tdstuart
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If you haven't noticed the big "Beware scams" when in messages, then good thing you are reading this. A popular scam that the forum staff are well aware of, where a scammer will message you claiming they or someone they know has a part you are looking to buy. Shoutout to staff for banning to guy superfast aswell.
Anyways the scammer Lucas990 claimed to know a guy with some comp cams for me. And sent me a phone number to contact. Messaged his friend (Dave) for a bit, and after playing some mind games, Dave said his friend Chris had the cams I wanted.
Well before getting transferred to Chris, Dave claimed that Chris had my cams for $985. Well after asking me what my budget was (and me explaining it was $1200 ish) Dave said that the $900 price was for 2 cams and not all 4. For all 4 cams I would need to pay $1300. Of course, because it makes perfect sense to give a list price for 2 cams, as if you would ever sell just 2 cams.
Once getting transferred to Chris he refused to send me pictures and claimed he would send me photos before shipping them out. He then refused to use paypal (because PayPal has buyer protection and he could lose the money once I figured it was a scam) and requested Zelle or Money Order (no buyer protection at all). I refused and told him Venmo, but apparently, Venmo doesn't have good buyer protection either as they state it is not for purchases with unknown people.
I attached some photos. Hopefully, this helps some members of the forums who may not have knowledge about how common these scams are and what to look out for. Moral of the story: Get photos, talk to the person, and use a payment service like PayPal that has buyer and seller protection. Also if anyone has some used stage 3 comp cams N/A for 15-17 GT...
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