Scammer that gets my phone number and texts me?

[slim9300]

I sent a private message to a member here that had a Pure Bow Sight listed and then a week later received a text message claiming to be that person. I had provided my phone number in the PM and not in the thread.

I have no idea how they got my phone number, because I only provided it to the seller via private message. I contacted the seller after I was scammed and he had no idea who I was and had never responded to my private message. Tradslam has been a member here since 2016. He had sold the item nearly the same day it was posted but I had no idea since he never contacted me until after I asked him why he didn’t ship the item via PM.

Is this a common thing? I have now been blocked by this phone number but it’s still active if someone else calls it.

I realize I messed up with F&F but keep in mind I have bought hundreds of items on forums in my life and this is the first time I was scammed after texting someone first by PM’ing them and asking for them to reach out. Normally I talk to them, so that my mistake.

Thank you for the feedback!

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[BBob]

You've posted your full name, email in the past and your location is front and center so my guess a scammer used a person lookup site and drummed up a phone number. It's not all that expensive to pay for one of those lookup research site's so maybe the scammers are utilizing that.

Pondering: You've also bought and sold a lot of stuff so what if a scammer has reached out before and you "innocently" gave your number to them to discuss something in the past?

 

[slim9300]

Yep. The only thing I could think of is the first part since I posted on the original thread I was interested.


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[slim9300]

I did private message him the day it was listed, but I followed up with a message on the original thread just to check it had actually sold. Painful.

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