ItsyRV wrote:
Some of these ads are for email harvesting.
DING, DING, DING!
We have a winner!
It IS a typical FAKE, BOGUS SCAMMER AD.
Most are very easy to spot with typically dirt cheap prices and often littered with very bad grammar.
These are targeted at folks who are often hunting for those unbelievable "deals".
Oh, they WILL take your money, that is for sure.
IF you respond to the ad, they will give you some hokey excuse like someone died, they have been sent overseas, got in a divorce and don't want or any other lame excuse that you cannot physically go and look at the item.
They also use payment schemes like insisting on gift cards (Walmart green cards ect), Western Union wire, Bitcoin or any other non reversible/ non traceable means of paying..
These are warning signs to back out and pass on the deal.
Also often will insist they "ship it to you" and have shippers ready to do that..
Ultimately if they do not get your money they are OK if all they get LEGIT CONTACT information on you.
The more information they get the better they can SELL or USE to create more scammer ads, setup fake accounts under YOUR name and info.
Your info is a huge money making machine so best approach is if the deal looks to good, it most likely IS a scam and do not contact them.
Folks do fall for these scams and that doesn't say much for our society now days..
