[WTB] Immediate SCAM warning Lonnie Peralta in LA

[Dylan Couper]

EDIT: Update, I was contacted by the real Lonnie Peralta, someone purchased his expired domain and has been running scams, so be on the lookout for anyone with an fxfprodutions.com email address!

Original story below:

Hey guys, just so you know... I had a WTB ad up here for minimags, I got a message from Lonnie Peralta from FXFProductions with a good price, made a deal. I googled him extensively and seemed legit, lots of productions under his name. Email was via the website, IMDB credits, pretty straight forward.

I payed via Paypal Purchase Goods, in order to get Paypal protection. He refunded it (I lost $100 on exchange rate conversion again) as Paypal was holding the payment for 3-4 days and we agreed he'd ship the cards same day, so if I sent via send money to friends and family (which offers NO protection) hed have the money right away and could ship asap.

I agreed.
...but I'm not new to the internet! So instead of funding the payment through my bank account, I switched it to my Amex and swallowed the $115 paypal fee for using the card. Best decision ever, because I never heard from the guy after he said payment was received and promised to send a tracking number. I've since filed a chargeback through Amex and should be covered instead of taking a $3000usd loss, but came sooooo close to getting ripped off on this one.

So there you go... BIG WARNING.
NEVER SEND PAYPAL VIA FRIENDS AND FAMILY! This is the THIRD time in a year I've had to file chargebacks when buying off Reduser.

Watch out for this paypal address:
jordansimsasc@gmail.com
That's the one they were using.

 

[Ben Graham]

Ya he contacted me last week about buying an Alexa mini body from him. Said he can't send RU PM. First red flag. Watch out or at least go through a broker or middleman.

B

 

[Kevin D'Haeze]

Boo. Just boo.

 

[Dylan Couper]

Ya he contacted me last week about buying an Alexa mini body from him. Said he can't send RU PM. First red flag. Watch out or at least go through a broker or middleman.

B

Funny thing is that I've had actual Redusers not be able to send me PMs from time to time either, but agreed, that's a red flag.

Either way, this forum critically needs a trader rating system like so many other serious forums have. I've probably done 6 figures in purchases here in the last year, and five figures of credit card chargebacks to save getting ripped off. It's brutal.

 

[Nathan Blume]

Guys this guy is really lonnie peralta. He gave me his licence driver picture and his bank account info. He tryied to scam me for an alexa mini package.
I think we should make a group to sue him. We cant let him crook more people. Please pm me.

 

[Tom Jose]

Be Watchful this ' Llonnie Peralta '...he contacted me this week for RED Touch 7 as I had posted on reduser for a Red Touch 7, ..on the day I was about to send money I just made a background check of this guy and then I landed on these posts...really thank you all for the post as it save my money on time....
Be careful he would come with a different name...careful

 

[Alan Gordon Enterprises]

I was also contacted by Lonnie. He offered me an Alexa Mini at a bargain price, asked me to remit a 10% deposit, I declined the deposit and tried to arrange other terms, he hasn't responded since.

I very much got the feeling he was fishing for the deposit, I'm glad we decided not to trust him after reading this thread.