This posting is from Jim Parker ( rekrapmij at yahoo period com )
I heard back from the feds:
"It is the IFCC's intention to review all complaints and refer them to law enforcement and regulatory agencies having jurisdiction. Investigation and prosecution are at the discretion of the receiving agencies.
"Evidence related to your complaint. "It is important that you keep any evidence you may have related to your complaint. Evidence may include canceled checks; credit card receipts; phone bills; faxes; pamphlets or brochures; mailing envelopes; certified or other mail receipts; a printed copy of a Web site, chat room, or newsgroup text; or similar items. Keep items in a safe location until you are requested to provide them for investigative or prosecutive evidence. If requested to provide evidence, send copies only, not originals."
The good news is that they evidence an intent to act. They point out, however, that it is up to other agencies to prosecute. Please file your own complaint (or give me your name and email address to add to the list of victims I filed) so that there's a better chance of this matter being acted on because a lot of people were victimized.
We already have the benefit of very specific information about who Jonesy is, where he lives, how old he is, and where he banks (from the backs of your canceled checks). If you make it that easy for law enforcement to put their hands on him, it's more likely they'll go get him. Please don't let this slide. Here, again, is as much as I've been able to find out about him.
Jeff or Jeffrey Jones
1760 Sawyer Road Traverse City, Michigan 49684 (231) 943-8648DOB: January 8, 1957
ROL ID and email address Upnorthguy snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com
Ebay ID and email address jcjones snipped-for-privacy@coslink.net
Also check rec.models.scale where there's lots of bad stuff about him under "Jonesy." Apparently he has used lots of aliases and email addresses.