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Dear forum members, I wish to make you aware that there appear to be fraudulent "buyers" looking to defraud people who have advertised their watches for sale on this forum. You will certainly ask how do I know or why I suspect criminal activity. I try to explain a bit: Yesterday, I received a text m
Dear forum members,
I'd just suggest you to eliminate your personal information from the picture, as there's quite a lot of it 😉 Thanks again for alerting everyone, and best wishes😁
And what an amateurish and poorly executed scam at that.
is that scammers wouldn't try this if they didn't have a modicum of success. Best, NickO
Hi all, I was just reading a thread over on Omega Forums of exactly the same scam but using Yorkshire Bank which has very similar bad spelling and grammar. It seems the scammers are trying to use what looks like an irreversible bank wire to get people to ship the watch fast to get the money released which of course doesn't exist but of course once the watch is shipped they win. I hope most experienced buyers wouldn't fall for this and spot it easily although I do worry for those with little to n
the appalling level of English these supposedly „bank“ e-mails are written in
full name and WhatsApp picture, but I refrain.
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