Private messages scam

[Howz]

I have posted a few wanted adds recently, I’ve just had 2 private messages from the below from this new member (joined 3rd Nov, no posts) asking me to email him as he has what I want (don’t need any longer) anyway, looks like a scam so beware!

 

[Zimmerframe]

There's a warning as a Sticky thread in the General Forum :

WARNING : Beware of SPAMMERS asking you to send them e-mails.

Hi All, There have been a couple of recent incidents where new users have been PM/DM ing people and asking them to send e-mails, for example : "Have you checked with Crawford via [email protected] he has a rockshox super ultimate for trek rail he wants to part with" And "hi i got the...

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@Moderator looks like one to track down ?

 

[Moderator]

Thanks Zimm.

They've been erased.

The account was registered legitimately with a Portuguese location and matching IP address.

Subsequent IP addresses were Nigerian.

 

[#mitch]

I was once given a walkthrough of a hacked Nigerian hackers computer activities Is was incredible the amount of stuff they have going on. Our hacker had a virus that would screenshot every 30 secs so got to see all the goods. Was running multiple l bank scams, multiple romance scams and constantly trying new stuff. Literally a full time job scamming