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Don’t feel bad Tim, scammers can get our email address from contact info. Going to “quick links” you can click “edit options” and you’ll see where you disable others from getting your email address. Easier still just don’t respond to emails from unknowns.

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He tried to get me on a metric 200. Funny the pictures he sent were on another website. And he wasn’t the seller on that page. Nor had they ever heard of him. It also didn’t help that he couldn’t answer any questions about it.

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I had a add asking for a sbc and he sent me pics of a elcamino . When I said I was looking for a sbc he sent me pics of a electric water pump motor.

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Be aware this person also uses raydawson879@gmail.com to collect funds.
I just spent over an hour on the phone with Chase and Zelle and gave them everything I had. My hope is to deploy some advanced design software to track this individual down to a physical location.

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Have a question about stuff like this. Seems Paypal has become a joke. What about mailing a check? If it go's thru mail can post master get involved, if needed. Which would then make it Federal.

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Originally Posted by Terry Cain (Post 655371)

Have a question about stuff like this. Seems Paypal has become a joke. What about mailing a check? If it go's thru mail can post master get involved, if needed. Which would then make it Federal.

I think a lot of scammers prefer payments that don't require a physical address. I would probably assume many of them aren't even in this country. They get real quiet when you want to actually go see the car/item for sale

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Originally Posted by e vassar (Post 655345)

johntyler2029@gmail.com found me here,then lured me off this site everything else was done between us by E-mail. There were red flags all over it. The E-mail address I sent the money to wasn't even johntyler2029@gmail.com....I should have used a little common sense here...but. anyway it was only $150 so lesson learned and I'm still eating....I think we should only deal with folks we know who are legit

Could you share the email he used for the transaction?

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Originally Posted by SSDiv6 (Post 655378)

Could you share the email he used for the transaction?

raydawson879@gmail.com

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This same guy replied to my ad last week that I posted looking for a set of 2” headers for a 70 Nova. He sent me that same email and a pic of these nice herders for $400 shipped to me. I asked him how far he was from Benton, AR. He said 291 miles. I replied with my phone number and told him to call me. He immediately called me from a Brandon, MS number and acted like he could hardly speak English and then suddenly acted like he couldn’t hear me and kept saying hello and then hung up and went back to emailing me and said he didn’t know what happened. I asked what city in LA he was in and he said Houma. I said that Houma was 500 miles away not 291. He said he was moving around a bit. I told him I had friends in Houma and to just take them by there and I will send them the money to pay you. He then sent me an email saying that if there were “trust issues” then he advised us not to do any transaction. I just said, look I don’t know you and if you really have these headers you will take them to a friend and he will pay you or you are trying to scam me. He never replied. The number he called me from was 662-276-1307

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He told me his car was in Louisiana