Hello Everyone:

Have been seeing many user group complaints about the person or persons listed below.......wondered if any body knows if they are real people and what, if anything, exists at the given address..

Tnx & 73's

Bill W6WCW ===================================================== Gabe Mariscal and Jeff Graham 1120 Laguna ST. #14 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: 805-560-3193 mojo-radio@cox.net =================================================== Subject: Re: BEWARE Fraud Alert From: "DeWayne" <A HREF="mailto:k9kz@indy.rr.com">k9kz@indy.rr.com</A> Date: 2/6/03 8:58 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Iuw0a.117401$i73.26254338@twister.neo.rr.com

He has used the email address mojo-radio@cox.net .

This person has used the names Gabe Mariscal and Jeff Graham.

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Beware, myself and one other guy have been ripped off after advertising

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want to trade. The address of the person is:

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1120 Laguna ST. #14 Santa Barbara CA 93101

Phone: 805-560-3193

DeWayne K9KZ

===========================END==================== Subject: Beware of thief Gabe Mariscal From: "RS" <A HREF="mailto:wizard2000@tiscali.co.uk">wizard2000@tiscali.co.uk </A> Date: 2/6/03 10:52 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: b1uapi$bho$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk

Do not do business at all with this thief, He tried to rip me off a while ago, I am in the UK and work for the Police Force, I had him checked out with the Santa Barbara PD, they are working on him. ================================================== Subject: Re: Fraud Alert- Do Not Deal With Gabe Mariscal From: "DeWayne" <A HREF="mailto:k9kz@indy.rr.com">k9kz@indy.rr.com</A> Date: 2/6/03 7:01 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: mNu0a.116092$i73.26173087@twister.neo.rr.com

Well Dan, you know what I told you about my SW2 being stolen, well this is the guy : ) But he went under the name Jeff Graham and said he was blind. DeWayne

"Dan Schopp" dschopp@earthlink.net wrote in message news:548df96e.0302060126.1fb04415@posting.google.com...

Do not trade or do business with this person:

Gabe Mariscal 1120 Laguna St #14 Santa Barbra CA 93101

Here's why:

In mid Januay I posted an add on rec.radio.swap and rec.radio.shortwave offering a Panansonic DR 49 and a Realistic Astronaut 8 for trade. Mr Mariscal contacted me by email and offered me a Sangean 818 and DX 398 for my radios. We agreed on the trade and both agreed we would ship the radios, to each other, UPS. I received several emails from him regarding the conditions of his radios and how he was looking forward to receiving my radios.

Monday January 26th I shipped my radios to him via UPS. That evening I received an email from him stating he had been unable to ship the radios that day and a offer to pay for my shipping costs since he hadn't shipped on the day we agreed to ship. I declined his offer and in an email stated it was OK to ship the next day. The next day I received an email with a UPS tracking number that didn't work. I sent him another email and received another one back with another UPS tracking number that didn't work. The third email I received contained a tracking number that worked. The UPS web site showed a package was on it's way to me.

On Monday February 3rd, I checkd the UPS web site and confirmed that Mr. Mariscal had signed for and received the radios I sent him. Tuesday, February 4th I received the package from him. In an nicely packaged box was a Boise radio stand and nothing else, no DX 398, no Sangean 818, as promised. Thinking that he had mistakenly sent me the wrong package I emailed him and told him what I had received. I also offered to return the Boise radio stand to him. No reply to my email.

The next day, Wednesday, Feburay 5th, I emailed him again. Again no reply.Since the package I received from him had his address and phone number on it I called the number last evening. A man answered and I asked to speak to Gabe. A hesitation, and the the reply, "you have the wrong number." When I dialed the number again no answer.

After the phone call I again emailed him. This morning, I find that my last email to him has been returned, and the email address he gave me has been cancelled.

I've been trading radios for several years and this is my first bad experience.I know you take your chances in this type of situation but it's a shame that dishonest people like can get away with something like this with litle or no chance of being held accountable. I believe my legal recourse is limited but I do plan on calling the Santa Barbara PD to determine if there is anthing, legally, I can do.

Dan

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