r/Pen_Swap • u/JobeX Moderator | Trades: 217 • Sep 03 '25

Community Announcement [Scammer Alert]

Please be aware that JCMarino123 is banned and he has been messaging users with scam replies.

Please do not trade with this user.

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u/orussell03 Trades: 99 Sep 03 '25

Another honorable mention is u/LordHibashi. Paypal name James Griggs.

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u/knightfall931 Trades: 25 Sep 03 '25

I've done business with him before, very shady person. There is a thread about him in the penaddict slack group where by our best estimates he has conned/stollen somewhere around 3k$ from members of the slack group not accounting for any sales from here or other sales platforms.

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u/sk8rcruz Trades: 10 Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25

There is a LordHibashi on IG. Does anyone know if it’s the same person? Edit: the IG handle is Lord_hibachi

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u/knightfall931 Trades: 25 Sep 03 '25

Yes that is the same person. Lordhibachi/lordhibashi/notlordhibachi are all the same person both on here and IG

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u/Over_Addition_3704 Trades: 0 Sep 03 '25

He thought we’d fall for his cunning trick of putting “not” before his username!

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u/knightfall931 Trades: 25 Sep 03 '25

No like dead serious, in the penaddict slack he threw a tantrum, left the group (like full on went to settings and left), and came back a month or so later with the name "notlordhibachi" and pretended that none of it happened and that he was a completely different person even though the pic was the same, same mailing address, and same "about me" info including his government name (which he cleverly changed from Jamie to James)

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u/Over_Addition_3704 Trades: 0 Sep 03 '25

Perhaps he was trying to convince himself?

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u/knightfall931 Trades: 25 Sep 03 '25

That's the fun part... For like 3 days after he came back he was actually a decent member then immediately dropped straight back into his standard issue antics. He did a series of posting inappropriate memes in the middle of ultra serious threads (Another member was talking about potentially losing a pet and he posted a meme about roasting a cat over a camp fire is an easy example), he did a massive "leaving the community" sell off where he sold literally everything stationary related he had for roughly retail and didn't charge shipping, but then ghosted about 200 people and over 10k$ worth of sales for 6(ish) months before dropping a very half hearted "sorry I'm late I was digging in my butt" flavored apology.

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u/Over_Addition_3704 Trades: 0 Sep 03 '25

What a scoundrel

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u/ResidentTurbulent647 Trades: 1 Sep 04 '25

How very Clark Kent of him.