I live in the Akron area, he is a huge scammer here locally. There has been multiple posts on local fb forms accusing him of scamming. I’ve even dealt with him trying to buy a light from me and he just flaked.
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I received this in a message from someone who requested pics from him and this is what he sent. It's a different name, but it might help:
dont see a photo?
Erik is a well known respected person. He is actually in charge of a private club locally. Those are photos of coral he was selling locally last week. So if this scammer sent those photos, it was def a scam.
It’s definitely someone who knows he has done this previously. Therefore it’s someone who is a member on one of our local forms. I’ll have to go through his post on R2R and see if anything rings a bell with something I’ve seen local.
Yeah, I made that post to warn others since people seem to fall for his crap every week. This is quite a confusing situation.he hasn’t been on this site since Saturday. So he definitely saw the post about this made on the local FB group. Assuming that’s why he changed his name on Venmo b
Oh WOW! well there we go, that's a good lead, sir! I've been tracking those other venmo friends down on FB too, with some success...
So after some detective work..... the Elijah guy that was mentioned. I went to his FB page. His friends list is blocked. HOWEVER!! His girlfriends isn’t. She just so happens to be friends with James Vernon who has a Venmo transaction with the Venmo account that was shown for og_reef now Jim Bayles. @jessezm
Now what ????That’s the guy that’s all over our local Facebook groups in Ohio. Sadly, many hobbyists in my area have lost money to him. I see his stupid face in posts almost weekly regarding scams.