Scammer Alert: ShowaDreamer/Hanakyukyu -- Baraneko

Scammer Alert

We recently banned user ShowaDreamer for engaging in fraudulent trades and sales of dolls, including both resin dolls and Volks DDs. Dolls were sent to him (or her) but he didn't send his half of the trade. He sold or tried to sell the same doll to more than one person. He tried to sell a Souldoll Lester that may not even exist, as he offered photos to two different people that were actually heavily tweaked versions of both company photos and pilfered third-party owner photos. He actively tries to get DOA members to switch to emails for negotiations, and to make personal-type Paypal payments rather than purchase-type payments.

He has shut down his phone number (which tracked to PA) and the email address via which people were contacting him, but has been turning up on DOA in the middle of the night, the last time on 10/26/13, although he has not posted into the Problem Transactions thread about him since 10/10.

Some of the online handles and email addresses that he uses or has used in the past are:
ShowaDreamer
Hanakyukyu

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

He is located in Stone Mountain, GA, but was in Chicago when he joined DOA. He has claimed to be moving to Missouri. According to profiles on other sites, he has gone under such names as Eli/Elijah Morris or Norris or Eli Tanakashi, and another relative may be signing for packages, as the shipping address often is addressed to a first-initial "K." His birthdate is given variously as 10/20/85, 4/10/84, 5/10/93, 9/10/86

He has purged his DeviantArt account of all doll-related posts, but Google links still exist for doll match-ups to a member named ArashiMahou. Whether his or not, a tumblr account also exists for that name.

We don't normally post information related to Marketplace issues, but we are concerned that this individual intends to systematically scam our community. We have banned his account and the second DOA account he attempted to create. Therefore, we are concerned that he may try again and slip past, so we would like everyone to be careful in the Marketplace and help us to catch him if he manages to register a new account.

Thank you for reading!

10/26/14 UPDATE: We have discovered that ShowDreamer, et al., is either a family member to - or IS - reputedly deceased problem-transaction member Baraneko. They share the same birthdate of 10/20/85, and Baraneko's RL name is Kimberly Norris. There was a delay in discovering this connection, as the report of Kimberly's demise pre-dated ShowaDreamer starting up MP transgressions. Note that there seems to be cross-referable current or recent activity under the email addy of tsukirocketto @ hotmail by Kimberly Norris/David Norris, with an apparent current address in southern Florida.