--- Scammer Alert ---

[Johnn]

I received some PMs about some suspicious activities but there are no concrete evidence to take any action for now.

As always, do yourself a favor and be careful with every transaction:
- If someone need a loan, they are in trouble. Get all the details before deciding to help or not.
- Do not take Paypal payment from unknown member. Insist on secure payment. You rather lose the deal than the name. You may want to tell the buyer if it is ok to delay the push for 24-72 hours to make sure there is no problem with payment. Most legit buyers would be ok to wait.
- If buying, doing some research to make sure the name is not stolen. Especially if the registrant uses free email: Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc... The email account may be hacked.
- Absolutely no IM when dealing with stranger!

Last but not least - If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

One more thing - The big problem is members only reported the scam AFTER THE FACTS - and it makes so difficult to everyone as not much anyone can do. Report all suspicious activities from the beginning - I mean before it's too late.
All the reports will be kept confidential. You rather have a false alarm then be One of the victims. Read the past threads and you can see the scammers normally targeted many members - not One!!!!!

Thanks,
John

[Acro]

Good stuff, John. Oddly, I blogged about something similar today.

[Honan]

And only buy from verified members