I might not be very responsive today since i just got home from the baby shower for my newborn son and within an hour i have to leave again for the baptism of my godchild. Only one week ago i thought i would have experienced this day with a different feeling...
I'm just saying this so that noone would think i'm not apprectiating the input given here, it's just that i have a very busy day today while my mind is going at 110%. In reply to:
Jim2: i'm not aware of the smokey sales thing yet but I have been able to see through scams before. I have 'unmasked' this scammer 'mike tammi draughn' before and if i remember correct, i had even put a thread up here on the pelican to aware people. I hate to say it but it's pretty ironic that i'm the one who got scammed now...
campbellcj: like i wrote in post 9 in this thread, that's exactly what i did on friday. I gave one of the supervisors from the bank of america all the info necessary but after about an hour on the phone i had to setlle with a polite: "i'm sorry Sir, but there's not much i can do"... Before she told me that, i had high hopes because in my eyes, they were the only ones who were actually able to do something at that point.
john70t: i'm not sure in understand this correct but if i do, i don't believe i will be accusing the bank for not seeing this scammer used a false identity. Is that really an option in the US?
Scuba Steve & stomachmonkey: this stewart guy sure looks like he's missing a nut and would be able to pull a trick like this. On the other hand, i'm not sure he sounds exactly like the guy i spoke. Could be but could be not even so. I surely don't to be blaming someone who isn't guilty. Thanks for the effort!
LeeH: i did. I ended up at 'reverse phone' who supposedly had one hit for me. Of course, i needed to register and when i did, nothing came up... I found nothing else. The number he used was 512-417-1092
He also gave me an email address but he never responded to that so i'm not sure if it is his. I didn't end up receiving a 'failure delivery notification' so it should be an existing email address. It was
sdemon530@yahoo.com
I pointed out the demon part at first but he told me 'not to worry. Sdemon stands for speeddemon and there wasn't any evil intent'. It sounded plausible but afterwards it sounds ridiculous...
techweenie: true that as i've noticed so. I already would have been happy if they had actually frozen the money i had wired but even that was too much to ask. A significant price difference with market value should ring a bell immediately but this one wasn't actually. I wish i would have tried to buy that audi A3 before and got scammed. That probably wouldn't have make me fall for this and would have saved me an awful lot of money... Looking back, i should have tried to ask for help here to maybe have someone check the car out but i never had done so before and it went smooth those times. This brings us to the presumably most thought of sentence at this point: if i had only...
I'll be passing at my bank tomorrow. This will probably be more of a necessary step to follow than a step towards a real solution. If it is, i'm buying drinks... Thanks for the help guys, it's a small plaster on a larger wound but i appreciate it!