Beware of this please

[daveleau]

First let me say that I hope my double posting this does not cause a problem. I posted this in the F/S F/T section as well...

Anyway, This guy (falconplatinum) took my words almost exactly from my LMSS donations project and tried to get parts for himself. It appears that this could be a hoax and the people from Ars believe that it is. I emailed him and asked him but he has yet to respond.

Here are links to both my post and his. Very similar. It makes me sad that a person would use my words to pull an illeged scam.

HIS: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=57909216&m=838090611

Mine here and the same was posted at Ars: http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum13/HTML/000628.html

very sad
Dave

[LJJones]

Did you read this further down the ars technica page?

I edited my original post from someone else's, so it would look good. I might have made a mistake, as you pointed out.
The original can be found here... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum13/HTML/000628.html
sorry for the mistake.

I agree with you that its sad, but what can you do?

[Dave_H]

Dave,
Please let me know if there is anything I can possibly do. I got copies of all the letters from the LMSS and will back you 100% if anyone needs a 3'rd party opinion.
Lets not let this guy get away with it, taking advantage of people under this type of false pretense is a big no no.
Dave

[Warthog]

hmmmmmmmmmmm....it doesn't seem like they are falling for it at all. He won't give out the address. I believe our same friend Oblivion is a member at that bbs also, and has straigtened things out a bit.

In a chat, talking about your original post for donations:
...that was a guy who wanted donations
also, I sent him stuff and he sent me a thank
u letter and tax recpitYou're pretty cool daveleau, for taking those donations.

Warthog

[This message has been edited by Warthog (edited 06-17-2000).]

[socalgal]

No problem at all Dave for something like this.

Thanks for the heads up on this ...person.

Keep us updated.

[OuTpaTienT]

lol socalgal. "...person". haha.