Beware of Scams

[andy]

Who sent the message to you?

[andy]

I deleted all the private messages sent by gvicksg, danok, cole010. If anyone else receives messages thy think are suspicious use our contact form at: http://www.thebubbler.com/modules.ph...&cid=6&abuse=1

[Crys]

Legitimate charities do not use private messages or email to solicit new members. If you receive an unsolicited email or PM asking for money for charity, the odds that it's legit are less than 1 in 10,000.

You can find the FTC's charity fraud info at: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/tmarkg/charity.htm. Read it before you consider donating to any charity you're not completely familiar with.

[Palidrafod]

I have recieved NUMEROUS fraudulant offers AND EVEN PAYMENTs for items listed in the classifieds....

Ive accumulated about $20000 in money orders, money grams and cashiers checks. ALL FAKE.

The best one was I was asking $2700 for my laptop. Guy sends me 2 money orders for $2500 EACH and asks me to cash them and send his "associate" the rest. Well the money orders were ISSUED almost 4 months before i even posted the ad. I called the 800 num on the back and they were cashed more then a year ago.

Ive gotten the EXACT same email from about 14 people, and some that are only slightly changed.....they have a friend or reletive working in egypt, nigeria, or somewhere in africa. and sak you to cash the money orders, and send the rest to the associate.

This is where terrorists get their money.

[andy]

Originally Posted by Palidrafod

I have recieved NUMEROUS fraudulant offers AND EVEN PAYMENTs for items listed in the classifieds....

Ive accumulated about $20000 in money orders, money grams and cashiers checks. ALL FAKE.

The best one was I was asking $2700 for my laptop. Guy sends me 2 money orders for $2500 EACH and asks me to cash them and send his "associate" the rest. Well the money orders were ISSUED almost 4 months before i even posted the ad. I called the 800 num on the back and they were cashed more then a year ago.

Ive gotten the EXACT same email from about 14 people, and some that are only slightly changed.....they have a friend or reletive working in egypt, nigeria, or somewhere in africa. and sak you to cash the money orders, and send the rest to the associate.

This is where terrorists get their money.

DON'T PUT YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS.

I'm not singling you out specifically. At least half the ads on the Recent Ads page have phone numbers or email addresses.

How can we make this more clear?

We can filter scam responses if you make people reply though the site

[AJE]

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/creditcard.asp