This thread is unbelievable. Pretty sick work by this Gonso guy.

Really hope you guys get a refund

Does this include his parent's business website(which he created), their address and phone number. I emailed screenshots of these(along with his work contact details from Melbourne, myspace and blog) to rje8686 a while ago, so he can collate them all into a post if allowed.

Yea im drunk and going to rant, but personally I think its a load of bull**** that 2+2 takes this stance
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Yet when posters get scammed and want internet justice(what little it maybe) they need to jump through hurdles and get permission to post personal information of said scammer. I agree with gonso that bitching at this point is worthless, but allowing two weeks to go bye with his personal information deleted for a time being only allows that POS to come up with excuses and alibies to friends and family. Who will ignore any and all inquires by random people on the internet. Nothing should be deleted or edited for "good faith" purposes in future scamming threads.

This is a good question, however there's a little more to it that has to be taken into consideration.

With regards to personal info, it's not that I (or really any mods) have problems with a scammer being publicly humiliated. Who doesn't like seeing a scammer tarred and feathered? However there are some things to consider. In particular, we could create liabilities for the site, which of course doesn't belong to me. This is why IPs are never given out.

And, inevitably, someone's going to run a scam here masquerading under another person's identity. I'm very confident that's not the case here, but it's bound to happen at some point. Some innocent dude (with too much info online) is going to open his Facebook and find people calling him a scammer, and track back to some thread like this. How do you think he's going to react? How would you?

Another issue: Those of your who've seen the Brett Morzokowski/Speedlimits thread know that we have too many dumbasses here on 2+2. They were harrassing the guy's Mom, posting her address and number, editing her Wiki page, etc. That's way out of line, I don't care if he is a thief.

So, yes, addresses and phone numbers are a no-go for now. These can be relayed to rje and the other posters scammed, that's fine, and they can have the links to the contacts as well. Hell, make a website about the guy, they're cheap enough.

As far as deleting info temporarily, yes it was more accomodating than it needed to be, but still don't see any harm other than wasting some of my own time. The problem with doing anything too rash is that you can destroy and chance of recovering money.

Anyway I think it's fair to say time is up. Rje's doing his thing, I'm making a page for Facebook & MySpace to contact the peeps, and I don't care if he did make up stories. They'll still be linked back here, and I'm sure perusing through some of his many tall tales online will make it clear to everyone he's a lying POS.

Right now I have a lot of work offline that I'm neck deep in, believe it or not I do have a life outside of the Marketplace. Please try to bear with me if I can't attend to everything every second.

Actually you other two guys scammed send your email also (I have rje's), I'll forward the three of you the links and all. You can decide what you want to do with them and send the messages, etc., rather than me.

Nps. Thx

Guys if anyone has any info on nick. Please PM it to me.. I need it by Thursday 6pm EST.

I already have alot of stuff but getting the same thing isnt going to hurt either.

Thanks

Rich

He scammed me for about $500. Please PM me any info you have on him RJ

lol sauce karma much? To save a few bucks...ends up scammed. I'm crying from the hilarity not sure if anyone pointed this out yet lulz.


MOD EDIT: while we're pointing things out that are lulz- this is exactly the type of post that will get you lulz points from me on nights I'm not in a great mood. Way to bring the hilarity.

How about this: when the scammer gets caught don't ****ing start deleting posts at his request. Wtf? You thought he was going to give the money back because you deleted some posts? Then you had this drawn out exchange with him, keeping up the hopes of the people who apparently hate money. Who goes through so much trouble to scam multiple people and then gives it back when they ask for it? The solution here is to learn a lesson and get back to the tables to grind back the money you lost.

It was an act of good faith. Since he apparently got his FTP account banned, it takes time to make accounts on other sites. The deal was he was going to delete them temporarily until the money gets returned, and if he doesn't return it then he will put them back, which he did.


And if you ruin someone BEFORE he returns the money then he has no incentive to return it, does he?

An act of good faith? With a scammer? I see now why there are so many scammers out there making bank.

wtf?

All he did was delete some posts, temporarily, which have now been returned.

And never become a hostage negotiator, you would just want to storm in and kill everyone immediately

In a hostage situation the kidnappers want to trade the hostages for what they want. In this case the scammer got what he wanted. There was no negotiating to be done.

You've made your point. Move along.

scammer Nicholas Gaskin

Ngaskin scammer scammed scam Ngaskin scammer. Dont trust Ngaskin

No one else is pointing out the mistakes of the people who made a mess of this whole thing. I'm the only one saying anything constructive and I should move along? Are you guys getting a cut from the scammer's take or what

Actually, you're saying very little constructive. You don't think the posts should've been deleted, but aside from "getting people's hopes up", you've not pointed out what problem this causes. Your solution? "The solution here is to learn a lesson and get back to the tables to grind back the money you lost."

OK, thanks for the advice. Gonso took a chance that working with nga might get some money back. It didn't. Trying it wasted nothing but some of Gonso's time. I appreciate him trying, as I'm sure those who were ripped off do.

You know what? **** you. I don't volunteer my time helping out on this forum to listen to crap like this. If this the kind of thing you want to post, go find another forum to post it in.

omg bob your name gets better every day


<3 baby fat


now make it babby fat

I dont see anything wrong with this, if it helps get the money back then why would anyone be against it. Plus im sure i remember a mod saying its quite easy to undelete posts...

Wow Bobo,I think you really need to eat something. I haven't seen anyone get under your skin like this in a long time...

But I still <3 bobo.

lol @ "how is bobo babby formed"

just adding my 2c - his current address is 903/18 Waterview Walk, Docklands VIC 3008, and I know this for a fact, just ask Mike Haven after I had a PM war with him

Hi Nick!

This account is Nick Gaskin, and we've been looking at it since Mayo found it about a month ago. While he claims to be a former roommate, they share the same email: nickgaskin@hotmail.com and can be traced to AUS as well as the UK. We sat on it for a while to watch see where the IPs would come from to confirm the location. Thanks a bunch.

He denies it of course. In fairness, I suppose it's at least possible that these accounts could be a couple of man-friends who share email accounts and travel the world together. But anyway you can ignore Australian addresses.

Anyways, the bottom line is... people need to have a bit of restraint.

It's a lot like playing poker, sometimes we can sit there and out-think our opponents... we know that the river check is going to yield a huge bet and we can outplay the villain on every street.

If we start jumpin the gun with our quads on the turn, there's not going to be a pot and the stuff we ship on the river will be disgustingly small in comparison to the other pot we would have created by making our opponent bet.

Much the same with this situation. There are lots of things you can do to this guy that just aren't going to make any sense. Like Gonso said about the people harrassing some guy's mom... I mean, if you really wanted to harrass the guilty party, that's fine! You're doing it to his mom though, his mom! What did some nice little old lady do? Nothing, and beyond informing her of the situation you shouldn't ever do anything.

If you want to get the best results, you do whatever it takes to make the villain stack himself. Gonso handled this whole thing great, iggytt, it's always easy to make the calls when you're not the umpire. Have a bit of decency and respect, there is a time and a place for this kind of debate and this is not that place. If you really had an issue you could create a different thread in the ATF section... or any other section really.

Unfortunately for us, our opponent played with a rigged deck and had no intention of shipping any pot our way.

I'm not saying this guy doesn't deserve a beat down, and I'd be happy to bust some of his stuff... or his face, but you have to think your actions through. The best thing to do is to put so much literature out there on this guy that he will never accomplish anything without a huge ugly asterisk beside his name.

Just a quick question, did the police actually get involved here? Are there any lawyers or anything? You have his full name and address, serve him with a subpoena and tada, nuff said! This thread and the transactions on FTP are all you need as evidence.

I'd pursue this guy criminally and slap a civil suit on his ass. Do it already?