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tonight a dude sent a text to my Wife's mobile ( no senders number in text!) asking if "musical instrument" was still for sale
I stupidly missed 3 red flags in my haste to sell guitar.....1) referring to the guitar as a musical instrument....2) no number in the text....and 3) sending an email text to the wife's phone instead of sending an email to my Gumtree address
I decided to reply to his original message from my PC and this of course will have given him my personal email address...bummer
2 minutes later the wife gets a text from Gumtree saying she has won a thousand quid......I am on to him by now though, a little slow but I got there in the end
it's a little worrying and scary that there are folk out there waiting to pounce like this.
Gumtree give out mobile numbers as a way of contact so I guess it must be reasonably safe as long as we are savvy to any try out scams, but what concerns me tonight, is me foolishly returning his message and exposing my REAL email address to these fraudsters.
is there any real harm in these guys having my email address like this?
below is a copy of their 2nd email
Nice Hearing back from you..I'm quite satisfied with the condition and price. I will be paying the PayPal charges from my account and i will be paying directly into your PayPal account without any delay,and i hope you have a paypal account. If you have one already, just send me the address to send it to, which is the email address you use for it or you can send me a paypal money request, so once i receive the details i will go ahead with the payment through PayPal and then i will contact my shipping company after you get the payment. I will need your home address for it to be Picked Up by the Shipping Company..
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
or put your location as the local police station.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Gumtree say that their system is safe, and will obscure your email address in all communications, but IME it's patchy - it will work for the first message or two, but then if you scroll down the conversation, you can find yours and their email address.
Very much agree with your final sentence
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