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Passing allert from WAF:
Beware Elena Asenova from Bulgaria with the email wife27@abv.bg
Many guys in Germany have already been ripped off by her (or the international gang who steals people's personal data). This individual sends the stolen pictures of different items and ... guess what happens next after you've sent the money to her?

Elena Asenova
Ivan Kosarev 41
8680 Straldzha
Bulgaria

Thanks! They just keep coming.

Thank you for letting us know. JME

'Elena' contacted me with a Blood order and document for sale. After much communication we settled on a price. She reckoned she could not get me more pictures,this set alarm bells ringing.
For days she 'tried' to borrow a camera[no luck , go to a photo studio[it was closed] use a friends mobile phone[ they did not come out well enough!] just full of excuses,I even offered to up my offer 200€ so she could buy a new camera,and keep it !!. She then wanted 1/3rd deposit,well she wanted full payment but there was no way on this earth I was sending that to Bulgaria. I asked her to photograph the items on the days paper[always a neat trick to prove they actually have the items] no joy. Was that evening I found the actual pictures on a different forum of the items she was trying to sell,at this point i knew for sure she was scamming me as she said she had taken the pictures she sent me with a friends camera recently and the thread I found was over 6 years old with the exact same pictures on !!
Anyway I decided to have a little fun and turn the tables on this fraudster so I decided to pretend I had sent the deposit,she fell for it and said she had posted the items. I asked for Fed Ex and suprise suprise the office was shut,or some similar rubbish excuse. Any way she then'sent' the items by Bulgarian mail that conveniently only tracks them so far as the Bulgarian border. That was friday. So I am fully expecting the next part of the story/scam to be an empty box getting delivered and then the accusation that I have stolen the items so she can make a claim or stolen in the post etc. I will open the parcel with the delivary driver,if indeed anything comes,that I doubt anyway !
Now she is e-mailing me saying I am a lier and thief, she still won't admit she was trying to rip me off. All the warning signs were there. She fell hook line and sinker for a fantasy bank payment slip I drew up,its nice to get one over on the bad eggs on behalf of all those they have screwed.
Don't walk from this person,run !

Great! A little taste of her own medicine! The real tragedy is those she has scammed and will scam. I think it highly unlikely the Bulgarian authorities give a flip.

Grumpy- we don't sport the crook busting avatar for nothing do we
Update today a package arrived,and needed to be signed for. It was a basic envelope with what felt like a childs plastic coin inside,certainly not a cased blood order and no way i was signing for it, so sent it on its way.
At least trying to scam me cost her a recorded delivary from Bulgaria and return

Well done Jon, you've outsmarted the con artist and she's now angry, no pity for her.

Anybody got an IP number? I can check for her here.

Dave

Jon, nicely done

Good Job! I like it! Well done! JME

I encourage you to post your problems with crooks, especially if they use our forum. And, this includes the people who:

- Say "I'll take it" just to block other buyers while posting question later.

- Say "send it to me" and jerk you around about paying ... and one guy is famous for that

- Post bad pictures. No excuse in today's environment of cheap cameras .. one of our most frequent sellers needs to upgrade

Dave