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If you're contacted by someone and they refer you to a friend that has the part you need and you're not sure it's legit, post the username and email address here. It creates an online record that other admins can find while searching. This has already helped me stop scammers registering.
 
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Dick Steinkamp said:
In some other forums, guests are not allowed to post.
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As a volunteer admin for another automotive discussion forum, I can tell you that not allowing guests to post wouldn't help with this problem. Anyone can join a forum with a few simple steps, and scammers are willing to expend that much effort.

It is worthwhile booting off people who post obvious scams like CrackGP's above (just the username should be a clue). The best defense is to only use Conversations for discussing buy & sell transactions. Yes, a scammer can become a member and communicate via Conversation, but they can be banned.

Another tip: Treat a gmail address as a red flag. Yes, many legitimate people use gmail. But virtually all scammers seem to use it. I guess gmail makes it easy to create "burner" email accounts, so that new addresses can be created easily as the old ones are banned.
 
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Just to explain that that time I wasn't cheated ... I asked some questions and there was no further answer.
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Don't know if the mechanism known on E24 forum with payment at start would help or not but could support the server, domain etc in some extent.
 
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