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The closing of the store must be interesting for those (allegedly) four people who ordered from him. No pesky phone numbers or contact details in handy reach to call when their stuff doesn't arrive.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
From DM -

I closed the FB page and closed the website. The website takes a bit before its taken down though.

Im done with your bullgak games. You guys have had my home address since 2009 when rick came. My number has NEVER changed, both the 632 and 864. Always the same. Claiming you cant find me for years was bs. I have a load more to say but ill end it with fek you.

The little charmer.

You'll forgive us if we don't let our guard down.

Oh well it's been 2 days, time for some more dramatics I suppose. Continue to adore that he thinks I am orchestrating the whole community single-handedly and that this would not be happening otherwise lol. With me or without me Mandelbaum, you would be in the same spot. Again, please feel free to yell obscenities at the mirror should you feel the need to actually address the real and only person single handedly responsible for your situation.

Agreed, and keep the watch out- he seems to never tire of this, but I hope that at least he's having less and less success in his schemes now that his name is becoming known pretty far and wide in the wargaming community as someone who has scammed so many people. Certainly, this one (and the last) were quite short-lived and can't have really been "worth it" for him in the end.

I'm sure he is gonna show up with off-brand titan bits he made. I bet you anything, he jumped pretty quick when I mentioned that, don't think I have forgotten DM.

So, in particular, keep an eye out for titan stuff as well as the other usual suspects.


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Oh, and Daniel, you forgot to shut down Black Crusade Studios too.

That was too fast ! I would suspect that RF and BCS have both been sacrificed as a smoke screen . The meltdown phase was to restrained and not dragged out as much as the last few times ,literally under 24 hours since the Warning messages started hitting the majority of feeds to a close down of RF facebook and web pages .

But not BCS, don't forget that! It's still there if dormant -

Not sure how one is supposed to know where a mobile phone number is located.

With current technology it could be anywhere in the inhabited world.

However Mandelbaum was never one to allow facts to interfere with a good story.

Well, he also conveniently forgets he was lying through his face during the specified years and using nothing but aliases. We didn't even know his real name til 2012 lol!

So, we always knew exactly where he was and how to reach him in 2009. We simply didn't know WHO he was or WHY we should be looking at that particular location or phone #, because he lied about everything all along and never used his real name. Really though, why can't we see he was being completely transparent while being completely dishonest! What's wrong with us!

Mandelogic: 2 + 2 = quack. (I'm taking it back Aerethan lol)

Im confused, did he reopen his store a few days ago then reclosed it?

 ironicsilence wrote:
Im confused, did he reopen his store a few days ago then reclosed it?

The store was open for all of 2 days before it was taken down entirely and the FB page deleted.


quack

Did Daniel just threaten to stop scamming? Noooooo!

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Not sure how one is supposed to know where a mobile phone number is located.
With current technology it could be anywhere in the inhabited world..

Not sure what you mean, but with a bit of googling, any person can locate an active mobile phone.

Does Facebook support a secure eCommerce implementation?

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Well, he also conveniently forgets he was lying through his face during the specified years and using nothing but aliases. We didn't even know his real name til 2012 lol!

So, we always knew exactly where he was and how to reach him in 2009. We simply didn't know WHO he was or WHY we should be looking at that particular location or phone #, because he lied about everything all along and never used his real name. Really though, why can't we see he was being completely transparent while being completely dishonest! What's wrong with us!

Mandelogic: 2 + 2 = quack. (I'm taking it back Aerethan lol)

Exactly! Just because you have a number doesn't mean you'll answer, DOES IT DANIEL!?!?!?!
Weeks and months of not knowing why you don't have your crap? Rick I do not care who it is or what they say, you do not circumvent the swear filter or be so crude. MT11

In that case: no Daniel, you are not transparent at all and a very, very unpleasant person.

Oh well, it'll probably be a few weeks to a month before he shows up again with another scam.

So we can enjoy his "Duck+Duck=Goose" logic again. And seeing him try to serpentine his way out again.

It's not over, not even for now. Black Crusade Studio is still up.

So, he re-opened, then closed, Resin Forge in the span of two days... but left the Black Crusade Studio page up. Got it...

Yep....

Smoke screen, I'm sticking with my original assessment.

 d-usa wrote:
Smoke screen, I'm sticking with my original assessment.

If you mean try to re-open the RF business, all the while putting the finishes on the new "Daniel's latest way to try to screw people" website, I agree.
When the "white flag" was sent to MT11, it was my first thought too. He must be ready to launch, if not already running.

That's my thought. Keep us busy with that while working on his next scam-to-be.

To be frank, for Mandelbaum to reopen and close his web store in the space of 48 hours makes him look unreliable.

I'm curious about the four customers Black Crusade Studio is supposed to have waiting on titans. He said he was going to be posting pictures of those titans soon, and that was like a week ago. Really curious to see how they look because he does do good work.

I'm curious about the four customers Black Crusade Studio is supposed to have waiting on titans. He said he was going to be posting pictures of those titans soon, and that was like a week ago. Really curious to see how they look because he does do good work.

Considering none of those alleged customers ever left a comment (as far as I saw) I simply doubt they exist. And how often did he keep up on actually uploading promised pics? Yeah, exactly.

Short term promises that are never fulfilled are a pretty common thing in his scams. It's normally a sign when things have passed the legitimate phase and well entered the phase where he is active in scamming people; since he can't take or display photos of things he hasn't got.

Sometimes he'll throw up a smoke screen; such as the Games Day release last year where he simply tagged and added a large number of other peoples photos from the event and spun out a series of excuses for why he couldn't show any of his own directly (despite having said he would only days before - note that should also be a "they" as at the time RF claimed to have at least 3 staff members).

They had four including their PR guy, but maybe he wasn't full time.

Yes, quite a variety of fictional characters were involved, lawyers, pr people etc. Quite a fine corporate team for a guy working out of his Dad's spare room.

I'd love to see a PR person actually try to do something with the moldering pile that is DM's reputation lol. That would be a masterclass.

Four rf employees... Four customers for the Titan.... Four RF customers.

Trend when lying? Or perhaps he's got a little bit of OCD and prefers that number to any other (I kinda do the same thing with 3. My units need to be in multiples of 3...)

2000 likes in a month, 800 for Black Crusade Studios also in a month. That PR guy was really a star.

2000 likes. 4 comments. lol.

So, just to get caught up, RF is gone, BCS is still active albeit dormant and we are all searching for DMs next scheme? Dose that sound about right?

Yup. Back to Mandelwatch 2013.

Next one would be 'company' #4 just this year alone. And if he uses another alias, it would be the 7th or 8th name he has used, and the 4th dedicated alias.

I repeat, for this year alone.

Reading all this stuff, I can't help but to picture him as the real life version of Eric Cartman.