New scammer James Merritt
 

PM'd me about the BB brackets I am looking for. Just registered today and no posts, just PM's.

Mitch, have him send pictures of the bracket. Lets confirm he's a scammer. I googled and no flags....

Wanted ad recommendation
 

Qualifying new members

1) Verify they have history on site, such as previous posts.

2)One way to qualify new members responding to wanted ads ask them to become paid members.

3)Have them produce pics, and verify they are theirs..

4)request their email and google

5) Ask for phone #

Me too over the Keystone's I was looking for. .....

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Default 15x7 Keystone Klassics 4.75 BC
Hello,

I recently purchase some items from Norwood, 15x7 Keystone Klassics 4.75 BC is among the items he's willing to part out with. You can email him at [email protected] if he still have it available.

Thanks

That is classic fraudster response. His registered email is [email protected] . He's banned...

Thanks Tim!

This morning I received an unsolicited pm from rikibac593 wanting info about my blog platform. I don't do blogs.

Already banned earlier. Thanks Bill!

https://www.yenko.net/forum/memberlist.php

Go there on the first page and scroll down theres a bunch of Saudi members that joined at beginning of this year that most likely are not legit.

I clicked on a couple and there is a message in their white board and the statistics says the page has been visited over 1,000 TIMES ! WTH is going on with that ? Are they passing messages to others in their group thru this forum ?

Overnight my messages was blown up with 36 pm's from several including "rikibac593", many by "Owen". Seems they are using my message board for gamer discussion.

I was talking with Steve about that yesterday with all the arab members that Mike referenced to. They had messages on the white board too. Yours looks like it's being translated into or from Japanese...

I also received the similar response that napa68 got. It was regarding the NOS mirror I am looking for. He apparently picked one up at Norwood and wants me to email him at at [email protected]

Yeah, his friend, Norwood, had the brackets I was looking for. apparently he/they have read enough about Norwood on here to try to use that as bait.

Scammer question for Steve, when we send a PM to another member here can the scam guys get into- hack into the PM system and read our conversations? I’m not much of a computer guy and was just wondering about this.

Accomplished hackers can get into damn near anything they want, but I don't know that they would find reading our messages all that interesting or profitable...:laugh:

First I have not heard from any members with this occurring. Mitch hit it on the head, financial gain, trade secrets are big driver for hackers. Our goverment and large corporations with the most secure system get hacked. Ransomware attacks for financial are common place.

Got a PM from Merritt saying his guy has a tilt column from Norwood.

Today, Lloyd ??

I’m guessing he’s concerned about names/addresses/payment information sent through PM.

Paul Martin

Paul when did he PM you I banned him 1/15 @ 9:30 am. He should not have the ability to PM once he's banned. Lmk when you receive the PM.

Thanks!

Good thing they are good friends and don't mind getting mixed up... I hope...:laugh:

Scammer
 

[QUOTE=Steve Shauger;1642341]Paul when did he PM you I banned him 1/15 @ 9:30 am. He should not have the ability to PM once he's banned. Lmk when you receive the PM.

Thanks![/QUOTE

It was the 15th at 8:30 AM

Can these scammers not be stopped from joining up if there is an automatic membership charge?

Steve, thanks for being proactive on protecting the site and its members. The Merrit guy sent me a PM at 8:50am on 1/15 so it was before you banned him. By the time I read his PM the line under his user name said "Banned" which is great. Thank you again.

Sadly WTB posts anywhere online will bring out scammers. Best protection is ask for a reference and get the person on the phone.

The famous one on FB was LaShawn Harris. A bunch of us tried to track this account down and we got close, figured the person was in NC.