Scam account

[beenjammin]

another member informed me that there is some idiot using my user name and put a period at the end and using my avatar. Please know this is most likely a scammer. Either that or I have a crazy fan.

 

[beenjammin]

 

[Im2bent]

Report to mods?

 

[AmmoFort]

I have a question about this. Are these fuckheads signing up with the fake username or changing to it? I'm new here still and I just noticed the other day that it seems we can change our user names at will. If the scammers are signing up with one name and then switching later, it seems like that feature should be turned off until you reach a certain amount of posts or something.

I understand that we all need to try and do our due diligence when making purchases or sales, but this would be one easy step to take. I helped run a small forum before and it was a PITA. Just kinda thinking out loud.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Report to mods?

What he said ^^^^

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Scam has been going on for about a month and it is aimed at people selling in the PX who post “I’ll take it.”

Scammer rushes up a fake account and PM’s buyer with fake payment address and disappears with money.

Yes, report it. But if you are selling or buying in PX beware that you are saying who you say you are! Doesn’t just apply to snipers hide. It’s on all kinds of sale sites.

Sirhr

 

[AmmoFort]

Scam has been going on for about a month and it is aimed at people selling in the PX who post “I’ll take it.”

Scammer rushes up a fake account and PM’s buyer with fake payment address and disappears with money.

Yes, report it. But if you are selling or buying in PX beware that you are saying who you say you are! Doesn’t just apply to snipers hide. It’s on all kinds of sale sites.

Sirhr

I'm not on a ton of forums, but I've never seen one that allows the members to change their usernames on their own.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I'm not on a ton of forums, but I've never seen one that allows the members to change their usernames on their own.

LL had a PSA on it recently. Not sure the mechanics of how they get their be handle through. But clone accounts are apparently a thing.

 

[Holliday]

Periods. A problem since time immemorial ……

 

[Holliday]

This place runs on Xenforo right? Change username is a permission, it should be able to be turned off easy.

CALM DOWN EVERYONE.

I recently changed my user id. It required a delay for Mod approval. It was approved……

 

[Maggot]

Periods. A problem since time immemorial ……

 

[6.5SH]

This place runs on Xenforo right? Change username is a permission, it should be able to be turned off easy.

The scammers aren't changing names after the fact. They find who they want to impersonate from a PX ad then create the account right then.
I've reported or given the legit user a heads up on bunches of them, sometimes within minutes of creation when I spot one.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Fucking lowlifes everywhere. Too bad we cannot implement the policy of "You scam, we JDAM" on these mofos. If Hunter S. Thompson is the President now, you BET we would be able to do that, and Snipers Hide would have a fleet of Predator drones on standby...

 

[Blue Sky Country]

The scammers aren't changing names after the fact. They find who they want to impersonate from a PX ad then create the account right then.
I've reported or given the legit user a heads up on bunches of them, sometimes within minutes of creation when I spot one.

Just like shoplifters, they lurk in the darkest corners and try to move around unseen until they spot what they want and make a grab for it. ONE, just ONE of these shit-eaters, who impersonated longstanding member MCAMERON, actually had the balls to reply to a political thread in the Pit. Was a fucking leftist and Trump-hater too.

I caught one by chance when I was scrolling down last month and saw a newly registered member with a suspiciously almost identical name to another member and called it out. Now I scroll down to the bottom "new members joined" toolbar every time I browse around out of habit.