How to report a scam?

[Revrent]

I just got an email from "Bleugold" telling me

Hey Mate,
Are you still looking?
Contact Jeff, he has one available for sale in at a fair price... Pm him [email protected] NOT USE
***************

This is an email scam that is similar to one on the Indian Forums that pop up from time to time telling someone who was in the WTB section to contact another person off-line to buy an item that they always seem to have. The interesting part is they almost always 'Just Joined" the forum or have only recently started posting. Once purchased/money gets transferred they disappear without ever shipping the parts. In the past I have played with them and gotten them to give a huge price reduction; give a military discount to a veteran from the Spanish/Canadian war (no such thing); match prices of made-up places on the web; etc. Today, I am just tired and wanted to warn others. I could not find a button to report it to admin.

Have a great day.
John

 

[AnthonyG]

There is no user registered on this site with that username?

 

[old Timer]

Check out this thread,

https://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/showthread.php?150395-New-Member-here-Bleugold

 

[JohnRuckus]

Dang. Just welcomed them.

 

[Peter Aawen]

I just got an email from "Bleugold" telling me

Hey Mate,
Are you still looking?
Contact Jeff he has one available for sale in at a fair price.. Pm him [email protected] NOT USE
***************

...... Today I am just tired and wanted to warn others. I could not find a button to report it to admin.

Have a great day
John

In the bottom left of every post there's a few symbols, including a small triangle with an exclamation mark in it - simply click on that symbol in the post you are concerned about/the first post of a dodgy thread; then fill in the details of your concern; and submit the report to imediately send a msg/email to every Moderator, Admin, & Founder regardless of them being logged in or not so that any necessary action can be taken ASAP - it's a MUCH quicker way of getting action taken than posting a thread or sending a PM, it always identifies the correct (dodgy?) poster instead of risking misspelling it, and it also avoids the possibility of 'outing' someone who may not truly warrant such action. :thumbup:

And if they haven't posted anything (yet) so you can't report a post as above, but they've contacted you otherwise, then please notify Admin &/or any/all of the Mods via PM or the Contact Us link down the bottom of every Forum page & provide all the detail you have, especially their username & any other identification detail! In order to stop them targeting others, we need their ID details on the Forum, ideally their username, but anything/everything else is also helpful; so if you have them, please detail things like their email address, how they contacted you, what makes you think it's a scammer, etc.

Thanks. :cheers: