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badglide9705

badglide9705

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I committed to buy a knife and emailed the seller. I received an email back giving me a PayPal address. It wasn't the real seller. I paid F&F, I know! My fault. Somehow he knew I wanted a knife from a vendor and knew my email. Anyway I just wanted everyone to know the emails associated with these criminals.
buckleyfrank419@gmail.com
deweymike775@gmail.com
 
badglide9705 said:
I committed to buy a knife and emailed the seller. I received an email back giving me a PayPal address. It wasn't the real seller. I paid F&F, I know! My fault. Somehow he knew I wanted a knife from a vendor and knew my email. Anyway I just wanted everyone to know the emails associated with these criminals.
buckleyfrank419@gmail.com
deweymike775@gmail.com
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My condolences. Thanks for posting here to reenforce the message how best to use PayPal.
 
badglide9705 said:
I committed to buy a knife and emailed the seller. I received an email back giving me a PayPal address. It wasn't the real seller. I paid F&F, I know! My fault. Somehow he knew I wanted a knife from a vendor and knew my email. Anyway I just wanted everyone to know the emails associated with these criminals.
buckleyfrank419@gmail.com
deweymike775@gmail.com
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What you describe has happened to several other members here at Bladeforums (it has been discussed here in GB&U several times). There are scammers prowling the Exchange looking for people agreeing to buy knives, then they do a forum search for your username and any posts where you provided your email address, then they quickly email you pretending to be the seller asking for payment. You send them your payment info, and they got your money.

I just did a search for your username and the word "email", and I immediately found posts where you posted your gmail address (and one comcast.net email address). If you plan on buying anything on this forum, you should search all your past posts and delete any postings of your email. It is recommended that you never publicly post your email address and only provide a seller your email in a private message which the scammers can't see.
 
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The Zieg said:
My condolences. Thanks for posting here to reenforce the message how best to use PayPal.
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killgar said:
What you describe has happened to several other members here at Bladeforums (it has been discussed here in GB&U several times). There are scammers prowling the Exchange looking for people agreeing to buy knives, then they do a forum search for your username and any posts where you provided your email address, then they quickly email you pretending to be the seller asking for payment. You send them your payment info, and they got your money.

I just did a search for your username and the word "email", and I immediately found posts where you posted your gmail address (and one comcast.net email address). If you plan on buying anything on this forum, you should search all your past posts and delete any postings of your email. It is recommended that you never publicly post your email address and only provide a seller your email in a private message which the scammers can't see.
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Thank you. I didn't realize that info was still on here. I'm not the greatest with computers
 
K80Shooter said:
Sadly, it's people like you that the thief's prey on. Please edit out your email or ask a mod for help if you don't know how to do it.
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Unless you have a new email address, your email is viewable in several posts.
 
I’m sorry this happened to you. When I became a member here it came as a shock to me to see people posting private info like emails and other things. On another forum I’m on it’s against the rules. I know use of PayPal F&F is now advised against but all other criticisms aside, it seems like the posting of personal info where it can be viewed publicly is the main culprit in all of the scam reporting.
 
Since you are a gold member there is no reasin for any seller to be communicating by email. They would have sent a PM.
Big red flag
I still have my email up in areas I can't edit,but it won't do thieves much good. The most vulnerable are those without paid membership and paying F&F
 
Be responsible.
Act responsibly.
Take charge of your finances and accounts.
Use strong passwords, 2FA, and require sufficient information when doing trades to verify who you are dealing with.

If you aren't willing to invest a few bucks to have access to PMs after all the evidence out there, then there's little we can do to protect you from yourself.
 
toker said:
Sounds like you should stay away from F&F from now on...
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Or, and humor me for a second here, just pay attention to the giant banner at the top of this page that's outright telling you not to use PPFF (along with a link to best practices)

I don't intend to be mean here and I do have a great of empathy for the OP but how many of these threads do we need to see on here before folks get with the program?

A good rule of thumb is: when in doubt, ask. That's what the GBU is for. No one needs your $$ so immediately that they can't wait a couple of hours. Especially if it seems fishy.
 
The problem is not PP FF. The problem is that the scammer has your email. How did he get your email? Sound like it might be a https://www.bladeforums.com problem as the same thing just happened to me. Same scammer. The scammer had my email address and I sent payment without thinking. Sending payment is on me. That's my fault but how did he get my email address? The scammer seems to be getting people email addresses which should not be happening. Please post here if your email address has been compromised
 
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Medx2018 said:
The problem is not PP FF. The problem is that the scammer has your email. How did he get your email? Sound like it might be a https://www.bladeforums.com problem as the same thing just happened to me. Same scammer. The scammer had my email address and I sent payment without thinking. Sending payment is on me. That's my fault but how did he get my email address? The scammer seems to be getting people email addresses which should not be happening. Please post here if your email address has been compromised
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Brother, this has been covered a thousand times. It's not a bf problem. It's a user problem that would be solved if everyone used g&s instead of ff. Instead folks like you post your email and use ff.

It took under two minutes to find your email looking through your activity


Edit: just to note, you may have posted it more times. I posted the first one I found scanning through. You should go through and remove that one and any others... and also stop using FF
 
kreole said:
Brother, this has been covered a thousand times. It's not a bf problem. It's a user problem that would be solved if everyone used g&s instead of ff. Instead folks like you post your email and use ff.

It took under two minutes to find your email looking through your activity


Edit: just to note, you may have posted it more times. I posted the first one I found scanning through. You should go through and remove that one and any others... and also stop using FF
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Good advice. Thanks
 
Medx2018 said:
The problem is not PP FF. The problem is that the scammer has your email. How did he get your email? Sound like it might be a https://www.bladeforums.com problem as the same thing just happened to me. Same scammer. The scammer had my email address and I sent payment without thinking. Sending payment is on me. That's my fault but how did he get my email address? The scammer seems to be getting people email addresses which should not be happening. Please post here if your email address has been compromised
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…..to reiterate what was said. Scammers have the email addresses because despite the foolishness of it people keep posting them in open forums for anyone to see.
 
Andy the Aussie said:
…..to reiterate what was said. Scammers have the email addresses because despite the foolishness of it people keep posting them in open forums for anyone to see.
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Started coding a bot that will scrub email addresses from the forum I host on another platform. Lemons and lemonade
 
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