Hinge back tortoise on craigslist in chicago

[Anthony Hill]

I found this nice looking hingeback on craigslist he is mislabeled as a sulcata hopefully someone on hear will adopt him before he goes to a bad home http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/pet/4540284643.html

 

[tortadise]

That's a scam. Same thing posted in Los Angeles. I reported it already but there just keeping at it. Too bad. Because that's a lovely specimen.

 

[Anthony Hill]

well that stinks

 

[naturalman91]

from some of the wording you can tell it's a scam to me at least "we call him rocky" yet through the ad they refer to rocky as it for the rest of the ad it's a nice looking tort to shame probably a stolen picture

 

[dmmj]

@Jacqui To bad it is a scam, I know you are unhinged over hingebacks.

 

[tortadise]

I'm currently segueing with the guy for 3 days now. Will only accept western union, claims it's a Sulcata and tried telling me I'm a know it all, and I know nothing. I'm messing with him because scammers make me mad. I'm finding hysteria out of it literally currently right now. So yeah don't contact this person with any interest. But by all means contact him and annoy him just like I'm doing. It's fun for me.

 

[tortadise]

well that stinks

Yeah it does.ma friend of mine forwarded this exact same ad but posted in Los Angeles, he claims to live in Miami, so when I ask friends I know in north locations he then changes his location and story.

 

[tortadise]

Annnnnnnd I just got him to admit that he stole it and is going to sell it for cash. Man making them mad really gets them to tell the truth. Tries to tell me he's not a scammer. Here's a snap shot of some texts. Can't show them all because I cuss a lot.

By all means anybody. Use the number shown in the text for anything. I've already signed that number up for a huge mailing list and text offerings. Man I'm terrible.

 

[FLINTUS]

Kelly, are you still searching for nogueyi then? I know you have a ban on imported ones from Africa, but what about LTC or even CB ones from the EU? Obviously the papers would cost a bit, but they're now becoming abundant here.

 

[Elohi]

Whoa! Wow wtf!?!?! "I'm bad but I'm not a scammer?" but he STOLE the tortoise? OMG!


Elohi(Earth)

 

[Yvonne G]

I've seen this ad for selling Rocky before here on the Forum. And I think it actually WAS a sulcata in the picture that time.

 

[tortadise]

Kelly, are you still searching for nogueyi then? I know you have a ban on imported ones from Africa, but what about LTC or even CB ones from the EU? Obviously the papers would cost a bit, but they're now becoming abundant here.

Yeah they still cannot come In even captive bred.

 

[tortadise]

Whoa! Wow wtf!?!?! "I'm bad but I'm not a scammer?" but he STOLE the tortoise? OMG!


Elohi(Earth)

Yeah pretty sad huh? I also nailed it exactly. Camaroon. He sure does admit a lot. Haha. Here is some more and then I will stop I promise.

 

[bouaboua]

Just hate this kind of things. Hope he get caught or something. or hit a tree in the traffic??

 

[Elohi]

You should text this dbag back and say, you know what, you're not a scammer, you're a scumbag.


Elohi(Earth)

 

[dmmj]

@tirtaadise, I think you are evil, good thing you ar on our side. I agree he is not a scammer, he's a thief, 2 different things. I thought there was a deleted for sale thread with a sulcata named rocky. Western union, always a scam on CL.

 

[naturalman91]

Annnnnnnd I just got him to admit that he stole it and is going to sell it for cash. Man making them mad really gets them to tell the truth. Tries to tell me he's not a scammer. Here's a snap shot of some texts. Can't show them all because I cuss a lot.

By all means anybody. Use the number shown in the text for anything. I've already signed that number up for a huge mailing list and text offerings. Man I'm terrible.
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something tell's me me and you would get along great lol i like your though process

 

[tortadise]

something tell's me me and you would get along great lol i like your though process

Haha awesome. I do not like scammers. It's a childhood issue with getting an Aldabra when I was 14. Typical camaroon deal. But I was young and didn't know any better. So I have it out for them

 

[naturalman91]

Haha awesome. I do not like scammers. It's a childhood issue with getting an Aldabra when I was 14. Typical camaroon deal. But I was young and didn't know any better. So I have it out for them

how much did you get scammed out of may i ask? i've never been scammed thankfully but i've been stole from and it's pretty much the same thing

 

[tortadise]

600 bucks for an Aldabra. But Aldabras were around 1000 bucks around that time so didn't seem too far off. Got emailed a copy of cites paperwork and everything. Just didn't know how to validate it being 14. It was a good lesson learned early on for me though.