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K9FI
Posts: 57 Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:35 pm
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by K9FI » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:26 pm
You have received a response to your ad, titled "WTB: MFJ-269", that you have running on the QTH.COM Free Ham Radio Classified Ads.
The response is from:
Name: Mr Wu Hoin
Callsign: SW7RE
E-mail:
bebolo2k@yahoo.fr
The response is:
Good day, i am Mr Wu Hoin..i hail from pierre usa & i am highly interested in buying what you placed on the net,Let me know the latest condition & the asking price you are willing to sell.f money order is the form of payment ,get back asap
Mr Wu Hoin
...And this is in response to my WTB Ad...
Will this never stop?!
Jim, K9FI
WA5JAV
Posts: 47 Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:27 pm
Location: Louisiana
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by WA5JAV » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:01 am
Unfortunately, NO!
This a cancer in the same medical center as spam. So long as one sucker per month responds, they will never be cured.
VE2AMN
Posts: 48 Joined: Sun Mar 09, 2003 3:34 am
Location: Beloeil, Quebec, Canada
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by VE2AMN » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:16 am
Is that guy "NERO" peddling prescription drugs on QTH.COM in the same category???
He`s posted twice up till now.....
Gilles, in the great white north..
Fred Wegener
Posts: 1 Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:40 pm
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by Fred Wegener » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:53 pm
Just got this exact same email from "Mr. Hoin" regrding a Heathkit system I have advertised. We have a Chinese name, a callsign that doesn't exist in any database I can find, and we live in Pierre, USA...wherever that is.
WA4OLR
Posts: 2 Joined: Mon May 28, 2007 3:06 pm
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by WA4OLR » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:58 pm
Beware of a scammer going by the name "Tony Scott" !!
Bank checks and Cashier checks are his MOP !!
73
WA4OLR