I am the For Sale moderator at another forum, as well as a frequent contributor here, as many of you will know.
Over at this forum our latest scammer has victimized at least two members. I don't usually post here on the relatively rare occasions that we have someone like that over there, but I have now learned that he has victimized people at other sites across Europe. Be on the lookout for him in case he comes here.
He has used the names "Riky", "Erik" and "Petra" but obviously he may show up under a different name.
This person is actually named Erik Zegermacher. His wife is named Petra Zegermacherova and sometimes he uses her mailing address (although as unlikely as it sounds, I can't exclude that she is part of the scam). They live at:
Svatopluka Cecha 30
Trebon, 37901
Czech Republic
He has used the following IP addresses on table tennis forums.
193.165.237.48
193.165.72.3
178.255.168.33
193.165.236.9
The e-mail address he uses is:
petulaerca@seznam.cz (when he is "Erik") and
terdis@seznam.cz when he is "Riky".
He doesn't seem to communicate or post in English. So if you are negotiating a deal with someone who seems to only write in Czech it is probably the same person. Before I discovered his scamming I had to warn him repeatedly to not post in threads in Czech. (There is nothing wrong with Czech, it was the language of great writers like Kafka and Capek, but these are English language forums).
I hope by sharing this info I can keep people here from getting victimized. Basically he or she offers a trade and then never ships the blade.