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Old 10-20-2020, 06:55 PM #1
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Scammer Alert: user br566 on WTB forum

This was obvious from the get-go, but I led this kid on until he demanded payment to the Cash app before he 'shipped' a full set of Savage skid plates. LOL. Fake as they come and Google shows the below email address below has been used on several other forums for sketchy 'my friend has what you need' WTB solicitations.


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Hi, have you get what you're looking for if no, then contact brian he has what you're looking for
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Endlessblockades, nice work leading on the scammer!

It seems like every one if these “my friend has what you’re looking for” scams never mentions exactly what you’re looking for, and the friend always has a gmail address. There are about 2 billion gmail addresses in the world, and you can’t report a scammer to Google unless you have actually been scammed by the person with the gmail address. Google doesn’t have the time, people or resources to monitor 2 billion email addresses properly.

Also, the scammers’ English usually isn’t very good, which is odd considering they claim to live in the US. For example, BR566 writes “have you get what you’re looking for”. I don’t know anyone who speaks or writes that way. Bad sentence structure too, even for a txt msg. No periods, no question marks, misused commas, etc.
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Endlessblockades, nice work leading on the scammer!

It seems like every one if these “my friend has what you’re looking for” scams never mentions exactly what you’re looking for, and the friend always has a gmail address. There are about 2 billion gmail addresses in the world, and you can’t report a scammer to Google unless you have actually been scammed by the person with the gmail address. Google doesn’t have the time, people or resources to monitor 2 billion email addresses properly.

Also, the scammers’ English usually isn’t very good, which is odd considering they claim to live in the US. For example, BR566 writes “have you get what you’re looking for”. I don’t know anyone who speaks or writes that way. Bad sentence structure too, even for a txt msg. No periods, no question marks, misused commas, etc.

There are several threads in the Wanted section with similarly worded replies to what you are saying. Always with some obscure email, and always "Contact xxx" or "My friend has" and they will copy paste your exact wording on the item, so sometimes the sentence doesn't even make sense.

Admin needs to get a handle on this asap
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This forum used to be run a lot better tbh.
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This forum used to be run a lot better tbh.
Yeah, someone needs to ban the scammers and spammers more quickly. Most of the spammers are in non-4R related threads. I won’t mention the specific topics because it would probably just cause more SPAM.
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Yeah, someone needs to ban the scammers and spammers more quickly. Most of the spammers are in non-4R related threads. I won’t mention the specific topics because it would probably just cause more SPAM.
I created an entire thread for Mods to address and not a single peep from any of them. Seems they no longer care on this forum if members are getting scammed.
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