It's not just "I'll take it". Here's a new alarming scam that happened to me yesterday. Had a hide member PM me about a text I sent to him regarding the purchase of a firearm I had for sale in the PX. Thing is, it wasn't me. He had seen this person's interest in a firearm I had for sale a year ago in the PX and contacted him by text offering to sell him the firearm. Somehow, he had gotten the individuals phone number and posed as me in a text. When the buyer asked the scammer to contact him by phone, the scammer sent him a phone number. When the buyer contacted the scammer, a man with heavily accented Spanish spoke to him. The buyer had seen me in some of the video's and knew I didn't speak with a Spanish accent and PM'ed me on the Hide to ask what was going on. We talked on the phone and got it all straightened out. However, the scammer offered to SBR the firearm in question. My next step is sure to alarm some hide members. I'm not really comfy with someone out there using my name to illegally sell firearms, let alone NFA firearms. I notified the ATF that there is someone out there using my identity to try and scam/sell firearms. Fun Fact: I called the ATF Hotline and got an answering machine. Haven't heard back from the ATF.
Moral of the story. Only the buyer can prevent scams. Talk to the seller on the phone. For firearms, contact the FFL to see if they have ever heard of the buyer. I had one scammer send me a legit FFL but the scammer had gotten hold of the dealers ffl. This was the old here's the ffl, I'm going to send you extra money because (insert scam here) and just mail me the difference back.
This is a google search to find the number
Numbers can be linked to emails and such, we had a couple of people claim they were sent a text message
We have no system for phone numbers so unless you sent a scammer a number to call, what they do is a google search trying to link to the accounts
If you get an unsolicited text or email, or PM that is a real red flag and anyone you spoke too should be a report ticket
But they will search your email etc it's how they find accounts to Hack, they are not hacking the site, they are finding accounts on hacked lists from bigger hacks. So they know your password, find the same email, test the compromised email with the compromised password and if they get lucky the change the email and password so your account is their account
They are not HACKING the site, why the compromises are random, they are finding hacked accounts online from bigger compromises, then matching everything. Dark web sells your shit, they get it, and start running around the internet trying to match it up
again, organized crime, they have access to the Dark web, they have no problem stealing Credit Cards, they have no problem Spoofing your account or reaching out to you