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    Things to watch out for to prevent being scammed.

    in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent

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    As most of you know scams are rampant on Craigslist and other sites. Less likely here but it happened to me. Here are some major points I have learned along the way.

     

    1. Check the users history on the site before agreeing to purchase anything. If they signed up for membership very recently and messaged you privately that they have the item you are looking for be very careful. Especially if they show no other activity on the site.

     

    2. If they refer you to someone else to purchase the item through who is not a member of the site, ie "contact this individual at this email address ______________" should raise red flags.

     

    3. Look at the wording the individual uses. Yes is it possible that someone who does not speak english as a first language is completely legit unfortunately many times they are not. Many scammers throw in the words like "kindly" to seem friendly in strange places that really make no sense.  The following is an excerpt from a message I received from this scammer "Okay a notification from Paypal will be sent to you kindly click yes on the notification to complete your payment. This is to ensure that you have successfully made your payment to me so in order to have them shipped to your location. Kindly let me know when you have received it and clicked it."

     

    Notice how some words do not belong or out of place. In this situation I was trying to buy one downrigger but they referred to the item as "them" indicating this person does not even know what a downrigger is. They use words like "merchandise" or "goods" to describe the items you are trying to purchase when anyone that fishes would call it a "rigger" or "downrigger"

     

    4. They ask for steps that are foreign to you compared to past transactions. This individual asked for a screen shot of my payment confirmation. They also insisted that they would send a notification to me through paypal to confirm the payment. This step does not exist in Paypal. 

     

    5. Scammers are getting very sneaky and use American names and emails. 

     

    Im sure most of this was covered already but go into each transaction with caution and do not send cash, check, or money order to anyone unless you personally know them. Do not use friends and family in Paypal unless you personally know them. 

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    Edit Price Drop! massive lot of rapalas, rods, reels, rod holders ect...

    in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent

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    11 minutes ago, Lightbringer said:

    I'm interested in leadcore bare rods, planer board setups, and 2 canon rod holders.

    If any available, what is price shipped to 14224? (West Seneca, ny)

    Sent from my SM-G950U using Lake Ontario United mobile app
     

    Cannon rod holders are sold, how does 340 for all 8 rods and the 4 convectors sound shipped. As long as shipping doesnt end up being insane. 

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