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Wow wasn't expecting a bona fide scammer to reach out to me on here but there you go. Look out for people saying they know a guy selling parts at traincold9@gmail.com - it's just a con but they wasted quite a lot of my time until it became clear they were full of s**t.
Caught me off guard on a reasonably obscure car forum but it goes to show, be careful out there!
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This happens all the time on here. Obscure forum....not at all. We get indexed by Google several times a day. I can post a reply on here and within 20 minutes it's on Google in the search results.
Scammers find the adverts and reply to them. I've lost count of how many people I've banned for it, and how many users I've had to warn NOT to reply or send details or money to anyone who responds to a WTB add or WTS add who only has a single post, and says "I have a friend who is selling this item - please email scam-me-please@hotmail.con"
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Yeah I should have done all the checks before I started talking to them, I guess I wasted my own time there. Even the gmail address they used shows up as SCAM in lots of other forums.
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Yeah it's a pain in the arse.
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Got a new scammer address, posting it here so google indexes it: monahall388@gmail.com
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Also, the scammer paypal accounts were Arizonastevens892@gmail.com and IlijaKeljanovic04@dizangpusa.us
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