• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Bad Guy Greg Johnson <[email protected]> *Scammer*

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Be careful of any emails from a Greg Johnson @ [email protected] It's a scam.
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He was on the edge, but the free shipping sealed the deal I'm sure.
Thanks for sharing Justin.
 
Been getting emails from "him" as well.
Anytime someone asks me for my "final price", and then willingly adds an additional $50.00 to it for no apparent reason, all signs point to "Scam".


From: Greg Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 4:23 PM
To: gary <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Male #1 (Top Photo) Biak x Jayapura - $775.00

Am paying by personal check or money order so i need your full name and address.I'll add $50 for keeping it in my favor.
 
Yeah he contacted me about purchasing an animal today wanting to use the exact same payment "method". Obvious Scammer set-up, but this is good information for those not familiar with payment scams like this. Definitely a scammer.
 
Greg Johnson

He tried with me too. Got him to send a check, sent 2750 for a 1200 dollar snake. Now he's assured me, without doubt, that the check cleared and would I please send him his extra 1500 back. I told him to come here and I'll give him the cash...along with his birthday present!

Then, just this morning, he sent me a new email, asking if the animal is still available, and that he would send me an extra 50 if I took the listing down and saved it for him - just like his first email. He's probably in Nigeria, judging by certain flags I see in his communications. But he doe's have a US cell number, which is unusual for these crooks to expose. Sure wish he'd come here to collect his money!
 
It is a text mail subscriber, just tried to call it. 765 722 2819
It's a dead end for sure, just wish the authorities would do something about these crooks
 
Greg Johnson

Just had to deal with scammer today! Asking for final price and willing to add $50 for holding animals.
 
He says he'll add 50, but with me he added 1500, hoping I'd send him the money when his fake check bounced. It appeared to be a bank check, but
it's a fraud.
 
When I saw this thread I just had to add what I have experienced and found out regarding whole thing. Not only do you have to watch out for the name Greg Johnson but there is at least another name Wilson Gran being used and I can only assume even more yet unknown ones. I got the same email question from both senders, "Still up for sale? get back to me with the final price", just yesterday. So I became very suspicious and did a little ISP research on the email address for "each person" only to discover they both have the exact same ISP address. So both emails came through the same computer/router and one can assume both are one and the same person. I sent a little note back to "each" one of them with the attached email trail report showing the deed. Not gotten a response back and don't expect one. If you know where to look, depending on your email program you can find the detailed report of the path of the email along with all the identifying information. To make it easy, here is the ISP for these scamming emails. ISP#- 209.85.220.65 Also note that if someone has more than one router in their home or office the ISP#'s will be almost the same except for the last numbers. I also got an email today from "another person" with the ISP# 209.85.220.41 it maybe also the same person just a different router at same location though can't prove that. But the first 2 I gave with the same number is the same person one in the same. So hope this helps you all and be cautious it is amazing the extent folks will go for a scam.

Regards,

Steven
 
Thanks for posting this guys, I received a message from the account as well. Unfortunately I sent them an email, but if they reply I'll have fun trolling them.
 
Had three messages this morning, ignored them all as so obviously spam format


Still up for sale?let me know the price.and get back to me via my email [email protected]

was going to suggest Mods ban this account but I see that has already been done

Thank you before some more gullible person got scammed
 
He has been a busy fella.




Yahoo Mail Yahoo Mail

Re: CB 2018 Candy Cane Tessera.2
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Ed Clark
Shipped to where?
Aug 5 at 1:38 PM
Greg Johnson <[email protected]>
To:Ed Clark
Aug 5 at 4:02 PM

Am paying by cashier's check so i need your full name and address.I'll add $50 for keeping it in my favor.





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Still up for sale? get back to me with the final price
 
Greg Johnson

He is currently trying to scam me. He wants to send a cashier's check with an extra $50 "to hold the boa in his favor" SELLER BEWARE!!!!
 
Greg Johnson

I know idiots like this ruin it for everyone else. We should have to worry about excepting cashier's check or money orders!
 
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