Tacoma Parts IG Scam Warning!!

Let me preface this by saying....I know. I know it was "too good to be true". I know I got scammed. I've accepted my monetary loss. This post is to share my experience so you don't have to experience the same.

I've followed this IG for a while called Johnson-Rey.tacos. Looks like he'd buy up salvaged Tacomas then parts them out. He posted a TRD Skid Plate and I DM'd him. We agreed on $250 shipped. I told him he wasn't going to get his full amount until I had tracking information. The next day he notified me it was being shipped and included the website and tracking number. Website was Trust Mail Express in which they claim to use DHL, UPS, FedEx etc to ship their items. Entered the tracking info and everything seemed legit so I paid him the remaining balance.
The following day I received an email from Trust Mail Express saying I owed them a refundable $150 for insurance purposes. Until then my shipment is on hold. I contacted the seller and he told me to pay it. We got into a heated exchange because I "paid" shipping already and it was on him. This should have been a red flag but I was naive. Mad as shit and still hoping it was legit and refundable I paid the $150 via cash app. (another red flag). The status immediately updated and shipment was released. Yesterday I get another email saying I owe another $255 for a "city permit fee" for delivery (refundable of course) (red flag #3). I refused to pay and they said it won't be delivered. I contacted seller and called his BS. He said he'd call them. Meanwhile I engaged Trust Mail Express in a long email exchange and asked for my $150, return part to sender. They literally said..."if we don't receive the $255 in 3 days we will dump it into the sea" So total, I'm out $400. I called my bank. Froze my debit card, and reported the shipping company to the Federal Trade Commission. I've also reported the cash app transfer as a scam hoping to recover at least $150 of my $400.
Now this person has shut down their IG and operating under a new page as toyota4runner_tacoma_parts.

Reminder...yes...I know...I'm an idiot.

 

Wow. Expensive lesson. I think we have all been there and this is how you learn.

 

Crap sorry this happened to you!
Thanks for the heads up!

 

Sorry to hear this, but thanks for warning everyone.

 

God dammit!
I hate dishonest people and thieves. They should be drawn and quartered. Sorry bro.

 

I've been pissed all weekend. This is the one time I let my guard down, didn't do my homework, and got taken advantage of. Like you guys said. Lesson learned for sure.

 

That sucks, I get those e mails too saying a shipment is on hold and the mail office has it and I need to pay to have it released.

 

Fuckin assholes

 

By an actual Johnson no less! Ouch

If they verbatim said they’d “dump it into the sea” I’m sorry but that’s downright villainous and I’m here for it. The more people and companies play fast and loose like this, the closer we all get to being fed up and then who knows what society will resemble.

I’m oddly excited. But again, screw that Johnson for scamming you.

 

Here's the screenshot!

 

Broken English is always a red flag as well. It does piss me off when asshat criminals of low cognitive ability get away with it. They’ll get theirs eventually.

 

Get a hold of better business bureau and definitely report them and give them all the information you have.

 

Sorry to hear about your experience. Scammers like this need to dragged out into the ocean and left to swim back.

 

That’s shitty, some people should just be taken out back, shot and then dumped into the sea after three days of public display.

 

Better business bureau has nothing to do with this, especially since it isn’t even a business in the first place.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=Trust+Mail+Express&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Then we need to formulate the worse business bureau and execute justice as we see fit.

 

Environmental terrorism. Nice

 

Exactly. Hence why I reported Trust Mail Express to the Federal Trade Commission

 

For what though? You weren't dealing with a shipping company either.

Cut your losses and let the rest of us spam this guy on Instagram to waste his time.