Just got a message from him too. In response to something I had been looking for months ago. Might be an attempt to get a few one time payments for stuff. Or to send spam mail back to your email maybe?
"Airflow Compact Scandi 480
I think i saw a guy called Mark posted a Airflow Compact Scandi 480 for sale. Here is his email. godsonn343@gmail.com He's in Missouri.."
I did my own investigating .... email was fishy, so was IP Addresses.
This was all on top of the posts made here.
Out of all the members that said they received PM's, only one member reported the scam.
If something seems to be "not the norm", please report it so the Moderators can investigate right away
The Moderators and Admins get a notification right away and things happen faster
The user has now been banned and the IP Addresses and email has been sent to the "Spammer List".
The “just joined today” observation from the OP might be a giveaway that perhaps even PMs should have an entry threshold of some kind, just like for posting a classified. Just an idea.
Otherwise if it is a bot the exact same thing will happen again, and it will not even require much extra work on their end. Sounds like this one might have been relatively successful, so expect the basic phishing idea to get recycled.
I got one as well. Did he actually manually scan for all the WTB and then customized all those messages? Wow. that's a lot of work if so...otherwise the guy has some automated software to target and create emails
I guess there might be different levels of “protection”. I think a pretty low threshold (0 posts and “joined today” for PMs is probably too little ) might be enough to foil most of the bots. But as far as “citizenship” and flesh and blood scammers you may be correct about that. I know the code for these forums is shared by a ton of other sites, with only superficial graphical differences, so this makes automated attacks using a particular strategy potentially pretty lucrative if they work.
Problem is I'm not sure how "variable" the Verticalscope system across this forum can be ??
It would be fantastic if we can write code for rules in various sections here ...
I used to have exactly this idea. With the hubris of someone that works in Silicon Valley I assumed I would alway recognize the duckness of such attacks, in spite of the fact that the scammers are trying hard not to look like a duck. Over time I have come to realize this only means that I catch the ducks I recognize, and have no idea of the ducks I miss. *pats self on back* I have %100 success rate in recognizing what I recognize.
And then there are the ducks you recognize only 2 seconds after you hit the “send” button. :whoa:
I'd strongly suggest ignoring it and deleting it!!!
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