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Leblanc Paperclip Scam Warning

Author: Mojo
Date: 2018-11-07 17:35

While shopping for one of these I found a listing in Freeclassifieds.com - Phoenix AZ for $2400. It was listed in Aug 2018. A similar listing was in Dallas a few months earlier. Same price but different photos as I recall.

I made contact and got this reply:

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Greetings,

It is BBb. I am a private owner. The problem is that I came to Poland, Europe. I was in the States for only three months with my work and I had to deliver it here in Lodz because I didn't have a safe place or a trusted person there to help me sell it even if I had to leave. I will go back to Croatia in 2 months as I am a professor there, but until then I will stay here.

I hope you don't mind, but I will gladly pay the shipping fees if you want to buy it. I will also check for a good escrow company to make this transaction a safe one (my brother already told me about a good escrow company, but I need to check this myself). Is this ok with you?

Sincerely Yours,
Dubravka Miljkovic
Professor in the Department of Educational Studies
Proletariacka 8, 93-569 Lódz, Poland

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My initial searches found that this is a real person in Poland and Croatia. But nothing at a US university.

Then I found a virtually identical email response posted on a vintage Martin guitar forum from July 2018. https://umgf.com/warning-freeclassifieds-com-1936-d18-for-usd6-000--t193083.html

A follow up email today offered a “Certa Escrow” service. I was told to do a search as they have good reviews. So there is a lot of name spoofing here. I would expect a future email to offer a bank routing number for a payment to their private account instead of a legit escrow service.

MojoMP.com
Mojo Mouthpiece Work LLC
MojoMouthpieceWork@yahoo.com

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