Hi all, scammer alert. Or hacker alert, as I think is the case here.


I have something posted in SC and was contacted by a 'member' expressing an interest. It was fishy from the beginning:

This morning:









Before proceeding to send an email, I did a quick check on the user's posts.... yes seemed genuine enough, albeit somewhat dated.

I knew signing off with 'N' did not tally up with how they have signed off on their TZ posts. So, I proceeded with a very tentative email:











Here is the response a short while ago:








Pure scammer talk.
The item is not marked as sold.
Asking about shipping when it's not relevant.
Asking me to click - what seems like - a genuine link? It is not....

It reads as follows: https://forum.tz-uk.com/forum.php/35334435

But it points to this location: http://tz-uk.foruptu.com/

...and see what that location looks like:








Yes, that's right. An attempted mirror of TZ-UK forcing you to enter your username and password so they can capture your details as you submit them.

When I was suspicious earlier this morning, and took a look at TZ-UK profile of okzbow, I could see his activity was erratic, always being in PM's and with different user names.
I suspect many other people who have items in SC have received this type of contact.
I'm almost certain 'ingenioren' would've been PM'd by this guy, as that was the last PM activity I last saw last on the profile of okzbow. If you're reading ingenioren, watch out!

One can assume okzbow was tricked into this and hence the 'scammer' using his profile to contact other members.




By the way the bikes are still available