{"id":621,"date":"2011-04-17T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2011-04-17T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:53:05","slug":"internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught!  + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"margin: 10px; width: 430px;\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/administration\/user\/GunsAmericaRegistration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica\" title=\"Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught!  + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/subscribe+long+banner_0013.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block-col\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Don&#8217;t Be a Victim!<\/h2>\n<p>It is a sad thing to see the hard earned money of our GunsAmerica people wasted on a fraudster, but even our extremely advanced and aggressive fraud prevention system can&#8217;t catch them all. You have to protect yourself from internet fraud, and here are some tips.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> If it is Too Good to be True, ITS NOT TRUE. <\/strong> &#8211; Everyone knows what guns are worth. We have price books even.  If you see a gun for sale at hundreds of dollars under its value, there is a 95%++ chance that it is a scammer trying to get you to contact them.  Also, never agree to do anything even questionably illegal. With that you have a 100% chance that it is a scammer trying to get you to send them money without the ability to report it when they rip you off.<\/li>\n<li><strong> New Sellers <\/strong> \u2013 No offense to new sellers here or anywhere else online, but the facts are that our fraud prevention system catches fraudulent accounts, usually very quickly.  If you see a new seller with no transactions, get their payment address and contact information from them before you agree to anything. If you use <a href=\"\u201dhttps:\/\/maps.google.com\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica\" title=\"Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught!  + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica\">Google Maps<\/a> you can often get a street view and ask them what color their house is, how many neighbors they have, etc., to see if this looks like a regular person selling their own guns.  THE MOST COMMON type of scam these days are \u201cmail forwarding\u201d services that involve these mailbox pack and ship places. If you Google Map someone&#8217;s address and it comes up as a shopping center or anything besides a residential house the seller can identify, steer clear.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>No Knowledge of Product<\/strong> \u2013 When we send out a security warning on a suspected fraudulent account we get back probably 5 responses saying that they didn&#8217;t send money for every one that did.  These 5 people often say \u201che didn&#8217;t know anything about the gun\u201d or \u201che didn&#8217;t answer my questions\u201d and even \u201che hung up on me when I asked the serial number of the gun.\u201d   Ask questions that only the owner of the firearm could answer and you&#8217;ll weed out the marjority of fraudsters out there.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Pop Me a Cellphone Picture <\/strong>\u2013 Most of us have been walking around with camera phones for more than 5 years now.  If the person is a new seller, or your suspect something, there is nothing wrong with asking them to pop a quick cellphone picture of the gun that they can text or email to your phone or  computer. It is a leap of faith to send a seller money with no guarantee of them sending you what you paid for. A quick picture to verify that they own the item is not a lot to ask.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/paul-stephen-webster_t250.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Much to the relief of his hundreds of internet gun buyers who have encountered him first hand,  Paul Steven Webster has been caught. He was arrested March 21st by Lee County Florida deputies after an exhaustive three year hunt by both state and local law enforcement.  GunsAmerica was instrumental in both the opening of the case against Webster and in his eventual capture.<\/p>\n<p>Webster has been known throughout the internet gun buying world as a most elusive purveyors of internet fraud operating in our small corner of the internet buying world. He has claimed victims from nearly every popular internet discussion forum, posting guns for sale several hundred dollars below their value, and he has also surfaced on all of the major gun buying and selling websites, as well as the internet gun auctions.<\/p>\n<p>GunsAmerica customer service opened the case against him in 2008 (not 2007 like some of the press releases say) in Lee County Florida when he surfaced here, and our fraud prevention system kept him off of GunsAmerica until early 2011 when he again attempted to steal from our people. We quickly reached out to both local and federal law enforcement, and he was caught within a short time.<\/p>\n<p>We are sending this notice out because we would like our people and the entire gun buying public to know two things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <b>That there is a new sheriff in town <\/b>when it comes to internet fraud.  &#8211; Where as recent as a year ago we could not get any state or federal agency to pay attention to cases where there was under $100,000 in losses, the United States Postal Service has recently become the primary point of contact for what are considered \u201csmall\u201d cases of internet fraud.Lee County Florida arrested Webster, but the warrants in Florida and a couple other states for his arrest were initiated by United States Postal Service Inspectors from information provided by GunsAmerica. The agent specifically involved in Florida has asked to remain anonymous, but this arrest never would have occurred with her aggressive pursuit of this case.<\/li>\n<li> <b>That GunsAmerica  aggressively pursues internet scammers.<\/b> &#8211;  GunsAmerica is the only website involved in this case that has had active and aggressive contact with law enforcement.  Emails to several internet selling venues and discussion sites with buying and selling boards by the USPS went unanswered, and the case would have gone cold. Listen up internet gun community!!  We can&#8217;t be silent about internet fraud.   W e are hoping the victims of Paul Webster from all over the internet gun world will get word of his arrest through our blog and blog digest email.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other names that Paul Webster ripped people off under are Savannah Associates (the other warrants were in Georgia), Blackstone Enterprises, and PCH Traders among others. We cannot disclose the list of websites that were platforms for his fraud, but they are as far reaching as any corner of the internet that you can travel to talk about or buy and sell guns.<\/p>\n<p>In the end Webster was arrested at a Publix supermarket after we gave our contact at USPS the details of the location of  his latest mail drop. Our people were instrumental in getting law enforcement the bank information where he was cashing checks, and eventually our people brought him down.  We hope and pray that as the case is brought against Webster that our victims here on GA are reimbursed for their losses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.gunsamerica.com\/d\/4607-1\/paul-stephen-webster_t250.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Much to the relief of his hundreds of internet gun buyers who have encountered him first hand, Paul Steven Webster has been caught. He was arrested March 21st by Lee County Florida deputies after an exhaustive three year hunt by both state and local law enforcement. GunsAmerica was instrumental in both the opening of the case against Webster and in his eventual capture.<\/p>\n<p>\nWebster has been known throughout the internet gun buying world as a most elusive purveyors of internet fraud operating in our small corner of the internet buying world. He has claimed victims from nearly every popular internet discussion forum, posting guns for sale several hundred dollars below their value, and he has also surfaced on all of the major gun buying and selling websites, as well as the internet gun auctions.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica\">Read the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,16],"tags":[],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gunsamerica-authors","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-me"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught! + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught! + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/internet-scammer-paul-webster-caught-anti-fraud-tips-from-gunsamerica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Internet Scammer Paul Webster Caught! + Anti-Fraud Tips from GunsAmerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Much to the relief of his hundreds of internet gun buyers who have encountered him first hand, Paul Steven Webster has been caught. 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