Also made a post a day ago.
For starters, I’ve known this for 15 years, dating back to elementary, and also living around the same neighborhood. We went to the same local jr and high school. I’ve been over to his house, and he’s been over to mine. My parents know about him, and his parents know about me. So we definitely have a history. We haven’t really hung out since around covid time, and also the time I started college. I was doing my thing, and he was doing his so we still have each others contact. But he was definitely someone I’d consider a friend. He was what I’d consider a “class clown”, or a guy who’d just fool around a lot and I enjoyed his company.
Since this past summer, he’s been texting me making a bunch of odd requests. It got to the point where everytime he texted me, I knew it was for something.
First, he asked me if I have an airbnb account, to which I told him no and didn’t think much of it. Then next time, he asked me if I could place an order and with my card and he’d pay me cash, to which I found very odd. So I just lied and said I “lost” my credit card. He then ask if he could use my vehicle for reasons he wouldn’t elaborate. Then a day ago, he text me asking if could he place an order under my full name and to my address, and he’d pay me extra cash. I asked why, and he wouldn’t elaborate (suspicious). I basically stopped opening his snap messages (and he ended up calling me this morning, again didn’t answer).
So I asked around to mutual friends of ours, who I know, know things about him since they’re around him more than I am, while I was kinda out of the loop. I learned firsthand that he crashed a stolen vehicle that he was driving (a Rav4) into a rental Mercedes. I also learned that he numerous stints at the cook county jail (idk why). I also learned that he skipped out town to a city three hours away bc he had a warrant. I ALSO learned that’s been engaging in credit cards fraud, and that he also currently got a warrant. They all told me to refuse whatever requests he makes cuz its definitely illegal.
I don’t know how to feel about this, especially from someone I once considered a friend. For him to illegally order things with stolen credit cards, and ask if he could ship to my address under my name. Like he’s trying to have me get caught up?
Tldr – friend does illegal things and tries to potentially involve me as well.