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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

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Arizona Farm Village(inquiry)

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Has anyone done business with them.We received an e-mail from Walter Aig wanting to purchase 4 of our Burmese python babies.
Here is the original e-mail my wife received.
----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Aig
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:55 AM
Subject: 2008 Albinos and Het albinos


Hello Seller
I saw your listing and i am interested in the purchasing of your animal for my Farm village,I need some informations concerning the animal..

1,Is it still for sale
2,The final asking Price
3,My mode of payment is via check which will carry excess funds for the shipper..


I was just wondering if anyone had heard of or done business with them.
It just sounded kind of strange. There are more e-mails but they get a little more strange.And before I post them I thought I would just see if anyone here knows anything about them.Thanks
 
I have never heard of this place. I live in Arizona. It sounds suspicious to me.
 
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I have been contacted by several of the scammers, and that phrase "final asking price" had been used by more than half of them. The next email usually asks for your address, and that they will send their carrier over for the pick up.
 
Well this has been a long week I have tried everything I could to deter this guy and nothing seemed to work today I just received a cashiers check via UPS and there was a check from Wachovia inside.I am on my way there now to check with the branch manager to figure out weather or not this is a real check or not.

I hope this is the real thing but I am not getting all excited just yet.

I will let you all know by the end of the day if it truly was a scam or not. :thumbsup:
 
OK it is a scam and here are all the names involved
Walter Aig was the contact name that all the e-mails came from I am sure that one will change.
Freddy Mendoza
UPS account number 7326576271
967 Toms River Road
Jackson NJ. 08527
is the name and address that sent the UPS letter.The Wachovia rep recognized the name so I guess this one has been around.

The name on the check was
eStara Inc.
1821 Michael Faraday Drive Ste 100
Reston Va. 20190

And this is the shipper I was supposed to contact's information.
Erynn Sellers
22 A Solera Dr.
Columbus,Ohio 43229

I am a little smarter than this tool gave me credit for and would never send someone my hard earned money for a check I just deposited before it clears.This guy tried all the way to the end.

Hope this keeps anyone from even wasting their time.
 
Thanks for the update. Let us know the results, I guess it could be real. I have never had one follow through, so who knows? Good luck with it.
 
This is a Federal Crime...I would contact the FBI in Newark immediately. Forward them all e-mails and make this guy pay so that he can't rip off anyone else. This is about 40 minutes from me and hits a little too close to home.
 
we have already turned everything over to the internet Fraud division so it is all in their hands I am gonna scan the check and UPS label later and post it I hate the fact that these people still do abuse unknowing people and get away with it so I figure the more I can show the better.

I just can't believe even after I called this guy out on it he kept on trying and all the way till this morning he kept saying it was legit.

Is there away for you to find out if this address even exists or if even that is fake.
 
juggalo said:
we have already turned everything over to the internet Fraud division so it is all in their hands I am gonna scan the check and UPS label later and post it I hate the fact that these people still do abuse unknowing people and get away with it so I figure the more I can show the better.

I just can't believe even after I called this guy out on it he kept on trying and all the way till this morning he kept saying it was legit.

Is there away for you to find out if this address even exists or if even that is fake.
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From what I know (from past BOI investigations) you can look up the "company" to see if it's registered.

As for the guy...I'd wait until Ritchie Luna picks this up. He has great investigation skills.
 
these were addressed to my wife because she handles the phone calls and e-mails normally but as soon as I heard about htis one I took over but they still made the check out to her.
 

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Give us the email headers (with IP addresses) so we can trace the address to the computer's location in the country. And you can check the physical addresses on whitepages.com or maps.google.com.
 
the number I thought was an account number I have since found out is a phone number I have tried calling it but no answer or machine.I will keep trying.Here is the number (732) 657-6271
 
Well I got a hold of mom and she sounded pissed and then put a young Freddy Mendoza on the phone and he sounded quite scared or nervous.I have turned the phone number and address which I confirmed with mom to the proper authorities.I hope this will help catch these scam artists.
 
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