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Watch out for scammers!

Josh76

By Josh76
in Palms/Plants/Seeds Wanted

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Josh76

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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 😂 

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

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@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.

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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 

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