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Chris Wagner-8

OT: beware of strange replies to your ads

Hello Seller,
In reference to your online placed ad on ( www.eham.net ) please
could you tell me whether the advert is still for sale? Also tell me
whether its condition remains as described in your ad? Can i trust
you,Please include the current price too. Write soon.also do get back to me
with the following details about you:

Your Final Price : ( Compulsory )

Thanks,
Kenneth.

These con artists can't be bothered to recall what your ad was about. They
use a generic reply and send this to countless sellers.

These scammers respond to both, for sale and wanted ads. There was a guy
"in London" who wanted to sell his mint TT Omni VI+ for 150 pounds.
Or some folks who wanted a laptop sent to some conflict region in Africa.
Then there are all those *reverends*... Once someone sent me a hot check.

Try to look up the IP address. This guy is using some private network. *Next
*.

73, Chris KF6VCI
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ve3dvy

Re: OT: beware of strange replies to your ads

Yep Had one of those years ago. I had a wanted ad on Eham for a power
supply for a KW2000b. individual claiming he was from England replied
that he had the item I was looking for with some sketchy details he
said the tubes had all been tested and were good. What tubes?. I
strung him along for a while asking stupid questions about non existent
wood trim and other nonexistent features. Each indicated that the
features I asked about were all fine. and of course each reply ended
encouraging me to wire money.
Finally I sent the whole lot to the fraud dept of the RCMP. They
replied thanking me stating that there was already an ongoing
investigation in similar matters. after some of my own investigation
turned out he was in Nigeria. never heard more after that.

David Moes

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VE3DVY

On 3/11/2013 9:46 PM, Chris Wagner wrote:

> Hello Seller,
> In reference to your online placed ad on ( www.eham.net ) please
> could you tell me whether the advert is still for sale? Also tell me
> whether its condition remains as described in your ad? Can i trust
> you,Please include the current price too. Write soon.also do get back to me
> with the following details about you:
>
> Your Final Price : ( Compulsory )
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth.
>
> These con artists can't be bothered to recall what your ad was about. They
> use a generic reply and send this to countless sellers.
>
> These scammers respond to both, for sale and wanted ads. There was a guy
> "in London" who wanted to sell his mint TT Omni VI+ for 150 pounds.
> Or some folks who wanted a laptop sent to some conflict region in Africa.
> Then there are all those *reverends*... Once someone sent me a hot check.
>
> Try to look up the IP address. This guy is using some private network. *Next
> *.
>
> 73, Chris KF6VCI
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Jeff Schmidt

Re: OT: beware of strange replies to your ads

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Chris,

Could you define "private network"?

My whole IT infrastructure is within a private network, RFC1918...
(most are)

--
Jeff KC9WSJ @ EN52WF
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 08:46 +0700, Chris Wagner wrote:

mzilmer

Re: OT: beware of strange replies to your ads

Net 5? Tor, maybe?

Matt Zilmer
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Pecca Fortiter

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: beware of strange replies to your ads

Chris,

Could you define "private network"?

My whole IT infrastructure is within a private network, RFC1918...
(most are)

--
Jeff KC9WSJ @ EN52WF
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 08:46 +0700, Chris Wagner wrote:

> Hello Seller,
> In reference to your online placed ad on ( www.eham.net )
> please could you tell me whether the advert is still for sale? Also
> tell me whether its condition remains as described in your ad? Can i
> trust you,Please include the current price too. Write soon.also do get
> back to me with the following details about you:
>
> Your Final Price : ( Compulsory )
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth.
>
> These con artists can't be bothered to recall what your ad was about.
> They use a generic reply and send this to countless sellers.
>
> These scammers respond to both, for sale and wanted ads. There was a
> guy "in London" who wanted to sell his mint TT Omni VI+ for 150 pounds.
> Or some folks who wanted a laptop sent to some conflict region in Africa.
> Then there are all those *reverends*... Once someone sent me a hot check.
>
> Try to look up the IP address. This guy is using some private network.
> *Next *.
>
> 73, Chris KF6VCI
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