How do we report a scammer in our midst?
I posted recently and was direct messaged by someone sending me photos of gear from a listing which is on Facebook’s Foil Marketplace.
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The Facebook listing is for gear located in Europe and “richard” told me the gear is in Wisconsin.
Now I see other people calling “Richard” out for scammy posts.
How do we give him the boot?
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This guy has had enough Buy/Sell posts up here that SOMEONE should be able to vouch if he’s legit.
As always, only pay using methods with remediation, use common sense, and give this guy a video call.
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I contacted the seller on Facebook. He was quite amused to see his photos caught up in a scam. He confirmed that he’s located in UK, not Wisconsin, and has no affiliation with “Richard”.
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Profile pic is a thruster setup…
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Richard’s BFF is a Nigerian prince
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I also had an experience with Richard, who’s selling an Axis PNG 1310. The original photos he posted made it look like the wing was in great condition. But when I asked him for a few more pictures, he sent me shots of a totally different 1310 that was all scraped up. Definitely seems shady and misleading.
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Total scammer who has since deleted his messages in this thread. Dude is cold busted.
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Why is Richard not banned from this forum. It proven he is a scammer.
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Wow. This buy/sell forum is just riddled with scammers. And if you attempt to flag something as scammy they seem to then group up and attack you. 
Agree, Jeffc62 is probably a scammer trying to pretend to be good guy. He been posting on many listing even on wtb or swap listing. Very weird.
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From my past experience in forum administration, it’s generally one person with multiple accounts to try to appear legitimate.
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Many of the scammers have private profiles. I wouldn’t buy anything from someone who doesn’t have a public profile showing they’ve been active on the site for quite a while. One way to prevent this might be to require a certain member level and account age before selling.
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