• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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Y'all be careful. People will respond to your messages pretending to be the person you are trying to get ahold of. Make sure it is the same person who posted the ad. They got me because I didn't catch it.
 
Thanks for the heads up.

Please also report this directly to the mods (PM one of them). They may not see this thread, but they may be able to shut down the person who messaged you if you report this to them.
 
Bridgesiib123 said:
Y'all be careful. People will respond to your messages pretending to be the person you are trying to get ahold of. Make sure it is the same person who posted the ad. They got me because I didn't catch it.
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You got hit because you put your email address in a response to an ad. Scammers don't need accounts to harvest emails or cell #'s.
 
I got scammed for 550 on the Paul Huang ad for rock rattlers on this site a week ago because of the current message format encourageing imposters and theft,... phone ,text,or email is the only way to communicate, so what are supposed to do,...use smoke signals or carrier pigeons I guess,..right?
 
okieben said:
phone ,text,or email is the only way to communicate, so what are supposed to do
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We are supposed to use the PM system for initial contact. That way, you're nearly ensured that you're interacting with the person you think you're interacting with.

Then, using a payment method with buyer protection helps fill in any gaps with other things that might go wrong with a transaction.
 
okieben said:
I got scammed for 550 on the Paul Huang ad for rock rattlers on this site a week ago because of the current message format encourageing imposters and theft,... phone ,text,or email is the only way to communicate, so what are supposed to do,...use smoke signals or carrier pigeons I guess,..right?
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Never put your phone # or email out for public consumption on any buy/sell site, not just this one. Use the "Start Conversation" function to contact the seller privately.

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