Bayonet Collectors Beware Polish Criminal

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WARNING WARNING Tomek Nowak WARNING WARNING
This guy is ripping off collectors. He was just booted from the GDC, lets hope the WA can see if he is on board to boot him too! He steals emails and spams people..con artist #1 He will be arrested if he enters the USA.

http://daggers.infopop.cc/groupee/fo...3/m/7760006214

[FW 200]

Could someone tell me how a person can get our e-mail address from WAF?

[Larry Lipps]

If someone sends you an email through the forum and you respond, they can see your email address.

[phosphateb]

BCN: thanks goes to Roger for providing information that lead to further info about the fraud, Novak.

The excrescence known as Tomek aka Tomasz aka Pawel Nowak aka all the anglicised versions of the same name has a long history of internet fraud selling fake treasure wreck locations & diver info supposedly from Spanish & British archives, and a Japanese sword with 'XVIII century blade'. There are references dating back as far as 2000 on diving sites detailing his scams and they continue through till present on (mainly) Japanese sword forums. The MO is almost always the same; harvest emails from the target forum, then contact individuals privately usually trying to conduct several sales simultaneously. The bayonets/militaria mentioned in the recent frauds appear to be an adaptation to suit a new target group.

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top">He has used the following names:
Tomas Nowak
Tomasz Nowak
Tomek Nowak/Novak
Pawel Nowak/Novak
Pawel Tomasz Nowak
etc</td> <td valign="top">and following emails:
archival_research@yahoo.com
Golden_Treasure_4@hotmail.com
golden_treasure_5@yahoo.com
Golden_Treasure_9@yahoo.com
goldenwrecks@hotmail.com
Pawel_Tomasz_Nowak@yahoo.com
sea_quest_service@yahoo.com
shipwrecks_diving@hotmail.com
Silverwrecks@hotmail.com
Tomasnowak@hotmail.com
Treasurewrecks@hotmail.com
xers@hotmail.com
etc</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Further information can be found on him here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pawel...n&lr=&safe=off
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...re&btnG=Search

Food for thought, someone baited him here:
http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7412

A hacked version of his website is found here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/TIPET/powelindex.htm

So how did this tumour get our emails? I don't know.
I for one would recommend members broadcast information about this fraud in other internet groups & forums they belong to prevent further trouble & close Novak out. Especially if they relate to edged weapons. If he turns up on a forum or list that you belong to, I would seek immediate banning.
Any other ideas?

[Peter A Larson]

This character emailed me today. Be aware he is still around. See other threads on him.

[Van]

Yep, he is here in WAF udner a new name... here is the email he sent me, I have not replied,,, WHEW,,, was thinking about reporting him...so here is his info and email he sent me.

This is a message from Kaspian at Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums ( http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/index.php ). The Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums owners cannot accept any responsibility for the contents of the email.

To email Kaspian, you can use this online form:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...member&u=10018

OR, by email:
mailto:Archival_research@yahoo.com

This is the message:

Hello:

I have some German Insignia/Medals from WWI and WWII and a few German helmets from WWI and WWII in a good condition. I have also a few bayonets and swords for sale: japanese arisaka, and three french bayonets: Chassepot, Grass and Lebel. I would like to sell them for a reasonable price. I also have a japanese swords (katana and tanto) with the blade from XVIII century. If you could have an interest,
let me know.

Regards.

Archival.Research@yahoo.com
Trident.Research@hotmail.com

[phosphateb]

cant this criminals account be deleted? forum mgr please help!

[Shenkursk]

back again like the proverbial 'bad penny'. He may be persistent, but he certainly lacks imagination. It is always the same batch of items that he is 'selling.'

I am sure if you type his name in the search function you will find numerous other threads on this character from his past exploits.

[Johnnie]

I also recieved the same e-mail from this clown a couple weeks ago. Since I had read about him on this and other forums I simply deleted it. I'm still curious how he gotmy e-mail to begin with,
Cheers,
Johnnie

[nonameno]

Good morning Gentlemen,
I have just yesterday received the same e-mail offers from Pawel Nowak. Before completing a transaction which seem too good to be true, I did a search on the Forum, and this all too interesting thread appeared.
I will NOT be dealing with this fellow thanks to the FORUM!
Thank you all,
Curtiss

[RUHL13]

This may not be the right place for this, but it does involve some headgear too.
I was contacted by email by a Pawmel Tomak, from Poland. Stating that he does not collect, but has items for sale. Helmets, Swords, Daggers etc. Even sent me so called crudentials sent to him by the Ministry of Defence of England.
Basically wanting money sent to him for these items by Western Union. Had a friend run a check on him and it is fraud. Most of you would be hesitant in sending him money..I hope..but others may fall for this...Beware!
Regards,
Gary
POSTED THIS BACK IN JULY, in the Headgear forum!
Regards,
Gary

[Sepal]

Still active

This may not be the right place for this, but it does involve some headgear too.
I was contacted by email by a Pawmel Tomak, from Poland. Stating that he does not collect, but has items for sale. Helmets, Swords, Daggers etc. Even sent me so called crudentials sent to him by the Ministry of Defence of England.
Basically wanting money sent to him for these items by Western Union. Had a friend run a check on him and it is fraud. Most of you would be hesitant in sending him money..I hope..but others may fall for this...Beware!
Regards,
Gary
POSTED THIS BACK IN JULY, in the Headgear forum!
Regards,
Gary

HE IS STILL ACTIVE

[jani_tiainen]

Still active...

HE IS STILL ACTIVE

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:50:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Pawel Nowak <shipwrecks.research271275@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: shipwrecks.research271275@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: German Militaria
To: jani.tiainen@finnmedals.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <796942.24279.qm@web59709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

Hello:

I have some German Insignia/Medals from WWI and WWII and a few German helmets from WWI and WWII in a good condition. There are also German daggers. I have also a few bayonets and swords for sale: japanese arisaka, and three french bayonets: Chassepot, Grass and Lebel. I would like to sell them for a reasonable price. I also have a japanese swords (katana and tanto) with the blade from XVIII century. If you could have an interest, let me know.

Regards.
Pawel
Shipwrecks.Research271275@yahoo.com



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[jiipee76]

I received this one:

Hello:

Ich biete deutsche Auszeichnungen/Insignien, Helme und Bajonetts/Daggers an (WK1 und WK2). All die Gegenstände sind originell und in gutem Zustand. Ich verkaufe sie zu einem sehr günstigen Preis. Ich habe auch einige deutsche Alben mit ursprünglichen Fotos von von 1939-1945.

I have some German Insignia/Medals from WWI and WWII and a few German helmets from WWI and WWII in a good condition. There are also German daggers. I have also a few bayonets and swords for sale: japanese arisaka, and three french bayonets: Chassepot, Grass and Lebel. I would like to sell them for a reasonable price. I also have a japanese swords (katana and tanto) with the blade from XVIII century. If you could have an interest, let me know.

Regards.
Nowak271275@yahoo.com

[Jon Fish]

UPDATE
He is operating under the e-mail hornblower1994@aol.co.uk
On the War & Peace website
http://www.warandpeaceshow.com/compo...show_category/

User name 'Hornblower 1994'

BEWARE