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Old 10-30-2012, 11:52 AM   #43
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Thank you and thanks to all for your wonderful thoughts. I will let you all know if I hear anything from any of the networks!!!
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Old 10-30-2012, 04:54 PM   #44
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Hey John T - you must have really disappointed the guy that wanted to buy your 5ver cause he wanted to buy my rv also. Poor guy just keeps trying!!
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Old 10-31-2012, 03:18 PM   #45
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I'm very sorry for your loss. I also contacted "Simon" through an add on RV Trader. When I showed the RV pictures to my wife, she recognized them from an eBay add a few weeks earlier (exact same pictures, even had the keys laying on the dash).

I reported the add to RV Trader and they removed it, but he posted a new add the next day. I reported it also, but he just keeps reposting the add.

I also found some very similar adds on Craigs list. The big clues are a very low price and he wants to use a holding company. Also, the RV is always not available to inspect. Lately he says the RV is in Maine.

I suspect he is in the Houston area as I spoke to him on a cell phone from that area.

I sincerely hope you catch him!
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Old 10-31-2012, 03:31 PM   #46
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I looked that one up on Google Maps - and used the satelite view - place looks like it's right outta "Grapes of Wrath"...
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I'm very sorry for your loss. I also contacted "Simon" through an add on RV Trader. When I showed the RV pictures to my wife, she recognized them from an eBay add a few weeks earlier (exact same pictures, even had the keys laying on the dash).

I reported the add to RV Trader and they removed it, but he posted a new add the next day. I reported it also, but he just keeps reposting the add.

I also found some very similar adds on Craigs list. The big clues are a very low price and he wants to use a holding company. Also, the RV is always not available to inspect. Lately he says the RV is in Maine.

I suspect he is in the Houston area as I spoke to him on a cell phone from that area.

I sincerely hope you catch him!
I have done a lot of research on my little scammer and I am pretty sure he is not in TX. I believe this is a big operation perhaps overseas. Without the help of our trusty FBI, I did some searching on the domain names thru Whois.com and apparently their email address simonstrucks@gmail.com is on a server called Joker.com. They do not have a website. The Registrar of the email address belongs to a company called CSL Computer Service in Germany. The server that they are using called Joker.com is owned by CSL Computer. They have well over a thousand registered domain names from fake gucci watches to fake rolexes to porn sites. But even armed with that info, no one will help me. Sadly, I alone can't do it. Trust me, if I could, I would. The best way to stop them is educate the public about their scams and only hope that God deals with them swiftly and harshly when that time comes!!!!!
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No I did not deal with them. My guy was out of Victoria TX at Simon's Trucks, LLC, which has since been removed by them from the internet. I even have pics of the rig they were selling with their company name and logo on them...
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If something sounds to good to be true it is. If someone wants cash up front its usually a scam. Even your story seems unbelievable based on the large sum of cash but I know it happens every day. Don't be offended this is the world we live in.
You should know this is very believable. Remember Bernie? How many people are too embarrassed to admit they have been scammed? More that we may think. I have a friend here in NC that got scammed by what sounds like the same guy. It cost him 35K.

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It doesn't cost me anything to believe the OPs story so I believe him. With money on the line I wont trust or believe anyone on the net. Don't remember Bernie.
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Bummer! When we were looking for our camper/MH, wife found a lot of adds placed in the local Craigslist but the MH was in another location, AZ, OK, LA, etc. Folks were either being deployed, deployed overseas and trying to get rid of it, divorcing or divorced, etc. ALL offered to have the MH brought to us at no charge and no obligation and no money upfront--least ways no one hung around long enough to ask us for money.

My DW would pester them to death asking for closeup pictures, calling them on the phone, asking about mileage, damage, etc. Guess she unknowingly scared them off.
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It appears that Simon Trucks has been making cold calls too.

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/3612371480
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I bought a class A diesel pusher on Ebay, sight unseen, that was 2,200 miles away. The seller wanted a $ 250 deposit which I sent him via PAyPal. Three weeks later I flew to get the coach, it was what was represented, paid for the balance and drove it home. I would never have wired or sent over $ 30,000 based upon the circumstances of the OP.

I'm sorry for his loss and do wish him well but I'm afraid he'll wind up chasing a ghost.
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I bought a class A diesel pusher on Ebay, sight unseen, that was 2,200 miles away. The seller wanted a $ 250 deposit which I sent him via PAyPal. Three weeks later I flew to get the coach, it was what was represented, paid for the balance and drove it home. I would never have wired or sent over $ 30,000 based upon the circumstances of the OP.

I'm sorry for his loss and do wish him well but I'm afraid he'll wind up chasing a ghost.
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If you don't mind losing 250 dollars then great but today its to risky to send anything. Just to many of those crooks out there. Probably 5 crooks to every legit deal on line so its hit and miss.
Unfortunately if everyone had that point of view most commerce in the world would come to a screeching halt. It's an ordinary business practice to require a good faith deposit on transactions such as this. Obviously I was comfortable enough with the seller, based upon his prior transactions (feedback), to send a modest deposit. If I was the seller of a vehicle I would insist on a deposit as well, wouldn't you ? It was only $ 250- less than 1% of the total cost. I would not have put a significant (to me) amount at risk. I could walk away from the $ 250 and the cost of airfare if things didn't go as planned and chalk it up to a lesson learned. It didn't go that way and I'm happy as a clam with my purchase.

I pity those who live with the opinion that everyone is out to [moderator edit] scam them. You should be careful and reasonable, but to immediately assume that 80% of people are crooks and thieves [moderator edit] [moderator efit]
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