Original Message:
Re: Timeshare buying scam- watch for "Albert Brown" or "Judy Boulay" (by Carl N.):
DUDE how can they almost GET YOU... Any time a scammer calls you out of the blue most times, and especially if you have listed your unit for sale with offers of more than you are seeing EVERY where else, you have to know this is a SCAM.
I hate to hear when good people loose money to these scammers, but at a certain point you (I) have to accept the fact that by and large most people are not that smart on timeshare matters. Plus they could be despite and/or greedy.
If they loose money, they loose money.. and hopefully they will learn and do more looking the next time a GOOD deal like this comes along..
The ones that get ripped off 2 or 3 times,, well they are just plain stupid.. no hope at all..
owenw8 wrote:they almost got me, if it was not for the wire transfer being flagged by Western Union. After speaking to "Mr Kaplan" and hearing how adamant he was about getting the wire transfer to go through, I finally told him that I would just do a bank transfer to get him to stop calling/emailing/harassing me. that gave me time to have check that was sent to me verified. Bank called the issuing bank, who then reported it was fake. I then cancelled the transaction, then sent him a nice email which was never responded to, go figure. Hopefully there will be enough people that have this tried on them and they get caught, but that will most likely not happen. The phone numbers that I had were all overseas, so I am not sure FBI, or whoever, can do anything. Sucks, but that is the world we live in, people trying to make money without working.