someone seems to have hacked the facebook account of a "Ray" (same one?)and have been trying to scam a lot of his contacts today.
I asked what kind of bike he rode and that seemed to stump them :laughing:
On Oct.27th Hamish posted in the for sale/wanted section of the forum looking for a 1947 B31 gearbox sprocket....
I got an e mail from 'Ray' today offering me the sprocket I didn't ask for (though I did take part in the discussion about it)...
It's probably a scam so watch out!....Ian
There's a scam on EBay too, I ordered my wife some expensive perfume, a hair dryer and a fur coat for Christmas 🎅, and what turned up was a pair of tyres, some canvas grips and a WW2 battlederss, so be carefull 😎
['There's a scam on EBay too, I ordered my wife some expensive perfume, a hair dryer and a fur coat for Christmas 🎅, and what turned up was a pair of tyres, some canvas grips and a WW2 battledress, so be careful 😎...']
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: ....I've just ordered myself a new Pearson crank....I hope I don't get a nice frock and a handbag instead...Ian
"Ray" has just emailed me again. He's prepared to sell me a complete wartime RE WD/CO for £2,200.That seems ALMOST too good to be true! :wink: For some reason he won't say where in the UK he is so that I can view the bike. :zipper_mouth_face: Still I must be dull to pass on this one! :smile: :smiley:
Ray's also just offered me a 1947 XB31 for £2000 which he hopes is a fair price.... accompanying this email was a photo of said bike... I've asked for an engine number.
All very interesting but the person you should be telling is the cyber Fraud squad at your local nick .
Down here Fair Trading have a division that deals with these sorts of scams .
From memory the FBI has one as well .
Trevor I think you can report these scammers till you're blue in the face, but they just get shut down and start up two day later with a different IP address. What gets me is, the people who loose money to scammers by paying into bank accounts??? Surely if there's an account, the holder must be traceable.....I guess I'm missing something. Ron
Trevor I think you can report these scammers till you're blue in the face, but they just get shut down and start up two day later with a different IP address. What gets me is, the people who loose money to scammers by paying into bank accounts??? Surely if there's an account, the holder must be traceable.....I guess I'm missing something. Ron
That is why you make it a police matter
Some times you have to follow up a few times to get the bums into gear
From memory again some states allow the Police to confiscate any property or money they have reason to believe was obtained illegally.
Those police are always happy to follow up because they can end up with a nice little earner + the sheriff / minister gets nice bragging rights at election time .
One of the big child porn rings was uncovered because a "buyer" was scamming to pay for the very expensive videos .