Adam Howard
Adam Howard runs a network of high end guitar thieves
Adam Howard of Plano, Texas and Forth Worth/Dallas Dallas runs a network of scammers who operate on reverb.com, ebay, sevenstring.org, fractal audio systems forum, and many other ultra high end guitar sites.
Using hacked paypal accounts that Howard purchases from the Dark Web, along with using false identities that Howard steals from the US Dept of State, as he is a translator and worker for the US government, he assumes the email/identity of a potential buyer and solicits a purchase.
After gaining the seller’s confidence as a legitimate buyer, he sends the money via paypal in order to begin the shipment process. Once the guitar, usually ranging from a minimum of $2000-4000, is shipped the tracking is generated and uploaded to the site. The seller has done his job and thinks the legitimate sale is complete.
This is where Howard attacks: he contacts his financial institution on day 3 to alert them the guitar is not as described, it is damaged, and the seller is a fraud with a sham listing. The institution then freezes the payment. Now Howard uploads false documentation and false/doctored images to solidify and cement his proof with Paypal, who he has a friend on the inside who works there.
The friend escalates the scam to a higher elevated status to expedite the decision, and within a week, Adam Howard has stolen the guitar and the funds have been frozen, recovered, and returned back to Adam Howard. At which point, paypal also informs him and the seller that he is not obligated to return the item due to the fraudulent nature of the scam.
He works from Texas, Wisconsin, and Florida, but has network affiliations in Philippines and France. If you are buying or selling a guitar and a potential buyer is from these areas, think twice before shipping.
This is commonly known as Paypal reversal, but because of his network, people inside paypal, and his numerous state department assets he abuses, it is almost impossible to know if it is indeed adam howard. He does tend to like ERG/extended range guitars, 7 and 8 string guitars, Strandberg, Ibanez, Axe fx 3, and other high end multiscale guitars that cost well over $2000-5000 dollars. He is very friendly and pretends to like what you like, so Beware and use your discretion.
The scary part is Adam Howard is going to be a licensed doctor in Texas!!! Beware of Adam Howard, he is a dirty, Muslim, terrorist.
How’s that office account adam
So FAS/Fractal audio systems . sevenstring.org, and ADAM HOWARD STOLE AND LOGGED INTO MY EMAIL ACCOUNT
they used my login info and sent a clickbait mail.
Also GRAVITY PICKS IS A SCAM – they charge $30 for a pick – one “boutique pick”
Gravity picks and pyramid guitars (including their authorized dealer endorsement contracts) like ONI guitars as already proven with Daniel Memory and KxK (kamil Kiesel) guitars
These guys , Corey owens , sevenstring and reverb are all a “circular scam network” and run an underground ring through sevenstring, their affiliates and discord chat rooms, and finally they literally broke every white collar crime, especially digital /cyber , I’ve ever witnessed on an inter[net]national scale
Adam, you are truly a moron – Etsy, All the different forums music and non music, and you actually had Cliff Chase help you attack me virtually online to steal my personal email and you hacked in and stole money and personal identification
Enjoy the perpetual inFLUENCE this will generate with your aqui-hire from reverb and Etsy
Your all linked now – and even if it came down in 6 months like you implied when you told me you were going to pay DIRTYSCAM anything to take this down, they know this is a LONG time scam running
Thanks as my IT department (remember I’m actually what I said I was) found your unauthorized access but because of who/what/when and how it was done they know for sure it’s all linked to you and why – cuz your a sick sociopathic scammer and I’ll make sure the medical board sees this on your interviews
Better go back to Germany or Dubai
Ya yehudi chithab Hywan minyouk
Thanks for finally making it so easy to catch you – sure yOUR VPN AND PROXY agents on SSO, REVERB Etsy and FAS might throw interference but we’ll find out with all that mail you sent physically
Stupid
I told you not to screw with me and mine anymore but you just couldn’t stop
Now you will for sure – and I’ll make sure Etsy and reverb know who they acquired this time – tessa can’t block shit my friend
This is way over her pay grade now, and with this proof you’ll be getting an internal
Email soon mr Tae Kwon Do Baltimore Maryland wannabe – should have told Chris PierMan not to get involved and you definitely made your biggest mistake having Cliff chase call the feds Captain nasty (on Fas forums) or bolo (reverb) or the rest you can find here and now all over anywhere by googling
SEVENSTRING.org Scam ? sevenstring.org NOT legit ?
Or who knows add Amazon to the keyword search and theres an Easter egg for all you morons, clearly listed here and the other scam report for sevenstring.org
You are criminals and you profit from lies and fraudulent online and offline work, especially financial fraud, cyber criminal fraud ranging from identity theft involved or simply stealing from people via PayPal or cash app, or Venmo so really
Go —— ya selves because it’s one year since the scam with Corey owens and pyramid guitars and with all this proof as you can see from the cloud flare IP traffic , IM OUT
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
(Meaning Christmas and thanksgiving and Halloween)
Adam Taha Howard lives in Baltimore Maryland
Adam Taha Howard lives on the east coast, not Texas – he is BOLO (from Reverb.com) and he was the seller from
Baltimore Maryland that also had the duplicate listings on SSO.
SSO = Reverb.com = fractal audio systems
All one big corrupt family
Adam Howard lives in Baltimore Maryland not Texas
Adam Tara Howard lives in Baltimore Maryland – he is/was BOLO on reverb (before this)
Etsy is responsible now, ultimately
Now that I think about it, SSO and FAS almost have carte Blanche to do whatever they want in their online u-boats … because Etsy is the true owner. Now, these guys are honorary employees who have nothing to do but be dishonest in whatever capacity – professional schemers and scammers and con artists don’t change, the only change their hustle (once the old one doesn’t produce anymore) – Etsy took a load off for SSO I can tell. Now we know who to really focus on from here on out.
Cliff Chase of Fractal Audio was in on this from day 1
Fractal Audio Systems, The entire Fractal forums, mods and admin (Cliff chase), the owner, were in cahoots with seven string and enthused digital for a decade +
After discovering Sevenstring = Reverb.com and then started working other companies as their “influencers” with pre-Facebook forum driven marketing by bots and operators, only to keep acquiring all independent forums from enthused digital LLC to vertical scope LTD, to FINALLY SCALING TO A $275 million Etsy buyout of revenue.com , including board seats for shits like this asshole
Cliff Chase was silent for years about us informing him that his site was filled with cyber criminals and professional scammers in a organized crime online network spanning the globe, which is how reverb scaled beneath the surface – now we know why! Chase and FAS and FAS forums are also financially staked in the same interests so they are indeed linked.
Cliff Chase filed false police reports for hate speech by Captain Nasty aka Svava (the original bad apple from SSO startup^^^ pictured lol) to protect him on his forum and attempted to have the victim
Of the hate crime instead falsely questioned and harassed by police
Well fuck you cliff, and fuck you Adam/SSO (admin aka “Nick”) – now that i see you have no respect for real people , even loyal supporters from beyond the grave, your real pieces of shit, and I can’t wait for the kemper crowd to see this – if anyone is going to expose this truth, it’ll be them
You fucking losers, that’s how you spend your free time and money with your multi million dollar payout? No wonder your not actually a doctor or in proper med school. Cliff probably programs most of the hacks and codes, like the one embedded in tiagos CNC template for the pick guard (how’d that hack work for ya?)
Adam is a real dirty Muslim but Cliff is almost as bad, attempting to seem honest but just as duplicitous
I mean if he was honest kemper would beat them in open competition, but they use bots to spread disinformation on a daily basis from YouTube comparisons with amazing productions to simply a tweet or post saying “axe is the best, kemper sucks”
KPA is and always was a superior machine, in every way, including the method of modeling and profiling. But the truth of this expose is that it’s dishonesty and criminal cyber crimes that made Reverb, SSO, and FAS rise to the multi million dollar mark, so I hope this at least makes them uncomfortable every time they think of sending a spoof mail to me or family.
You guys will always try but the old Captain beat your Captain Nasty, the hate crime criminal that was banned for protection and then is back to being a mod/admin at both FAS and SSO
Thanks for the axe (hipib0y)
What is Reverb.com’s role in all of this
What is Reverb.com doing about this? They have some role to play in this.
Did you see the
– APB PSA alert on reverb because they were found to be guilty of unethical and fraudulent business practices ??? A mass email went out asking to help cover their security holes….it’s their own security protection so no one can report fraud now
– did anyone else notice the Bitcoin ransom thread that was up for years is now gone? I wonder if that’s why my crypto wallet is now empty ??? I think SSO stole my Bitcoin
Reverb.com
And
SevenString.org are the same
(Along with the gear page and metal guitarist)
Time for FTC to investigate this site and their IP traffic
Still scamming
I got ripped off buying and now I found this review …. terrible scam
Wow! I knew it....
There was always something really weird about the replies you’d get from that site, and I had a feeling after that thread about the metal pickups that were being hyped were like being sold “snake oil” medicine for guitarists looking for a ‘magic bullet.’ I was just looking to buy a guitar, and now I am definitely staying within 100 miles or less – I won’t risk an online counterfeit possibility at this point because I was just reading about all the fake Marijuana oils being sold, and then the fake electronics being sold, all this Chinese scams – either web based or market based, it’s enough……I’m for American and Japanese if I can find a good one, and if anyone sees this and knows of honest sales, please post a reply.
SSO and Howard are trying to flood and kill the dirtyscam.com
After exposing the scammer ADAM HOWARD and his site SEVENSTRING.ORG, you were hit with a flood attack, and they are going to attempt a DdoSS attack.
He doesn’t like being exposed
I keep getting mail from anonymous Texans
This is a very scary thing to be reading because after signing up for SSO, I right away had a bitcoin ransomware virus sent to me, but the funny thing is the password I used was the one for SSO they found….but I said hey you never know, and just looked past it but then after I read “the data breach” and that other users get this as soon as they sign up, there is definitely a problem
then, I would get strange hits on my social media, email, ebay, reverb, and all kinds of unsolicited mail and eventually I had enough and stopped using the site. after that, things died down about, and as soon as I had some activit on my ebay and reverb accounts, where I listed a guitar, I was hit again with the same type of phishing messages over and over.
When i would message anyone back, it always ended up being some fake number or fake email, and a fake address in Dallas Texas. It is no coincidence that this is where all the issues are sourced, and where they are emanating from.
This clearly rattled Adam Howard if this is what’s happening. And the scary thing is, I don’t know what he’s sending, sometiimes he might send a guitar, sometimes it might be a few pounds of textbooks, sometimes it could be a cheap copy, which is my biggest fear, that i got a chinese copy….and who knows, maybe the guy is so mad about all this he might be sending dangerous things in the mail
all i know is, this is crazy, its definitley criminal and the dude behind it is a dangerous criminally bent and twisted sociopathic fraud and con professional, and I just hope one day he doesnt decide to send anthrax or some kind of IED as he definitely has shown he will do anything to hurt anyone and to protect himself.
Very scary, very scary people indeed. I am so glad i am not SSO not just for the scam but also for this possible propagation of violence, not just cyber crime and mail/tax fraud, but now its possibly turning into violent crime and false police reports and just danger with everything associated with a website of hidden identities, false and fraudulent admins, and so much robot work that I wonder how many real members are active and exist on there….id say no more than 100-500
I am so over 6 and 7 guitars at this point anyway, i just wish someone would make an 8 string site.
That’s not the half of it - Google sevenstring.org banning and ban abuse
I used to be a mod at another site, and it turns out while its not an outright scam site, you can get scammed on SSO very easily. The owners, Chris, Drew, Randy, Alex, Adam, and Nick have more than one site, as someone else said too: metalguitarist.org and partial owners of Jemsite.com
If anyone noticed that the Jemsite forums changed dramatically at a certain point, its because Glen sold some stake to these scumbags, who probably offered him a nice price for it.
They make a lot of their money “legitimately” by boosting and influencing certain brands of guitars, pickups, etc , what have you…they sell these items under different names on Reverb.com, which is also partially staked by this group of guys. The name mentioned is BOLO from Baltimore, Maryland – who subsequently, despite having 67 feedback and 52 active listings, upon this review, every single listing was taken down, deactivated and the seller is MIA.
The beauty of this “scam” model is, by using different names, different address and phon numbers, sending from different states or countries, and using all types of throw away accounts, temporary disposable accounts, and VPN shields, and on top of all that, its electronically done so that no person ever has to face, talk to, or deal directly with another.
So all of the names you get, are all fake made up names, with throw away email accounts. The address is real, and the person is real, but that isn’t who you are sending it to. This is called drop shipping.
In other words, they will sell you something as a guy named “adam Howard” who has a real email ([email protected]) and phone number. So you think it all matches up…..but behind it is a guy with hundreds of emails and access to throwing them away – because Website developer tools allow things most people dont know you can do with a website
To put it simply, these guys run a scam ring, avoiding and evading gov’t tax, avoiding fees of any kind, and they take out with paypal, so when its all said and done, if things get hot, they cash out, closed the account and start again rinse and repeat
Buy from Sweetwater, Guitar Center, or Sam Ash -or better yet, if you have. Small local business buy from them, sure you might pay $200 more, but you wont get a “not as described item” because that’s what you get with Reverb and Sevenstring….they will send you anything
NOw that I know the admins and mods of Jemsite and metal guitarist and SSO and the other forums are all the same guys (Drew,Formerly Given….etc), it makes sense why Jemsite turned into a bullshit forum for ads just like sevenstring…….
BUYER BEWARE
The more I read the more I see fraud
The more I look at what is going on at seven string posts and thread; member activity over the past two weeks is not normal beside same one so not for sure but something is wrong and , the more this seems to ring true. I think there is something between Reverb and this site, to much cross-links and coincidental same posts.
SSO = scam = fraud = adam howard
Chris, Alex, and randy, “own” or administer the site but they are all scammers who are invested in the same affiliation
They use the seven string as a tax free shelter, but still sell as space, and then they create hundreds of fake profiles as “Russian bot” members who Interact as if they were real, and the same site is owned by the same guys at metalguitarist.org
So besides using a fake non profit org site to Evade taxes, they sell guitars directly in the classifieds, but only through their offshore PayPal account
Otherwise, these men are also investors and part owners of the neobay mentioned by Lyla Davies but it’s their only “legit” commercial front, and their name was BOLO from Baltimore Maryland
Upon exposing Adam Howard and his ring who operates out of a private hidden Discord app chat room, the entire sevenstring site was swept, old member profiles were removed and names changes , recycled posts, and it is mostly the same 10-20 members /owners who act as mods and admins who actively monitor the IP of all in and outbound traffic to make sure no one caught onto them
Luckily my cousin in NY told me and I’m friends with FAS forums, who looked into what Adam Howard did over the past year with his SSO discord ring, and it is clear seven string, Adam Howard, and anyone who holds stake in SSO is not on the up and up. They will selectively scam so when it’s done there is no trace left as they ban the member, the IP, and the “gang” will rally around any complaints
Go to guitar center, Sam ash, or Sweetwater but don’t buy from Sevenstring.org or Metalguitarist.org
And if you are a possible patient in Texas stay away from “dr.” adam Howard
([email protected]) whose phone number for some reason belongs to a K and R painting company 50 miles from his home address, and ferret and grand moff Tim are the owners of the discord SSO chat; the true hiding lair for this guitar groups illicit scamming conspiracy and organization
Hope the IRS finds this soon but I’m sure all emails and names will change again, to another .org
SSO = FRAUD
(That Christopher post review is clearly spam)
469-269-9921
Here’s his actual number (unless he’s recently changed it): 469-269-9921
Still scamming
The latest entrepreneurial scam of SevenString.Orgs creative department is
https://pyramidguitarscompany.com/
They are pretending to be a legitimate go between for small boutique shops and independent luthiers – it’s just some guy in his basement who has a drop address in TN
Goes by Corey Owens or Adam Howard …. this guy will never learn
ADAM HOWARD and SEVENSTRING.ORG ARE LEGIT
Adam Howard reached out to me after hearing his name was sullied, and insisted that he truly is not the scammer portrayed here.
I, for one, believe him.
I have done business with Adam Howard successfully and without any problems whatsoever. Sevenstring.org is not a scam; it is a totally legit company and website.
In fact, all of the guitars that I have bought since my first one from Sam Ash has been from sevenstring.org and while some sellers are more honest than others, just like on ebay or reverb – there’s always one bad, yellow apple in the bunch lol – so you have to always keep that in mind.
And with that same mentality, it seems a scammer has used Adam Howard’s good name from the SevenString.org Forums and that is a shame!
Sevenstring.org is not only NOT a scam, Sevenstring is not only LEGIT, it is THE BEST. PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND OUT ANYTHING ABOUT GUITARS….there is no better forum with quicker, more in depth answers about guitars THANNNNN SSO! Sevenstring.org is not only a really great site for info and to meet guitarists, and to also buy sell or trade guitars, but its a great place for referrals.
FOR EXAMPLE: I wanted an ESP guitar but I was concerned about counterfeits. THANKS TO ADAM HOWARD, who referred me to SSO, I found THE AXE PALACE, which is the best online dealer for ESP and Ibanez guitars. COA and OHSC, with even the original box is what you’ll get, sir…..that’s right.
So what I’m saying is, I’m sure the scammer used Adam’s information but ADam is a Scholar for goodness sakes! HE is going to BECOME a dr, so how could someone like that WASTE HIS TIME? WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? WHY WOULD HE WASTE his own time?
Now ONLY SEVERAL people could be responsible for that, and since Adam Howard is legit, and SSO is legit, it must be the scammer that compromised the deal….
PLEASE keep that in mind!!! Adam is not a bad guy, he is a family, man doctor!! For goodness sakes….
-=Chris L.
WATCH THIS TED TALK BFHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHA
Adam…..::stifling some emotion:: ….Howard…- hmmm- :cough:…….did a TED TALK?!?!??!
ROFL ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Who CASTS these??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5crdasIV68
“come on , lets just go around the corner”,he said, and she got frightened? duh you terrorist, with beloved jihadist friends,
What a story! Terribly told and disingenuous
Learn from your story, sir…..
The neobay destroyer
Do you know of the neobay scammer who destroyed the first reverb.com?
neowin.net/news/neobay-scammer-caught-we-need-your-help/
This is definitely the same guy