A new level of sophistication for scammers

[john70t]

Originally Posted by blucille

I asked him to send me a photo him and the wheels, but no reply.

Photo with something in the foreground showing today's date.
Something that isn't easy to PS or AI.
(AI will catch up eventually and be able to do segments)

"I just need to make sure the ad is real". A rational person will understand.

Mom's lost dog ads did get ones looking almost exactly alike though. Almost perfect. They spent some time on it.
Multiple 'personalities' were used. "Oh I cant send no pikter cause i Dont know computer stuff. Here is a routing number"
And vague correspondence stringing it along back and forth to the point of exhaustion.
They were looking to get to her instead of me.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It puzzles me that they don’t try harder. Maybe they assume we will eventually become inured to poor English and won’t bother to improve.
Lots of Amazon product descriptions are written in bad Asian English and they must know by now their product would sell better if the description was written in bad American English. But they don’t bother to hire a translator.

You should (as you probably have) read the instructions.

Have you guys reported this to Pelican IT?

[look 171]

I am pretty dumb, lets just say you click on it then what? what would be the next step for them to try and get money our of me or is there anything else?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

^^^ there are plenty of guys over on Classifieds who have sent scammers money for parts never received.

[sc_rufctr]

(from memory) A few years ago a member here lost about $18,000 to a scammer (the scam didn't happen on Pelican).

I don't remember the exact details but a 911 was advertised online and he sent the money direct before seeing the car IRL.

[cstreit]

I'm not sure I understand what happened, can you explain a bit better?

I operate a sizable ecom business and always on the lookout for new scams.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

^^^ there are plenty of guys over on Classifieds who have sent scammers money for parts never received.

Nothing special we need to look out for, just some dirty people? I can take a pic of a fender or grill fro a car off the street and advertise it over the net or on a for sale form. Ask for money and never send the part only because I never had it to begin with. Nothing special we need to lookout for? I would never buy a car or any large item from someone that's not a company over the net.

[RobFrost]

Originally Posted by stealthn

Again, unless they have access to your PM’s how are they getting your cell phone number?

They placed the ad.

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[RobFrost]

Originally Posted by look 171

I am pretty dumb, lets just say you click on it then what? what would be the next step for them to try and get money our of me or is there anything else?

Clicking will probably do nothing bad, just call the number. It's your phone that highlights an sms message if it looks like a phone number.

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