Please Watch Out for Ryan Toms !

[Cromulon1994]

It’s just the fact, this boy likes Airsoft, has the same gun on his Facebook page and I was sent the picture on WhatsApp.. has the same name.. and someone used his address.. if someone did This to me and I knew about it I would be posting it everywhere saying it’s a scam it isn’t me! But he just gets defensive and says he will need to block me if I keep asking me questions.. what else can I do? I have no other person it can be and if it isn’t him how does he not know who it is?? Christ the same page is still on usedairsoft.com under 416! 

Sorry mate not the time to be making jokes on someone’s post when they’ve been scammed for all there money is it? Cheers 

I'm sorry if it wound you up, wasn't the intention. 

Sounds like it is him. As I said, Prefired log IP addresses. 

Interesting he uses both Birmingham and London. 

I do a lot of skulking about on the sales groups, though usually for rare old stuff, if I find anything from him I'll send it your way. 

 

[Sylithics]

Thanks a million and don’t worry you were just having a laugh, I’m just really upset still as I’ve used PayPal Ebay for ten plus years all nice guys girls I’ve dealt with and now this.. right before Xmas.. not getting away with it not w chance 

 

[Cromulon1994]

Either way that's your rifle in his background. 

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[Sylithics]

I would of thought so.. but to sell on to not just me but another guy hell maybe more than two guys is just unbelievable.. and to think he thinks he’s going to get away with it. Would love to hear the phone call when the police phone. I’ll get my money back no questions 

 

[DopeYourScope]

I quickly done a reverse image search and not much comes up. It appears he's been found to be around the birmingham area, possibly see if there are any sites he might frequent and ask owners if they know of him/ seen him playing you may well end up finding his local site and getting somewhere with it. 

Either way I understand you've been onto action fraud, the other people you should talk to are the police and ask their recommended course of action. I had a similar issue where a buyer of a very expensive mountain bike claimed they had not received the bike (I had delivered it in person) and clawed their money back through paypal, once I had a crime reference number the paypal dispute disappeared. As @Cromulon1994 mentioned email prefired as they will log his IP for the user who posted the advert on there. 

You may need to start building evidence for a case as ActionFraud and the police prefer an open/shut case as it's less work for them and you may end up with a resolution a lot sooner. I would also call Paypal again and advise them of all reference numbers from Action fraud and the police and request as much information as they will give you. They should be able to give you an IP address as it's a single piece of information which cannot be used to deduce the persons identity.

 

[Sylithics]

That’s brilliant thank you very much for all the help I really do appreciate it guys 

 

[Cromulon1994]

His Instagram profile is tactical_airsoftt which is very much like the Prefired advert. I'll pm his address once it's confirmed if you'd like? 

And he's a member of the airsoft site NPF Bassetts pole. 

 

[Sylithics]

That would be brilliant thank you 

 

[Robert James]

Message his team as well 

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[Sylithics]

What I found also is in that Instagram story is there is a picture of the tm 416 with a pistol all backed out in a smokey kinda lens and if you look at the box it’s a g@g armament.. now when I was getting the pictures of him boxing up etc the box is you guessed it g@g... so on HIS insta the box g@g and the supposedly random guy who took the picture has the same g@g box that he’s boxing up with... caaaaaa mooo haha 

*Pic bottom left says G&G 

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[Cromulon1994]

That would be brilliant thank you 

Done a lot of digging around after stolen motorcycles and it's amazing what social media tells you. 

Don't message him, anyone, don't do it, he will likely dissappear down the rabbit hole. Don't message his team, chances are they will just warn him. 

 

[Robert James]

Done a lot of digging around after stolen motorcycles and it's amazing what social media tells you. 

Don't message him, anyone, don't do it, he will likely dissappear down the rabbit hole. Don't message his team, chances are they will just warn him. 

I disagree. Message the team, the site, prefired.

Pressure may mean he pays back at least. Contact the police and prefired first. Then go elsewhere. His team may kick him out, his site may ban him and possibly make other sites aware to his behaviour. Shunned. 

 

[Sylithics]

Honestly this guy is thick! Lol we’ve got him on at least 3 counts now.. the towel he used to make the selling page.. is the same in the insta page.. the pistol stands the same he send me and Stephen.. he’s knackered. I want to get him kicked out of every site known to man! He’s a disgrace to the Airsoft community.. just some wee laddie thinking he can do whatever the hell he wants.. not on my watch. I’ll let him sleep on it until I pounce  

 

[Cromulon1994]

I disagree. Message the team, the site, prefired.

Pressure may mean he pays back at least. Contact the police and prefired first. Then go elsewhere. His team may kick him out, his site may ban him and possibly make other sites aware to his behaviour. Shunned. 

The site, yes. His team, no. 

Chased enough stolen motorcycles and shit on Facebook/Instagram ect, while they're dumb enough to leave all their personal info everywhere and happy enough to give it out, it'll be the easiest way of getting the money back. 

Through the police you won't get anything and he will likely not get done, either. 

Been there with some cunt pot with my motorcycle in his back garden, halfway across the country and that still wasn't enough evidence. 

It needs to be dealt with, calmly, non violently but firmly. I. E, being calmly called challenged in person on a game day, ideally red handed with your rifle, and do it with a go pro. Present printed screenshots of it all to him. 

 

[Rogerborg]

Sorry to hear this.  I got taken for a BFG by a similar cad who was my bestest mate until he had my money, then came the excuses and fake tracking numbers.  The most successful scammers are the ones that you'd least suspect. Now I ask for an explicit PayPal invoice right up front, or just walk away.  £370 though, ouch.

UKARA or the alternatives may have an address for him.  They can disclose it for the purposes of detection of crime.  They probably won't give it to you, but they should to the police / ActionFraud if they bother taking an interest, or if you have a crime number it may be worth asking anyway - just stay polite and factual.

 

[Sylithics]

Hey guys! 
 

after speaking to the bank for what felt like 2 hours.. I have finally got my money back told them everything the address his family the box he sent a picture of, the rug he used to take the pictures.. everything. They put the money in in seconds. On another not as well I said paid threw f&f but in fact it came straight out of my account so I think I got a bit lucky ?.. they handled it perfectly. The guy Tom who delt with the call couldn’t of been nicer about things really couldn’t. The police phoned me this morning regarding the issue and I still want to take things further.. he still has the other buyers money Stephen Joyce as he paid threw f&f I’m not letting him scam another bloke who is looking for something again. Named and shamed! I’m going to phone all the sites he goes to to get him banned. Until Stephen gets his money back it’s not over yet.  
 

Also I just want to say a massive thank you to the people who helped me deal with this.. salt of the earth kind of people. I really do appreciate all the looking up, the searches everything. I felt so alone and didn’t have a clue what to do.. but use guys made it right. I’m really grateful for that.  If anyone is around the Edinburgh area in the next couple of weeks for a game of Airsoft at my local I would love that ? 

cheers again 

Craig 

 

[sonofsammo]

Hey guys! 
 

after speaking to the bank for what felt like 2 hours.. I have finally got my money back told them everything the address his family the box he sent a picture of, the rug he used to take the pictures.. everything. They put the money in in seconds. On another not as well I said paid threw f&f but in fact it came straight out of my account so I think I got a bit lucky ?.. they handled it perfectly. The guy Tom who delt with the call couldn’t of been nicer about things really couldn’t. The police phoned me this morning regarding the issue and I still want to take things further.. he still has the other buyers money Stephen Joyce as he paid threw f&f I’m not letting him scam another bloke who is looking for something again. Named and shamed! I’m going to phone all the sites he goes to to get him banned. Until Stephen gets his money back it’s not over yet.  
 

Also I just want to say a massive thank you to the people who helped me deal with this.. salt of the earth kind of people. I really do appreciate all the looking up, the searches everything. I felt so alone and didn’t have a clue what to do.. but use guys made it right. I’m really grateful for that.  If anyone is around the Edinburgh area in the next couple of weeks for a game of Airsoft at my local I would love that ? 

cheers again 

Craig 

That's awesome news!

Made up for you dude ?

 

[Tackle]

Hey guys! 
 

after speaking to the bank for what felt like 2 hours.. I have finally got my money back told them everything the address his family the box he sent a picture of, the rug he used to take the pictures.. everything. They put the money in in seconds. On another not as well I said paid threw f&f but in fact it came straight out of my account so I think I got a bit lucky ?.. they handled it perfectly. The guy Tom who delt with the call couldn’t of been nicer about things really couldn’t. The police phoned me this morning regarding the issue and I still want to take things further.. he still has the other buyers money Stephen Joyce as he paid threw f&f I’m not letting him scam another bloke who is looking for something again. Named and shamed! I’m going to phone all the sites he goes to to get him banned. Until Stephen gets his money back it’s not over yet.  
 

Also I just want to say a massive thank you to the people who helped me deal with this.. salt of the earth kind of people. I really do appreciate all the looking up, the searches everything. I felt so alone and didn’t have a clue what to do.. but use guys made it right. I’m really grateful for that.  If anyone is around the Edinburgh area in the next couple of weeks for a game of Airsoft at my local I would love that ? 

cheers again 

Craig 

That is great news, BUT he's got to be made to "pay", I'm sure the bank will persue him with more clout than you & I, but I'd still out him everywhere, nothing will put more pressure on him than public shaming, especially if sites ban him & his team turns their back on him, which is likely unless they're all a bunch of pikeys.

 

[EvilMonkee]

If anyone is familiar with it (I am but I CBA doing the legwork) there is a very helpful little application available with Kali Linux called Maltego, it may even be on Windows too.  What this will allow you to do is feed it an email address and it will recursively search the whole internet for connections to that email address/Facebook profile etc etc.  May prove useful for someone.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltego

 

[Sylithics]

Thank you 

If anyone is familiar with it (I am but I CBA doing the legwork) there is a very helpful little application available with Kali Linux called Maltego, it may even be on Windows too.  What this will allow you to do is feed it an email address and it will recursively search the whole internet for connections to that email address/Facebook profile etc etc.  May prove useful for someone.......

Thank you mate appreciate it