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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 5, 2012 6:56:08 GMT -8
Here are 2 ads posted in the Lepidoptera livestock classifieds, one after the other: classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6699&query=retrievalDate Posted: 10/04/2012 Expires On: 11/03/2012 Ad Number: 6699 Ad Information Category: Lepidoptera Subcategories: Livestock Description I have for sale many huge healthy Inphiclides podalirius aleramica pupae. Price is . 40 Euro each. 12 pupae 42 euro 50 pupae 170 euro paypal+5% Regards, franco Contact Information Contact: franco crespi Location: concordia s\s, modena italia Telephone: E-Mail: crespifranco1@tin.it classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6707&query=retrievalDate Posted: 10/05/2012 Expires On: 01/03/2013 Ad Number: 6707 Ad Information Category: Lepidoptera Subcategories: Livestock Description I have for sale many huge healthy Inphiclides podalirius aleramica pupae. Price is . $60each. 12 pupae $62 50 pupae $250 contact for details Regards. Contact Information Contact: mellisa wam Location: yukon, arizona Telephone: E-Mail: mellisajohnsonwam@gmail.com The first advert, from a well known breeder of Italian Papilionidae included a photo of the 5th instar larva of Iphiclides podalirinus. The second advert had no photo, and exactly the same text and spelling errors as the first. Only the price has been changed to $, presumably because the seller claims to be in the USA (although I don't think "Yukon" is actually in Arizona!). This "seller" has put up a few suspicious ads in the past few days. BEWARE it is obviously a scam. Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 5, 2012 11:02:18 GMT -8
Here's another ad from the same scammer, but offering livestock of the rarest Caribbean Papilios, and claming to be in Washington this time: classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=6682&query=retrievalDate Posted: 10/04/2012 Expires On: 01/02/2013 Ad Number: 6682 Ad Information Category: Lepidoptera Subcategories: Livestock Description we have good fresh quality ova of the following rare papilionidae specimens ... Papilio oxynius ,Papilio caiguanabus, Papilio aristodemus bjordardalae , Papilio aristodemus majasi , Papilio aristodemus from washington . we also have good quality of other papilionidae from Trinidad and Togago, French Guyana and many south American countries . get to us for details. Contact Information Contact: mellisa wam Location: yukon, washington 20001 Telephone: E-Mail: mellisajohnsonwam@gmail.com
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Post by thanos on Oct 5, 2012 17:46:33 GMT -8
''bjordardalae'' She/he 'killed' bjorndalae..Hahahaha, they are not only obvious, but funny, too . Thanos
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Post by joee30 on Oct 6, 2012 13:48:03 GMT -8
I bet the money will have to be sent western union to Cameroon or Tanzania because they are on a collecting trip there, and those species are probably very abundant there. what a bunch of idiots, but the bigger idiots are the people that fall for ads like these.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 16, 2012 4:14:48 GMT -8
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Post by wojturo on Oct 23, 2012 11:59:43 GMT -8
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Post by joee30 on Oct 28, 2012 16:27:31 GMT -8
I feel bad for the poor sap that will far for this scammers trick. The more people fall for their lies and send money for rare bugs at ridiculously cheap prices, how can you go wrong? It is sad indeed.
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