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Information
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Purchase Date: June 14, 2021
Date the problem begain: June 29, 2021
Method of Contact Used (chat progam): Trade occurred on EpicNPC via Trade Guardian
Other information: I used discord to contact him for the most part. Payment method was through WesternUnion.
DISPUTE Information
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Link of transaction thread (URL, Epicnpc thread): https://www.epicnpc.com/threads/all-jobs-max-level-80-zadnor-weapons.1961824/
Approximate value of property: $420 USD + around 30 usd for the middleman.
Was Trade Guardian used? Yes
If yes, what is the Trade Guardian ID? Transaction #41334
What is the dispute about?
The account was recalled earlier today. Must have recalled it through the square enix support center with information he sat on. Absolutely impossible to get the account back now through squenix support due to him now having full autonomy over it at this point. He did not say a word to me, because he is a scummy scammer of course. He did not change his discord name after he recalled the account but he did however block me. It terrifies me that this man is a scammer, because he would talk to me on discord quite regularly even after I had bought the account. He seemed like an alright guy, but he was just waiting to change the account information and block me..
Other details / notes: A guy on my friendslist on FFXIV sent me a screen on discord showing me there was indeed someone playing on the account. They were doing ''Zadnor Weapons'' which is what this scammer lists in his threads to bait people in, he is now doing more Zadnor in the game, probably to make the account value even higher. This is not only a case about me, this is bigger than that, this ''Larico Carpenter'' fellow has scammed several people over the past months it seems.
This guy has no shame at all, seriously. We became quite decent acquaintances, he even asked me for 10 bucks at one point lol (which i did not give him).
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859569570109063178/unknown.png
But watch out for Phantasy Star posts from someone with a similar name to him, because he is probably gonna try and eventually scam with a phantasy star account as well.
Larico or ''Zaronius'' also tried very hard to make me use paypal friends at first for the account purchase. He has a fresh paypal account, which is a bit of a shady sign already to be fair.
By the way - I want to warn about the fact that he posted a WoW account thread on here not long after he sold the FFXIV account to me. He is out to get people with more than just FFXIV accounts , seems like he does accounts on any mmo in general.
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859570674914033685/unknown.png
This was our last convo before I found out earlier today that he blocked me on there and he had recalled the account. We had not talked for quite a few days.
I checked the address he uses as well as the phone number. The address is somewhat of a penthouse which is not even owned, it's for sale lol. The phone number is most likely some telemarketer or a number he grabbed off a website/fake number.
Proof
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You MUST provide proof or your claim will not be valid!
Chat Log Screenshots (make sure username is visible, not display username):
Let me take you back to the day I added him saying I was interested in the account. Notice how he asks if I'm reputable on the site. This to me in the start was a very understandable question, he wants to know if he can trust me. But now it has hit me that he asked purely because he was out to scam me.
It took him 15 days to recall the account back, he probably waited approx. that long on purpose so I wouldn't think too much about making a dispute.
Payment Screenshots (make sure the accused email is visible):
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859561105100898344/unknown.png
I want to also tell you that I searched his email up as well as the name ''Larico Carpenter'' he uses earlier today, I found him on a thread on another website, where he had scammed someone for a wow account. I am not the first guy this man has scammed and I probably wont be the last either. I also found a thread on EpicNPC where he want under another name than Zaronius! seems like Mister Carpenter is back.. I feel stupid, I should have checked him out before even making deals with him.
Other proof:
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859565348814979092/unknown.png
As you can see in the upper right corner the account info was changed today, he probably blocked me around the same time.
There is a lot of irrelevant things in the discord chat between me and him, it's mostly just small talk and ffxiv talk. If you want concrete/solid proof that I'm not the only one that has been scammed by him, simply just search up the name Larico Carpenter he uses on google and youll find threads on him. Seems he has used different discord accounts in the past, but he has always stuck to the same email lol.
I doubt I'll get any sort of money back to be fair, but it's more important to spread awareness. Please, nobody negotiate or make deals at all with [email protected] any account you wanna trade with and it uses that email, just straight up report right away.
Account Recalls
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Most account recalls have little proof. To get more evidence, please open a support ticket to attempt to recover the account BEFORE opening a dispute thread.
Did the seller say he's the original owner? He did indeed say he was the original owner.
Attachments
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Purchase Date: June 14, 2021
Date the problem begain: June 29, 2021
Method of Contact Used (chat progam): Trade occurred on EpicNPC via Trade Guardian
Other information: I used discord to contact him for the most part. Payment method was through WesternUnion.
DISPUTE Information
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Link of transaction thread (URL, Epicnpc thread): https://www.epicnpc.com/threads/all-jobs-max-level-80-zadnor-weapons.1961824/
Approximate value of property: $420 USD + around 30 usd for the middleman.
Was Trade Guardian used? Yes
If yes, what is the Trade Guardian ID? Transaction #41334
What is the dispute about?
The account was recalled earlier today. Must have recalled it through the square enix support center with information he sat on. Absolutely impossible to get the account back now through squenix support due to him now having full autonomy over it at this point. He did not say a word to me, because he is a scummy scammer of course. He did not change his discord name after he recalled the account but he did however block me. It terrifies me that this man is a scammer, because he would talk to me on discord quite regularly even after I had bought the account. He seemed like an alright guy, but he was just waiting to change the account information and block me..
Other details / notes: A guy on my friendslist on FFXIV sent me a screen on discord showing me there was indeed someone playing on the account. They were doing ''Zadnor Weapons'' which is what this scammer lists in his threads to bait people in, he is now doing more Zadnor in the game, probably to make the account value even higher. This is not only a case about me, this is bigger than that, this ''Larico Carpenter'' fellow has scammed several people over the past months it seems.
This guy has no shame at all, seriously. We became quite decent acquaintances, he even asked me for 10 bucks at one point lol (which i did not give him).
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859569570109063178/unknown.png
But watch out for Phantasy Star posts from someone with a similar name to him, because he is probably gonna try and eventually scam with a phantasy star account as well.
Larico or ''Zaronius'' also tried very hard to make me use paypal friends at first for the account purchase. He has a fresh paypal account, which is a bit of a shady sign already to be fair.
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859570674914033685/unknown.png
This was our last convo before I found out earlier today that he blocked me on there and he had recalled the account. We had not talked for quite a few days.
I checked the address he uses as well as the phone number. The address is somewhat of a penthouse which is not even owned, it's for sale lol. The phone number is most likely some telemarketer or a number he grabbed off a website/fake number.
Proof
######################
You MUST provide proof or your claim will not be valid!
Chat Log Screenshots (make sure username is visible, not display username):
Let me take you back to the day I added him saying I was interested in the account. Notice how he asks if I'm reputable on the site. This to me in the start was a very understandable question, he wants to know if he can trust me. But now it has hit me that he asked purely because he was out to scam me.
It took him 15 days to recall the account back, he probably waited approx. that long on purpose so I wouldn't think too much about making a dispute.
Payment Screenshots (make sure the accused email is visible):
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859561105100898344/unknown.png
I want to also tell you that I searched his email up as well as the name ''Larico Carpenter'' he uses earlier today, I found him on a thread on another website, where he had scammed someone for a wow account. I am not the first guy this man has scammed and I probably wont be the last either. I also found a thread on EpicNPC where he want under another name than Zaronius! seems like Mister Carpenter is back.. I feel stupid, I should have checked him out before even making deals with him.
Other proof:
https://cdn.[Social group links not allowed].com/attachments/814585363774832691/859565348814979092/unknown.png
As you can see in the upper right corner the account info was changed today, he probably blocked me around the same time.
There is a lot of irrelevant things in the discord chat between me and him, it's mostly just small talk and ffxiv talk. If you want concrete/solid proof that I'm not the only one that has been scammed by him, simply just search up the name Larico Carpenter he uses on google and youll find threads on him. Seems he has used different discord accounts in the past, but he has always stuck to the same email lol.
I doubt I'll get any sort of money back to be fair, but it's more important to spread awareness. Please, nobody negotiate or make deals at all with [email protected] any account you wanna trade with and it uses that email, just straight up report right away.
Account Recalls
######################
Most account recalls have little proof. To get more evidence, please open a support ticket to attempt to recover the account BEFORE opening a dispute thread.
Did the seller say he's the original owner? He did indeed say he was the original owner.
Attachments
