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- From: mhm@dcez.com (M. Miller)
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- Subject: Re: ATTN: Victims of the thief Dirk J. Rokicki (palo alto, ca)
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:40:44 -0500
- Organization: Applied Analytics, Inc.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <mhm-0102961840450001@198.6.197.190>
- References: <Kimnach.486.00097C14@popserve.lerc.nasa.gov> <zack-3101961204150001@cesinst.pa.scruznet.com> <Kimnach.488.000B1198@popserve.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- >In article <zack-3101961204150001@cesinst.pa.scruznet.com>
- zack@cesinst.com (Mark Stevans) writes:
- >>From: zack@cesinst.com (Mark Stevans)
- >>Subject: Re: ATTN: Victims of the thief Dirk J. Rokicki (palo alto, ca)
- >>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:04:15 -0800
- >
- >>In article <Kimnach.486.00097C14@popserve.lerc.nasa.gov>,
- >>Kimnach@popserve.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach) wrote:
- >>>first of, if you haven't dealt with this person, DON'T. BEWARE,
- >>>He is a THIEF and a LIER.
- >
- >>Could you give us an account of your first-hand experience with this
- >>alleged criminal, just so we have a solid testimony against him on the
- >>public record? Are you the above is his real name? Perhaps fraudulent COD
- >>checks are covered under federal statutes, even if the shipments were
- >>within a single state....
- >
- >>ZZZ
- >
- >first, i've included detective mark winn's (fraud unit, palo alto police
- >department) phone number for any of you requiring it. and i ask that other
- >victims reply to my request for your dealings with dirk, and your
- >phone/address. that said....
- >
- >i sold dirk a retina zII card. having spoken with him on the phone, we agreed
- >on a cod price ($335). i shipped the retina via ups--but made the mistake of
- >not expicitly writing "cash or cashier's check only" in the provided space on
- >the cod tag. (i only checked the "cash only" box.) ups accepted a personal
- >check which, like all good rubber, bounced.
- >
- >i called dirk, and he was very apologetic--claiming that someone got a hold of
- >some of his checks and was using them without his consent, so he had to close
- >the account. he promised to send a cashier's check to me and that i should
- >receive it by the following friday. (this was in november '94.) he told me
- >to call him and let him know when the payment arrived--it never did. i called
- >dirk's home and was told he was out, so i asked that he return my call. he
- >didn't. i tried calling again--the phone was disconnected. i tried a few
- >more times in the following weeks--the line was finally back in service. i
- >could tell he was at home by the way the girl who answered told me that
- >he was out. by the end of january (yes i'm patient), i got very tired of it
- >and was going to be very adament that he pay me, or else.....well, the phone
- >was again disconnected. i called his bank to file a complaint and get his new
- >number. (they would not give out such information, but the receptionist gave
- >me the number to the palo alto police department.)
- >
- >in febuary '95, i contacted detective mark winn of the fraud unit
- >(415-329-2559) who attempted to "pester" dirk and his family. he figured that
- >if the police would call often enough, dirk's family would get tired of being
- >called by the police and would convince dirk to make good on his debts. it
- >didn't work.
- >
- >during this time i also was trying to get ups to help, but there was only so
- >much they could do. they would not let the driver, who delivered the package
- >and accepted the personal check, get involved in the case as det. winn had
- >requested.
- >
- >yes, by may i had gotten busy with other things and i "forgot" about it. but
- >then i recently saw dirk's name come up again on the net. he had struck
- >again, and now i'm pissed that i let this little rat do it to someone else.
- >if i had just kept the pressure up......
- >
- >but now, i'm collecting names and accounts of the various victims and
- >near-victims of this low-life and will make sure that he is held
- >accountable!
- >
- >hear that, dirk?
- >
- >oh, and this little pisser had the nerve to tell me he would contact me by
- >last thurday. he didn't. he claimed--on the net--that he would make good on
- >his past mistakes. i'm sure the others have not heard from him either.
- >
- >prison, where big men would call him "ma'am", is where he belongs.
-
- I think dirk would find his new nickname to be "bitch" rather than "ma'am" : )
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