SCAMMER ALERT | robertallisbaugh7@gmail.com claiming to be WB2MRB
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 9:21 pm
Scam email in response to one of my Ads on this site.
Email claiming to be from Marisa Bremer, WB2MRB with Reply-To address (Gmail, of course, the haven of all Scammers!)
robertallisbaugh7@gmail.com
Problems with the Email:
Changing Identities or using anothers Email account,
Immediately after I responded "yes its available" this response from a Nigerian scammer:
"okay, I'm willing to pay your asking price for that for you to reserve it in my favor.. And I'll be mailing a
cashier check for the payment, and once the bank posts the fund, which shouldn't take more than a day,
I'll arrange for the shipping."
Whomever sent the response was sitting there over the keyboard waiting for me to reply, thats typical Scammer action. Most Users here on QTH dont do that, responses are usually delayed a day or so.
Notice the Nigerian 411 Scammer lingo "in my favor" and "once the bank posts the fund" and the lie about "cashier check taking a day to clear"
Checks do not clear in a day...too much fraud these days.
These are not American English phrasings, they are Brittish English, typical of Scammers.
These scammers usually shift identities onto an Anon Gmail account.
They cant "arrange for the shipping" I do that.
The problem with this QTH site is that it HELPS the scammers conceal their identity, especially around older Users that are not computer savvy.
The Email from QTH is too long with too much useless verbage that makes it difficult to know who is sending what. Blocking scammers is made difficult by the fact the Scammers emails are coming FROM QTHes domain, not from their own Email domain.
Marking the Scammers Email from QTH as "Spam" also marks the QTH domain as SPAM, and then the Recipient doesnt get Emails from QTH any more (or they go in the SPAM bin)
Email claiming to be from Marisa Bremer, WB2MRB with Reply-To address (Gmail, of course, the haven of all Scammers!)
robertallisbaugh7@gmail.com
Problems with the Email:
Changing Identities or using anothers Email account,
Immediately after I responded "yes its available" this response from a Nigerian scammer:
"okay, I'm willing to pay your asking price for that for you to reserve it in my favor.. And I'll be mailing a
cashier check for the payment, and once the bank posts the fund, which shouldn't take more than a day,
I'll arrange for the shipping."
Whomever sent the response was sitting there over the keyboard waiting for me to reply, thats typical Scammer action. Most Users here on QTH dont do that, responses are usually delayed a day or so.
Notice the Nigerian 411 Scammer lingo "in my favor" and "once the bank posts the fund" and the lie about "cashier check taking a day to clear"
Checks do not clear in a day...too much fraud these days.
These are not American English phrasings, they are Brittish English, typical of Scammers.
These scammers usually shift identities onto an Anon Gmail account.
They cant "arrange for the shipping" I do that.
The problem with this QTH site is that it HELPS the scammers conceal their identity, especially around older Users that are not computer savvy.
The Email from QTH is too long with too much useless verbage that makes it difficult to know who is sending what. Blocking scammers is made difficult by the fact the Scammers emails are coming FROM QTHes domain, not from their own Email domain.
Marking the Scammers Email from QTH as "Spam" also marks the QTH domain as SPAM, and then the Recipient doesnt get Emails from QTH any more (or they go in the SPAM bin)