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REMEMBER TO WATCH FOR TEXT SCAMS

Be aware that many people have posted their phone number or email address in older posts or public profiles. The bad guys can find this quickly with searches.

We emphatically emphasize that you should NEVER EVER do a deal without a VOICE phone call. Repeat, pick up the telephone and CALL the seller.

Also, we strongly recommend that you demand a couple custom photos with the object for sale in a different location with something (such as a bit of rope) touching it in multiple locations.

Scammers steal photos from the web and can also now use AI.
 
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And when you sell something delete your ad, & the ads & pics won't be out there forever to steal.
 
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And when you sell something delete your ad, & the ads & pics won't be out there forever to steal.
Not true! Once posted, it’s out there for eternity! Even deleted from this site, you’ll almost always find it archived on www.archive.org also known as “The Wayback Machine.” Personally, I think deleting sold posts is disservice to other members. Pictures and sales prices are a great value reference.

Forum Boss: Yes the Wayback Machine preserves many web pages. However, it does not recover ALL the millions of posts in this Forum.

The greatest risk comes just from someone simply doing a search on a Member's posts to find one with an email or phone number. That only takes a scammer a minute or two to rifle through years of posts to find a listed email or number. That is why you should go through your post history and delete those entries.
 
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This is exactly any I keep after the people posting phone numbers and other personal info on profile posts instead of direct messages. Multiple times a week it seems someone is posting info on a profile post.

“FYI profile posts are public for all to see. You have publicly posted personal info (phone, address, email, etc…) for everyone to see including the scammers. You might consider using direct messages instead and deleting this profile post.”

 

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