Major scammer outed

[Cannonfodder80]

I don't know how many of you are on Facebook, but this popped up earlier on my feed. It looks like someone has been taking the airsoft community for a ride for their own profit

 

Copied from the ukac Facebook page

 

"To the Airsoft Community........

 

We the former members of "The Unit" airsoft team here in Ireland, Decky Clarke, Andrew Ross, Kyle Fulton, Will Fulton, Gary Graham, David Simpson, Darren Wolfe and Cheryl Wolfe Chris Milling have some sad and deeply distressing information to share with you.

 

To be honest we are struggling to come to terms with this information ourselves, however, no matter how disgusting and reprehensible this is, it's important we make this public.

 

Airsoft is a sport built on trust, integrity and honour, without these virtues we do not have a hobby.

 

Anyway here it is.

 

Our former team mate goes by the name of Stevie (Steven) Glennie, Stevie has been known to us for a couple of years and has been in The Unit since it started. At the end of last week members of the team became aware of posts on Airsoft related Facebook pages (UK Airsoft Community and Pew Pew Airsoft Community) as well as the UKAC and Zeroin Forums alleging scam/fraudulent selling by one Stevie Glennie, that involved selling items, receiving payment by PayPal and not sending the items, fobbing off the purchaser with claims of delays, problems with postage and even the deaths of his mother/father. Subsequently the PayPal account was closed and the purchaser had to try and seek recompense via a PayPal dispute.

 

This set alarm bells ringing within the team, as we were aware that Stevie had no longer got a PayPal account as he had asked a team member if it was okay for him to give this team mates business PayPal account details to sell a couple of items coming up to Christmas.

 

This was done and within a matter of days PayPal disputes started hitting this team mates account freezing his account and adversely affecting his own legitimate business a matter of days before Christmas.

 

To make matters worse Stevie had also borrowed several hundred pounds off a number of other team mates in cash.

 

Given the posts, and the suspicious PayPal activity we as a group investigated further, and were shocked to find that indeed the allegations were true. Stevie had indeed been advertising RIFs and other items (even games consoles) that he never had, selling them, taking the money and then closing the PayPal accounts. We also discovered additional fraudulent activity, including selling a pistol and 3 mags to a local player and posting him an empty envelope by parcelforce!

 

Indeed, once the lid was lifted we were truly shocked by the extent, as you may have seen Stevie had the "licence" to sell the Celsius CTW AK in the U.K. and we have uncovered at least one instance of him receiving full payment, in excess of €1,000, then closing his PayPal and leaving the player high and dry.

 

To be honest at this point our heads were spinning, we disbanded and closed our team, The Unit. However, there was a bigger problem. Some of you may be aware of "Operation Helping Hands", this was a charity Airsoft event, planned and run by Stevie at the local British Army facility, Ballykinlar, inside their FIBUA village.

 

A local events company regularly runs Airsoft events at this venue and Stevie contacted them to run a charity event on 26/7/16 to raise funds for Help For Heroes.

 

This was to be a walk on day for 80 players, with a fee of £40 each, and there was to be a raffle on the day to raise additional funds, as well as that a high profile manufacturer agreed to be on site to provide additional support and prizes. Prizes from a wide range of local and national suppliers were put up and team members offered assistance free of charge to marshal the day in addition to the events company.

 

Stevie planned the day, and collected all the entrance fees and raffle money along with other cash donations on the day.

 

Given the scale of what we had uncovered this weekend you can imagine the nausea we felt when we looked back to that day. First thing this morning Help For Heroes was contacted, and our worst fears were confirmed, they had no record of receiving anything. We contacted Stevie, and his wife, and after significant questioning he admitted that he had indeed stolen all of the funds from the day.

 

The disgust and revulsion we felt, not only in terms of stealing charity funds, but funds raised by airsofters, on an active military base for the benefit of wounded servicemen, well it just beggared belief.

 

We have endeavoured to contact all of those suppliers today, one or two remain to be contacted tomorrow, we have also reported the matter to the local police and 5 of the team have met with local police this evening to provide detailed evidence and statements. In addition we have contacted the events company and are seeking to get a full list of all those cleared for security that day to try and get an idea of how much the charity has lost out by.

 

This has truly been a shocking and sickening couple of days, we will do our utmost to make sure Mr Glennie receives the punishment he deserves and that as much of what has been lost can be recovered as possible. We truly hope that this disgusting act of one individual does not affect the sport we love or future fund raising events in the local community.

 

Yours, the former Unit Team"

[renegadecow]

How does that sort of thing even snowball to that size? Did it all happen within a week or something?

[Cannonfodder80]

AFAIK it's been slowly going on for a while before it exploded over Facebook

[hitmanNo2]

Jesus. What a scummy pos. No doubt he'll get off with a slap on the wrist.

[bankz5152]

Bloody hell what an absolute cockferret.

 

On my phone, my spelling will suck

[shmook]

This is on zeroin too.

[Cannonfodder80]

On the plus side many of the Facebook groups are clubbing together to make donations to H4H and other forces charities so perhaps some good may come of this