Bad BEWARE! Another Scammer At Work

[metaz1947]

Looks like another scammer attack on my email concerning a knife I’m interested in buying on BF. See attachment. These people are relentless.

 

[kreole]

It will be helpful to post the email they used to send you the message

 

[metaz1947]

I did post it as shown above and it’s from “ironmanblader”.

 

[kreole]

I did post it as shown above and it’s from “ironmanblader”.

Is that ironmanblader

@gmail.com

or

@yahoo.com

or another?

The picture appears to show a display name versus the actual email. You can put any display name and also change it without changing the email address. For example, I could have the email kreole@bf.com and send an email displaying as in your picture shows as "Kreole" to you and send another using that same email displaying as "Metaz1947" to someone else, another displaying ad "ironmanblader" to someone else, again all from that same kreole@bf.com. It's the same thing like when you get an email that says from Walmart; in reality it's from some email address like weekly-list-ads@walmart.com. The scammers here are reusing emails but changing that display name to the username of a seller/user here, which is why posting the actual full email is more useful than the display name. There should be an @ in the real email.

 

[l1ranger]

probably this same person

Post in thread 'Beware ironmanblader@proton.me'

Oct 29, 2024

This email address tried to scam a buyer for a knife I posted. Thankfully he failed. Do not trust ironmanblader@proton.me.

I just got an email as well. Trying to sell me some steel.

• Cypress Creek Knives

 

[knarfeng]

throwaway email accounts are free. And there are a multitude of domains who provide them. So anyone can drum up an email address which looks similar to the BF user name of the seller.

Do not trust any email from any "seller". Make any email sender prove they are who they say they are.

If it were I, I would generate a specific code word and make that person send me a picture of the item they are selling with that code word hand written on a piece of paper next to the item.

 

[alex]

If it were I, I would generate a specific code word and make that person send me a picture of the item they are selling with that code word hand written on a piece of paper next to the item.

Take that a step further and ask them to post the code word you gave them as a reply in whatever thread you are trying to negotiate a trade or buy. This will ensure that you are in fact dealing with the real bladeforums member who has the item and not a scammer.

 

[metaz1947]

Why is it that it’s always just a few jerks that mess things up for the vast majority of good people? I just did my first sale where I had to provide a video to the buyer. At 77 I never thought I see half of the things I see now days.