Who would you call, what would you do?

Can you imagine trying to get multiple pairs of your grails from a fellow member of the sneaker community only to come up short, like real short? One man recently fell victim to one of the most lucrative scams I've ever heard about.

The amount of platforms there are to sell sneakers has blown up in the past two years, leading the way would be Facebook Sneaker Groups and Instagram. It's the wild wild west out there because no one is monitoring transactions between two people so you could very easily fall victim to theft during a deal, whether it be in person and it leads to violence or it's possible you're being dupped into a bank transfer scam.

That is exactly what happened to a friend of Miguel Lozano when dealing with a transaction over Instagram. As the story has it Miguel's friend came across a dealer with five pairs of the exclusive Nike LeBron 9 "LeBronold Palmer." With the state of resellers having insane amounts of inventory on exclusives, I guess that part was easy to believe. Each pair of LeBronold Palmers go for about $5,000 on eBay. The deal at hand was 5 pairs for a cool $30,000.

This transaction wasn't handled via PayPal, a safe platform known for offering buyers protection, but bank transfer (are you serious dawg?!). After that $30k bank transfer was completed, the Seller with the 5 pairs of LeBronold Palmers vanished into the sunset and put his Instagram account on private. Although his eBay account is still active, that would probably be the only way to track down the scammer. Needless to say Miguel and his friend are still looking for the culprit. I hope they kept emails, texts or any documentation of the deal so it could be handed over to the Police, otherwise - good luck getting that $30k back.