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There are some bastards scamming users from this forum and probably operate in several others places as well. They use the same technique. They look for people with WTB posts in this section and then tell you to contact them via mail. They offer you unusually good prices and ask to pay as Friends. As soon as the payment is done, you don't hear back from them. Obviously they know very well what they are doing and it's very difficult to trace them, although we are working on some angles that they may have missed. If we find them, we will expose them and ask you to report them to the Police.

As a general rule:
  • If it's too cheap to be true, probably isn't
  • Always ask for pictures of the PCB and make sure that they seller is not using some stock pictures from google. ASK FOR RECENT PICTURES.
  • Do not send payment via PayPal as Friends unless it's a trusted seller with a long history in this forum. Even in that case, they may have hacked the account of the seller, so if you are going to pay as Friends from a trusted seller, make sure that you are contacting the real person and get suspicious if someone tells you to contact some friend to his email address.

Here below some examples of the messages that they used:

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Here you have some experiences with details here:
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WTB Post in thread 'CPS1 - A Board 10mhz Non-Dash'

SCAM WARNING!!!
Hey folks, just to post a warning to all here. I've been scammed on a cps1 a-board and a Superman pcb. I received a direct message from a user called @ScottMGQ (screenshot attached) seemingly reaching out being a good citizen recommending some guy called Mark at the email address : mgbmgacorp@gmail.com as he specialized in such things. Anyway, unfortunately I was stupidly trusting based on the fact he was recommended by a user here and agreed to do a transaction for $140 (a-board) through zelle to include an invoice number. I was also looking for a taito...
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WTB Thread 'SCAM WARNING!!!'

There are some bastards scamming users from this forum and probably operate in several others places as well. They use the same technique. They look for people with WTB posts in this section and then tell you to contact them via mail. They offer you unusually good prices and ask to pay as Friends. As soon as the payment is done, you don't hear back from them. Obviously they know very well what they are doing and it's very difficult to trace them, although we are working on some angles that they may have missed. If we find them, we will expose them and ask you to report them to the Police...
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