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***FRAUD*** Premier Waterfowl - Chance Keller***FRAUD***
I want to give you all a heads up on what happened to me and my hunting group this past weekend and hope that this will never happen to you. Everything I state is facts and unfortunately none of this is exagerated.
Our family's land was sold this past year and left us trying to find a place to hunt ducks... After a deal fell through with one opporunity we were now in scramble mode knowing that duck season was right around the corner. I searched Leashunter.com and found an opporutnity in Liverpool that seemed like it might be a good fit for our group. The name of the outfitter is CHANCE KELLER and he operates under the company name of PREMIER WATERFOWL.
My hunting group and myself met with Chance at the land that he advertised, a week ago this past Sunday. We drove the land and asked the typical questions anyone would ask when looking at leasing land. He identified himself as the landowner and said he had bought it a couple years back. Anyhow, everything looked great so we decided to sign the lease and cut him a check for $4,800.00 and figured we were getting a heck of a deal (little did we know what kind of "deal" we were getting). Chance gave us the gate code and made other promised certain things would be done prior to our hunt for opening weekend and we went our seperate ways.
Friday evening I drive down to get my decoys out and make sure everything is good to go for the morning hunt. Gate is locked, code doesn't work... I figure it's no big deal, either I wrote the gate code down wrong or he gave me the wrong number. I call CHANCE KELLER and leave him a voicemail then hop the gate and walk out to the pond we'd be hunting since it wasn't a long walk. I get back and call Chance again leaving him another voicemail then proceed to call every half hour till I get back to the house and begin to worry. I get online and go to check Leasehunter.com to see if there is an alternate number listed for him... His ad was removed!!! This is great, just what I needed... So I sent Leasehunter.com an email asking if they knew why his ad was removed and to please get back to me.
Anyways, I figure I would take my group down Saturday in hopes that this was just a bad start to a great hunting season. We get down to the lease around 5:45 and there is a group at the gate that has already got in. I ask them if they knew Chance Keller with Premier Waterfowl, they did and said they had leased some ponds from him as well. So I am feeling a bit better about our situation now and drive to one of the ponds we leased. Getting out and walking toward the blind we are approached by another group of hunters who were very nice and asked who we were there with. I explained my arranegement with Chance Keller... I forgot the guys name but he said that we were on Jeff Boswell's land, operator of The Duck Factory and that we could go meet him at the barn down the road. I knew now that we had been duped.
So we pack up our stuff and head to meet the actual landowner where we proceeded to tell him our story, (along with a group of about 10 others who had also been scammed by CHANCE KELLER) needless to say Jeff was appauled that we were on his land for 3 HOURS the previous Sunday. He told us that CHANCE KELLER had come to him with a broker last Monday (Day after showing us that land) and said he was interested in making an offer on a piece of his land. That is the first time Jeff had ever heard of Chance Keller and reassured us that 1) he was in no way the owner of that land, 2) he had no right to lease that land and 3) he had never heard of Premier Waterfowl or Chance Keller prior to last Monday. Jeff appologized for our bad luck and agreed to help us in any way to help find this POS.
We are now taking the proper actions to catch this guy.
Bart with Leasehunter has been in contact with me, has been a great help and is also very concerned that this has happened. I will continue to use Leasehunter.com to try to find anyone looking for last minute duck hunters. Thanks go out to Bart of Leasehunter.com, Jeff Boswell and anyone else who is helping out with this ordeal.
Sorry for the long story but I just want to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone on this site.
Last edited by Mont; 11-02-2009 at 11:24 AM.
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