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Fakes from Norwegian seller of forgeries Bent Madsen

Hi all

I need an opinion on this autograph on sale on a Norwegian auction by a Norwegian that I`m suspicious are selling a lot of fake autographs. Is this real or a fake? I am suspicious because it doesn't seem similar to other I've seen.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 17, 2014 at 8:04pm

Thanks Dan and Bruce for your help!

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 18, 2014 at 8:32pm

Please look at these fakes, can it be any worse???

But no worries, it has a COA:

And Tradera has yet to react...

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on December 19, 2014 at 3:24am

I think we have a winner of the years worst forgery. And it's bad when you see that the handwriting on the COA is the same as the signatures. And all in the same hand.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 19, 2014 at 10:39am

This is so bad that it would be funny, if it weren't for the fact that people actually buys his crap. But who with at least half a brain buy this...

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on December 21, 2014 at 12:23am

Whoever is the forger clearly has the shakes. The Britney is so slowly drawn it looks like a spider has gone slowly through ink. The Paul McCartney is also as bad as it gets.

Tradera need to take a stand, show they will not tolerate forgeries, especially ones as bad as these and remove them

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Permalink Reply by michelle on December 21, 2014 at 12:31am

that about sums it up. These are not just bad forgeries; - these are super bad ones

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 20, 2014 at 3:07am

Princess Diana, John Lennon/Macca and Star Wars, take a look at these hideous new fakes he just listed...

How can Tradera not take these down...

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Permalink Reply by michelle on December 20, 2014 at 11:37pm

This is awful. Come on Tradera. Take action!!!

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 26, 2014 at 1:10am

Now has this forger once again been banned from Tradera and all his items have been taken down! It´s good that Tradera take this seriously and thanks everyone here at AML for helping! Without this thread and your opinions he would still be selling his ugly fakes to unknowing people...

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on November 22, 2015 at 11:37am

And once again does this scumbag forger make a come-back here in Sweden... :-(

Myself and other members, especially the starter of this thread Trond Johansen, has got him kicked out from different sale sites in Scandinavia more than 10 times, and every single time he lays low for a while and then tries to sell his crap again. He always starts out slowly with just a few items to "fly under the radar" I guess, but soon he floods the sites with his pathetic atempts of the big names lik MJ, Kurt Cobain, the Apollo 11 crew, Elvis and more. And the sad part is that unknowing buyers pays him hundreds of $ for his crap...

Here´s a link to his new alias Unsaco:

http://www.tradera.com/profile/items/4086646/unsaco

Take especially a look at this Sean Connery/Shirley Eaton that he claims he got "thru the mail"...

That´s really bad...

And here´s again a recap of what we previously know about this forger:

1. He has sold pathetic looking fake autographs of Michael Jackson, James Dean, Bob dylan, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Star Wars, Paul McCartney and many many more. He has also faked COA:s from UACC dealers and used different accounts to bid on his own auction. I have listed some examples of these fakes at the end of this post!

2. He comes from Oslo, Norway. But has also claimed to be from Halden, a city close to Oslo...

3. He has used these alias/"names":

- Unsaco

- hardyboy40

- guitarman78

- world-wrestler

- wrestlemania

- Bent Madsen

- Bent Sumelius

- Vidar Scheen

- starwars4ever

- LadiesMan316

4. He uses or has used these mailaddresses:

sumeliusbent@yahoo.no

hardyboy@inbox.as

5. Me and Trond have got him banned from:

- Tradera

- FINN.no

- QXL.no

- GiBud.no

and he has previously been banned from eBay too where he was registered under the name Turid Madsen and had this account:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/foeud

6. I tried to be reasonable and explain for him that the autographs he sells are fakes, but all he had to say about that were:

"I´m provoked when you say I sell fake autographs or making them at home. 99% of those I've included is with coa, the remaining 1%, I have written to the celebrity and asked for the autograph. You should be ashamed to make such false allegations"

so that were completly pointless. He just kept on selling these pathetic fakes. He even registered here at AML under a false name (Vidar Scheen) and tried to "convince" everyone that these fakes were actually genuine ones...

If someone else sees any item that you might think come from this forger, please send me a PM or reply in this thread!

Thanks!

Here is some of his previously fakes (click an the pics to se them better):