Scammer alert
 

Hi,

I currently have a wanted post under Model A - looking for ignition key numbers I'm hunting.

I was contacted by private message from user name: NORMREN, informing me to contact "FLY ON" at [email protected]. NORMREN said that FLYON had several 1929 ignitions keys and is very helpful and prompt to reply.

Well, I did contact. FLYON produced a list of numbers and hit on 4 that I needed. The scam came in that he sent a photo of a Model A Ford keyboard that is a dealer issued with replacement keys on it. This keyboard is very difficult to find. It looked familiar to me because I currently own it - the key numbers matched identically to the keys on each ring hanging on it. I bought the keyboard several years ago so not sure when or how long ago FLYON owned or got pictures of this keyboard and key number information.

I never received a full name of the exact scammer but I sent a note to NORMREN indicating that I believe he is indeed the scammer. NO Reply.

Be careful out there and always ask for a signed and dated picture to be sent to you of items you are looking for and always pay with goods and services unless you personally know the counterparty.

Any questions, please message me.

Eric

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Thanks for the heads up. Scammers are everywhere. Be careful out there, they are out to getcha.

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I long for the old analogue days when scamming was not even a word. No identity theft, no card fraud, no phishing (another word that didn't exist). About the worst thing that could happen is you lose your wallet. If that happened, you may or may not get it back with the cash inside it but that was all.We didn't realise it at the time but they were the good days.

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Many years ago I was contacted by a man that asked why I wasn't responding to his inquiries about the bike he had supposedly bought from me through ebay.I did not sell him a bike,I had cut ties with paypal and ebay a few years earlier.He had bought a 1996 Harley,fairly new back then.He had pictures of my bike,and my name,but I didn't even have an ebay account by then.I had sold the bike 3 years earlier,private sale,on Craigslist.I have no idea how the scammer could have gone through that whole transaction,and gotten paid,using the name of an account closed three years earlier.The interesting part was that ebays reaction to the whole thing was to demand I either produce the motorcycle or give the money back.That was their sole position.They never wavered from that.I was very nice to the victim,who figured out fast that he'd been scammed out of $12000.I don't know how it all came out,but it took months for ebay to leave me alone.

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Member "normren" has some pretty normal looking posts on Fordbarn.

There is no Fordbarn member name "flyon" - one of the first things to check in any transaction.

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Never, ever trust anyone who replies to a wanted ad telling you to contact someone else off the forum.

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Yep... Never do a deal off the forum... Almost always a scammer.... and we ban accounts that direct folks to email.