Scammer? (User name: "Casmie")

[s2europa]

Anyone else in this For Sale forum been contacted by a new user with the user name of "Casmie"?

Date Registered:Sunday,August 04, 2024, 10:42:50 AM

[Clifton]

I have been twice in reply to my WTB post. Each time, they gave me a different email of someone else that had the part I needed. I reported it yesterday. I've bought pricey air guns on another forum that would usually be a no go but they have a feedback system that no one wants to tarnish. This "Casmie" has zero posts here so there's that. Have to have some way to verify the poster before trusting.

[Grumblebuns]

All of the telltale signs of a potential scammer, a new member, zero posts, contacts you directly by email or PM, gives you the email of someone who has the part, no pictures. The last one I encountered was this guy.

https://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=5529.msg59626#msg59626

[richyb66]

Definitely a scammer, sent me a few messages about parts that a third party supposedly has for sale.

[s2europa]

I googled the phone number they left and it raised pages and pages of scam posts on many different forums. Maybe we can get Joe to remove and ban them.

[kram350kram]

The email scam of forwarding an email address to a person that supposedly has a product or part  you are in search of is becoming more prevalent, a constant irritant. Seems to be making the rounds on other forums I frequent.  You also need to be aware that the pictures they do post are usually lifted from another website. Friend was looking for magnesium wheels and the scammer posted pictures back to him of similar wheels he  had for sale at the time.  I now ask for a picture of their drivers license so I can Google  their location but even at that with AI anything can be faked. It’s morons like this that can ruin our hobby. Might be worth a “scam notice” on the Forum at the heading of “parts wanted”  as a warning to buyers. Just a suggestion, might save some grief.

[Dreamer]

No matter what your hobby, cars, motorcycles, guitars, antiques, you name it, you will find scumbags that will lie cheat and steal to make a buck. I have many personal stories for each of the hobbies I just listed.

[Kendo]

So how does this email scam work? Why send a different person’s email address? Does that seem to make the start of this just some altruistic person connecting a WTB to the supposed seller? Ultimately, it’s a fake part with hijacked pictures. So why the two-step?

[314159td]

If we could set up a rule that members with a low post count (say, less than 1 to 3) cannot send DMs, that would probably help a lot with this. I've gotten at least 6 in the last few months.

[Kendo]

If a new member could not see the buy/sell section at all until they had maybe 10 posts, that would cut down scammers, too.

[BDA]

This might be a good conversation to put in the Suggestions, Comments and Modification Request to the Forum section.