Beware Geckorobot1

I'm glad you made an A_B even though he's been aggressively trying to guilt-trip you over your Twitter post. Everything he's said has been fishy, with his story changing constantly. Every time I've talked to him it's gone from my Paypal got accidentally deleted and forced chargebacks to my Paypal was hacked and the hacker forced chargebacks (but only on artists and none of his other purchases). 

This is really clearly someone who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar trying to scam artists and hoping they wouldn't notice or know it was him that did it. 

Oh man I thought it sounded familiar and yep.. they are already pre-blocked haha. I think I saw another beware post about them.

I'm pretty sure Paypal cannot 'glitch' and open several (?!?) disputes conveniently against several different artists at once. I can't believe he would think anyone would buy that bullsh*t.

Is there no way to file a complaint with PayPal over this person doing so many chargebacks? It should be illegal to use their site this way and reprimands to users who abuse their system.

Though with all these charge-backs from the bank wouldn't said bank be suspicious about this?

48 minutes ago, Celestina said:

From the conversations here it sounds like it was a block of transactions reported.  This isn't abnormal if a CC was reported as stolen. We still don't know if it was his CC or not.

That's true and this is the second beware from this same person in such a short time and would'nt be surprised at all if more showed up, and western union isn't that used often in scams.

There's actually a bunch of artists who were affected and posting posts on Twitter. He himself admitted there were 9 artists he had to pay back, but there might be more affected that he doesn't care about repaying cause they're either small time or not posting bewares on him. He only jumped on repaying people when the bewares popped up. 

On 7/16/2019 at 6:18 PM, Bourbon said:

I'm glad you made an A_B even though he's been aggressively trying to guilt-trip you over your Twitter post. Everything he's said has been fishy, with his story changing constantly. Every time I've talked to him it's gone from my Paypal got accidentally deleted and forced chargebacks to my Paypal was hacked and the hacker forced chargebacks (but only on artists and none of his other purchases). 

This is really clearly someone who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar trying to scam artists and hoping they wouldn't notice or know it was him that did it. 

They are also victimizing themselves in their posts, and making the affected artists seem unreasonable. I think I am one of 2 that have not been paid back? but I don't know if to believe their information or not at this point since it has changed so many times. They for some reason don't think the AB is justified, but I haven't been given any reason for it not to be justified.

18 hours ago, Celestina said:

It's not through PayPal. It's through their bank, which Paypal has no control over. The most they can do is remove the $20 chargeback fee.

A good way to distinguish if it's a chargeback vs a dispute is that a fee is involved with a chargeback.  A dispute is handled through PayPal and doesn't involve fees.

I know this is being done through the bank, but the scammer is using one PayPal account to originally commission the artists. That's why I wondered if the PayPal account would ever be released so artists can avoid the whole start of this mess.

5 hours ago, Celestina said:

Sorry, what do you mean by "released"?

Made public. Available knowledge to members so that we can avoid receiving payment from a known scammer.

2 minutes ago, Rendrassa said:

Made public. Available knowledge to members so that we can avoid receiving payment from a known scammer.

I don't think that's going to happen most likely due to privacy reasons as well as laws considering that alone could open a lot of legal issues for paypal.

2 minutes ago, Celestina said:

Oh!  He claims the account is deleted, but Paypal allows numerous emails to be associated with an account anyhow.  We're not in the business of releasing personal information, but if we did he could easily just change out the primary email address.

Ah. I've never had to change my email, so it slipped my mind. I do wish with the frequency of chargebacks through the bank, and complaints filed, he'd have his account limited at the least.

Just now, RTKobold said:

I don't think that's going to happen most likely due to privacy reasons as well as laws considering that alone could open a lot of legal issues for paypal.

I wasn't talking about going through PayPal, but Celestina has pointed out an obvious reason it wouldn't work anyway.

Not sure how to make an update to my post but their handle has changed to @Nyx_UwU

They hopped accounts.

On 8/6/2019 at 1:37 PM, Celestina said:

Updated the tags on both of his posts.

thank you!

So, apparently hes a minor. He was using his parents card/account and they issued the chargeback. At least this is the excuse he has given recently. He has at least $600 in chargebacks from what I saw and I only added up totals that i saw paypal screenshots for 😕

On 10/6/2019 at 9:51 AM, Moxxxie said:

So, apparently hes a minor. He was using his parents card/account and they issued the chargeback. At least this is the excuse he has given recently. He has at least $600 in chargebacks from what I saw and I only added up totals that i saw paypal screenshots for 😕

Parents should be held responsible for their child's actions. 😕

On 10/6/2019 at 9:51 AM, Moxxxie said:

So, apparently hes a minor. He was using his parents card/account and they issued the chargeback. At least this is the excuse he has given recently. He has at least $600 in chargebacks from what I saw and I only added up totals that i saw paypal screenshots for 😕

Just to help clarify and cross-reference (last comment on here)
https://artistsbeware.info/beware/submissions/client-bewares/client-beware-geckorobot1-r331/

Also, would it be an idea for the Beware here to be in the Client Bewares instead of the Artist Bewares?

On 10/10/2019 at 6:56 AM, Celestina said:

For future reference please contact a mod if you see a category error rather than leaving a comment.

Alright. Thank you.

On the side note, if geckorobot1 did admit to being a minor, would there be any way to report that to Paypal (as the minimum age to use Paypal services would be 18)?