Scammer Alert ?.Beware?

[MR DERBY CITY]

I answered an ad yesterday here on CR pertaining to some Chevy cylinder heads. I left my phone number so it was an open invitation for a scammer to contact me. He sent me a text with a pic of 2 small block cylinder heads but after repeated texts he realized I was not going to bite. He even had the nerve to call me MJ….Judging by his vocabulary AND sentence structure I believe said scammer is from a SAND country. My rule of thumb is if I have not seen their name on a qualifying sheet somewhere OR sometime I usually back away. ….

[HR9121]

It is getting ridiculous! Everywhere I turn someone in trying to scam people and I'm usually pretty vigilant but got had on an e-shift controller earlier this year. Guy sounded legit and had done homework and apparently knew these were hard to come by and like a dummy I did because I wanted it before someone else got it.

[bigshow2966]

FaceBook and Marketplace are full of them. I always go by the old adage "If it looks too good to be true, it is.".

Saw a set of NIB Hurst Lightning Rods posted on a Nebraska racers page. $300 was the first clue, second was that he was from South Carolina. Messaged him and first thing he said was he only took PayPal Friends and Family. No thanks.

Reported the post and the mods took it down.

Same exact pictures showed up on a different page next day under a new profile.

Apparently they catch fish because they keep casting.

[James Perrone]

MJ had same guy answer an old add
Then has parts for sale
Sand man from Georgia

[HR9121]

It's a real shame that this is where we are these days. My credit card was ripped off a couple months ago after I placed an order to Jeg's. I'm not blaming or implying anything about Jeg's it's probably just a coincidence. I placed an order one night and the next 36 hours I had almost $7000 worth of charges on my card which I'm still waiting on my bank to clear me for.
Earlier this year year we were in the process of buying a property and we received an email from the closing attorney's office with bank wiring instructions. This email looked exactly like all the others we had received from them. Friends of ours had been a victim of fraud in this manner and my wife had the presence of mind to have the branch manager double check the routing numbers and we found out we were about to wire money to a country in Africa! Looking at the email you couldn't tell a difference but upon closer inspection they had just changed a few letters in the email address but everything else looked legit.
I told M.J. I was also had by someone selling a e-shift controller a few months ago. I didn't take proper precautions because I was in a hurry and didn't want to miss out on a deal. These guys prey on us and have done their homework, this guy or girl knew this was an item that was hard to come by and counted on someone willing to do exactly what I did.
I share these stories as a warning to all to please be vigilant and skeptical! These Aholes have nothing to do but steal our money from the comfort of their home and they are getting very clever.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by HR9121

It's a real shame that this is where we are these days. My credit card was ripped off a couple months ago after I placed an order to Jeg's. I'm not blaming or implying anything about Jeg's it's probably just a coincidence. I placed an order one night and the next 36 hours I had almost $7000 worth of charges on my card which I'm still waiting on my bank to clear me for.
Earlier this year year we were in the process of buying a property and we received an email from the closing attorney's office with bank wiring instructions. This email looked exactly like all the others we had received from them. Friends of ours had been a victim of fraud in this manner and my wife had the presence of mind to have the branch manager double check the routing numbers and we found out we were about to wire money to a country in Africa! Looking at the email you couldn't tell a difference but upon closer inspection they had just changed a few letters in the email address but everything else looked legit.
I told M.J. I was also had by someone selling a e-shift controller a few months ago. I didn't take proper precautions because I was in a hurry and didn't want to miss out on a deal. These guys prey on us and have done their homework, this guy or girl knew this was an item that was hard to come by and counted on someone willing to do exactly what I did.
I share these stories as a warning to all to please be vigilant and skeptical! These Aholes have nothing to do but steal our money from the comfort of their home and they are getting very clever.

I think WE all appreciate the warning, the scammers are here AND preying on us ….