Instagram scammer.

[rockm]

Google search of that phone sends you to "Bunnybonsai tree service" on facebook, looks like they are using pix grabbed from bonsai_mike2002.

Odd thing is Mike is involved with the Akron Canton Bonsai Society, and 740 is an Ohio area code???

Yeah, criminal is matching known people info so they will believe he's a regular. Spearphishing-highly targeted specific emails using very specific information. THis looks to me like a relative of that kind of attack. The 740 area code is neither here nor there. It's just been hijacked

 

[vp999]

I hate scammers

I like the "hun" part

 

[Lorax7]

this is always a dead give away

Well, it’s a dead giveaway for now, until all the scammers catch up with the technology and figure out how to get generative AI systems to proofread their prose (or just generate it wholesale) for them. Sadly, phishing is going to get much, much worse in the next few years.

 

[David P]

Lol I just got a friends request from this clown.

 

[Doogliebop]

Lol I just got a friends request from this clown.

He's persistent af. Very pushy.

 

[SouthernMaple]

This guy tried me a few weeks ago, same deal, scots pine worth 2-3k selling for 500, if the cost is too good to be true, it always is. I knew he was scamming, so I asked where he was located, he chose a place not to far from me and I told
Him I’d come pickup the tree and pay cash, he refused, so no deal was made

he turned down cash, lol like who the fuck turns down cash?

 

[SouthernMaple]

He's persistent af. Very pushy.

I am sorry you got scammed, don't beat yourself up about it, if it makes you feel better I have been scammed so many times and you just feel like crap, well don't this scammer is the piece of crap, talk to your bank fill them in and hopefully you will get something back also file a police report and the online fraud departments with instagram and the local authorities. Change your credit cards and passwords on all digital accounts, I know its annoying but you don't want them to get your information.

 

[badatusernames]

Google search of that phone sends you to "Bunnybonsai tree service" on facebook, looks like they are using pix grabbed from bonsai_mike2002.

Odd thing is Mike is involved with the Akron Canton Bonsai Society, and 740 is an Ohio area code???

Possibly a hijacked account

Look up "reloading scams" - looks like that's what's going on here. Be cautious when someone keeps asking you to send additional funds to fix a problem.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I'm sorry this happened to you.
In the future, try searching images if you ever have doubts. I recognized these photos the moment I saw them froman instragram account called "bonsaistudiojapan" that I see on my feed from time to time.

Another thing to try is to do a Google image search on the images. A lot of people don't know that this function exists. It will show you identical images, or similar images. It is extremely easy to see if one image is used by several groups.

Yesterday I was on Yahoo! News, of all places, and I saw an interesting ad for a working model of a plane engine. I was considering buying it for my son - particularly because it looked like an amazing model for $50. I clicked on the ad, and was taken to an ecommerce site that didn't look very reputable, so I did a Google search on the image. It came back as being a real model - lifted from other sites - that normally sells for about $450. I reported the ad to Yahoo!... but not sure what else I could do. This was a banner ad being seen by thousands of people. They even stole the marketing videos - so the entire thing looked pretty legit. It just wasn't their product to sell.

 

[flyovercountry]

Has anyone called the Akron OH Bonsai Society?

 

[Shogun610]

It’s crazy he is still trying to sell the same tree and some really people in bonsai even still follow the page.