No Scammers

[joeabarno]

Last year I listed some new brass for $50. Someone responded to the add, he did not use the PM. A scammer was going through the adds and sent the guy a PM and they arranged a sale. I had nothing to do with the sale and the buyer sent $50 to the scammer through Venmo and of course he never received the brass. He gave me a negative and called me all kinds of names, it took me a week to straighten this out. The moral of the story is don't respond to the add, always use the PM system.

 

[joeabarno]

Good grief: just look the hoaxes that 90%+ of the nation falls for every day.....

Voting really works
We are defending democracy in Ukraine
Israhell is our best friend in the Middle East
Inflation is down under Biden/Harris
Tampon Tim is a war hero
Just to name a few, I could go on and on

 

[chupacabra]

An idea is to ask the assumed scammer to meet at a police station. 9/10 it will scare them away and they will immediately ghost you. Then you report them.

 

[spicysausagedog]

Last year I listed some new brass for $50. Someone responded to the add, he did not use the PM. A scammer was going through the adds and sent the guy a PM and they arranged a sale. I had nothing to do with the sale and the buyer sent $50 to the scammer through Venmo and of course he never received the brass. He gave me a negative and called me all kinds of names, it took me a week to straighten this out. The moral of the story is don't respond to the add, always use the PM system.

This just happened to me. I didn't know about the no comment, only PM thing. Some random guy messaged me and asked me to email someone else saying that was the contact info for the lister. I didn't fall for it, but it was definitely something I did not expect.

 

[cuda67bnl]

This just happened to me. I didn't know about the no comment, only PM thing. Some random guy messaged me and asked me to email someone else saying that was the contact info for the lister. I didn't fall for it, but it was definitely something I did not expect.

Same thing just happened to me. I commented on the post to tell seller I was gonna message them. Someone else messages me with an email address, saying it was for the seller. They had just joined, so it was clear it was likely a scam.

 

[lilmantate]

Tie accounts to phone numbers. That will slow down the ones opening new accounts after the ban hammer.

 

[DanKATL]

Tie accounts to phone numbers. That will slow down the ones opening new accounts after the ban hammer.

Nope, phone numbers as easy to get and just as disposable as an email account. Most of the scammers are already working a pile of phone numbers.

 

[Charcoalburner]

Commented in a classified post earlier this week (I know better now) and received two PM's from new accounts saying seller was a "grate" guy and if I were to contact him at blahblah@gmail.com, he would respond faster.

So be careful out there.

I hate scammers with a passion. If they were to expend all this effort in a real job, imagine what they could accomplish.

 

[basstracker89]

Commented in a classified post earlier this week (I know better now) and received two PM's from new accounts saying seller was a "grate" guy and if I were to contact him at blahblah@gmail.com, he would respond faster.

So be careful out there.

I hate scammers with a passion. If they were to expend all this effort in a real job, imagine what they could accomplish.

I've thought that for years....

 

[BIKER13]

Boggles the mind how you could fall for such obvious bull ****