Folks Of Interest H.A.M.B. member question

Earlier today (Sunday I posted for a wanted part for a 62 Chevy. A member Alex22 responded and gave me an email of someone with the part. The email don't seem to be a good email address. ([email protected]). I checked for HAMB members also and can't find this member. Has anyone else dealt with this member. Alex22 It smells a little fishy to me. If this is a upstanding HAMB member I do apologize.

 

smells fishy....probably a scammer.

 

I agree on the scam, the wanted section seems to run amok of them, you would think a person would have a dialogue with you before just tossing out emails.

 

Scammer. Probably wanted you to pay with gift cards or Bitcoin.

If these A-holes would put half the time and effort into a legit job instead of this scammy bullshit, they'd be well off. I don't get it.

Yeah, flip him off and tell him to go piss up a rope.

 

It seems to match the MO of previous scammers who have joined to do hat he has done so far. Did you search the member list? I would ignore it.

 

I got sucked into only ONE scam thru our HAMB. (called it a 'HAMB SCAMwich'!)
My favorite reply to this guy would be "Suck Rope."

 

@g.mail SCAMMER

 

Alex22 - member since today. Zero posts.

The moderators (Moriarity, et al) are really good but even they can't catch every one of these.

Report, report, report.

 

If you ask me 98% of GMAIL accounts are scams I will not answer or email them

 

I was thinking the same thing, mentioned it to my 20 year-old, who replied that lots of younger people use Gmail, since most people no longer have an ISP and it's attending email accounts. Of course, she's in college getting an education to start her chosen career, so she doesn't have much time to run scams on people....aside from her dad, of course

 

Ive had a gmail account forever. Ive never heard of it being a scammer thing but I guess it makes sense

 

When posting a wanted advertisement remember there are thousands of unscrupulous people that take advantage of guys frantically looking for a certain part, more often than not it' s a hard to find or rare part and they are betting on you getting excited about it and dropping your guard.

A conversation from a member that joined today is a huge red flag, you did the wise thing by asking and saved yourself some grief and money. HRP

 

I must be one of the 2% gmail users that is not a scammer. HRP

 

I quit answering any Want adds on here. They treat you like your trying to scam them just because you have a G mail account.

 

The same can be said of any of non-ISP services, @yahoo.com, @live, @hotmail, @outlook, and several others.

 

I like scammers.


But then again, I also like mosquitoes.


And poison ivy...

 

I have a gmail account. I can understand how since they are free people might think they are all scammers. But some of us are legit.

 

My main email is gmail. I am over 70 so that makes me feel like a young scammer

 

Joined yesterday
0 posts.

When in doubt...........back out!

 

Go to Craig’s list Florence S.C. guy from Dillon sc always is selling 62 impala parts.

 

LOL

Come on dude. Gmail is a Google based email system. Now pertinent to Android based phones, which are all Google/Gmail oriented.

I've had Gmail for a decade plus. Probably closer to 15 years.

There are 900 million Gmail users, with 75% of those as their mobile cellular service email system.

Anyhow .. you made me laugh. So thanks for that !! Take care & God bless !!

 

watch out for sam22 also

 

As mentioned, if a new member tells you to send an email to someone not on the board, it's a scam. There's been a rash of this sort of thing all over the internet, I'm a moderator on another board and we're having to delete them every day.

 

I think I 'd go another direction instead of sam22, too close to scam22.

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What part are you looking for ? Lippy

 

Me too. How big a percent are we now?

 

3%

I have had a few GMail accounts, since it was introduced.

My only scam seems to be buying parts, not using them, and then sending them to people at my expense and for no charge.

 

I’ve got a gmail email too, but seldom use it. I prefer my aol email that I’ve had for years. And I can access it on my pc at home or on my Android phone.

 

I have also have a G mail account for about 10 years now, Do I use it NO. It was forced upon me when I got a android phone thru sprint(was told it was MANDITORY to get). I have had my Hotmail account for more than 20 years and that is my primary account. YES at one time Hotmail accounts was the goto scammers account, Was several years before my account was acknowledged to be legit. so I was using the ISP account and the hotmail account till things got legit.
I sell stuff on Craigslist (AKA CrackHeads list) from time to time and EVERY bogus do you still have reply is from a G mail account Reply to such and such @gmail.com. Also if you read the scams that are tried here on the H.A.M.B> there also from Gmail accounts.

When posting ads in the WANTED section people do your due diligence RESEARCH and see if that account was just created or if has been around for a while, When you hover your mouse over there name/avatar and it looks like this..


REPORT IT IMMEDIATELY ! DO NOT RESPOND TO IT ! And this may help to try and keep the scammers out of this forum..(keep in mind that the 1 in a 1000 maybe real DOUBTFULL but maybe)
If they ask you to email another person @gmail,com then you KNOW IT IS A SCAM !

And to the few like @HOTRODPRIMER @kidcampbell71 and a couple others that may use gmail. If I teed you off I apologies I think you can get my drift about my comment when you advertise something and get flooded with scams from gmail accounts.