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Old 18 February 2020, 06:07 PM   #1
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[email protected] phishing scammer

For awareness. Goes by the name of Jeff Brad. Same method as other lame scammers. He emailed me claiming to be interested in my watch. Followed up by sending a link which leads to a fake rolexforum login page.
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Old 18 February 2020, 07:11 PM   #2
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I received the same message from the same guy. It's a pity. Another way how they do it, hunt for serial numbers, is by using a fake whatsapp. Don't be lazy to call the number, in most cases it is unavailable. already got three e-mails like this , just another one last night. Don't give your personal information via whatsapp, call the number it indicates, very likely it's a bogus, in my cases all of them were.
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Old 18 February 2020, 07:18 PM   #3
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Have you reported this to the moderators?
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Old 18 February 2020, 08:58 PM   #4
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OP I need a username before I can do anything.
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Old 18 February 2020, 09:43 PM   #5
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OP I need a username before I can do anything.
I don't have a username. He contacted me through email.
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Old 18 February 2020, 10:53 PM   #6
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OP I need a username before I can do anything.
He does it out of the forum via e-mail
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Old 18 February 2020, 10:57 PM   #7
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So he’s not a TRF member correct?
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Old 18 February 2020, 11:07 PM   #8
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I just got emails from this clown as well. Sends a link that scrapes username and password with a link that looks like our TRF log in page. Log in doesn’t work then redirects to the real page. Stupidly, I fell for it. Passwords now reset. No evidence he has a username here.

WATCH OUT!
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Old 19 February 2020, 12:06 AM   #9
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Stop putting email addresses in your ads.
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Old 19 February 2020, 02:26 AM   #10
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Just got an email from him as well...

Glad I checked him out on the forum. Thanks TRF
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Old 19 February 2020, 02:39 AM   #11
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I got one as well - no email address in ad. How does he get email addresses?
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Old 19 February 2020, 05:43 AM   #12
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Stop putting email addresses in your ads.
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Old 19 February 2020, 01:01 PM   #13
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Just got an email from the same guy. Dumb enough to click on the link. We'll see what happens!
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Old 19 February 2020, 01:09 PM   #14
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I got an email from him as well. Smelled like a scammer from a mile away

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Old 20 February 2020, 03:31 AM   #15
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Just got an email from the same guy. Dumb enough to click on the link. We'll see what happens!
Just change your password, should be fine
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Old 20 February 2020, 03:32 AM   #16
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Just change your password, should be fine


Changed the email and password on everything that matches that login.
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