Watch out for scammers!

[Josh76]

First of all, I want to preface this thread by saying that I don't know 100% that these people are scammers, but my suspicions have been raised enough to make me post...

I started a thread last week asking for Cycas revoluta x debaoensis seeds. A Palmtalk user who has no post history sent me a message saying they had received these seeds from @MattyB and gave me an email address to contact him on. I sent an email and had some slightly strange interactions with someone called Pete who, at first, wasn't forthcoming with information about where they had sourced the seed from. I suppose in my desire to source these seeds I was willing to look past this, and I proceeded to ask for Paypal payment details. They provided them and asked me to do it as a 'Friends and Family' payment, meaning I wouldn't be covered in the case of fraud. They then gave me the email address to use for Paypal and this was yet another name. Thankfully, at this point I had the sense not to proceed, but I was very close.

I could be wrong, but just a few things here don't seem to add up and I'm concerned that I might not be the only person this has happened to. And just to reiterate, I don't believe MattyB is involved in this at all... I think scammers may have just selected a popular user to add an air of authenticity to the whole thing.

So be careful, everyone!

Oh and if anyone knows of a genuine source of C. revoluta x debaoensis then I'm still searching 😂 

[beliz1985]

I have received the same message a few times, different names and different emails all the time. 

[Johnny Palmseed]

@Josh76 @beliz1985 Yes it’s a scam. There was a red warning bar posted recently on the top of the home page regarding this. I had a similar issue and I sent a PM to the administrator. You should do the same.

[Dwarf Fan]

Yes I got only one response from my want to buy and it was a 0 post new user who communicated in broken English so I knew it was an obvious scam attempt. I would never deal with someone on Palm Talk that doesn’t have some type of established reputation.

Caveat Emptor 

[Johnny Palmseed]

So I just updated my looking for Satakentia seeds post and immediately got this PM. It’s pretty much exactly the same as the ones I received before. It even has the same weird text “some win parts”  and “text him” with no #.

CoralTheme 0

Started conversation: 30 minutes ago

Hello, are you still looking for this ? I purchased some win parts from Thegreenman some days ago and Got exactly what your looking for, Satakentia Seeds is among the items, he showed me he wanted to part out with, Maybe you should text him to know if its still available...PM his email: ‎‎‎jamessimp331@aol.com

[Dwarf Fan]

7 hours ago, Johnny Palmseed said:

So I just updated my looking for Satakentia seeds post and immediately got this PM. It’s pretty much exactly the same as the ones I received before. It even has the same weird text “some win parts”  and “text him” with no #.

 

CoralTheme 0

Started conversation: 30 minutes ago

 

Hello, are you still looking for this ? I purchased some win parts from Thegreenman some days ago and Got exactly what your looking for, Satakentia Seeds is among the items, he showed me he wanted to part out with, Maybe you should text him to know if its still available...PM his email: ‎‎‎jamessimp331@aol.com

Like I said the “broken English” is always the easiest tip off, they sound like the old Nigerian Prince/Lottery scam emails that have been circulated for decades. These scumbags do this on other hobby forums I frequent, I honestly dont know who would think these very poorly done cut and paste scam attempts are even remotely legitimate.