Yesterday morning I got a call in regards to a craigslist ad I had placed looking for tickets to Coachella. The guy seemed super nice, talked to me and my girlfriend multiple times throughout the morning, asking us if we would take pictures of Radiohead for him since he could not go, and was really depressed that he was going to miss them, and that he needed the money to go on a Princess cruise with his new fiance, etc. Of course, we were suspicious, as always of dealing with the shady people on craigslist, but like I said, the guy seemed super nice and trustworthy (I'm sure Ted Bundy did too) so we decided to go ahead and buy his $400 dollar ticket to the festival.
After we had wired the money, we decide to go home and google this guy just in case. We type solely his phone number in and immediately find pages of hits about this guy scamming the shit out of people all over the country, luring them to wire him money for expensive festival and sporting events tickets and never giving them the merchandise in return.
What I know:
-The name he told us was Ryan Dermano
-it could also possibly be Jesse Ramonez or Jesse Gasior
-His phone number is 4128070097
-His girlfriend/wife/fiance's name is Samantha Marie Gallick, she works at PNC Bank (Carrick Branch) in Pittsburgh, which is also his hometown
-I have reason to believe that his address is 146 Newburn Ave Pittsburgh PA
-If you google his number, this is the first hit, just to give you an idea of how many people out there have been screwed by this guy, luckily we managed to stop the money order before he could pick it up, or he would have victimized more people, and completely stolen my girlfriend's christmas and birthday presents
He also mainly goes through Western Union for his transactions and I have alerted them that this was going on.
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