CLASSIFIEDS SCAMMERS
Discussion
Hello all,
Having sold a couple of cars recently, I have noticed a worryingly large amount of clearly SCAM emails being sent to me. I have called the classifieds people, but they don't seem to care and just sent me a patronising "well done you for spotting it" email. I thought I would let people know what is going on, in the hope that someone less savvy will avoid being drawn in.
Anyway, the email they send is quite simple and reads a bit like this:
"Hi
Is this your car for sale?
(Link to car you're selling in the classifieds)
Only I see another one exactly the same for sale at half the price"
The scam is click on the link they include and it takes you to a page looking like the PH classifieds login screen, but it is a capture on a site of their design. They'll nick your password and email and then they know where a car is!
The emails nearly always come from shady sounding addresses, I have had emails from:
macyjohnes@forward.cat
xoniahull@forward.cat
and a couple with an address ending londoncars.net.tf or similar
Obviously fake domain names, in-keeping with the general theme.
Anyway, I hope this helps raise awareness and I know that we have the phone screening system for spam, perhaps it would not be too difficult to do something similar on email as they use LITERALLY the exact same text every time.
James
Having sold a couple of cars recently, I have noticed a worryingly large amount of clearly SCAM emails being sent to me. I have called the classifieds people, but they don't seem to care and just sent me a patronising "well done you for spotting it" email. I thought I would let people know what is going on, in the hope that someone less savvy will avoid being drawn in.
Anyway, the email they send is quite simple and reads a bit like this:
"Hi
Is this your car for sale?
(Link to car you're selling in the classifieds)
Only I see another one exactly the same for sale at half the price"
The scam is click on the link they include and it takes you to a page looking like the PH classifieds login screen, but it is a capture on a site of their design. They'll nick your password and email and then they know where a car is!
The emails nearly always come from shady sounding addresses, I have had emails from:
macyjohnes@forward.cat
xoniahull@forward.cat
and a couple with an address ending londoncars.net.tf or similar
Obviously fake domain names, in-keeping with the general theme.
Anyway, I hope this helps raise awareness and I know that we have the phone screening system for spam, perhaps it would not be too difficult to do something similar on email as they use LITERALLY the exact same text every time.
James
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