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The inevitable wave of scammers
Just a head's up to everyone on the site: as happens periodically, we're being hit by a deluge of scammers and spammers. This time they seem to be hitting the story comments and the classifieds pretty hard. We've got some smart ones too, people selling puppies claiming to be from rural areas of Wisconsin but who are actually posting from Africa.
So we're trying to catch them all, but please be aware that there is always a chance we'll miss a couple. Before buying or selling anything, make sure you are really dealing with who that person says they are. If they give you a Wisconsin phone number or address, make contact with them using that information rather than letting them make contact only, and if possible verify the information (such as doing a white pages lookup) with a third-party source.
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