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Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back!
Warlock7 followed up last week's bizarre story of eBay Fraud by noting "The news in Phlly ran with the story and put Sal's picture online with video. Now Sal has decided to direct all blame on his old business partner. He's put up his own site now trying to divert responsibilty away from himself and uses his kids pictures to try and garner support." It's hysterical to read the original log about how everything was his father's fault, but now get to learn about a more powerful evil named 'Vince'. It's like a soap opera that won't let me blink until the commercial.
Why would he post pictures of himself on a random website? Something isn't right. OR maybe he's just REALLY stupid, which is definately a possibility. Either way, I think that the Slashdot club people are probably quick to judge him as a scammer. Once we've completely de-bunked his claims, then we can call him a scammer! I think that judgement based on one guy who set up a website with all these reports of scamming could be slightly biassed. Not to say that this man isn't a slimy scammer, just don't beleive everything you read, including this guy's site nor the other guy's site.
While I'll admit stranger things have happened, I'd still have to hold Mr. Wise 100% responsible until he provides a reasonable explanation of why the people at the check cashing place who knew him well were able to identify, without question, that he was the one that cashed the cashier's check, along with his other various lies, such as the person in the hospital who, mysteriously, the hospital had no record of.
I'll give him points for effort, though. He didn't have to go out and make a web page defending himself, and I'm sure he'll draw a lot of sympathy for being such a family man! Maybe, if he gets a chance, he can also address some of the inconsistencies in his stories.
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Regardless of whether this Vince guy exists or is involved in any way, Sal personally stole a lot of money from a lot of people. If Vince gave Sal fake stuff to sell on eBay, Sal's gotta take responsibility for his part in it (intentional or not), and absolutely has to take responsibility for deliberately and intentionally stealing money. I have no pity for the worm. His children will be better off when their great role-model of a father is in prison.
Wow! I'm surprised the cops haven't arrested everyone on the block! It's such a bad neighborhood they've all got to be criminals...or on welfare, which is just as bad...you know, they're poor people! They're not like us! They live in old, run-down houses because they can't afford to live in the really expensive houses! That means they're bad! They ought to just do away with them!
Dude, this guy may or may not be a crook, but if you judge me by the neighborhood I can afford to live in, you deserve to have Vince, or Sal, or whoever beat your ass.
...is gonna be PISSED. This is the exact sort of thing they hate to see their clients do.
It was like when that Peterson guy was giving all those contradictory interviews. They are coming back to bite him in the ass now...
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
Neat trick, being able to tell a person's character from the look of their neighbors. Must come handy at times I'm sure.
Not everyone that lives in poor neighborhoods are crooks or on welfare!
The media and people's naiveness is to blame for this stereotype.
The majority of the poor are probably working 2 jobs and getting little assistants if any. It's just that the media has no incentive to show you a single mother working 2 jobs, the vocal minority that make it big rapping violent lyrics, dealing drugs, running ebay scams etc. get all the face time they can stomach.
Think about this the next time you judge someone by where they're from.
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I don't think there's any real proof that both this AND the original site are real. It all reads way too much like something staged as a game to see how many people (including Slashdot eds) can get sucked into the story. I don't buy any of it.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
That's not striking back. That's further incriminating oneself. It's a common reaction under suspicion: talk more. Even a first year law student, would Mr. Wise have been smart enough to have one standing beside him, would be advising his client to "shut up shut up SHUT UP!"
Fortunately for J Spence, Mr. Wise does not, in fact, appear to have been smart enough to engage counsel. This is all evidence quite favorable for the plaintiff. It's now cached on hard drives all over the world.
What an idiot.
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Sure it's possible. But is it probable? No. I think the simple explanation is the right one in this case. Sal is a crook, and a pretty stupid one at that.
When did Sal change his story to fit in Vince as the bad guy? I'm not entirely sure, but I think it was after the report came out that Sal had defrauded Vince.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.