Anyone know someone who uses the name Matthew Smith ?

Nearly got coned by him.

Watch out for anyone using this email mattonlaptop@gmail.com

Cool story bro.

Needs more dragons.

Didn’t he write jet set willy, manic miner that kind of thing

Getting coned? sound’s painful!

Who? Is he a doctor

Anyone know someone who uses the name Matthew Smith

Yes.
I think he’s called Mathew Smith.
Hope that helps.

Nearly got coned by him.

Dunno whether he aimed a pine cone at you & missed or you mis-spelt & he tried to clone you.
Either way, ‘nearly’ simply isn’t good enough!

I think he meant road cone…..

Whatever you do, don’t google “coning”. (Or did my friends make it up?)

I know somebody who calls himself John Smith if that helps. I could.ask if he’s related to Matthew.

Don’t leave us hanging howie ! Tell us more

this fellah, looks well dodgy

That’s him kimbers.

One of his other coning victims apparently is James Corden. So all is forgiven.

Do you mean James Coneden?

Nearly had more than a n missing

Are we talking about Smithy here??

The horseshoe guy?

I’m called Matthew Smith, but I use the name Matt Smith.

*breathes a sigh of relief*

Don’t suppose you have had yor passport & driving licence stolen?

Nope, looks like I’m still me.

That’s good, as long as you like yourself that is.

no relation

Why, what happened?

Can’t you read? He almost got coned! Coned I tells you! Can you believe it?!

Quite clearly, everyone who is poking fun at the OP here has never taken a serious coning from an expert.

This him?

It could be my cousin. He has always been a nice trustable sort of chap but I could get a couple of nutters to interogate him about this coning situation just to be sure.

I just got coned by howie.. into opening this thread

I need more of an explanation, as I have had contact with someone with that name over the last 2 days on the forum.
E-mail in profile

So the guy calling himself Matthew Smith offered me a pair of carbon R1 levers after placing wanted ad,

Sent me picture of a pass port & driving licence which showed his name & address.wanted me to do bank transfer, just struck me as odd, searched on Google images & found the image he used.

Quick search on his email & not the first time he has done this stuff.

Me too. 🙁

Thread takes serious turn

why would you send someone a pic & a driving license ?,that in itself raises suspicion dosnt it ?,so what did ya do then send him some £,or thought **** off ?.

TBH if I was paying by bank transfer, with little or no way to get it refunded, if something went wrong. Having the recipient send his photo and address would be a reassurance, though not necessarily any guarantee

Back story:

Placed a Wanted Ad for a seatpost:

“Matt” contacted me saying he had one. After a few emails we agreed a price, he said he couldn’t accept paypal, but could do a transfer. I said I wasn’t comfortable with this and he offered to send a pic of his DL along with his address. He also offered to do 50% now, 50% on delivery, something others have done on STW in the past.

I did a bit of due diligence, found his FB, Twitter, MSE accounts and checked his bank account details against the register..all seemed fine, I also found something else for sale on another forum, but nothing untoward and so agreed and paid.

That was Thursday…

I don’t think I’d be very reassured by a pic of a passport and driving licence which could belong to anybody. How exactly does that prove anything? I’d never use a bank transfer to somebody I didn’t know, and asking for that is more than suspicious. I’m also struggling to think of any legitimate reason why somebody can’t use PayPal.

I’m also struggling to think of any legitimate reason why somebody can’t use PayPal

me also

Some folks don’t want to use it, my wife for example won’t use it.

I nearly got taken in by this guy