It seems that almost every day we get a new member that posts a suspicious topic with only 1 to 5 total posts. They may be honest posts but I get this funny feeling that there is a percentage that are potential trolls or scammers.
Some topics that would be similar to what I am talking about
but not actual topics might look like:
A. I have this coin I found and want to sell it
B. Is this ( stolen image ) worth anything?
C. A pawn shop offered me $50 for this Indian head gold coin.
D. Thinking of selling an
inherited coin collection.
You get the idea. This is a typical scammers MO to get money and send nothing to a member here who wants a deal that sounds too good to be true. A naïve reader might think, I will contact this guy with an offer that will make him happy and I'll get a fantastic deal.
They exchange contact info and buyer sends money and then gets ripped off.
Well, if nothing can be done, that's fine but I at least will post this to raise awareness that this does go on.
Maybe a sticky on the subject could be written up about scammers or perhaps new members might need to be restricted to a certain area for maybe 50 posts? I don't know, I just think it goes on. Most of us know better but the scammers still try. It isn't good for new coin collectors, and it isn't good for CCF.
Posted 04/06/2017 1:39 pm
