No serial number was given and perhaps naively I didn't think to ask. In retrospect it may not have proved anything anyway. If all the other details were so carefully made up, it wouldn't take much imagination for them to have made up a genuine looking number too. They could probably come up with one that was genuine and that didn't match anyone's here or one that was reported stolen.

As regards this user preying on others, that user has not made a single post since, although that doesn't mean that others aren't still replying to the original for sale post.

It certainly makes me wary to deal with new members too, which is unfortunate, but let's face it, there is little to stop this person having several different usernames.

It is difficult to know whether to make this person's details public at this time, as it may all be perfectly innocent and just down to an unfortunate mix-up. I wouldn't want to wrongly tarnish somebody's name.

I don't know whether Stahi can shed any further light on this individual and give any better idea as to whether their details should be made public.

As for me, I have decided that if I haven't heard from this person within the next 36 hours, I will make the essential details public here so that others may be warned. If the whole thing subsequently turns out to be one big misunderstanding, I will gladly apologise.

Andy.