...They got me !

[sheepherder]

Yep, the scammers/spammers got me! My own fault, I wasn't paranoid enough...

It was on another forum with a Wanted To Sell/Wanted To Buy sub-forum. There, a WTB post is deleted after two weeks. Back in June and July, and again this month (October), I posted a WTB for items I needed (before going to eBay). Keep the money in-house.

Each time, I got a reply from a different member telling me to email xxxxxxx@gmail.com (different address each time) - "He has what you want". I finally tumbled to it when I noticed each response had at the bottom "Sent from my TECNO LB8a using Tapatalk". That was unusual (for the forums I hang out on - mostly old fuds like myself who lag behind technologically). (There never was any response from those email addressees).

It had finally dawned on me that the scum were harvesting my email address from their re-directs. I notified the SuperModerator there and he confirmed that they were all scammers and the first two had already been banned. He banned the one that posted to my latest WTB thread also.

I guess this kind of explains why I've been getting hit for the last six months by scammers. I should know better, but this email harvesting was a new one to me.

Caveat emptor indeed.