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EmpiGT Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:54 pm

Looking thru the classifieds tonight I see alot of new users as of today with ads. Seems strange to see this many at once? Usually scammers sell higher end stuff for cheap. Looks fishy

Examples

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147465
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147480
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147483
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147487
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147493
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147478
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1147378

These are just a few, and every single one of them is a differant new user. Some have phone #'s so they seem ligit but it just looks kind of odd. Unless the samba Has been advertised somewhere with allot of following?

draginwagen Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:07 pm

Id say most of them are people who were looking to sell something and have no knowledge of vws and arent into them come upon the site when searching how much there worth.

EverettB Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:34 pm

Those are all legitimate as far as I can tell.

I have an admin display that shows me all the new ads from new users in order to check for scams and there are new users posting ads almost every day.

There were more than normal today but the weekend often has more ads posted than during the week.

I did not check against last weekend for comparison.



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