JamesG aka Steve203 aka Stephen Glennie aka tiswas - is a SCAMMER.

[chrismilling]

I have taken this on board and it will not be happening again.

 

[proffrink]

Thing is we've seen him on here reading this thread (on the desktop version is shows who's browsing a thread and he popped up the first day this went up - not seen him since), but he's not said a thing nor PM'd anyone (as far as we're aware).

 

[GiantKiwi]

Thing is we've seen him on here reading this thread (on the desktop version is shows who's browsing a thread and he popped up the first day this went up - not seen him since), but he's not said a thing nor PM'd anyone (as far as we're aware).

Beaker at UKAZ said pretty much the same over there, except restricted access + alot of PM's.

 

[Dechande]

The same mod that banned 'steve203' on UKAZ, also banned the account 'chrismilling' as it was created from the same email address that was registered by steve203. As a result, I highly suspect that chrismilling, posting here, with an account made yesterday is also Stephen Glennie. He seems to be trying very hard to keep this up.

-Edit- proffrink, GiantKiwi, I have had no correspondence from Stephen since I confronted him about being a scammer. He hasn't replied to any of the threads about him since either, well, not as any of his previously identified accounts, anyway.

I have gotten my money back from paypal, however, so at least I can stop worrying about that.

 

[DarkAssassin]

^^ That is exactly what I suspected!

 

[Dechande]

-Update-

I finally got the time to contact the police, specifically the 'Action Fraud' department http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ a national police body, setup to combat cyber crime, be it from scam emails to individuals and companies displaying bad practice, or all out scamming. (Thanks to UKAZ mod 'Beaker' for the heads up).

They hold a national database, so anyone else who reports Stephen Glennie, steve203 or JamesG, will get cross referenced with my report or any others that may have been completed, previously.

The more reports they get, the more likely they are to be able to stop them, my report is being investigated in a few days time. I'd ask that anyone else who has had a problem with the same 'seller', take the time to file a report at http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ you can call them, or even fill out an online form.

Max2000 and I exchanged details to include in our reports, to create firmer links between our reports. If anyone else would like to include my details, send me a PM.

Also, if anyone's curious, I've never had any further contact despite claims of this being 'cleared up'...

 

[bladerunner168]

Although I've been a prolific seller on another forum, it's stories like this that give me OCD about buying new each time.

I really don't get the mentality of scammers, most transactions are done via PayPal so the chances of them keeping the monies are slim to remote.

Anyways, thanks for the heads up, it'll be useful for non Airsoft Ebaying.

 

[Dechande]

I feel this needs to be added, Stephen Glennie also runs an airsoft 'business' doing custom work and selling CTW's that cropped up on my Facebook feed today, called WCS Customs. Apparently, he is the UK rep for CTW!

Going back through the posts people have written about being ripped off (on various forums), there is mention of CTW's that have been ordered specifically for buyers, who've only ever received the same, documented excuses and had to open disputes to get their money back...

So, I would advise people to steer clear of this outfit also. I'm going to attempt to contact Celcius/CTW and see what they make of all this.

 

[Dechande]

I was on a Facebook buying/selling group called 'UK Only Airsoft Kit Sales(NO GUNS)', I noticed Stephen Glennie selling items on there. I've been on the group for a few months. I messaged 'Andrew March', I was under the impression he was the main admin as he's very vocal on the group regarding rules etc., about Stephen Glennie.
He got back to me, and said there wasn't much he could do as Stephen Glennie is the main admin of the group, but he would contact him and get him to clear things up. Well, just as it has been here, no contact has been made.
I checked the admins of the FB group (I should have done this before admittedly), and 2 of the 3 admins are Stephen and Steve Glennie, both with almost identical profile pictures (playing airsoft), which I also thought was odd. Andrew confirmed that both profiles belong to the same person.

Stephen Glennie is also using the FB group to advertise new CTW products for pre-order...

Other than contacting Andrew March a few weeks ago, I haven't posted or advertised on the group, however, last night I was removed from the group. I didn't get a message or anything, so I asked Andrew March about it. He said that he had not banned me, so that only leaves one other person to have done it.
Is anyone else on that FB group who has been scammed by Stephen Glennie? I guess he only wants members he hasn't conned yet...

 

[Jam_Man]

I have taken this on board and it will not be happening again.

Theres another complaint on Pew PEw comminuty today saying this is still going on. It sounds like a parcel might have actually been sent but the fact is he is still using your paypal account. If you are actually two different people.

** EDIT - removed the image from this post as the original url has been removed and replaced with a Malware site **

 

[Spatch]

Another big one going on on FB forum regarding this fucking cunt, it would also seem he is not alone and is operating as part of a small group who are perpetrating scams including our old friend Andrew March, it has also been highlighted somewhere that Chris milling is indeed Steve glennie trying to cover his own antics, celcius have also now been informed from numerous angles about their uk importer

 

[Jam_Man]

The fact they use the same email address and pay pal account and "Steve" doesnt have a real photo of himself on facebook would suggest 'Steve' is just a sock puppet account and Chris Millings is the actual person.

However some people have said they have met him in person so who knows.

 

[Samurai]

When I was on FB with the name "adsasda asdsad" or similar and someone reported me, I had to send a scan of my Id card with photo to FB to unlock me.

 

[Jam_Man]

Plenty of fake accounts on facebook though.

 

[Max2000]

Search on Facebook STEPHEN GLENNIE (he is friends with STEVE and have similar profile picture) and they are both admins of the 'UK Only Airsoft Kit Sales(NO GUNS)'like Dechande already said.

STEPHEN GLENNIE have more pictures and I also asked more people on face book and one of them said that he bought some pistol parts off him and they didn't arrive but on the second attempt they did.

THE SCAMMER sends a fake/old tracking number to ensure you that he have sent the parcel, but if you search a little bit more on internet and check the number with a different program you will find out that it was sent not to your address and none of the tracking steps have been achieved (meaning that he just booked a parcel on internet and didn't even sent it to the post office...)

I have talked to the police and they said that they will resolve the issue in next 28 days.

Dechande I gave them your details as well.

 

[sp00n]

just spotted the folling on facebook

To the Airsoft Community........

We the former members of "The Unit" airsoft team here in Ireland, Decky Clarke, Andrew Ross, Kyle Fulton, Will Fulton, Gary Graham, David Simpson, Darren Wolfe and Cheryl Wolfe Chris Milling have some sad and deeply distressing information to share with you.

To be honest we are struggling to come to terms with this information ourselves, however, no matter how disgusting and reprehensible this is, it's important we make this public.

Airsoft is a sport built on trust, integrity and honour, without these virtues we do not have a hobby.

Anyway here it is.

Our former team mate goes by the name of Stevie (Steven) Glennie, Stevie has been known to us for a couple of years and has been in The Unit since it started. At the end of last week members of the team became aware of posts on Airsoft related Facebook pages (UK Airsoft Community and Pew Pew Airsoft Community) as well as the UKAC and Zeroin Forums alleging scam/fraudulent selling by one Stevie Glennie, that involved selling items, receiving payment by PayPal and not sending the items, fobbing off the purchaser with claims of delays, problems with postage and even the deaths of his mother/father. Subsequently the PayPal account was closed and the purchaser had to try and seek recompense via a PayPal dispute.

This set alarm bells ringing within the team, as we were aware that Stevie had no longer got a PayPal account as he had asked a team member if it was okay for him to give this team mates business PayPal account details to sell a couple of items coming up to Christmas.

This was done and within a matter of days PayPal disputes started hitting this team mates account freezing his account and adversely affecting his own legitimate business a matter of days before Christmas.

To make matters worse Stevie had also borrowed several hundred pounds off a number of other team mates in cash.

Given the posts, and the suspicious PayPal activity we as a group investigated further, and were shocked to find that indeed the allegations were true. Stevie had indeed been advertising RIFs and other items (even games consoles) that he never had, selling them, taking the money and then closing the PayPal accounts. We also discovered additional fraudulent activity, including selling a pistol and 3 mags to a local player and posting him an empty envelope by parcelforce!

Indeed, once the lid was lifted we were truly shocked by the extent, as you may have seen Stevie had the "licence" to sell the Celsius CTW AK in the U.K. and we have uncovered at least one instance of him receiving full payment, in excess of €1,000, then closing his PayPal and leaving the player high and dry.

To be honest at this point our heads were spinning, we disbanded and closed our team, The Unit. However, there was a bigger problem. Some of you may be aware of "Operation Helping Hands", this was a charity Airsoft event, planned and run by Stevie at the local British Army facility, Ballykinlar, inside their FIBUA village.

A local events company regularly runs Airsoft events at this venue and Stevie contacted them to run a charity event on 26/7/16 to raise funds for Help For Heroes.

This was to be a walk on day for 80 players, with a fee of £40 each, and there was to be a raffle on the day to raise additional funds, as well as that a high profile manufacturer agreed to be on site to provide additional support and prizes. Prizes from a wide range of local and national suppliers were put up and team members offered assistance free of charge to marshal the day in addition to the events company.

Stevie planned the day, and collected all the entrance fees and raffle money along with other cash donations on the day.

Given the scale of what we had uncovered this weekend you can imagine the nausea we felt when we looked back to that day. First thing this morning Help For Heroes was contacted, and our worst fears were confirmed, they had no record of receiving anything. We contacted Stevie, and his wife, and after significant questioning he admitted that he had indeed stolen all of the funds from the day.

The disgust and revulsion we felt, not only in terms of stealing charity funds, but funds raised by airsofters, on an active military base for the benefit of wounded servicemen, well it just beggared belief.

We have endeavoured to contact all of those suppliers today, one or two remain to be contacted tomorrow, we have also reported the matter to the local police and 5 of the team have met with local police this evening to provide detailed evidence and statements. In addition we have contacted the events company and are seeking to get a full list of all those cleared for security that day to try and get an idea of how much the charity has lost out by.

This has truly been a shocking and sickening couple of days, we will do our utmost to make sure Mr Glennie receives the punishment he deserves and that as much of what has been lost can be recovered as possible. We truly hope that this disgusting act of one individual does not affect the sport we love or future fund raising events in the local community.

Yours, the former Unit Team

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

Hopefully he gets what he deserves. The selling was bad but stealing from the event he organised was absolutely disgusting.

Makes me sick that so many people are willing to scam those around them.

 

[proffrink]

Although this might be taking the scepticism to a whole new level: Are those other names involved actual verifiable people (I know they're FB links but I'm not logged in)? It'd take one mean feat to impersonate that many (not to mention a team and site) but I suppose it could be done if no one was aware such a team existed up until now.

I guess the last few sentences just seem a bit too defeatist to me. Was kinda hoping they'd mention legal action to get at least the charity funds back, but I suppose there's still time for that.

 

[ShooterSwizz]

Steve203 is also a member on a site called edgematters. He has also been posting on there fairly recently, 7/8 January this year. Funny how he can post on other sites but not say a single word on either here or zeroin forums.

And scamming a fair amount of people is wrong in itself, but stealing money meant for a charity? No words...

 

[Turtl3sh3ad85]

Just seen the facebook post from the unit members. Looks like he's made a lot of money from this. Plenty of people scammed and using a charity as a front to make money is a low way to do it ?