beware of user griffy guys i got ripped 300 bucks

1uzsurfer · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:54 pm

hey all just take care when buying off user griffy on this site. first time ive ever been ripped off on the net 300 bucks for a second hand long ranger tank which i never recieved and its been the best part of 3 months so ive given up hope and have to warn you all. ](*,)

he was good sending me linked photos through here and actually sounds like a 4x4 enthuisiast which is suprising

NiftyNev · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:19 pm

Moved to here so responses can be posted. Sorry to hear you have a problem with a member. Very rare for this to happen here. Not a lot we can do to help, other than to ask if anyone else has a problem dealing with this member, or to ask the member, if he reads this to respond.

Do you have more details about the transaction?

Nev

Slime Crawler · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:33 pm

might be time to call the police in regards to it mate. If he's done it once there may be many others who have been stung too.

Reece · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:37 pm

If he's not responding to PM's you could try contacting him

here,
http://www.facebook.com/gould.griffin?sk=info

or here,
http://www.myspace.com/griffy_86

or maybe here,
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=7697734374

smurfnaround · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:20 pm

Yeah he's dodgy
I tried to get a few parts off him and whilst trying to organize it a few of his comments made the alarm bell in the back of my head go off, so I asked if he could do cod. I never heard from him again even after several attempts of trying to contact him.

brad-corp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:55 am

He's got a bebo account? So he's not just a thief, he's also a paedophile?

bumpstopbrawler26 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:02 pm

I had problems too. Lost 200 bucks. It's a shame and it's a bad name to the test of us trying to sell on forums

NiftyNev · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:20 pm

If anyone has a problem at anytime, notify an Admin so we can at least alert other members. If you don't, then there's a risk of others suffering the same fate. We can't do a lot and anyone dealing with a seller on this forum does so at their own risk. Sometimes posting here will get a positive result. I know of one case here that had a happy outcome when a few negative comments were posted about him.

Nev

Reece · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:56 pm

As Nev said if you have a problem with seller or buyer let a admin know to
help prevent other members being ripped off.

This guy had several items still for sale which have now been removed.

I will gladly supply IP numbers, logs, and his ISP if needed.

Reece

1uzsurfer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:17 am

thanks for the advice guys but getting cops involved will be a waste of time i feel, i have no faith in our legal system dishonest people seem to get the right of way these days, plus buying second hand goods off the net is very risky but Ive never had a problem till now think i will just take this one on the chin and take more care in the future.

](*,)

this guy is a problem on this site and hopefully all will read this and stay clear of this dishonest nugget of a human!!

thanks for the facebook link too!! might think about sending him a love letter

Negz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:51 pm

Hey Guys i am in the same club, long range tank and got ripped off.
He is obviously a real person and used his real name.

If you could PM with your contact details and story I am contacting the AFP as this is over state lines and a federal crime. If he also used his real bank account details they can freeze the account and put out a arrest warrant.

The more of use that come together with these problems the better.

I have logged and saved all PM's between me and him as well as a record of the bank transfers.

Would be nice next time he gets RBT and find out he has a federal charge pending and arrested

As a note if he sent you anything then you are screwed, as in buyer be ware. if he failed to send anything at all then its theft and fraud.

Look forward to hear from you and F'ing him back.

Reece · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:22 am

This guy has clearly used the site to gain money by deception. He taken money from several people for the same tank, along with several other parts.

Negs is currently compiling evidence for a AFT report. For members that
have had dealings with him please past on any details, even if you didn't get
ripped off. Contact numbers, email addresses, bank details, links to photo
albums.

Reece.

statesman · **Joined:** 23 Feb 2010 **Posts:** 4 **Location:** brisbane

i have also had a the same issue with this as i also bought the long range fuel tank from GRIFFY. Have not received the tank and it has also been three months and is blaming the freight company .

highersurf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:54 pm

hi all, same here on the griffin gould front paid for a long range tank and nothing. was very responsive with emails and such then bang as soon as the money went in nothing. and more nothing... although he has been spammed by an email which sent me his list of friends emails, one of which was a mobile number email which i rang and "apparently" he works out on a station for wks at a time and has no reception. cough bullshit cough. i have narrowed it down to northern NT as his facebook has him in darwin.

so whose up for a road trip for some good ol' fashion whomping? acutally i might trying ringing his mates number again and telling him a few of us know about him and thinking bout a lawsuit.

any of you want to let me know
msg or ring
0421 778 518
ben

highersurf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:01 pm

just rang the number and apparently he is in perth but will be ringing again tomorrow to speak to another guy to gather more details.

kitcho · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:47 pm

Sorry to hear others have been stung too, I lost $335 on that bloody tank as well, I would love to take legal action too, what do i need to do this apart from transaction details.

WilSurf · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:10 pm

Let us know, we are in Perth.
Maybe our Perth club could help you.

djpearsonpda · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:20 pm

Once you guys have a few solid complaints with printed correspondence / msgs / phone call logs etc NAIL HIM as soon as you can...

these ppl get worse VERY quickly... once they feel that they have successfully dodged their first scam they up "the game" at a very fast pace.

8yrs ago, me & my missus at the times bought a house, we needed a boarder to help out with the bills and brought a mate in that we'd both known for 2-3 years.

in the span of 4 months he went from selling 2nd hand PS2 games on ebay to scamming fake sales in mobile phones, laptops and in-car entertainment. even ripping ppl off from O/S thet were just trying to buy presents for their Australian family members.

worse yet, they take steps to shift the blame if they are ever caught, often mentioning business partners and using other people identities to commit their crimes.

i realized at about 4 months, keylogged our computers & hacked his hotmail and kicked him out, the whole time he refused to admit any wrong. i had PRINTED logs from hotmail & keyloggers on my puter!

i took it all to the cops and they had NO IDEA! if your gonna report something like this, keep asking WHO IS BEST TO REPORT THIS TOO?? local cops are simply too un-aware to followup this sort of thing.

12months later i was randomly ARRESTED cause this bloke had been using my identity... & my missus'.... & using our pets names as passwords to make it look convincing...?!

luckily i had my magic box of evidence from my original trip to the police handy and ended up completely exonerated... and chief witness for the state...

in 13months, this bloke had scammed:
64,000 bucks - tax free
in 53 separate transactions.....
used 4 different identities... in a police raid they found photo copies of me & my missus drivers lisences, credit cards, medicare cards!?!?!

GACK!?!?... Rant OVER - Sorta...

my point is, if he's not nailed now, he'll get worse, one day he'll be rippin off retiree's of their supa funds...

griffo · **Joined:** 20 May 2011 **Posts:** 16 **Location:** Albury

Hoping my username is not going to cause problems.

PLEASE do not confuse me 'griffo' from Albury with this dishonest 'Griffy'.

No relation, have no idea who this is. Am now regreting my choice of user name.

Ratty · **Joined:** 13 Mar 2007 **Posts:** 757 **Location:** Sydney

Quote:

my point is, if he's not nailed now, he'll get worse, one day he'll be rippin off retiree's of their supa funds...

So true. Last year I had a stem cell transplant after 10 years of cancer. Pretty heavy and distressing time. At same time had had to run a big ($M) project where I had my life assets at financial risk. At same time remotely had to care for my two youngest kids. Managed it all OK, but got blindsided by a neighbor who felt "felt sorry for me, wanted to help" etc" and ripped me off all the income I made during the year. So I went through hell for nothing - even the stem cell transplant did not work. Anyway the f**ker is now serving 5 years for fraud in a very tough prison overseas.

Some people have zero morality, or find it is so easy to scam that they cant resist doing it more and more.

What I found was that someone has to collect the written evidence and make a complaint Unless that happens, nothing happens. Its just all talk and nothing happens. Someone has to coordinate the paperwork for the complaint. It is usually the police who coordinate the paperwork for a crime.

I actually think there is enough in this thread for any one of the persons ripped off to go to the Feds (interstate crime") make a complaint and show this thread as preleiminary evidence. A detective may say "there is enough here, when evidence is formally collected by me (the detective), to get a conviction and even a deportation". So far as I can see, 5 separate people could provide evidence. THAT is the driver - a reasonable chance of a conviction so the police are not wasting their time. In the meantime, Griffy is probably reading this thread and laughing at all of us honest people writing emails to each other and effectively doing nothing.

Heck, by now he could even have registered under a different name and be preparing to run the scam again.

Comatose · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:10 pm

griffy is selling a pile of long range tanks? awesome I want a long range tank too!!! I might have to send him some money...

1uzsurfer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:14 pm

Comatose wrote:

griffy is selling a pile of long range tanks? awesome I want a long range tank too!!! I might have to send him some money...

Here is his account details smart ass go for it

bank : Details not to be posted.

account name

etails not to be posted.

bsb: number

etails not to be posted.

acc number : Details not to be posted.

jehu · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:20 am

also got stung. ](*,)

does not sum it up enough
$500 gone that i'll never see again. I'm crude and rude but not here!

no blame at all on the site, I should have been more careful, but it's scared me away from the surf, this forum, online shopping (even ebay) for a while now.
i know i should have spoken up when i discovered i was ripped off, but had a level of hope & naivety since every other time i've bought from members its been an absolute dream.

#-o

dude's a twit

jehu · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:23 am

Quote:

From: griffy
To: jehu
Subject: Re: LRT & Hella Rally 4000's (& HID kit)
Hi,
Payment received will post tomorrow.

Thanks Griff

Bull-

WilSurf · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:26 pm

So all good then?

Project-Man · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:40 pm

thats not the way i read it , griffy said payment received will post tomorrow and jehu said bull which tells me he never got it

baldman · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:27 pm

Really sorry that all you guys got touched up, the lesson from this is speak up if you get ripped off as soon as it happens to help others minimize their loss.

At one time or an other we make bad decisions so it is nothing to be ashamed of.

Been ripped a couple of times on evil bay by paying good money for crap items.

A1 Mech · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:24 pm

This is happening way to much lately on forums, has anyone been round to burn this F8Kers house down yet??

BLACK_kzn130 aka ROB · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 10:32 pm

He looks like a scum bag go through his pics and try get a rego or something. There could be a case that he moved out of a place left his profile open and its others doing the ripping off. Talk to you bank about the transfers i have had money rrfundend that was put into wrong account see what they can do.

Struth · **Joined:** 29 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 2419 **Location:** Melb'

You could always head over to outers and post this info there.

Just look what happened to Braden Tagg from XRO

Just google "xro racing" to see how well the net can work in these cases.

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