Classifieds Transactions: Red Flags
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I’m pretty sure we can add Mr. Grace to the scammer list.
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Anyone who engages God and capitalism in the same sentence or pitch to sell something, I’m out. You know it’s going to end poorly and that they are schisters.
I dealt with that fool about a year ago in post #69 of this thread.
Hopefully I don't get beat up for saying this, but unfortunately that's how you find the suckers.
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I just had someone attempt to scam me. I caught it somewhat early and followed it through for a quite a while but when I asked for a handwritten invoice in the same picture as all the items I was told I would get (which were all originally showed to me separately). he demanded I only pay friends and family. It was the grand daddy of red flags when he refused after I told him I could just throw on some extra money to use "good and services" so I could get the protection. I did not get the contact through MUD but a different 4x4 forum. I got a PM from a member of that forum saying he had a guy who could help me. I e-mailed him and the attempt to scam started there with obvious "too good to be true" photos of items I was looking for, obvious AI doctored photos which made no sense if you knew what you were looking at, a rather unique name which could easily be googled as someone who would not be dealing in vintage 4x4 parts, requests for information that was unnecessary to ask for, and a sudden deal kill when "friends and family" vs "goods and services" became an issue. In reality, the forum member and the "guy who could help me" were probably the same person or possibly just a wingman. It sucks this person has my e-mail address and my name but lesson learned to cut out that possibility in the future. I can give the forum, username of the scammer wingman, and e-mail address of the scammer but I don't think I see anyone else posting specific scammer info on here so if there is a specific place for that on MUD, let me know and can make that info public although, if the scammer sees it, he will just change his info and do it again.
The "my cousin Vinny has what you are looking for" is a super common scam tactic. The scammers use throwaway emails....the goal is to scam a few individuals then on to the next email/scam. From what I've seen, they'll private message 10-15 forum members in quick succession and hope that a couple bite before they get caught.
i was scammed for the first time of my internet life ..and i am not proud of this, usually i am more aware , but i was on my phone , and so hurry to have this parts (fj40 driver frame for the tool box) .... i lost 70 dollars...yep ...not proud, shame on me
i doubt he use the same email on ih8mud, but now i will be more accurate, because this one was really really good and know my use of the ih8mud, so i think this guy is on our website since long time ...
here was the first contact to show you the kind if approach
so
1 - if a member contact you directly by email ---> it is a scammer for sure (even if he know you very much !!!)
2 - don't pay on paypal with the friend and familly option (i knew it but i did it ...don't know why..let me check my ****ing brain)
3 - gmail adress are used all the time and often finish by number
Be safe guys
i will find this part one day...
i doubt he use the same email on ih8mud, but now i will be more accurate, because this one was really really good and know my use of the ih8mud, so i think this guy is on our website since long time ...
here was the first contact to show you the kind if approach
so
1 - if a member contact you directly by email ---> it is a scammer for sure (even if he know you very much !!!)
2 - don't pay on paypal with the friend and familly option (i knew it but i did it ...don't know why..let me check my ****ing brain)
3 - gmail adress are used all the time and often finish by number
Be safe guys
i will find this part one day...
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It’s also common now on BaT. I lost an 80 series auction a couple weeks ago and got an email that I thought was legit telling me the winning bidder couldn’t secure funding and now the seller was offering me a “second chance.” I F’d with the scammers for awhile after I found out and they were willing to take it pretty damned far.
This scam is happening again. Almost got me
If you have a direct message to report, please do so. If your email/phone information is posted on the forum, please report those posts so it can be removed.
Scammers are persistent....
Scammer sent me email very soon after I posted interested in used part on classified.
He changed his email posted name to same as the seller (jomichael) but this was his email address when I clicked on it. jadairdann@gmail.com. His PayPal was @bigjuru which again was strange as it didn’t match sellers name.
I actually asked him if that was correct as the email didn’t seem to match. PayPal flagged it as possible scam. Since he emailed my personal email I figured it had to be legit as I don’t give it out a lot. After I almost got scammed I saw this warning post. I warned the seller @jomichael as well and told him to make sure he is contacting members directly.
I checked and my email is not on the post - but nowadays it isn’t that hard to find someone’s email with AI and Google searches of you know their hometown and name.
I did a 10 sec google AI search came up with my medical license which is public and it has all my demographics available to public. Sadly, we aren’t as private as we think these days
. May change my username to something more incognito so it’s a little tougher to find my name.
Google found it a handful of times on this site, whrere you have posted if in your replies. And your phone number. I've removed it a couple time, but you should search and report them so I can find them all.I did a 10 sec google AI search came up with my medical license which is public and it has all my demographics available to public. Sadly, we aren’t as private as we think these days
in Google: site:ih8mud.com myemailaddy@mydomain.com
Will do. Thanks!