It seems this may have been all a mis-understanding, I
e-mailed the guy at work, (I tracked down his place of
work and his e-mail address there) he apologized and
said he's been out of the country for 2 weeks, I'm not
100ure about this though, if he is genuine, then
why is he giving false details to Eb*y? I'll pester
him some more tomorrow and see what happens.
Chris
--- Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: > My neighbor is a county sheriff. I inquired
with him
> about this today. He
> says:
>
> 1. Ask your local PD to run a "wants and warrants"
> using whatever
> information you have. You should be able to get info
> (if any) for any of the
> states via the PD for your jurisdiction.
> 2. Don't expect much from the local PD in the guy's
> jurisdiction. Unless the
> amount stolen from you is over whatever the local
> (usually state)
> break-point is for a felony theft, the usually
> haven't got the man-power and
> resources to do much. However, if he's doing it to
> you, he may well be doing
> it to others, and only a history of complaints will
> allow the local PD to
> determine if there's a pattern and follow through.
> 3. Contact the postal inspector. The fact this was
> perpetrated using the
> mail (in part) is a "bigger beef" than the stolen
> amount, and may well get
> more action.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:31
> To: Olympus-Digest
> Subject: Re: [OM] Warning...Please read...new
> developments...
>
>
> > What would worry me would be the totally different
> states....
> >
> What you have is interstate mail fraud. I would
> contact the federal
> postal inspector or maybe even the FBI. The local
> police aren't going to
> be much help i suspect since their jurisdiction as
> well as their
> resources are limited.
>
> mike.
>
>
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