Whenever I post an ad for an item I'm selling or join a forum such as this one, I open a brand new, exclusive email account to receive any responses. Such is the case with JCNA.
My exclusive JCNA email account which I have just set up about a couple of months ago (johnk@hourpost.com) is being flooded with spam and gutter crawling scam artists from all over. The reason is that ALL our emails in this forum and on this website I believe are being harvested robotically. These robots can read and harvest millions of emails wherever it sees the @ sign on any website. This is how spam is spread. I'm hoping some one responsible in JCNA can take action. Leaving email addresses exposed to malicious robots is no longer acceptable.
As for the scams they are mainly the Nigerian scam type or money laundering schemes where the scam artist pretends to be interested in purchasing the item. Below is a typical response from one such con artist on a Jag transmission I have listed on JCNA. I have received about 3 others along the same lines.
"Hello
Am okay with the condition, i will offer you 100 more to your asking price and wish to be the next owner because i and my client have make good offer for this item giving it out as new owner i shall make my payment via certitified check and i will arrange for the shipment. as well after payment is 100% cleared.
I will be including the shipping fee on the payment.
shipment will be done to make the transaction complete..
I want you to get back to me with all the necessary information listed below in order to make out the payment.
Name ...
Address...
City...
State...
Post Code...
Country...
Mobile Number
Office Phone...
Home Phone...
Selling Price...
I will make sure the payment get to you within 4 working days.
Regards,
edward"
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A while back I mistakenly posted something I was looking to purchase via the "wanted" section in the "for sale" section. I had managed to remove the posting after a couple of minutes. I figured no harm/no foul. I have received in excess of 30 unsolited e-mails about the item I had for "sale". Because the post no longer exists I had been just ignoring them but I was tired of them showing up so I figured I'd just tell the phisher that the item had already sold. A couple of them were more persistent so I asked them to verify that the part, a differential, was correct by making them verify some measurements. That was the last I heard from them but on occasion one still shows up.
Remember my mistaken ad only existed for less than five minutes, amazing.
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