I was going into a popular electronic store here in Sacramento when 2 gentlemen approached my stating they had some extra speakers from a job and they were on their lunch break and wanted to sell them. After haggling and such I ended up purchasing 2 tower audiofile speakers and a surround sound satellite speaker set for around $250.00. Knowing that it may be a scam I did it anyway. Luckily, my work was 1 minute away where I quickly looked up the prices and found this website stating the scam.
After finding out this information, I went back to beat at least one of them for the hell of it (most low end speakers are a couple hundred bucks anyway). Here is what I found and is the complete scam:
I entered the parking lot looking for them and notices a peculiar small Honda like car with a gentleman sitting in it to the side of the lot facing traffic entering the lot. When I went up and down the isle he honked his horn a couple different ways and then started taking off. It sounded suspicious and when he did it, a white van took off out of the lot. Both cars proceeded down the street, I followed and wrote down the license plate of the van. I gave up the crazy notion after a mile and went about my business.
Driving down the road a couple miles away, I decided to go to another popular high end strip mall (where if I was selling stuff, I would go to). Not seeing the 2 young men I gave up but as soon as I did, the same white van pulled up in front of me with the same 2 gentlemen from the other shopping center. I verified the license plate. Now I called the cops. After sitting
and waiting for them I followed them around the lot where they met up with a Black GMC suburban at a gas station. Some exchanges of words and such were made and they were all off again. I followed the suburban to a nearby town where I believe they met up with the same 2 young gentlemen from the morning. Still the police did not arrive until 45 minutes later after going to a different town.
Anyway, I'm not here to slam cops and such but I believe I got a little further then some of the people who were scammed. They are traveling together as a pack. They will have a watch out vehicle which will look for polices entering while the sales are made. One person will sell and the other will stay in the car monitoring a cell phone. They will leave then meet up. The black suburban seems to be the ring leaders meeting with the sales team. I have the license plates for the initial silver suburban, the white mini van and the black suburban. I believe the runners are changing their plates as you can read here in these forums but I believe the black suburban would be legit. Why, cause that's what I would do. Why should they Rick anything when they'
re not making the sales but just collecting. Anyway, lets see what Sac PD, woodland PD and the highway patrol will do with this info.
The last thing noted was that 2 of the 3 places that were stalked, were Wal-Mart's and Home Depots. I don't know if that means anything.
Jim
SAcramento, California
U.S.A.
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