STOLEN: 2011 Dupont Nomade D Hole ***FOUND***

MichaelHorowitz

***THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN FOUND****

Thanks to the honest people of the worldwide Gypsy jazz community and especially those of Belgium for tracking down this stolen guitar!

Michael










This 2011 Dupont Nomade was stolen in January of 2012 in Courtai Belgium: Dupont Nomade D Hole



The serial # is: Mars 2011



The thief has been using the name Eloise Dannan and has been using the following address and contact information:



Veldstraat 72

8500 Courtrai

Belgium



email: lolalula75@gmail.com



Phone: 0032491549630





IP #: 178.51.33.26







If you have any information about this guitar please contact me immediately.



Thanks,



Michael

MichaelHorowitz

If any forum members in Belgium see this please let me know if there are any local Gypsy jazz related forums or newsgroups that you could repost this on.

Thanks!

Michael

redblues

Unless that's an IP for an internet cafe, looks like you already have the thief anyway. It checks as Belgium

klaatu

redblues wrote:

Unless that's an IP for an internet cafe, looks like you already have the thief anyway. It checks as Belgium

... or a library, or free downtown WiFi (our downtown core offers it), or they found an unsecured WiFi router, or they could have spoofed the IP address.

Sounds like you got ripped off by a buyer, Michael. I'm sorry to hear that. You'd like to think that doesn't happen in our little community.

MichaelHorowitz

Apparently this thief is on a spending spree with someone else's credit card. He is also going by the name Charles Finrohr and using the phone number 0491540630. A wine merchant in Austria just let me know that this thief tried to buy a $1500 bottle of Mouton Rothschild and have it shipped to the same address. I guess he was planning to have quite a party??!!

klaatu

Let's hope they catch him and string him up by the cojones with some Argie 11s!

MichaelHorowitz

***THIS GUITAR HAS BEEN FOUND****

Thanks to the honest people of the worldwide Gypsy jazz community and especially those of Belgium for tracking down this stolen guitar!

Michael

dmin7th

Wow -- that is cool! 8)

HotTinRoof

Is there an entertaining story?

MichaelHorowitz

HotTinRoof wrote:

Is there an entertaining story?

Yes, there is. The scam works like this, the thief will bait people on Craigslist (in this case it was the Belgian classifieds site http://www.kapaza.be/) by advertising an item he doesn't actually have. Once an unsuspecting buyer asks about the item the thief will then order that item with a stolen credit card and have it sent to the buyer's address. The thief will then intercept the delivery by waiting at the delivery address (which is that of the unsuspecting buyer) and will sign for it or just go to the post office and pick it up there. The thief will then deliver the item to the buyer himself and collect the money. If the thief fails to intercept the delivery it still gets delivered to the buyer regardless and the thief will probably still try to get the buyer to pay for it.

So it wasn't that difficult to find the guitar as it was still at the address it was sent to. Although the buyer thought he was buying a used guitar from another Belgian, not a new one from me. He was quite shocked to find out it was stolen and that his address was used by a thief.

Anyway, the lesson here is to be very careful of anyone advertising guitars for sale on Craigslist or any other classifieds type site. You may find yourself unwillingly complicit in credit card fraud.

M

dmin7th

Does this mean that the Nomade is coming back to you, and the buyer who paid the thief is out the cash?