PSA about the scammer known as Japhei.....

[kidpanda]

This is PSA for anyone on this forum. Casey McMahon aka, Japhei/Ikaruga/Caroles Collectables/Arcade God/Neotokyobikerkid/etc has scammed many a person on forums and even on Facebook. He is in many groups and just in case he makes his way here,I highly urge the mods to purge him from this forum before he scams someone else. I have been talking with one of his recent victims and the guy still has not gotten his boards back that Casey was "getting fixed". Refuses to return calls and is now ignoring messages. Dude just wants his stuff back. Tons of excuses of why he can't return them, goes ghost, and just generally acts like a scammer would. I urge everyone NOT to do any deals with him, period.

I have posted this on FB also, and my list of his aliases is still not even complete, but after this current amount of scamming he's been getting on I figured it would be best if I posted this info here as well. I'm sure many know of him, but as with any hobby, I know there are many new people coming in and I don't want to see them get taken for a ride.

 

[Derick2k]

I've never dealt with him, thanks for the heads up.

 

[rewrite]

Man, that's a name I haven't heard in years. Sad to hear he's still finding new victims.

 

[Mitsurugi-w]

I used to deal with him a lot back in the day. He does not have the technical knowledge to fix anything at a pcb level. I thought he was long gone by now....

 

[kidpanda]

I used to deal with him a lot back in the day. He does not have the technical knowledge to fix anything at a pcb level. I thought he was long gone by now....

Sadly no, T.MO, the guy I am trying to help now sent him a 19XX and a OG Progear which Japhei said he was the only one in the WORLD that could fix it. 9 months later my friend T.MO asked for his boards back and all of a sudden the boards were at a "friends" place getting fixed. To be honest, I told T.MO those boards are long gone most likely and he is jut being strung along and on top of that T.MO sent him money to ship back and of course he went ghost and blocked T.MO on FB.

 

[undamned]

Friend just pointed out to me that he is still uses twitter and quite shamelessly still using his real name and @Japhei
-ud

 

[Darksoft]

Thanks for the heads up.