Have you had dealings with OLDCODGER or Jabba1966?

Any thoughts on whether it would be good or bad to try to get this posted onto a larger gadget blog (such as gizmodo) -- I remember there was a Sidekick that was once stolen and once the identity of the theft was published, the story was published widely and the sidekick recovered (and the theft humiliated). Only downside to this is that the dyxum board may get flooded with copycats.

I think we should wait and see if this is properly resolved, both financially and legally before we broadcast it.

nigelbrooks wrote: One thing that concerns me, unless oldgodger and jabba1966 is a blatant sociopath is that the 'John Humphries' on Flickr may be totally innocent and had his 'identity' stolen. The admin team agreed not to contact the 'Flickr John Humphries' in case he and the scammer were one and the same and, by so doing, it alerted the scammer to the actions being taken.

Notice the avatar, originally his photograph was posted there. After this post

badlydrawnroy wrote: Is it a coincidence he calls himself Jabba ? Roy

he changed it to the current avatar of Jabba the Hut. Hardly the actions of a person with a stolen identity.

Mark L wrote: Well, to a large extent it has already been broadcast. If you Google for jabba1966, links to this thread come out very near the top.

That may be good for anyone who tries to buy something from jabba1966 (if he uses that name again) and is suspicious enough to google the name, but that doesn't help bring the current situation to resolution nor prevent most of the future ones.

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

this is what I was talking about and it was amazing how fast justice was served. The only question is how definite is the id on this guy?

I'm just posting a possible course of action, but would leave that up to those that have been directly affected by this scammer if they choose to pursue this.

polyglot wrote: I know this sucks, and paypal's anti-fraud measures aren't worth the electrons they're written on, but what would you have paypal do? They have absolutely no way of determining whether an item was as described or not, other than accepting proof of sending/delivery from a postal agency. They can't tell whether you got a box with a brick in it or whether you got a box with a camera in it and pretended you received a brick.

I don't agree Sir !
I sent paypal photos of the "lens"
Pictures uploaded here :
(http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zzp7uq&s=5)
(http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2hd0dg0&s=5)
but paypal don't care !
kind tegards
vsldk

it is confirmed that jabba1966,jabba2009,oldcodger is J. H.

Just to update everyone.

I have eventually got Barclaycard to issue a chargeback against Paypal (this has taken so long due to the incompetence of Barclaycard's Indian staff nothing to do with Barclaycard causing delays).

Sadly because the problem is credit card fraud the police cannot do anything unless the card companies asks them to (a change in UK law about two years ago). Barclaycard aren't that interested in that so we aren't going to get anywhere but at least my blog is high up in any google searches against his real name and paypal.