I'm not THAT stupid...

[eddiememphis]

Selling a Yamaha FJR.

Victor Anderson, who just joined Facebook is very interested. Looking up his picture with Google Lens shows Victor is very handsome and must be a model since that picture is used a lot of different places.

He wants to meet tomorrow!

He doesn't haggle or negotiate- he doesn't need to.

This is great! Except he wants me to go to a website that is about a month old to buy a VIN report.

He does it for every vehicle he sells, so I should too. He even says he will pay me back the $45 for the report tomorrow when he picks up the bike.

Well... okay. Sounds like a no-lose deal for me. Do you want my checking account info or just my Social Security number, pal?

I can't believe anyone falls for this bullshit. I guess they do since every time I sell something I get the same inquiries.

It seems like a lot of work, buying and setting up the website, then replying to every ad posted, hoping to get $45.

Maybe in whatever strange foreign land Victor lives, $45 is worth it.

[Doc45]

He’s buying new pagers/walkie talkies for his friends in Lebanon

[Sawin]

What is the website's registrar? You might be able to get everything he has setup with them, shutdown....

[eddiememphis]

Domain Name: carvinhistory.co
Registry Domain ID: DEB0E4B0307D34A2A956CF8D65BFCE3E4-GDREG
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2024-08-08T22:39:37Z
Creation Date: 2024-08-03T22:39:37Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2025-08-03T22:39:37Z
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant State/Province: Capital Region

[Sawin]

Well there you go! Report it to namecheap and hopefully throw a wrench in his gears, or worse…

[flogger]

Where is ‘Capital Region’ in Provence/state?

[beast556]

Trust me it very worthwhile for them even if they only scam one person all year long. My mother in law is not the brightest, we originally thought she got scamed oyt of 160,000$ but we just recently found out that it was for 242,000$, fucked her royally. Now she get to stay working for the rest of her life.

[bellavite1]

Trust me it very worthwhile for them even if they only scam one person all year long. My mother in law is not the brightest, we originally thought she got scamed oyt of 160,000$ but we just recently found out that it was for 242,000$, fucked her royally. Now she get to stay working for the rest of her life.

What...how...?

[beast556]

What...how...?

Debt consolidation scam, once she gave over the bank account info, poof money gone. Shes embarrassed and shut down and wont speak of it or even acknowledge it even happend now.

[Little Dutch]

Debt consolidation scam, once she gave over the bank account info, poof money gone. Shes embarrassed and shut down and wont speak of it or even acknowledge it even happend now.

Sounds familiar. My mother in law lost quite a bit too. She’s 100% military disabled so she has an income, but we paid her mortgage and food bills for a month after it happened, She lost all of her savings,