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Old 20 June 2017, 04:25 AM   #7
sleddog
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By placing your personal email and phone numbers in your FS & WTB posts, you only open yourselves up to the WWW internet trolling scammers. As a visitor, thay can capture all the free info you have provided, and bombard the net with the hopes of hooking 1 or 2 uneducated scam detecting persons. That's all they need!
At least if you stipulate communication via PM's on this forum only (not that this is a blanket safenet either), but we then have a certain recourse of removing that account, and some details regarding login emails etc...

The fake link attempt at your phishing your account details is old, yet you'd be amazed at how many regularly fall for it. A few per week certainly, and even after we have warned time and time again. There is even a sticky at the top of the Watchout section outlining this tactic....

With that said, always be vigilant, and never play the game unless you are 100% sure of whom you are dealing with, or ok with losing multiple thousands of dollars on an internet transaction?! I suspect the latter is no one, but somehow many keep being separated of their hard earned dollars, and therefore the continuing scams.

Further more, by a random person emailing you and stating they are a member, wouldn't you check to see if it were the actual member?
Here is a post from the 'supposed' member also warning people, and a few weeks back to be specific!
https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=540081
Just because a random email communication states they are a TRF member (or whomever for that matter), doesn't mean they are, think about it.
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