RexHavoc wrote:
saweus6 may or may not this Eric chap. The point is that saweus6 was using a fake facebook profile on several groups, constantly asking about forumware/shapeways products, even when asked not too (polity, I might add) and then trying to set up some dodgy sounding ebay deals.
Like I mentioned before, nothing wrong with asking for help with ebay deals within the community- the problem is that this chap has joined the community with a blatantly fake profile (Lemon Russ? At least make a fake profile and name your self Steve or something!) only 4 or so weeks ago, And in that time he has asked about illegal practices, asked not so subtlety as well and yet knows well enough WHAT to ask for BY name (forumware, Italian marines etc ) which indicates to me he knows enough about the epic scene to know WHAT exactly it is he is asking in the first place.
Some of you have traded with me in the past, and you know that I use my birth name on facebook, but my legal name is my adopted name, and generally I'm upfront about this, and so far no one has had an issue with who I am or why I do it. When asked why he was using a fake name and no photo on facebook he avoided the question, or gave a silly, off handed remark instead of an answer. But he wants people to trust him enough to order from ebay for him, and for him not to rip them off. I would hope that anyone one of you would have come in and put a stop to it if you had seen me offering to help him, if I hadn't already seen his other behaviour.
@berzerkmonkey I'm not pursing this any further than having already contacted the admin of one facebook page and putting this information up here. I'm not trying to 'screw' with saweus6, Several people that included myself saw him over the pages setting up this dodgy scheme and when called out on it, got shitty, then I (and probably others were) was blocked. Its not my problem any more- I can no longer see his posts, and after posting this I wont give him another thought. I did what I thought what was right, and tried to help out the epic community by looking out for someone that looked like they were heading in to an ebay scam. If it was wrong, I'd happily apologise to the guy. I only contacted the admin because I was basically told to mine my own business, when I was able to show that he had been in the other groups we were both a part off, doing similar, scammy sounding things. (which he was denying to the people he was trying to set the ebay deal with)
I realise I was the only one to bring it up here, and publicly on one of the epic pages, but I wasn't the only person to call him out on the facebook groups.
I'm sorry if that I have offended you by bringing this up, or anyone in that matter, and equally sorry for bringing facebook drama to the boards. I'm not after a witch hunt, I simple popped the info up here for people to either pass it on to the other epic pages (as I am not in contact with them) or to be weary when dealing with him.
As much as I love Epic scale gaming, over the past 12 months I have seen an increase in this type of behaviour on the facebook epic groups and it is getting rather unpleasant.
This is Lemon Russ/saweus6. Man. You are so wrong about me. I don't use my real name cause I used to work for the DoJ and they constantly google us. Letting them know I play with little shooty men is not great for any legal career. My real name is also a very Muslim name, and I get a lot of crap for it online. I am definitely not Eric Fontaine, but I do live in Arlington, VA. I am disappointed that you went overboard like this, and I didn't even realize I was on the bad trader forum. I invite you to ask me questions or verify my ID, but once you do I expect a retraction. If you don't, I can't do anything, but you'll be the actual bad guy. I hope Karma is a thing where you are.