ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

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Scamming / Hacker is Lurking on this Site

Post by hell-fire » Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:11 am

I have received 3 emails from the same guy but with different email addresses, here is what I can tell you.

He emailed me direct & I do no have my email in my profile.

He told me what my password for this site is and this password is unique to this site.

He is making all sorts of demands, (exactly the same wording with each email)

He wants $1,500 US in Bit coin to make it all go away, no I am not falling for it but people need to be careful.

If a moderator or Admin wants he details let me know via PM and I will send all addresses along with the properties.


Be aware everyone.
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Post by d42jeep » Wed Sep 07, 2022 5:16 pm

John
The same thing happened to me some years back. I ignored him and he eventually gave up, apparently. Another G503 problem is that pjones has been unable to log on for a while and the Moderator referred him to the Webmaster. He hasn’t yet received any response from the Webmaster to his emails. Phil is a valuable contributor to G503 and it would be good if this problem is resolved ASAP.
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Post by hell-fire » Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:26 pm

Thanks Don,

Good to hear from you, I was putting the word out and I thought there would have been some interest from a moderator as someone lurking and hacking accounts I see as a very serious issue, apparently it seems we are in a small minority.

Stay safe my friend & I will be in touch.
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by Bill H. » Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:25 pm

John, can you please forward any emails to Ken@g503.com. Ken should be able to help.

Also, name and email address this scammer is using so everyone can be on the lookout.
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by hell-fire » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:40 am

Hi Bill,

I have deleted everything as I heard nothing except from Don, the Guy was using the name John Black If he sends anything else rest assured I will pass it onto Ken.
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by Kcimb » Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:49 am

“Kindly” is a major red flag. It’s not normal for us to us since everyday conversation.

However, in Nigerian English it is.
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by Adam » Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:41 am

Now where is the " Hello Friend" greeting from? twice this month,, one be email linked to this site and one by phone.
And no, publishers clearing house will not call and say you won a jeep or $2.5M

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Post by Austinmf » Thu Jun 15, 2023 10:10 am

Hello all,
I have a message in the wanted section for a GPW transmission. I received a pm from a member saying they had a good one for $600. Of, course I jumped on it as it was a GPW transmission. Drove up from Texas to Tennessee and met him at a truck stop.
Paid cash and left. Took it apart and notice all the needle bearings were in the bottom of the case along with a poppett ball. Took it all apart and found missing teeth on the cluster, very grooved main shaft and cluster gear shaft. The cluster gear shaft hole is oblong and has a lot of play in it. I expected to replace everything and have a good case but the holes are worn and it needs to be line bored and rebushed (one person is saying it is junk and can’t be fixed) I contacted the seller and explained that it was not a good transmission. His response was what did you expect for $600. I asked for half back and he offered a combat rim but is no longer texting or responding to my comms. Thoughts? He has 5 Jeeps, MVPA member and former Military.

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Post by Austinmf » Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:16 pm

My transmission issue was resolved. Super guy. Talked through. All good. Going to have him over for Christmas

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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by SGTFISH » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:52 pm

Hi I got an email from someone that Calls himself Thecreativemind..... email is Thecreativemind717@gmail.com.
Anyone know anything about this guy ? He says he has a distributor for sale but the pix are not of what he said he had.... wrong date code. His email stated a price and he asked where I was from. I responded and asked him where he was from and where he got my email , his only response was “I got it from the forum” nothing more.....
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by Adam » Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:38 pm

Sounds like a couple issues,, beware, no reason they cant do the deal in public, or at least post pics in public so you can check out their history.

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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by SGTFISH » Tue Jun 27, 2023 5:45 pm

Adam, Yeah the whole thing struck me as odd. Hopping you dig something up for me 😁
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by Bill H. » Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:47 am

No members by that name or email that I can find.
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by SGTFISH » Wed Jun 28, 2023 8:08 am

Thanks Bill, that was the vibe I got from the conversation
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Re: ATTENTION: Report scammers here!

Post by SGTFISH » Fri Jul 21, 2023 2:50 pm

Ok here I go again I got a private message from a G member going by brookspaul128 saying his friend had the perfect distributor for my 1944 GPW. And giving me a email address for someone that calls himself “Frances Buyers” from Texas this guy says he has the perfect distributor for my “1994” gpw... all in broken English .... so I asked for pix and it looks nice maybe restored with a new tag and the tag makes it 2 years away from my gpw and also the wrong month...,.

I think it’s a scam
Anyone heard of these guys?
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Frame# 199077
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