{Collins} Re: Avoiding Scams

[Glen Zook]

Unfortunately, too many amateurs are "timid" souls who
do not want to cause "trouble", or, be bothered with
all the "trials and tribulations" of a lawsuit.  They
hate to admit that they have been "taken advantage of"
by another amateur.

Frankly, I am most certainly against the "screwing" of
one amateur by another.

This case was the first time that the "local amateur"
had been taken advantage of by another amateur in over
50 years of being licensed.

In my over 40 years of being licensed, I have only
been taken advantage of one time.  That was almost 30
years ago when an amateur broke into the premisys of a
company that I owned and stole several pieces of
equipment.  He was involved with a national "ring" of
persons stealing equipment, exchanging similar
equipment across state lines, and then selling the
"newly" acquired equipment to other amateur radio
operators.  Several law enforcement agencies including
the FBI were involved.  They knew the particular
amateur, but, were trying to get the "head" of the
nationwide operation.

Glen, K9STH


--- w2wurjj at impop.bellatlantic.net wrote:
> Appearance rendered from messages justifies a (1)
> class action suit (2) since
> transactions cross state lines (3) how about Federal
> action?, and (4) notifiing
> a major amateur journal with world circulation. 73's
> W2WU


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