Heads up on a known scam artist making the rounds.
planonit
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I've posted on this years ago but it is Danny (or Dan) Lee Fricker. Guy sells fake coins but his major scam is to take coins and add artificial cameos and calls them PL/DPL. He gamed Ebay well until they pulled the plug and he went from account to account.
He was finally arrested for making and selling counterfeit coins.
I SAW that Danny Boy was posting his "coins" on Facebook groups. The admin of the major Morgan group knew of the scam and quickly thanked me and deleted Danny.
Another Facebook group started and run by Adrian Crane (Yes that name should ring a bell. He ran Anaconda Rare Coins) deleted my warnings. I then reached out to Adrian to explain to him who Danny was. He said that he did not want my posting warnings because it flooded the group; that is asinine but I asked him to just delete Danny so he can't prey on members. He said no. Even though I even sent Adrian Danny's ARREST record (public knowledge) of him being arrested FOR MAKING AND SELLING FAKES, he still refused. I was baffled and told him to check with the admin of the major Morgan group as well. Nope still refused. So apparently if you are a known manufacturer of counterfeits that is not enough for Mr. Crane to remove you from his group.
Disgusting and makes me glad Adrian is out of the coin business.
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Wow, that's disappointing.
Facebook sucks more than eBay, in my opinion (which doesn't count for much, anyway)
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Adrian was always a good guy and straight shooter, so I would like to hear "his side of the story" before I pass judgment on him.
If the above stated facts are true and there's no 'second side to the story' then it makes me feel this Adrian fellow is as slimy as Danny boy.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
Just to make it clear I even had and sent Adrian a link which shows Danny Fricker being arrested for counterfeiting.
Before you say "Well maybe that is ANOTHER Danny Fricker and just one CRAZY coincidence" it is in a town (Running Springs, CA) with less than 5k people.
When I posted on the group (Adrian's group) Mr. Fricker replied and admitted it but said that he got a fake $10 bill and when he spent it at a grocery store they called the cops. I am serious. That was his story.
He then asked Adrian to delete my warnings he was a scam artist....which Adrian did.
This is why scam artist get away so often.
Not amazed some people don't want to know the truth they would rather be in their own little world and when someone tries and let's them know what is going on in the real world they aren't interested in hearing it as the truth doesn't fit into their idea of how things should be
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Plenty of folks to weigh in I'm certain with thoughts re Anaconda. As I recall, his coins were top shelf.
To make it more fun they are not harassing me to death on Facebook and whatnot. People I don't even know posting adn sending me messages.
Danny Lee Fricker is the worst of the worst.
I don't have a facebook account nor will NEVER have a facebook account. No way but that's just me. If my friends need to get ahold of me they know how. I guess I just don't get it.
In fairness I'm starting to meet a lot of collectors on the Facebook Groups. Some morons, some scammers, but some good ones. Even found a few guys on this forum on there and vice versa.