Scammer Alert
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User Bira registered yesterday and then left some pedestrian comments on various posts.
But messaged me to say he knew someone with a clock. His (Bira) email is gared8578@gmail.com, his friend's email is venturahy63@yahoo.com. While his email isn't referenced anywhere online, his "friends" email is referenced on several different forums as being private msg'd to people looking for parts, and then wanting PayPal for the parts and requesting them to send it with the "Friends and Family" option set, which then is non-recoverable. Same M.O. of sending you a private message with another email address of a "friend". So I checked to see if he sent PMs to anyone else, and he did with the following, also known, scammer emails: rodger3421@gmail.com montrealbillings925@gmail.com Notice the email address patterns? SomeNameSomeNumber@gmail or yahoo. All too similar, which besides having no online profile for his own email, and having a somewhat rare part, raised instant red flags. Remember folks, if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is. Never pay anyone with Zelle, or PayPal (with the Friends and Family option). With regular PayPal you have some buyer protection, and for that, a fee on the transaction is paid by the seller. Friend and Family charges no fee, and also has zero protection for the buyer. This guy has been banned, but since he obviously has been doing this for a while, probably has many different aliases. So, just be wary of anyone you don't know offering things.
Posted on: Yesterday 14:57
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-BigKev
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Re: Scammer Alert
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Common scam... Thank you!
Posted on: Yesterday 15:11
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Just can't stay away
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nearly as old as ethiopian prince scam or anastasia romanov imposter
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Posted on: Yesterday 19:24
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Right! I'm still waiting on my check from that exiled Nigerian Prince. Any day now!
Posted on: Yesterday 19:46
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-BigKev
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Got a note from Bira also, the montreal emal scam. Palpay let me know the email he wanted me to use was a scam and would not let me send. My question is bira was marked as a regular input er with I think four stars!! His thread disappeared from my inbox.
Posted on: Yesterday 19:55
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He only joined yesterday. He replied to five or six posts to give him a little "status" here on the website.
You can always click on someone's name to see their profile and check when they joined. Beware of anyone who just joined. Once I figured out he was up to no good, I scrubbed him from the website. So that is why the messages from him disappeared.
Posted on: Yesterday 20:04
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-BigKev
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I noticed a post from Bira. When I clicked not th user name, it came up as me! I first thought it was a glitch with the site, but clicking on other user names came up with the right people. I immediately changed my password. After I changed my password, I noticed that the post from “Bira” had changed to “Anonymous”.
Not sure if they had hacked my account or not.
Posted on: Yesterday 21:11
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I think that was just a timing/caching issue with the website as I was purging him from it.
Posted on: Today 11:35
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-BigKev
1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Touring Sedan -> Registry | Project Blog 1937 Packard 115-C Convertible Coupe -> Registry | Project Blog |
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