Obvious Scammer

[obs.caleb]

Has anyone else had this problem? I had posted something in the wanted section yesterday and got a response today. The account was obviously a bot and they were saying Identical responses on multiple threads. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[michelle]

i reported the message i got  to the admins 

[obs.caleb]

2 minutes ago, michelle said:

i reported the message i got  to the admins 

I figured I'd just ignore them...

[michelle]

here is a screenshot of the message i got and a screenshot of his profile page 
as of 2:26pm est on 21 may 2025 this user has only been a member for 4 hours 

[stitchdup]

please report these posts so we can block them.

[Xingu]

Yes, these guys are always finding ways to get around the security measures we put in place. 
 

If it sounds fishy or too good to be true, report it to the Admins so we can look into it.

Please remember that we do our best to catch these type of things before they can reach our members, but we cannot stop them all. You guys will have to use your own judgement and common sense to keep these guys from scamming you.

[peteski]

I thought that for some time now new member's posts are moderated.  How did a 4-hour-old member manage to post directly to the forums?

[bobthehobbyguy]

Posts are moderated however pms are not. I dont think the mods have a way to moderate them. here needs to be a block on pms till a post count is established.  That would prevent this from happening.

 

[stitchdup]

i believe pms can only be limited if the moderation is applied by us. I dont think it is applied to the auto moderation at the start of a membership. It may be it only happens when its a time limit moderation rather than the post count

[obs.caleb]

7 hours ago, michelle said:

here is a screenshot of the message i got and a screenshot of his profile page 
as of 2:26pm est on 21 may 2025 this user has only been a member for 4 hours 

thats funny it was the exact same account that pm'd me... they were giving me an email to some random person who is not a forum user. its all strange.

[peteski]

11 minutes ago, obs.caleb said:

thats funny it was the exact same account that pm'd me... they were giving me an email to some random person who is not a forum user. its all strange.

Maybe strange but it is a scam.

[stitchdup]

If you use the trade section the best advice i can give is trust your gut. And try to keep your messaging to the forum. scammers wont want to use the pm system as it saves the evidence so they will try and get you to use emails as its very easy to make them say they are from someone else. For example, if michael jackson emails saying he;s not really dead and needs $400 for recording time, that could very well be a scam (I chose that one cos i just read it elsewhere, lol)