But the search gives you live listings, which means they are not the accounts that the scammers are after. My question is, how do scammers search for dormant accounts names?
Thank you for your explanation, Gary, I didn't know that. I thought how would scammers know which trade accounts weren't used for a while? The names can be pretty random. Maybe they just crunch the ID numbers to find out names... I think there is much more that TM can do.
I am talking about this page.https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MemberProfiles.aspx Trade me must remove it to make it more difficult for scammers to access people's accounts by clicking on their trader names
Another trader just got scammed from a 100% positive account for $6,800 I don't care about the rules, below is the listing (the trader since been disabled). Still no warning article from TM about it. If you can't be bothered warning people, why not at least disable the page, where one can see all traders accounts? I suspect that's how scammers get the names of those accounts which were dormant for a while. Trade Me helpfully lists them for scammers to hack. I am doing your job regularly monitoring music instruments category, I don't know enough about watches to do that there. https://www.tr...
sorry that you missed out on the opportunity to buy a sax, Callum 🤪
my bad, they had their last trade a year ago, I still live in 2024! The auction been active for several days now despite 5 unanswered questions and people obviously cautious. Still. How's that article going, Michelle?
The scammer is back onto it. This time, from a fresh account, not the dormant one. But the $ sign at the shipping is a giveaway. Selme 1974r Mark VI saxophone, anyone??
Summary-the fraudulent account listings were active for the whole weekend. Callum still has 37 negative feedbacks left by a feral scammer on his account, still not removed by TM. This has now got to a stage when other members are affected while trying to fight scammers (instead of TM) How's that scam article going, Michelle? So far I talked to Anthony, Shara, Kirsty and you. All of you said that you would "pass it on" to your team. Can someone from the team who received at least 4 messages in the past year, acknowledge the problem? Disabling accounts is not an effective solution.
Second scammer just relisted the Nord that Callum bought, so the fraudulent account is still active, 36 hours after the initial listing.
Wow indeed. I hope that they are removed ASAP. You have really taken one for the team and I hope that TM will appreciate you doing their job by providing you with some benefits(but who am I kidding...) Thank you for doing this, Callum! This also means that TM would have to refund you all the "success" fees that were immediately taken off you(the only thing TM seems to do fast is to take your money)