Could someone please check this account plus what appears to be two sock puppet accounts created for the sole purpose of passing dishonerst feedback back and forth.
NOTE: The main account was created on the 18th, a trade was supposedly completed with sock puppet #1 on the 20th, the same day that account was created. A second trade is claimed to have taken place the very next day along with the trade with the second account, also created on the 20th. Mail from Russia to Germany and the US typically takes weeks, I've never heard of any same day delivery. (Isn't it also kinda expensive to send two parcels to the same guy on consecutive days?)
From the main profile - "Attention! Despite the absence of a rating on this site, I did not send the first.
As soon as you send me a letter and provide the track number, I immediately sent an mail to you and I will give you the track number."
Quite apart from this being extremely ill advised, how is it possible for this person to wait for the delivery of the other party's coins to Russia, and only then mail the return parcel, all in the space of a few hours?
A new member demanding that others send first and using what appear to be fraudulent accounts to abuse the ratings system for swaps which clearly never took place..... let's nip this one in the bud before members start getting fleeced. Might also want to check the IP addresses of all the accounts created between the 18th and 20th to see if there's any more glowing 5 star feedback in the pipeline for this guy.
Proactive guys, proactive. Let's hustle.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Quote: "JustforFun"Remind me my fellow Venezuelan friends... wait they were not my friends...
Great job, wondering if the person is really at any of the locations of the accounts or if its cooking something different.
On a conspiracy theory, I believe Phil is behind this... Trust no one!
Oh yeah, I've received numerous gold swapping offers from Venezuelan members
Top 3:
1. Venezuela (at least 10 fake swap offers).
2. India (I had only 1 decent swap with a guy from India, all other either tried to deceive me or sent me some VG-F rubbish calling it XF).
3. Russia (I had few nice swaps with Russians, but there were a lot more people trying to deceive me.
BONUS: A special place in Numista's Inferno is reserved for schtroumpf48 (or what his nickname was?) from France. What a naive idiot. He failed to deceive me, but unfortunately succeeded in other cases...
When new members suddenly appear with a lot of positive rates, I always cross the information with those members. If they are old members it is OK but, if the 5 or 6 members are the same new members in all the swaps, I tag them as swindlers. Some times, just to be sure, I start a swap.
Once I have even got a fake track number and, since it do not appears in the track system, I have received a justification saying that it was a small village in the interior with no computers...
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
If this is a continuous problem, it might well be advised that a special tab is added where all of these scrupulous collectors details are held in one place.
We can then check before moving forward or cancelling or reporting again.
Lets put all our bad eggs in one basket.
Thanks for reporting this suspicious accounts. I have just added the usual warning on the 3 profiles:
ATTENTION :
THIS MEMBER HAS BEEN DETECTED BY NUMISTA MODERATORS FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU STILL WANT TO SWAP WITH HIM.
If you spot new fraudulent accounts, it would help a lot to report them by clicking on the button at the top right hand corner of their profile page, so that we can react faster.
Quote: "Xavier"Hello,
Thanks for reporting this suspicious accounts. I have just added the usual warning on the 3 profiles:
ATTENTION :
THIS MEMBER HAS BEEN DETECTED BY NUMISTA MODERATORS FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU STILL WANT TO SWAP WITH HIM.
If you spot new fraudulent accounts, it would help a lot to report them by clicking on the button at the top right hand corner of their profile page, so that we can react faster.
Quote: "pnightingale"egorkin's profile
egorkin has unsubscribed. He/She is not a member of Numista anymore.
He had a few swaps underway and the negative feedback is already starting to show up. I wish these cheats would just crawl away and die.
Little bugger gave me a try on Oct 1.
Thanks to the many Numista members with their sound advice (Phil predominant among them) I declined this Swap in under 30 seconds.
Crap, I still consider my own profile somewhat suspect until I get to 10 swaps (almost there).
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
He's back. The profile has been reported but it's usually a couple of weeks (or often never) before anything is done. Until then let's just hope his victims either read the forum or use an ounce of common sense. This dirtbag needs an IP ban and a good pimpslap.
schtroumpf48... this guy from France cheated more than 30 Numista member (me included).
I don't know but I believe he is in the TOP 10 of Numista most wanted :)
5 stars for Numista website! I must say that is the BEST to learn and swap!
Congratulations to the administration and eyes open to swindlers. Thanks for share the information.
I think he's figured out the fake feedback is giving away his identity so I won't disclose in public why I believe it's him again. If I'm wrong then I would like to offer a full apology, but rather a few ruffled feathers than yet another round of thefts eh?
I reported this profile several days ago and thus far no action has been taken. Perhaps it's not the same IP address? There are two swaps underway already... I hope nobody gets burned.
In the absence of any action or response from the busy admin team I guess we have to give this member the benefit of the doubt but as with ANY new member, you should really insist that they mail the coins first and only after you have received and inspected them should you send anything in return. Any honest swapper should understand this and have no problem in complying.
A few common sense precautions will save you from being cheated and perhaps persuade the bottom feeders to move elsewhere.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Being new myself, I offer the question of photographs, fingerprints and voice recordings of any member who wishes to make a swap or trade or sale.
Why not go high tech and also provide security background checks?
So far, I just want to learn as much about my personal coins as I can.
In the future, I might want to swap a few Eisenhower or Kennedy's.
Thanks for reading.
at the top right hand corner of their profile page, so that we can react faster. 
