Anyone else get contacted by Ivan Darryl about a part you're looking for?

[skippyelwell]

Might be completely wrong but, new guy, 2 posts, hasn't mentioned anything about metalworking yet but he has the exact part I'm looking for and wants me to send money. Red flags for me.
He emailed me back with a price but I didn't respond, got 2 emails from him in the next couple of hours asking me if I had received his price.
Says he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and has no other parts for sale. Seems to me a front pulley cover for 15" Buffalo drill press would be an exceedingly rare item in Scotland.
If I'm wrong I will grovel for forgiveness but just thought I would call out a potential scammer.

 

[DPittman]

Might be completely wrong but, new guy, 2 posts, hasn't mentioned anything about metalworking yet but he has the exact part I'm looking for and wants me to send money. Red flags for me.
He emailed me back with a price but I didn't respond, got 2 emails from him in the next couple of hours asking me if I had received his price.
Says he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and has no other parts for sale. Seems to me a front pulley cover for 15" Buffalo drill press would be an exceedingly rare item in Scotland.
If I'm wrong I will grovel for forgiveness but just thought I would call out a potential scammer.

Follow your instincts man, I'm guessing you're right on.

 

[Tomc938]

Might be completely wrong but, new guy, 2 posts, hasn't mentioned anything about metalworking yet but he has the exact part I'm looking for and wants me to send money. Red flags for me.
He emailed me back with a price but I didn't respond, got 2 emails from him in the next couple of hours asking me if I had received his price.
Says he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and has no other parts for sale. Seems to me a front pulley cover for 15" Buffalo drill press would be an exceedingly rare item in Scotland.
If I'm wrong I will grovel for forgiveness but just thought I would call out a potential scammer.

If it sounds too good to be true...

This is called an affinity scam. People join groups that have some level of built in trust (church, scouts, hobby groups) to profit from the good will others have built up over the years.

If it's not someone who's been here for a good long time, and active, there's no way I'm sending money.

And a Buffalo part in Scotland seems pretty unlikely.

 

[Susquatch]

I will check his posts and ban him if they don't check out.

Don't forget to use the reporting system when you sense any fraud.

 

[Susquatch]

I have banned him. Thanks for being suspicious @skippyelwell.

 

[daveincanada]

Yeah, for a bunch of truck & tractor forums I follow, any wtb ad's generally get one or more "I/my relative/friend have the part you want, email X", which gets you a "send money now, promise to send the part right after receipt". It's somewhat better now, in that most of them have to do it out in the open, as they prevent new users from using private messages to run scams like this.

It's somewhat funny when the scammers complain when they are called out for being a scammer... "How do you know I'm a scammer when you haven't given me a chance to scam you".