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Be aware of phishing on this site. If you've been contacted by "Sammy Fishers," don't send him money. He is a confirmed fisher.
He'll ask that you and he do a transaction through Paypal, and then he'll send you a highly professional "Paypal" email saying that he has deposited the value of your item plus extra to pay for delivery, but that the money is being held until you send money to the delivery service via Western Union, and you provide the MTCN number. If you sent to the delivery service, he's won.
If Sammy Fishers got you, or tried to get you, let me know.
Thanks for the info. Probably the same guy. Hope he didn't get you?
If Western Union even comes up once in any interaction, run away and ban the address.
Holy $#!T! Brian Clinton is trying to fish me now--for the same item!
Here's the last email that tipped me off.
:( anybody wanna buy my scooter?
The d!(k head above is the phucking phisher. Notice his signature misuse of the comma.
I'll give you some general guidelines. First of all when you see a link, mouse over but do not click on the link. Look in the lower left hand corner of your browser and see what the real address is. If it does not match then this is a phishing scam. Here's another way I use to catch most of them without even bothering to look very much. Get Firefox, and install the Noscript and Web of Trust plugins. Web of Trust will red-circle most of the bad sites. Occasionally a site gets red-circled for political reasons and it is safe to go to those sites. Otherwise just stay away from the red sites. Links in emails (yahoo, gmail) also show up with a colored circle indicating safety. Reporting individual phishers is just a waste of time because they change their email addresses and names often. Prevention and common sense is more effective.
Just got scammed, this time by Wilmer Caldwell. Unfortunately I got suckered in and did send some money. I swear if I could track these f***ers down, I would break his neck. Stupid me didnt check to see the "Beware of phishing link", would have saved me shitloads of time/money.
It's Brian Maxwell now. The poster above has a writer's voice just like him. Compare my earlier sampling with his voice.
Aren't you a scammer? No Pay Pal. You really are a low life.
Beware of Lauren Henshaw (lauriehenshaw@gmail.com), a phisher that tried to scam me to send out the laptop with a fake email from paypal. The email comes from paypal-customercare@consultant.com but the body looks like one from paypal.
It may take a few hours for this transaction to appear in your account.
The buyer hasn't sent a note.
You haven’t added any shipping details.
has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been " APPROVED " but will not be credited to your account until the Tracking Number is sent to us for verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller from fraud and also to protect the image of the company.
Your payment is safe with us, You can now proceed with the Postage as instructed and your account shall be credited as soon as the shipment is verified, your account will be credited with the sum of ($200.00USD). We are doing this to protect both sellers and buyers from being ripoff.