Complaints Against Rebecca Gary

Baton Rouge, LA 70816

snobunny414@yahoo.com, BayouBeanie@aol.com,  BayouBeanie4@yahoo.com, Higherground14@aol.com, Katnaps4@aol.com, Emmykatsmama@aol.com

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please contact the person who it was filed by.

September 10, 2000
Complaint filed by: leanne@livingston.net

My name is LeAnne Simard. I recently bid, won, and paid on a yahoo Auction for two beanie buddies totalling $155.00. Unfortunatly I did not recieve these buddies. I have tried unsuccessfully to contact the seller. She has not responded to my repeated emails. I did some research into this and emailed a person that also was having problems with her. I have found some interesting things about this woman and I was also given your email address too. Lynne said that you belonged to a "Bad Traders Group" and that you were a mediator and that you might be able to contact Rebecca on my behalf. I am very upset at all of this and now I don't know where to turn to. I paid for these buddies through Paypal and I was told I had to wait 30 days before filing against her. I really hate to wait another 2 weeks before I start something against her.  If there is anything you can do for me I would sincerely appreciate it. If you need any more information please contact me. Rebecca Gary
16343 Bristoe Avenue Apt C
Baton Rouge, LA 70816

also

2142 O'Neal Lane #217
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
225-752-7798
Email Address:
snobunny414@yahoo.com

Thank you...LeAnne Simard

Thank you so much for contacting me regarding this situation. There has obviously been a major problem but I assure you it was not me . I am handling this situation for the person who caused this mess as she is a minor and probably will not see anything other than the four walls of her room for the next 5 years, much less be allowed near a computer. I know that none of this really matters and that all you are interested in is a refund which you definitely deserve. I am so embarassed and I am just at a loss as to what prompted my daughter to do this. I pray you will not prosecute me as her parent or her. Your money will be refunded as soon as possible in whatever manner you would like. Please please have mercy on me. I'm a good mother and I don't want to see my daughter in worse trouble or lose time from my job because of court, etc. Not to mention what my husband will do when he finds out what she has done. I apologize for the long read but felt it necessary to explain. Please let me know how you would like to proceed, aside from wanting to wring my daughter's neck, that is. ;-)  Many thanks.

I also wanted to let you know that I am trying to sell my personal collection of beanies to pay for the damage my daughter has done but if these people continue to post bad questions on my own auctions, no one is going to buy the beanies and I will have no money to send. I have an excellent rating on Yahoo under higherground14 and as bayoubeanie4. You will see that accusing me of scamming is crazy. I have an excellent reputation and am good for my word. What my daughter did is unforgivable and I know I'm responsible to clean up her mess but I just found out about this and need someone to work with me so I can pay these people back.  Thanks.

I have received $40.00 of the $155.00 that she owes me via paypal. Still waiting for the balance she said was coming via money order. I will let you know if and when I recieve it. Thanks.

I am writing to see if you can help me with this matter or have any suggestions as to what to do and how to stop this person from selling on the internet. I met a woman through AOL PRC Pain Relief Center, we were both Chat Hosts and became friends with her. She told me that she had a web design business and showed me samples of her work and her website, so I hired her to design a site for me and gave her my debit/credit card number for her to design the site for me which she never did. It turned out that she used my personal information to open up a Paypal account in my name with her email address. She made purchases the online auctions and made direct sales on the internet using my name and credit card information which totalled around $400.00. I am still trying to recover some of the money back that she stole. She has since been selling under various auction ID names and now advertising expensive priced Beanie Babies and taking the money and never sending the items. I have been in touch with several others who were taken by her and something needs to be done to stop her from this fraud. When this happened to me, she got scared that she would go to jail and then packed her house and skipped town and moved to Louisiana where she continues to scam and steal $1000's from innocent people. I believe all of her names should be listed on your warning boards so that others will stay away from her auctions. I have all of the mountains of paperwork from Paypal and the direct billing out of my debit card to prove all of this including an Instant Message Confession that she did this and is all printed out. Here is a list of her screen names and I am sure that others have contacted you as well. This couple must be stopped immediately.

Caution:

BayouBeanie
BayouBeanie4*
BayouBeany
Higherground14*
BeanieKingy*
Snobunny414@yahoo.com
Coolbeansmoo*
ColoradoThree
Katnaps4@aol.com

The couples name is Rebecca (Becca, Becky) and Stu (SR) Gary I have all the email addresses as well. The names with the *, you can go to Yahoo auctions and read the feedbacks for yourself and I have been in touch with several of these people who either sent payment to her via money order or paypal and it is her. She lists the items as her living in Colorado or Pennsylvania and yet payment is sent to Louisiana. Also on my Paypal statements of what she had done, she has created several accounts with Paypal with other people's names and credit card # and also one with her real name and withdrew money out of their accounts and depositing them into her own. She won an auction from a friend of my other co-chat host before I knew what she was doing and used the paypal account with my name, address and credit card number to make that purchase and had the item shipped to her in my name. She also has several reserve names that she can use and has taken a few of my co host's screen names and created id names with her information but hasn't used the account yet for the auctions. Any help you could provide would be so much appreciated. I have her current mailing address, po box and phone number also. Thank you very much,   Julie

I have received yet another message forwarded to me from my Aunt. First and foremost, I request that you or anyone else please NOT send email to ANY address other than BayouBeanie@aol.com. The "other" email addresses are not mine. Some are relatives' and others I've never heard of.

Now, and more importantly, I honestly don't know what to say about this latest message. (Juliery@aol.com) I know this woman from the internet. We were chat hosts together for a brief time. That much is true. I have never transacted any sort of business with this woman. And I certainly haven't taken her credit card number or anything else for that matter. We did have a disagreement not too long ago about child-rearing techniques and she got very insulted because I didn't agree with her on certain areas. We have not "IMd" since that time.

So far as scams, fraud, etc., I just don't know what to say or do. A few of the things the woman said are true but are quite out of context. For example, yes, we did move but we sure didn't "skip town!!"  I won't bother to answer to each part of that email because I categorically deny any wrong-doing whatsoever. These accusations are false, plain and simple.

True to my word, I am making good on the damage my daughter did, however, she denies any knowledge of past involvement with this sort of thing and I tend to believe her at this point. Having to sell her prized beanies to pay back these people has made quite an impact on her. She won't be playing games with people's money again.

One more note, my daughter has received several extremely evil and almost "pornographic" emails threatening to "gang bang" her, threatening to do other extremely lewd acts, etc. unless she gives the money back for these auctions (which is being done). The emails are using absolutely the worst pornographic language imaginable. These tactics are also being used on the few Yahoo auctions I do have running at the moment. People are using the Q&A section of my auctions to make these horrible comments, trying to force me to close the auctions. I have a spotless reputation on any auctions site I have used, no negs at all and this is very disturbing. I have written back to these people telling them that they are emailing these horrible things to a minor and please to stop but, oddly enough, the emails are returned saying that that email addy is no longer valid. All are AOL email names.

I'm beginning to wonder exactly what is going on here and am also wondering if I should contact the police myself. I don't really know what they could do. I don't believe you can arrest people for lying but what other recourse do I have when it is obvious that there is obviously something going on here. This woman is making a very serious accusation and frankly, I'd like to know her motive for telling such slanderous lies.

I know this person Becky Gary well. I have been friends for close to a year and the same with Julie. Julie has been friends with her for much longer than me. We all met in the AOL Forum Pain Relief Center and all had young children and medical problems. We all could relate to each other and became very good friends, almost like sisters.  I have read the postings and wanted to let you know that everything that Julie has said is 100% true. Becky admitted to both of us that she did use Julie's credit card number to create the Paypal account. She said she was desparate and didn't normailly deceive her friends and that it would never happen again. Before this happened, I told Becky that they had an online payment service that would be great for auctions and to join, it was Paypal. She told me that she didn't have a credit card so she was unable to sign up. Later she said that she has an account because her friend was so kind to create the account for her to use. It was the account that she used Julie's information to create the account and used her own email address.

She made a purchase of some Pooh Bean Bags from a good friend of mine in NY. She informed my friend that the payment was coming in her friends name and for her to ship the item to her with Julie's name and c/o Becky Gary. Before Julie found out what was going on with her debit/credit card and was trying to figure out who has done this and why, Becky would say all kinds of off the wall excuses like trying to suggest that I possibly could have done this because I needed money and that I had mysteriously disappeared off line for a month. Well I moved during this time period and did not have a phone for 3-4 weeks and when I returned, I was informed of what happened and that she did confess and apologize to both of us.

Also around the same time of this happening with Julie's account, Becky told me that her computer was hacked and the person wiped out her entire bank account, paypal account and even broke into her auctions and redirected to an address in Carnegie, PA.. the same as where the location is stated for Julie's account with Becky's email address. She continued to use the ID name of SnoBunny414 and has never changed the location from PA. It appears that she will say anything to get out of a situation rather than realizing the consequences that could follow her and you would think she would stop her scamming and that is all we want is for her to stop.

We were all good friends. I have sent her baby cereal and toys for her little girl who was 6 days younger than my daughter and Julie has made her several baby quilts and bibs for her since she was having a rough time and we cared enough to help her out. Julie even used her daughter as a model in some of her auction listings of her handmade bibs and sent her money for food etc.

This woman is using every excuse in the book and her most recent excuse about her daughter having done this is odd to me because she never told me she had a daughter (other than the one who is 6 days younger than mine) and after all this happened with Julie, she now says she does have a daughter and that her parents had legal custody of her but with all of the lies that she has told, it is just so hard to believe a word that she says. I was told her daughter was 15, 17, 16 all in the same few weeks and that she actually had her when she was a young teenager, then 22, then 20 so to me I don't believe a word she says when it comes to claiming to have another daughter and if she really does, I don't believe that she did this. She doesn't live with her and she never lived in CO or could have access to anything regarding Julie's case and the fact that Becky is no stranger to this type of scamming.

I see what Becky is doing and I feel that she needs to be stopped and for everyone to realize that no one is accusing her of anything that was NOT proven she has done. I also checked her auctions and I didn't see any questions and answers being placed on her auctions. Yes I do agree that on her ID names of Higherground14 and BayouBeanie4, she has excellent rating, that is true, HOWEVER, she has failed to inform you that her OTHER Id names are SnoBunny414, BeanieKingy and Coolbeansmoo which are the ones that have the NEGATIVE feedback for all of her latest scams. I know some of the others have or are getting ready to contact you about this situation.

Oh, I also wanted to mention that last week she stated she had no idea what was going on then she mentioned that her friend in Louisiana buys and sells beanies and that her husband just lost his job and she couldn't understand who could be doing this to her again but she has already started to refund a few people before we ever talked and each time has said a different story. This woman needs to be listed on your cautionlist for others to be aware of what could happen if they win her auctions   Thank you for your time,   Lynne

My name is Jason Stewart and I was one of the people Becky scammed. I was contacted by Lynne and she helped me get my refund of $94.00 . I really appreciate all the help. If there s anything I can do, please let me know. thanks again.   Jason Stewart

Hi, my name is Gladys Strazz and I was asked to contact you regarding the money I lost on a bid on the Sakura beanie baby. I believe it was BeanieKingy that contacted me and stated that the winner could not pay and I could have Sakura for my bid of $89.00. She also stated that she would ship Sakura immediately. Well, I paid per paypal but no Sakura came. I contacted her many times on the email but she did not answer me. Then I saw Jason's message and contacted him. He told me about the scam and gave me her email addresses to see if I could get the money back. She told me also that it was her daughter who did this. It does sound believable. If she is lying, she should be punished legally. I have sent her my address per her request to refund the money. To date, though, I have not received anything. However, it is a long distance from Louisiana to New York so maybe it is on the way. (I hope) Please keep in touch and let me know what is happening. I will contact you again. Gladys

I received a priority mail today with a money order for $40.00. Becky still owes me $49.00, but at least it is something. However, she had told me two weeks ago that she had sent the total amount This envelope I received today was mailed on Friday. Thanks for your help - Gladys

We are one of Rebecca Gary's latest victims.
REFERENCE: 6-Page Report of Complaints Against Rebecca Gary http://www.traderlist.com/RebeccaGary.html

Rebecca Gary's Mailing Address - Private Mailbox at MailBoxes Etc:

Bayou Beanies
2142 ONeal Lane, #217
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
E-Mail: bayoubeanie@aol.com

Rebecca Gary made a VISA purchase - in the amount of $133.45 - at our online store under the name, Bayou Beanies. Her order was mailed the following morning. Within 3 weeks, we were notified by VISA that Ms. Gary had initiated a charge back to reverse the charges. Ms. Gary has not responded to e-mails since the departure of her package. We understand that you may have had a negative experience with Rebecca Gary also. We discovered that she operates under MANY user names at YAHOO! and E-Bay. Here are only a few of the ones we attributed to Ms. Gary . . .

1. snobunny414
http://ratings.auctions.yahoo.com/show/rating?userID=snobunny414&filter=-1

2. coolbeansmoo
http://ratings.auctions.yahoo.com/show/rating?userID=coolbeansmoo&filter=-1

3. beaniekingy
http://ratings.auctions.yahoo.com/show/rating?userID=beaniekingy&filter=-1

4. doodlbugz (doodlbugz@aol.com)
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll

- May 20, 2000 registered katnaps4 . . . changed August 20, 2000 to bayoubeanie . . . changed November 11 to doodlbugz; E-Bay has an

internal fraud department; Ms. Gary appears to maintain positive ratings on this auction.

Other Names: higherground14, bayoubeanie, bayoubeanie4, katnaps4, emmykatsmama, coloradothree . . .

We found that Rebecca Gary uses her various online auction identities to buy & sell to herself in order to post positive feedback. Once a number of negative ratings accumulate against Ms. Gary from real customers, the identity soon after becomes inactive. Those transactions honored are generally insignificant in amount (under $3.00). Both YAHOO! and E-Bay have been informed of her activity. We are in the process of collecting information with the Baton Rouge Police Department (Curtis Luttrell at cluttrell@juno.com) . . . and about to file a complaint with the Attorney General State of Louisiana and the U.S. Department of Justice. We would like to invite others to send us an e-mail at stopfraud@canada.com with a detailed description of their experience with Rebecca Gary, along with dates & any other information that may be helpful in a formal investigation.

We have also been advised by Mr. Luttrell at the Baton Rouge Police Department to encourage everyone to file an online complaint directly with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) at https://www.ifccfbi.gov/ . The IFCC is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). The IFCC's mission is to address fraud committed over the internet. For victims of internet fraud, IFCC provides a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of a suspected criminal or civil violation. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at all levels, IFCC offers a central repository for complaints related to internet fraud, and works to quantify fraud patterns. Complaints of fraud under $5,000 are generally overlooked unless the accumulated total among all filing victims is significant in amount. Rebecca Gary is still active on online auctions . . . currently under "doodlbugz". To stop Ms. Gary's fraudulent online activity, please file a complaint directly with the IFCC.

Ms. Gary has made several references in the Trader's Report to a mischievous daughter, and acknowledged that her victims rightfully deserve their money refunded. If this were the case, Ms. Gary should NOT have cashed any of the checks or money orders made payable to herself . . . and instead returned the notes to each buyer allowing them to obtain a refund directly from the issuing company of the note