WARNING -- Possible Scam -- JSReptiles

Thank you!!! :gj: This site may have its moments, but when it comes down to business you guys ROCK.

It is so awesome that you guys give people the heads' up about this stuff. :gj: I can't believe how prevelent it is!! :(

You guys are awesome! I am so glad you have taken the time to investigate scumbags like these.

On another note...

A lot of these scammers that are being figured out don't want to spend money to make money - They're using these free web hosts that they can easily create multiple free web sites with false information. Free web sites - for me - are red flags.

Note # 2.
The images that he stole were not watermarked. We urge you all to protect yourself and this hobby - Watermark your images with your name or company name.

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Originally Posted by Nate

On another note...
Note # 2.
The images that he stole were not watermarked. We urge you all to protect yourself and this hobby - Watermark your images with your name or company name.

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The problem with this is that there are too many other sites that don't allow watermarked pictures because they consider them to be advertising. Unmarked pictures can be used on any site that I go to.

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Originally Posted by MarkS

The problem with this is that there are too many other sites that don't allow watermarked pictures because they consider them to be advertising. Unmarked pictures can be used on any site that I go to.

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Well, so far the stolen images we've identified on this site have been taken directly from breeder's sites...where they certainly could have water marked.

Free sites don't always mean a red flag. I use a freewebs account until I can get a real website.

There are a lot of scammers lately. I'm glad that they are being found out though. I'm going to start watermarking all my images.

Thank you for taking the time to bring this to our attention, BP.net staff!! You guys really do go above and beyond the call of duty on this. Sometimes I'm just blown away by how far you go to protect the community--thank you! Also, one warning sign that I tend to notice is when the website/seller uses bad grammar, misspells a lot of words (especially when they misspell the name of a morph or species) and use improper capitalization.

I know it seems petty, but I think that most big breeders will take the time to make sure their website is written out nice and neatly, whereas a scammer probably wouldn't want to take the time to do it. Just like this guy didn't bother writing out two separate pages, but just copy-pasted the info from one website to the other.

I'm glad this guy got caught!

thanks for the super sleuthing!

Justin

Rock on bp.net sleuths! Taking out the trash is hard work. Thanks for working to protect the community from scammers!