Moggie61 transaction [Moggie's Toyshop]

I've heard someone on the Australian groups mailing list talk about visiting Moggie at his house before. I've emailed her to see if she's heard anything from him. From what she said in her post awhile back, it sounds like there's no actual store and it's more a work from home thing.

The Australians involved in the transactions might want to ask on the Angels AU Mailing List and on LJ community dollie_cafe (since I think he's based in Victoria?) if anyone could contact him personally. I'm not actually involved in any transactions with him, so it might be a little strange for me to page him on communities.

 

There are a LOT of us who still haven't received refunds or merchandise and I think everyone who has posted here with complaints have done so legitimately. Would you be able to go ahead and post the contact information you have? I know some time ago, you contacted the Warburton police and they were going to send you a packet of information...whatever came of that? Was there anything that might be helpful to us?

 

I've received a reply from the lady on the mailing list. This is her reply:

I cannot confirm the story as true or not. Are there any questions any of you would like to ask her? I am reluctant to release her email address without her permission (though, if I can find her, it's not obscure).

I'm asking if she can confirm that the address on his website is his home.

 

...convenient.

 

I checked out Moggie's profile on fetlife and he explains what happened in detail so I think he is actually telling the truth.

 

Has anyone tried looking up the address on the website to see if there are any newspaper articles or anything of the sort to see if his house really burned down? If it made the news it would be accessible via internet or austrailian news sites. Other than that keep hounding him guys and hang in there, this has become ridiculous and I believe he should be banned from this site. I ordered from him some time ago on ebay and luckily everything went smoothly I hate to discover he's screwed so many people over and is now living on stolen money...what a bastard.

 

In the post on fetlife begging for clothes, toys, money, furniture, shoes, bedding, silverware, a new car, all of the essential things
they list his bank account. Surely that will help track him down?

 

That was me My room-mate from way back did a trip out to the address supplied on the website at my request, there was no-one there at the time and Claire said there was junk mail stuffed/hanging out of the mailbox which led her to believe (in HER opinion) that no-one had been there for a bit. I didn't see it myself so I can only post what she told me.,

As for what the "package" the Victorian police sent me was just pamphlets and nothing truly specific or helpful...

I have to wait untill I go to work tomorrow and I'll post all the information I have here for contacting the Warburton Police.

I thought EXACTLY the same thing so I had a fairly thorough search of the internet and have turned nothing up -I'm going to make a couple of calls and see what I find out...

edit: This is the phone number for Warburton Police 03)59669000 No-one is there today (Friday 17th) but they have my details and I called again asking fro information on a "house-fire" in the area. Warburton is a small town so its very unlikely anything as serious as a house burning down would go unnoticed. I tried ringing the Country Fire Association with no-luck it appears all of the numbers in the white pages are either inccorrect or disconnected...?

Mods: For the record I have no outstanding funds owing from Moggie I did a charge-back on my CC. However I would sincerely like to help others who were not so fortunate, hence my continued involvement.

 

whitewings: That's excellent your looking into it! I'll do the same.

pureanathema: Are you telling me he's actually asking for all those things?! Is there a number or contact address to reach him? If so post it! As for the bank account I wouldn't see any way for that to be of service, but who knows.

 

I PMed you with a screencap

 

You know what it sounds like...another scam...seriously it basically reads: If you'd like to donate here's our bank accounts with our hands held out wide open suckers! They claim that the Red Cross Foundation is helping them, sounds like the RCF in their area needs to be notified...

Would you mind if I or yourself pureanathema posted the link you pm'ed me? As they posted it on a public site it shouldn't be a problem.

 

Ah, there was someone else who went to his house before and sounded like they were friends with him. She was the one I emailed and who replied with the explanation that the house burned down.

As far as I can find (very quick search since I don't have time), there has been a small fire reported on the same street in the same suburb that is supplied on his website. It does not state the exact address and I do not know if the website's address is his house so again, it cannot be confirmed:

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cach...ent+street+warburton&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au

What was stated on the website:
13 WARBURTON KENT ST 05/10/2008 20:18:00 STRUCTURE CONTROLLED SMALL 6

It occured on the 5th Oct, so it doesn't really explain why refunds weren't made before then, if it is his house.

Hopefully, a more comprehensive search and calls might yield more details. Good luck guys.

 

Yeah...I'm a little dubious, not to mention if you were desperate for thousands of dollars that you owed people that you could not pay back, might you not consider claiming insurance on your house?

If the money owed were just for Moggie's own creations and it had been due to some circumstances that had caused him and Inanna to have to stop work for a while, thus delaying shipment and putting them into debt...that would be one thing. But to take hundreds of dollars on multiple dolls that were then never bought from DZ and shipped...well, you just don't pay off your debts with and/or spend money that IS NOT YOURS, is not FOR YOUR PRODUCT.

If he truly is having this happen, well, I am truly sorry, but I feel like he has been discovered all over the internet (ebay, here, Resinality, etc) as a scammer, and it's hard for me to just trust openly that someone who has taken money from so many others is taking real donations that will be used for only necessary items.

 

When searching on google with: "warburton" + "kent st" + "house fire" I found this:

18:35:49, 05-10-08, @@ALERT F081001842 WARB1 STRUC1 HOUSE FIRE 20 KENT ST WARBURTON /SUSSEX ST //SUSSEX ST M 289 J2 (833216) WARB WBRN [WARB]

This was an old posting on a site that records emergency calls. Clicking the link leads to the updated page that only goes to the 15th. The house fire is real it seems, but I think I would have to agree with wildefae that he and his wife may be trying to get insurance monies. You may want to contact the authorities in the area because he may be trying to commit fraud on top of all his other scams.

 

Good grief.

This is looking more and more insurmountable as time goes on.

 

I'm really sad to hear that most of you guys haven't gotten a refund yet... When I first got into the hobby, I was going to buy my first doll from his shop online. I'm glad I didn't.

Also, he should have more than enough money to get a new place to live, seeing as how much money he's stolen from you guys.

 

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1185/moggiefiretp7.jpg

This is a screencap of what he is asking for. He also posted that he has around $300 given to him already.
His bank account number has been blocked out, as I don't think that's allowed to be posted.

 

I was about to post to say that Ian had lost his house and the majority of his possessions in a fire. He hasn't forgotten you guys, he's just trying to find a place to live.

 

That happened 10 days ago.
He said he was giving refunds in July.
Seriously?

 

*shrugs* I don't know anything about refunds, mainly because I'm not involved. I just know that a friend of mine is having a really hard time right now and having everything in his life burnt isn't the greatest help.