Scammer season

ver01@ · 16 Dec 2019 at 11:53

Seems that this is the best time of the year for scammers. Have come across a number of listings on Gumtree with top end GPU's selling for a fraction of the price and the seller openly happy to post the card (I am sure they would not reply to local buyers wanting to see the card).

Remember, only Santa brings gifts

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Dec 2019 at 12:26

Why - are you one of them?

ver01@ · 16 Dec 2019 at 13:16

Are you?

Nick1881 · 16 Dec 2019 at 13:42

I was looking for Pandora charms for a Christmas present, a particular charm was out of stock everywhere, except one website where it was half price. Site was clearly dodgy, no contact details anywhere, sadly some poor sod will fall for it.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

ver01@ · 16 Dec 2019 at 13:56

At least in gumtree you can report any suspicious activity easily. Not sure about these webstores though. Did they accept CC payments?

Firestar_3x · 16 Dec 2019 at 15:51

Nick1881 said:
I was looking for Pandora charms for a Christmas present

Why?

paradigm · 16 Dec 2019 at 17:41

Firestar_3x said:
Why?

Probably going to pop into his time machine and deliver them back when they were fashionable/popular.

Malevolence · 16 Dec 2019 at 17:54

Anyone who doesn't inspect the goods beforehand and who uses anything other than cash for high value items on Gumtree is a ******* moron.

Puzzled · 16 Dec 2019 at 18:08

Scam emails are on the rise at the min as well, especially the fake amazon order type. Pretty easy to click on one of those if you are ordering a lot of stuff

Nick1881 · 16 Dec 2019 at 18:39

Firestar_3x said:
Why?

Gf has a charm bracelet, was actually looking for the safety chain.

They must still be pretty popular considering how many people are in the store every time I go passed one.

I didn't buy anything in the end as I decided it was too expensive for something so small.

ukxenon · 16 Dec 2019 at 19:41

if it smells too good to be true then it often is

Lopéz · 17 Dec 2019 at 08:03

paradigm said:
Probably going to pop into his time machine and deliver them back when they were fashionable/popular.

One of my key clients is a jewellery wholesaler - high end stuff. He said that Pandora have had a tough couple of years, but they are still massively popular. It's not the sort of jewellery he deals in, but he gets enquiries constantly.

Not my sort of thing but there you go.

Maundie · 17 Dec 2019 at 08:14

Every city I've been in when you walk past the Pandora shop they're usually queuing out the door, can't be that unfashionable.

I've not seen any increase in scams myself personally but I don't get any emails as Yahoo seems to stop them (got several hundred emails in my spam folder)

agnes · 17 Dec 2019 at 08:34

Oh how I miss the UK, you guys get it light over there.

I get about 10-15 calls a day from spam numbers, no app/amount of blocking numbers stops it. Experian sold my address in the first month of moving here (shocker) and now we receive a full mailbox worth of spam letters each day.

No such thing as privacy here.

Resident · 17 Dec 2019 at 11:42

I've seen quite a few morons sharing fake clothing/shoe website, claiming 'upto 90% discounts'

Websites usually a smattering of consonants plus a domain like .red.

Quick who is reveals they're all registered to a residential address in China...

dowie · 17 Dec 2019 at 16:45

Nick1881 said:
I was looking for Pandora charms for a Christmas present

Firestar_3x said:
Why?

I got so much grief a few years back for voicing an opinion along the same lines as people might talk about corner sofas on here... someone even went as far as to post a picture of his bird (a pandora fan) in a dress in a travel lodge in order to prove how classy she was or something.