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Zeke Scam Locked

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:33 PM
 Dave Farquhar wrote:

Here's the post from Modeltrainjournal by Zeke referencing sending the trains back. It has since been pulled. This was where he said people would be getting their trains back.

 

(snip)

But anyways. I would like to tell all of you that i am returning each and every train i recieved. not because i didnt deserve it, cuz i did.

(snip) 

Ooookey, I'd like to hear the logic for that convoluted piece of reasoning. 

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Posted by DennisB-1 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:38 PM

I've been looking at Susan Anderson's Myspace page and related pages and this is what I've ascertained:

Susan is raising her 33 year old daughter's son Josh. The reason I came to that conclusion is that her daughter, Jenny, states that she has a 16 year old son, Josh, with Cushing's disease. That would make Jenny 17 when Josh was born. Ergo, Susan raised Josh. Jenny has a boyfriend named Brian. Brian uses a dog for is avitar and I believe the dog's name is Zeke.

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Posted by selector on Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:39 PM

Despite all of this, and what to make sense of it all, I am very pleased with the generosity and support that so many members of this forum offered Zeke...or whomever.  Getting suckered is something that only pertains to those who are good-natured, trusting, and generous.  It suggests that those taking the advantage are much closer to the other end of the spectrum, and must live lives that Hobbes described as, "...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."  I'll take being a sucker over the other.

To all of you who went in with your heads up, please don't let this be a stimulus to changing the way you think of people.

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Posted by BMRR on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:12 PM

I don't think we will ever know the "REAL" truth about this zeke mess.

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Posted by magicman710 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:23 PM

Zeke told me that reallywickedsue is his girlfriend's mom's ebay account, and that he stands strong about that he is 30.

 

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Posted by challenger3980 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:30 PM
 magicman710 wrote:

Zeke told me that reallywickedsue is his girlfriend's mom's ebay account, and that he stands strong about that he is 30.

 

Grayson

The problem is what to believe, who believes anything from Zeke any more, his credibility is in serious doubt.

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Posted by loathar on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:31 PM
 Hyun wrote:
 Dave Farquhar wrote:

Here's the post from Modeltrainjournal by Zeke referencing sending the trains back. It has since been pulled. This was where he said people would be getting their trains back.

 

(snip)

But anyways. I would like to tell all of you that i am returning each and every train i recieved. not because i didnt deserve it, cuz i did.

(snip) 

Ooookey, I'd like to hear the logic for that convoluted piece of reasoning. 

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Whistling [:-^] I think I deserve a million dollars. I'm not going to make up lies to get people to pity me and send me $$$.

P.S.- It wasn't a heart attack....It was just a stroke....(probably the 24 hour kind)Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by DennisB-1 on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:46 PM
 magicman710 wrote:

Zeke told me that reallywickedsue is his girlfriend's mom's ebay account, and that he stands strong about that he is 30.

 

Grayson

Well, that jives with what I posted above. Susan Anderson's ebay account is reallywickedsue. Susan is Jenn's mother. Jenn's boyfriend is Brian Watkins.

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Posted by BMRR on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:57 PM

....and for some reason I don't buy into the deal, that zeke (he or she) is just 15 years old. I think it was a well planned scam.

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Posted by tstage on Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:57 PM
 DennisB-1 wrote:
 magicman710 wrote:

Zeke told me that reallywickedsue is his girlfriend's mom's ebay account, and that he stands strong about that he is 30.

Grayson

Well, that jives with what I posted above. Susan Anderson's ebay account is reallywickedsue. Susan is Jenn's mother. Jenn's boyfriend is Brian Watkins.

This is whole thread is sounding more like an episode of "The Guiding Headlight".  Can we finally change channels and watch "Gilligan's Island" instead?...Sigh [sigh]

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Posted by SteamFreak on Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:17 PM
 BMRR wrote:

....and for some reason I don't buy into the deal, that zeke (he or she) is just 15 years old. I think it was a well planned scam.

Stan.

I agree. I recently won a locomotive from a woman on eBay and everything looked kosher up front -- a 100% (at that point) feedback rating, and a number of happy customers -- but she apparently mixed up two auctions and sent me an inferior, damaged example of the same engine she had listed at the same time. It took opening a PayPal dispute to get any response from her, at which point she moaned about caring for her ill husband, and how she was sorry but would send the correct loco once he was able to help her determine the difference between the two. Then she vanished. I let the case linger in case she was telling the truth, but escalated it before the deadline.

She let the escalated case lapse without a response and I thought I was going to recover all of my money, but at the last minute she notified them she'd give a "full" refund if I shipped it back. Now, did "full" indicate the entire amount, or just the winning bid? Would PayPal have any teeth if she reneged? I decided to keep the engine for parts since this was not a huge dollar amount, and I could certainly repair it and make it worth more than what I paid. I then left her scathing feedback, and didn't have to worry about retaliation since at some point during the 5 weeks it took to resolve the whole mess, she left me positive feedback first. Big Smile [:D]

So how does this relate to REALLYWICKEDSUE? The first part of this woman's email address turned out to be Venomrose, which I, of course, was not privy to before the close of auction. I would never trust anyone who chooses such a sinister identity, because they are telegraphing loud and clear something very important about their personality. After this Zeke debacle, I'm sure the woman I dealt with was just giving me a sob story as well. She has since racked up 2 other very angry chinks in her feedback rating, so I'm not the only one.

You take your chances if you trust anything coming out of the mouth (or keyboard) of a proven sociopathological liar. Surfer beware! 

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Posted by Fergmiester on Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:43 PM
 tstage wrote:
 DennisB-1 wrote:
 magicman710 wrote:

Zeke told me that reallywickedsue is his girlfriend's mom's ebay account, and that he stands strong about that he is 30.

Grayson

Well, that jives with what I posted above. Susan Anderson's ebay account is reallywickedsue. Susan is Jenn's mother. Jenn's boyfriend is Brian Watkins.

This is whole thread is sounding more like an episode of "The Guiding Headlight".  Can we finally change channels and watch "Gilligan's Island" instead?...Sigh [sigh]

Tom 

Actually I'm thinking...

"Next on Oprah"   or  "Dr. Phil explores the Seedy  Side of Model Railroading" or better yet... "The  Other side of the Tracks"

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, July 15, 2007 10:10 PM
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Posted by ndbprr on Monday, July 16, 2007 7:35 AM
Hasn't this been beaten to death at this point?  Whoever it is appears to be a scam artist. So why don't we put them in tne category with Nigerian oil money e mails and move on?  Losers and scam artists will always be out there.  Be alert and forget it.

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