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Old 16 November 2020, 09:21 PM   #1
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DavidSW - Impersonator Email

Hey guys, just got a strange email from someone claiming to be DavidSW with some amazing watch deals. The email is from dsworlandofl@gmail.com. Similar to David's but it has the 'fl' added.

I have attached the email below. This is obviously not him. Be careful out there.


DavidSW, I sent you a message via email and WhatsApp.
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Old 16 November 2020, 10:09 PM   #2
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Good catch.... thanks.
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Old 17 November 2020, 12:26 AM   #3
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Good catch. Also on a different note, with how amazing he is, David should have his own domain and not be using gmail.
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Old 19 November 2020, 09:36 AM   #4
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Good catch. Also on a different note, with how amazing he is, David should have his own domain and not be using gmail.


What’s wrong with gmail? I use gmail because it is really secure. I enrolled in the Google Advanced Protection Program to safe guard my email.
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Old 19 November 2020, 11:01 AM   #5
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Nothing wrong with gmail for personal use or for lawn service on Craigslist or registering your Netflix acct. But Gmail is much easier to infiltrate and scam than one’s own private business domain email properly set up and securitized. That is why as you may have noticed most substantial companies, including private companies, use their own domain. Don’t see many multi million dollar businesses dealing with substantial financial transactions run off of Gmail
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Old 19 November 2020, 11:32 AM   #6
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Nothing wrong with gmail for personal use or for lawn service on Craigslist or registering your Netflix acct. But Gmail is much easier to infiltrate and scam than one’s own private business domain email properly set up and securitized. That is why as you may have noticed most substantial companies, including private companies, use their own domain. Don’t see many multi million dollar businesses dealing with substantial financial transactions run off of Gmail

I believe PWC uses gmail as their email server. Not sure of the technical aspects of it as they still have their email as @pwc.com.

285,000 employees worldwide.


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Old 19 November 2020, 11:35 AM   #7
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If I see dealers offering mint stainless Daytona’s for $13,000, I don’t need to read any further :)
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Old 19 November 2020, 12:48 PM   #8
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”they still have their email as @pwc.com”

You bet they do, Fin — this is what I’m talking about.
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Old 19 November 2020, 01:33 PM   #9
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You bet they do, Fin — this is what I’m talking about.

I’ll also say the obvious — DavidSW is amazing and a wonderful seller. I bought a beautiful PAM from him and certainly will be buying additional watches from him in the future.
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Old 6 December 2020, 05:35 AM   #10
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I’ll also say the obvious — DavidSW is amazing and a wonderful seller. I bought a beautiful PAM from him and certainly will be buying additional watches from him in the future.
Agreed. One of the best. I have done a couple of transactions with him and they have been effortless. Looking forward to checking out his new store in person.
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Old 9 December 2020, 09:40 AM   #11
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If I see dealers offering mint stainless Daytona’s for $13,000, I don’t need to read any further :)
Exactly. Maybe 10 years ago, or longer, but these email scams are getting old now. If anyone thinks Davidsw would not buy his brother in law's (assuming he has one?) unwanted watches at a good price they need their head checking! :)

Regardless, thanks OP. The more these jokers are brought to light the less people will fall for their BS

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Old 10 December 2020, 09:31 AM   #12
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Regardless, thanks OP. The more these jokers are brought to light the less people will fall for their BS
Of course. Whatever each of us can do to help with this kind of stuff will make watch trading and much safer and more enjoyable process.
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Old 10 December 2020, 10:07 PM   #13
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If I see dealers offering mint stainless Daytona’s for $13,000, I don’t need to read any further :)
This is a standard boiler plate scam letter that I have gotten numerous times.

These fools are so lazy they cannot even be bothered to change the text.
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Old 13 December 2020, 07:06 AM   #14
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These days, if any watch reseller has a deal that sounds somewhat reasonable, alarm bells should be going off.
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Old 14 December 2020, 04:35 AM   #15
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Great catch...Thanks for sharing OP!
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Old 17 December 2020, 02:07 AM   #16
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I played the game so I could share the information here:

Bank: SunTrust Bank
Name: Vincenzo Lucia
Account#: 1000-2454-7638-6
Wire routing#: 061-000-104
Address: 303 Peachtreet Street, Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30308

This is the "Bank Information" for the transfer.
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Old 22 December 2020, 10:29 AM   #17
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Great catch...Thanks for sharing OP!
Looks like you got caught too 😂
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Old 22 December 2020, 12:08 PM   #18
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Bank: SunTrust Bank
Name: Vincenzo Lucia
Account#: 1000-2454-7638-6
Wire routing#: 061-000-104
Address: 303 Peachtreet Street, Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30308

This is the "Bank Information" for the transfer.
Interesting. Is there anything anyone can do with that information?
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Old 22 December 2020, 12:54 PM   #19
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and david doesn't know the difference between "they're" and "there" also
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Old 23 December 2020, 06:06 AM   #20
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David would never email anything like that. And the obvious, he’s definitely not selling that for that price. Idk why all these scammers have to have a story with their sale.. makes it less believable to me.
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Old 23 December 2020, 11:18 PM   #21
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Nothing wrong with gmail for personal use or for lawn service on Craigslist or registering your Netflix acct. But Gmail is much easier to infiltrate and scam than one’s own private business domain email properly set up and securitized. That is why as you may have noticed most substantial companies, including private companies, use their own domain. Don’t see many multi million dollar businesses dealing with substantial financial transactions run off of Gmail

Spoofing email is a simple task and having your own domain name isn’t any more secure then having a gmail address. Having your own domain is done more for branding than security. One should always stop and think before replying / clicking. Be sure to check email headers.

What’s more important is who is hosting your email and how secure is their platform. Google is considered to be one of the most secure email hosting platforms available.

As for DavidSW and securing his email account, he should have MFA enabled and of course not share his password. For branding it would look much nicer if it was @davidsw.com

As to you not “seeing” multi million dollar businesses hosted via Google, there are plenty of companies hosting their email with Google. You don’t “see” it because they purchased a domain name from a registrar so it doesn’t say @gmail.com.

Lastly, I would disagree that hosting your own private server is more secure than hosting with say Microsoft unless you have the resources and skill to secure your own infrastructure.
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Old 24 December 2020, 07:21 AM   #22
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Old 24 December 2020, 10:13 AM   #23
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Spoofing email is a simple task and having your own domain name isn’t any more secure then having a gmail address. Having your own domain is done more for branding than security. One should always stop and think before replying / clicking. Be sure to check email headers.

What’s more important is who is hosting your email and how secure is their platform. Google is considered to be one of the most secure email hosting platforms available.

As for DavidSW and securing his email account, he should have MFA enabled and of course not share his password. For branding it would look much nicer if it was @davidsw.com

As to you not “seeing” multi million dollar businesses hosted via Google, there are plenty of companies hosting their email with Google. You don’t “see” it because they purchased a domain name from a registrar so it doesn’t say @gmail.com.

Lastly, I would disagree that hosting your own private server is more secure than hosting with say Microsoft unless you have the resources and skill to secure your own infrastructure.

Thanks for the IT learning! I’m just a watch collector and don’t know much about it other than gmail acct hacked 2 times while my company’s non-gmail hacked 0 times.


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