I guess Anthony Finn from Bellwood Illinois is a scammer

[BigBlockMark]

I believe I have been scammed.

Ad # 182762642 8/8/16 Carburetor Section
SN9589mustang #864776

Anthony Finn
231 Englewood Ave.
Bellwood, IL.
60104

[email protected]

630-880-3622

Works at :
Chicagoland Fire Place and Chimney Restoration Company
5317 St. Charles Road
Berkley, IL.
60163

21 years old. No license. Have picture of his house and Illinois ID card.

He is on Facebook

Father, Leroy Finn

I sent him a partial payment for a carburetor and he was to send the carb. Then I was to send him the balance. He answered all my questions and appeared to be OK. Now his phone says he is not accepting phone calls and he does not respond to text. He was to forward me a tracking number a week ago, which he has not done. He said he sent it Postal.

Any advise on how to go forward or how to alert others about him so they don’t deal with him appreciated. I have contacted Racing Junk Support email to report him, so they can look into it and cancel his account if possible.

I am not above going to his house, about 3 hour drive, but don’t know if that would do any good or if he is a total fake personality.

If he contacts me and this is resolved, I will post a retraction on here.

[Harbone]

Mark I sent this guy an email, gave him a link to this thread and a link to the ad you posted about him on RJ. I will let you know if he replies

[Harbone]

Email was rejected, do you have another email address by chance?

[BigBlockMark]

Hi Chris. I sent him an email too and it came back. I called where he works and talked to a lady there. He apparently does work there. She took a message from me and is going to give it to his boss supposedly. My best bet is someone in the area that reads Racing Junk. I am going to call his local police dept. too.

[jayvee34]

Sorry for your problem with this guy, hope you get it resolved.

[Harbone]

I tried calling his number a few times today, it just rings and says he is not available. I am just going to keep calling it from my work phone every time I get a chance
I did manage to get the ad up for the carb by using a cached search. I sent him a message thru the old ad calling him out.
Member Bixblk lives about a 1/2 hour from there, maybe you can recruit his assistance?
F*cking scammer!

[BigBlockMark]

I would like to talk to Bixblk. How do I message him? Thanks for the help Harbone. Bought and sold over 125 items on Racing Junk with no problems before this. There were a couple questionable signs this deal was too good to be true. I think I was greedy. Hope my mistake will get others to be more careful. I can't find the ad now. I saved it as a favorite message, but when his account was disabled, I guess the ad was too. Would like to have a copy of it in case this gets police attention. I have contacted Bellwood Illinois Police Dept. and they said have to report it to my local police first. I will report it just for the record.

[Harbone]

I think this will take you to the ad http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WeiFMDRC2lkJ:www.racingjunk.com/Carburetors/182762642/Holley-1050-ultra-dominator-race-version-3-circuit-.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Look bixblk up on the RJ brother thread and send him a PM

[BigBlockMark]

Yes I got the ad copied now. Thanks. But I don't know how to do the RJ brother thread to find bixblk.

[BigBlockMark]

I think I PMed a message to bixblk.

[Harbone]

I am going to keep blowing up his phone today...

[BigBlockMark]

I tried that for days and with my wife's phone too. I don't know if it says "not accepting calls" if he has blocked me or not. Maybe it was a burner phone? I guess just a 21 year old punk kid that just decided to advertise something he may not even have to try to take in some drug money. Picture of carb could have been from somewhere else. The Illinois ID card picture he sent looked legit. I have his picture from Facebook if that is really him. He had his place of work listed on Facebook and I talked to his boss, but said he did not work there any more. He gave me his Dads name and phone number, but that was a dead end.

[jayvee34]

I got this phone number from bixblk's ad. Jeff M. @ 708 308 0282

[jayvee34]

I got this phone number from bixblk's ad. Jeff M. @ 708-308-0282.

[BigBlockMark]

I talked to bixblk tonight. He is about 40 minutes from Anthony J Finn in Bellwood Illinois. He is going to try to help if he can. Anybody else closer to Bellwood Illinois interested in a little research?

[Harbone]

Jeff is the only one I know on here that lives that close.

[BigBlockMark]

Going to file a case number report on Anthony J Finn of Bellwood Illinois with the local police this week in my home town. Then take him to small claims court. Any advise on these procedures and what to do after that. Probably court cost to do this? I feel none of this will help me, but maybe he will get caught up in something else and then this will show up on his record?

[Harbone]

I have been running Anthonys phone number every day on RJ and Google just to see what pops up. I saw the ad you ran Mark about him and the scam he pulled so I took the picture of Anthonys license you posted up and downloaded it so everyone can see what a thief lloks like!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.racingjunk.com/ui/4/32/42815324-622.jpg

[BigBlockMark]

Well Anthony struck again. I got a RJ member contact me tonight and he had a similar story. This time a fuel pump. I don't have details yet. I encouraged him to come on this forum and state the facts.

On advise of a lawyer friend, I am going to make a report to the Illinois Attorney Generals office, Consumer Fraud Dept. You can do it all on line. He said police depts. don't really do anything even if you report to them and go to small claims court and get a judgment against him. Maybe in your own town but not out of the county. He says if enough people make a complaint or if person can make a case of several cases of fraud they are more likely to do something at the Attorney generals office. But even then may just send him a letter and try to scare him into trying to do the right thing.

[Harbone]

Try and get the other guy on here to tell his story, we need to make sure we keep on this scumbag!

[mytmouz]

If you get a judgement against him, usually there will be a warrant issued for failure to pay if you push it. If they have their license ran after that, a lot of times they will be picked up and held until they take care of it...

[BigBlockMark]

Thanks for the suggestions.

He has no license.

A judgment has to be filed where the complaint comes from. Only makes anything happen in your home county. Then you have to get it filed in his county and the police have to serve it there. Both cost money to get done. And results are not guaranteed.

I have the complaint ready to send to the Illinois State attorney Generals office Consumer Fraud
Dept.. They will only send a letter to him and tell him to send me back the money, which he may not do.

The fact that 2 other members of Racing Junk, who have been ripped off by him, have contacted me and given their information about Anthony J Finn, I have included that in my complaint and they could take more interest in the case, if they choose.


I way I see it, only a face to face can solve the problem. I am 3 hours away, but sure could use some local recon of his area to see if he even exists at his residence of 231 Englewood Ave. Bellwood Illinois, 60104

Any takers?

[BigBlockMark]

Anthony J Finn has contacted me today concerning the carburetor he did not send me. Will post results first of next week, if any.

[Harbone]

I hope this works out Mark!

[fla1976]

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp146/fla1976/Finn_zpsak2x5rpe.png (http://s406.photobucket.com/user/fla1976/media/Finn_zpsak2x5rpe.png.html)

Get em

[BigBlockMark]

Yup, that's him. I have the same ID card picture.