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davetcan
We continue to be targeted by scammers in both the WTB and For Sale categories. When dealing with a new member with no history please use extreme caution. We recently banned a new user "mmk7" following an alert from a member suspecting a scam. This guy claimed to have the guitar our member was looking for but when questioned more specifically to provide proof he eventually disappeared. We banned him as soon as we heard but it wasn't quickly enough and another member looks to have lost some money to this guy. He has since tried to rejoin twice to my knowledge under different user names but has so far been stopped both times.

Things to watch for, questions to ask.

1. Someone who just joined.
2. Someone demanding payment by EMT only.
3. Someone avoiding supplying pics of the item in question.
4. Someone unwilling to provide other references.
5. Someone willing to lower the price dramatically for cash or EMT.

I'm sure there are other flags, be careful out there.

If you suspect someone please bring it to our attention as soon as possible.
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garrettdavis275
Heads up that somebody pm'd a member here using .garrettdavis275 as a username.

Not me, no idea what's up, but be vigilant please!
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Mark Brown
garrettdavis275 said:
Heads up that somebody pm'd a member here using .garrettdavis275 as a username.

Not me, no idea what's up, but be vigilant please!
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I just reported that scammy bot account. They really need to up their game.
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garrettdavis275
Mark Brown said:
I just reported that scammy bot account. They really need to up their game.
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I'm too old to know how that shit happens so hopefully they can catch it on their end and shut it down. Thanks man!
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Verne
.PTO is our newest scammer. Again, spoofing an existing members name using the DOT before the name. Get ready those with WTB ads.
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Eric Reesor
garrettdavis275 said:
I'm too old to know how that shit happens so hopefully they can catch it on their end and shut it down. Thanks man!
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Unfortunately it is a glitch in the software that allows a dot to be used in a user name, simple to fix but it can only be fixed by altering the forum code to exclude that function. Till it is fixed users who start with a . must be ignored by all forum members and removed by an admin that can remove users. It is part of the ongoing headaches of internet software coding. The same thing happened with some very old old email software that caused many users to take their computers into techs to have Windows re-installed after they clicked on an link in an email and did not check to see if the website redirect was genuine and not a scam site. Either that or switch to linux or a mac.
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cbg1
Hope this is the proper way to post a warning I responded to a for sale post by @PTO (interesting to see his account was mentioned in the "dot" member name issues)
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I responded "pm sent" to the thread and then sent a pm to the member.
Almost immediately I received a reply from a brand new account with the title of the original thread telling me to contact an email address.
I posted on the original thread that it might be a spam post...
A while later @Hear Ye Music and @PTO responded to the thread and let me know that it was a legitimate sale.

Guess I won't be responding pm sent anymore...lol
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2manyGuitars
They must be getting desperate. A new member trying to scam me for a $20 part.
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For “search engine purposes” email is [email protected]
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Verne
Looks like this guy has everything you could ever want. Everything but good grammar.
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2manyGuitars said:
They must be getting desperate. A new member trying to scam me for a $20 part.
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For “search engine purposes” email is [email protected]
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just got a message from this “member” also,
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terminalvertigo
He got smoked
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BlueRocker
Shouldn't you just auto-ban anyone with an AOL email address? They're obviously time travelers from 2002.
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BlueRocker said:
Shouldn't you just auto-ban anyone with an AOL email address? They're obviously time travelers from 2002.
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Lots of jabronis get caught in the filter, previous to anyone actually interacting with them, but the odd one gets through. ;)

nice work people! 10 reports on the same user.. keep reporting em.
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