Str8-8-Dave Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I received an E-mail from a Charles Duncan that looked pretty official, it had a hyperlink to an old post I had done looking for 31 Buick heat riser parts. The general drift was Mr. Duncan wanted to know if I was still interested in the parts prompting me to respond with an E-mail stating I was still looking for one part, attaching a marked JPEG picture of the part I was looking for, inquiring if he had the part and how he wanted to be paid for it if he had one to sell. I told him if he wanted a check to tell me who to make the check to and to send the address to mail it to. Today I got a second E-mail with a picture of a hot-rodded, highly altered but nice looking complete 1932 Buick model 67 sedan. Mr. Duncan stated he was going to completely part the car due to upcoming surgery and asked me to send a list of the parts I wanted and my address, supposedly just so he knew how far he would have to ship parts. At this point I became suspicious the only pending surgery was going to be on my wallet. I didn't answer the second E-mail. A query of his name on the AACA message page produced no Charles Duncan. I'm pretty sure I caught on to a scammer but found the approach somewhat novel. Has anyone else been approached this way- E-mail with an AACA hyperlink? Cheers Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimm63 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Absolutely a scammer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Apparently he has preyed upon several here.....trying to stop him. He is not a member. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 3 hours ago, Str8-8-Dave said: Mr. Duncan stated he was going to completely part the car... Criminals don't deserve the respectful title of "Mr." or "Mrs." They do deserve a penitentiary until they become truly penitent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 4 hours ago, Str8-8-Dave said: I'm pretty sure I caught on to a scammer but found the approach somewhat novel. Has anyone else been approached this way- E-mail with an AACA hyperlink? So many people have been approached about like this I have lost count, and I only know about the cases where it has been spoken of afterward in the forums. The reason these people want to take it to Email or somewhere else off of the forum is to thwart any efforts on the part of the AACA to stop it. The name and contact info they use will turn out to be fake, or more likely stolen from some real person who has no involvement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank DuVal Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Why they post a picture of a good car they have to part out always amazes me. No one in their right mind would part such a car out, so it is an instant giveaway of a scam. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lahti35 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 On 8/19/2022 at 9:38 AM, Steve Moskowitz said: Apparently he has preyed upon several here.....trying to stop him. He is not a member. He tried and failed to sell me parts off my my own Nash a while ago, what a guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArticiferTom Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 What r u complaining about . You got the parts , shipping was fast and free he just wants the money . 🤣 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flivverking Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) I find most web scams so easy to spot..it's ones own desperation that blinds one to fall for it. I read many of these praises of how wonderfull an honest old car people are, but if your in it long enough you find a fare share of deviousness as with anything else... It's more hard on the diehard faithful and trusting folk..who once you no longer try to trust folks...whats the point...the world just sucks...so crawl under a rock or keep trusting and probably loosing . I've been burned more from inperson car parts dealings of buying parts then.any internet buying.. And from dealers of new parts . They get a bad batch of T parts from the supplier..they know the stufff is crap but offer it anyway..though it is unusable. "So I should get stuck.with it?" Was the response of a well known "T"parts supplier. It's about 65% works out .and 35% you'll loose ,so budget that in.LOL. In over 45 years ,for cars I was seriously rebuilding...each has at least a 1000 to 1500 bucks of crap that was no good and couldn't use. Once I got completely screwed from the get go from a guy rebuilding clutch disks in Hemmings in the late 80s..specializing in recorking.Hudson -Essex-Terraplane dicks.. Then ,it cost about 35 -40 bucks with returned shipping included. That was the last I saw of that clutch disk...HE WAS GONE. I wasn't the only one. Anyone remember that mess? . As you see I have not recovered from the mail order rebuilding of parts that came out unusable.. Thats another type of scam many have to deal with. SUCKERS! gulp...guilty. Sorry for the disjointed ramble( thats part of the fun) we are grinding valves on a Maxwell..! Edited August 22, 2022 by Flivverking (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herman de boer Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Dear people I want to buy 5 years ago a Ford coupe 1932 on trovit cars (America) I gave him 9000 dollar (England) The other half I want to pay a half year later i checking everything I emailed him but no response so I lost 9000 dollar THis people please put them a long time in prison I hate the way how they steal money from honest hard working people that's not why young people (soldier) where dying for from the good country's in the second world war Government and websites have to do more about this problem thanks and enjoy herman de boer the Netherlands 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, herman de boer said: ...so I lost 9000 dollar THis people please put them a long time in prison Herman, we are all sorry to hear that. That is why wrong-doing should be exposed on this forum and elsewhere. Don't worry: God's justice ALWAYS works. It works around the world and across national boundaries. Until he reforms--and follows up with right action, even paying back what he stole--he will never be safe. His life will be miserable. You can be assured. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herman de boer Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, John_S_in_Penna said: Herman, we are all sorry to hear that. That is why wrong-doing should be exposed on this forum and elsewhere. Don't worry: God's justice ALWAYS works. It works around the world and across national boundaries. Until he reforms--and follows up with right action, even paying back what he stole--he will never be safe. His life will be miserable. You can be assured. Thanks 🙏 It's a bad feeling in my body They don't have the right moraal I'm a positive person We need positive around We have to keep going on Enjoy living Herman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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