[quote=DamonLinkous][quote=turbohobo]Having high-speed internet access comes with some risk, e-mail address are sold as mailing-lists and we get inundated with spam on a daily basis. Recently though, scam-spam is on the increase,[/quote]
Here at TheBeachcats.com I do everything I can to make it hard for the scammers to use the site. If you run a classified ad your email is not exposed, buyers need to register on the site and then use the contact seller form to send you an email.
The emails sent out by the "contact seller" form contain instructions on reporting scammers. When someone reports one by forwarding me the contact email, I ban that username from the site. It means that the scammer has to has to register again using a new email address before they can contact anyone else. So the faster these are reported to me the less sellers can be contacted.
Most of the scammers quickly move on to other easier websites when they realize what is going on.
One problem is that some sellers will include their email address in the item description, despite the specific warnings I have in the ad form.[/quote]
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