Scammers

Just a warning to fellow members. I have a WTB post for an English flat bottom tech. I have had 2 newly created profiles reach out to me. Both with pictures pulled from the internet and wanting me to send money thru PayPal family and friends or thru cash app. Refused to use PayPal goods and services and obvious scammers. Both have been weeks apart. I have reported them but plz be careful with your WTB posts. Seems trolls are lurking around looking for a quick scam. Good luck out there and happy shaves.

 

I am having similar experiences right now.

 

Thanx for letting me know, I was wondering if i was just crazy

 

You can use a reverse image search to help with this:
https://tineye.com/

 

Do you really want us to answer that?

 

That's great info to know. Thank you!

 

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No but I already know ur right anyway haha.

 

I always use google's image search. Is this one any better?

I've seen this in my other hobbies, which have an even smaller niche. I wonder why scammers would target us when there are bigger fish to fry?
It could be that they are also hobbyists, but have now moved to the dark side.

 

I wondered the very same thing, and I'd say u may be right haha

 

I was going to suggest how I would do it, but then I realized I might be giving the scammers ideas.

Perhaps it's reverse psychology -- it can't be a scam, lest they would be claining they're the IRS or asking for my SS#.


I got an email the other day asking me to verify my SS payment amount or something like that -- but I don't receive SS yet and have a few more years to go until I do.

 

Maybe it's the same reverse image search. Maybe it just seems more private to me than the Google one. As far as scammers targeting us, I agree. What a small market to go after, especially after the word gets out. They couldn't get more than 2 or 3 people before everyone catches on.

 

Yeah the price of most razors in this hobby seems like it wouldn't be worth the effort to scam someone out of.

 

These scammers are relentless. I and the other mods at TSN dealt with unscrupulous scoundrels multiple times a week.

 

Well I and we thank you for all the work that you guys do!

 

Maybe these scammers need a taste of their own medicine! Like paying them with Monopoly money!

 

Or poker chips

 

Agreed. The moderators here at The Shave Den do fabulous work. Kudos to them! Since becoming more active at TSD I’ve found it a friendly and mellow place to be.
It’s interesting to note the subtle differences in the general vibe at the various shave fora.


In my experience moderating an internet forum is generally a thankless job. Joseph @Primotenore gets a grateful public nod here as someone who graciously offered kind words when I joined the moderation team at The Shave Nook. Remained in that capacity for about two years, before its untimely passing. Lemmetellya… the people who were members there before I joined had vast, vast experience. Decades. I learned so very much from them.
To The Shave Nook, may it rest in peace.

 

I went through that, by a "new" member here. Luckily it was only $5.00 and he got booted from here.

 

So all those young ladies aren't real??? They really don't want an old guy to friend them on Facebook? Ha ha ha

 

Sorry, no. The real ones are on Instagram.