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Junglejoe

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This dude emailed me said his friend has a djm kit for sale... so we emailed back and forth...
He sends me a screen shot of the kit from on line

BEWARE!
 

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Thanks I got the same message twice for two of my wanted ads. I didn't even have a warm fuzzy feeling before I sent the email, but after I got pictures of the wrong parts I knew it was bad.

Didn't post because I was in comm with the mods. Since I'm a new guy here I didn't want to be the one to set off the fire alarm without being 100% sure about the situation.

Craig
 

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Yeah man.. you could tell in his wording he was from some 3rd world country. 😆
 

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Yup, He also PM'd me about my WTB ad with the same BS
 

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So he was responding to wanted ads saying he has the parts, and using pics of the parts he found on google to make you think he really had them?
 

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So he was responding to wanted ads saying he has the parts, and using pics of the parts he found on google to make you think he really had them?
It seems he was responding and saying that a friend has the parts. Used stock images of the parts and gave an email address of the "friend" for you to respond to.

Strange thing for someone to do in their first 2 days on the site and not posting in any threads, just pm's to people looking for parts.

Probably phishing for email addresses or other info.
 
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Ahhhh ok now I understand.
 

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Thanks to people reporting it, Jim and the staff were able to..

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It's actually a fairly common scam on forums these days.
 

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Hope he answers my wanted add for a tow rig. Ima get him lol
 

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here's a good one on messing with scammers
 

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I wrote back and started stringing the effer along this afternoon. Man I'd love to get a good address to visit...
 

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I wrote back and started stringing the effer along this afternoon. Man I'd love to get a good address to visit...
Same. He quit responding after about 10 emails. I kept asking for different camera angles of different parts...then he got fed up and stopped responding. Wasn't worth the $110 scam after I wasted his 30 minutes.lol
 

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He responded to me on another forum . looked legit "initially" so I used papal "just in case" . They are now refunding after I reported him as a scammer. As soon as I reported him hes stopped responding to my my emails.
Randy
 

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