Got scammed by Erez Lugasi from Israel

Spartan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:44 pm

Erez Lugasi from Israel screwed me over big-time. We were supposed to trade watches; I was to send him my
Navi Chronomatic and he was supposed to send me his Super Avenger. Pretty straight forward; have done this many times with honest people...

I express shipped my NAVI (at a cost of 168$) and needless to say that I am still waiting to receive the Super Avenger :cry:

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This guy is a professional con-artist:

--he has used 3 different user names on Breitling Source
--3 different user names on EBAY (his latest one "GENERALE510" BEWARE
--and the funniest one of all, he has 2 different profiles on FaceBook :shock:

He doesn't respond to my PMs on Breitling Source (EREZLUGASI-HOSHERON he used to have 2 other ones, now banned).

Believe it or not, I tracked him down on Facebook! On one of his profiles he has a nice picture with his son (he removed it yesterday) and the other profile he is standing alone in front of the beach (this profile he ONLY communicates in HEBREW

)...He is pretending to be a totally different person :lol:

. Maybe he is pretending to be his own brother, AGAIN :lol:

.... (we had discussed this here search.php?keywords=erezlugasi&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search)

Anyways, he only responded 1 time on Facebook ( I contacted him 10 times, so far). He says that I sent him a box full of newspapers and NO watch!!! :roll:

Also, he used a valid UPS tracking number to deceive me. This is how he did it: he entered a UPS store, filled out a waybill (probably bogus info) and emailed me the tracking number on that paper....very clever.... (This is a UPS loophole, again BEWARE)I think UPS should ONLY issue valid tracking numbers once a package has been delivered... I am sure this guy has done this many many times before....

In his Hebrew profile on Facebook, he pretends to not know me... :lol:

Thanks for reading... If anyone can help me in any way, please do....I have wasted enough time with this scammer.

EOM :cry:

mah · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:04 pm

I am so sorry to hear this,,,it is true BS. I got screwed once too so welcome to internet buying. If you sent me the chronomatic I would have at least thanked you.

msa6712 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:11 pm

That's an unfortunate case...I too was trumped by an individual in Canada on a Tudor deal.
I see there is also a blurb about this individual in the announcements area.

br549 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:28 pm

Sorry to here about this Spartan.

You may want to consider posting the S/N of the Chrono-matic just in case it shows up on ebay, WUS, Chrono24 or even back here under a new user name.

You may want to make a post concerning this in the Buyer/Seller feedback section as well.

Spartan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:56 pm

I still cant believe this thing happened to me :cry:

Model number A41360
Serial Number 2107549

RIP :cry:

anestheticsaregood · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:52 pm

Not that it helps in any way but I feel really bad about what happend to you. It's shameful. My condolences.

Otto · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:36 pm

That's a real shame, sorry to hear it.

TxKarateDude · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:46 am

Did you insure it? If so, that should cover it. I never send valuables without it, and I ship conus only. That way if someone scams me at least I can track them down.

Volvomania · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:04 am

That is the reason I longer deal with persons in CONUS.
Learnt my lesson on Ebay once to often, paying for items and not receiving them.
So the fraudsters do also live in the US.
I have therefor decided to only buy B'lings from AD's or do the handover in person at an AD.
Just to be sure you see. (It would surprise you how often people suddenly refuse to do a handover at an AD...)

CometMan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:57 am

my god, i don`t know how you can live whit this?? losing a watch that way is a disgrace

there is no way of getting it back?

trading a watch whit someone so far was risky

i once bought a computer cpu from a guy in israel, but made him create a ebay business and payed by paypal, i was kind of insured, now trading watches way more risky

Spartan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:25 am

UPDATE....

UPS is involved
My insurance company is involved
Breitling Canada is involved
Breitling Israel is involved

Someone will catch something. I'm sure

CometMan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:45 am

that is surelly the right way, pulling all strings,

good luck...i could only imagine your suffering

Spartan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:09 am

CometMan wrote:

that is surelly the right way, pulling all strings

good luck...i could only imagine your suffering

"I wasn't giving her much attention, so she ran away with some else" :cry:

andrew692003 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:32 am

Sorry to hear that Spartan!

raymond147 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:41 am

hi spartan, you know my story, erez contacted me a year ago also for a trade with my seawolf at the time... he wanted to trade with his evolution wich i was interested in, he wanted me to send first but i didnt trusted it... happy i didnt do it!

sorry to hear that you were scammed spartan, hope that it going to be allright... maybe some money back, the watch would be difficult i think...

we had a topic on BS some time ago but some people were in doubt to block him on BS, here is the result!

cant believe that people can walk smilling with a stolen watch arround there wrist...

keep us in touch spartan and good luck...

regards raymond.

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