have been looking for! Where are they high tech scams coming from? These people know a fair amount about the guns and the process. As you may be able to tell, the second scam on the list came very close to fooling me! If I did not have that sinking feeling I would be out $5K right now!
Has the Government created a funding source for terrorists? Its seeming to me that this is a being done by groups of skilled scammers. They are faking form 4s and getting good pictures of the correct guns to go with them. Since these are tax documents most at the ATF will not confirm the serial number is even in the registry unless you tell them you think you are getting scammed. So there is no good way to even figure out if the gun is legally owned. With the prices having grown so high and money sent so quick, it seems like easy pickings for a terrorists trying to fund their evil goals. Just be careful, as you can see they have tried to scam $25K out of me and my friend this year... Its getting to the point where a phone interview and a call to the ATF is required on these large purchases...