Ya… got into this thing with John Stauber like you people did, but I knew about his scam, and play with it a while. I suspected something when he did not ask much about my vehicle, but only about transfering money. Here is my story.
I listed my Ford truck for sale on on Autotrader.ca and got Stauber’s inquiry by phone text, asking me to use the email
[email protected] 2). After just a couple of inquiries about the condition of my truck, this John Stauber fraudster confirms that he will buy my FORD, 3) He tells me he is going to pay full asking price via PAYPAL (in this case $4900), and this amount will include shipping of $900 plus $100 in fees. 4) I then receive a few fictitious emails from PAYPAL showing that PAYPAL has received funds of $6000, but my payment for the sale of the truck ($4900) is “temporarily on hold” until I transfer out of my pocket $900 to cover the shipping charges through a MONEY GRAM Office to a specific address (in this case to send $900 to a Transport Company: " 1st Divine International Limited " , Name: Merill Leonard Ruth, City : Quakertown, State : Pennsylvania , Zipcode: 18951, Country : United State. 5) When I said that the MONEY GRAM OFFICE wanted more detailed information on who was going to receive the $900, I soon received another Email from PAYPAL (ficticious) that I should use the services of WESTERN UNION to transfer the money. 6). I continued, emailing to Stauber that I sent the $900 via Western Union to his transfer Agent. I got about 20 emails on this (I just wanted to see where this would go). My last emails today to his address on Outlook.com was bounced back indicating a “Delivery Failure Notification” but I believe that even this email was a fraud.
What I suggest is that everyone send his Email address (
[email protected] ) a flood of emails, but I know this jerk will simply change his email address and restart his criminal actions. Hope he goes to Hell…. for being such con artist. .