“A lot of these ranchers have been making verbal agreements for years without issue, but the duo’s persistence in getting the money in such large sums was a little unusual,” Drinkwalter said. “If something doesn’t feel right, there’s probably a reason. One victim told me they even gave him references, but he never called them. Another said he gave up an existing lease because he thought he had this pasture and now he has nothing for the summer grazing season. We even had a victim from Oklahoma who was willing to bring his cattle here to graze.”
The Craigslist add cheated a lot of people out of some cash, and now ranchers are wondering, how do we get our money back?
“Whether these victims get their money back is saudi arabia email list the million-dollar question,” Drinkwalter said. “These two have nothing, so any restitution will be court-ordered and could be in the form of garnishment of future wages. They also own livestock and machinery, so they could be forced to sell those items to pay their victims.”
One rancher was able to avoid becoming a victim of this scheme by visiting Randy Cullers, an attorney in Chadron, Neb.
“The first person I dealt with in this particular case called me with the intention of renting the pasture from these two,” Cullers said. “However, what alerted me that there was a problem was that the legal owners on the SIG website did not match the people offering the pasture for lease. That was a clue that things weren’t quite right. The rancher already had some trepidation about the deal, and after our conversation, he decided to walk away from it.”
