Scammer Terry Baggins

[Phillip2605]

Be aware of a guy called Terry Baggins he is a scammer and so many other ...... words I wont say

Some how he got my add looking for a bike on the hub and send me an email

with a photo of a bike costing 190GB

He claims to be working for a shipping company and he can do it for free and send it as a gift so there will be no duty for you to pay.

You pay the money and because you said its a gift on the western union money gram they cant do nothing to get you your money back as you have send it as a gift to him.

This will learn me not to ly to avoid payning duty taxes.

Oh well R2400 down the drain and back to square one

Trinewbie

[gummibear]

Sounds like the same guy

 

http://forums.aaca.org/f137/beware-scams-uk-292415.html

[mark ellis]

This will learn me not to ly to avoid payning duty taxes.

clasic!! sorry dude, you got to be sharp now days, too many scams happening

[covie]

And skipping duties will either get you broke like you have noticed, or locked up.

[Tiny K]

And skipping duties will either get you broke like you have noticed, or locked up.

 

So see it as a 'cheap' learning experience. I have read so many sites saying that if you send money via Western Union you have almost no guarantee to get it back.

 

Still SUX though!

[SL7]

Terrible news dude! Can't trust anybody these days, not even your girlfriend's Mom.

 

 

[bassasdaindia]

Terrible news dude! Can't trust anybody these days, not even your girlfriend's Mom.

 

 

[Andyr249]

Terrible news dude! Can't trust anybody these days, not even your girlfriend's Mom.

 

Is this from experience?

 

You referring to the rugby player whose gf's mom got hitmen or something. Heard some people mentioning something like that recently.

 

It is better to just pay the duties at the end of the day. Or you could end up worse off.

[Phillip2605]

Yip guys learned my lesson for 2010 keep it local and hard cash nothing else.

TIT(triathlete in training)

[Peter L]

IF its to good to be true it probably is

[GrumpyOldGuy]

Actually Terry scammed you in two ways because "Gifts" can also attract duty and VAT, it depends on the value and the item, if its an item or piece of a personal nature like say a gift pack or a photo album etc and the value is not too high, say under R1000.00 (converted) then SARS will let it through, but I can almost tell you with certainty a bicycle would not be considered a gift and the value was too high, so it would have attracted some duty for sure (probably a flat 10%) and definately VAT.

 

That said, all transferring companies who do not pay into a bank account but pay cash over the counter will have the same issue of getting the money back in the case of a dispute, not just Western Union who are actually a very respectable company, these companies work on a code basis, and if the beneficiary gives the correct code on the foreign side, they pay out cash over the counter - very few respectable sellers internationally will ask this, they will provide banking details (or a PAY PAL account) and your bank locally can do a direct transfer to their bank account - hense you have a "come back" if things go pear shaped.

 

Be very wary of transferring on a cash collect basis, you have NO RECOURSE.

 

Its unfortunate that the buyer has to distrust ALL sellers these days because of the 10% of scammers, in reality, a lot of sellers are honest and just want a straight deal - but yeah, you gotta do your homework before laying the cash on the table - I hope the above info helps to avoid it happening again.

[Guest Big H]

He is not family of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins????? ......... And is his hometown Hobbiton or Rivendell??????? ..... And doe his email or telephone number contain the numbers 419??????