A New Scam

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Received an e-mail from Portugal today informing me that my WM250 lathe was for sale on a local auction website. Lo and behold there on CustoJusto.pt were several images of my lathe, lifted from my website, asking 1220 euro for it.

Not quite sure if the e-mail I received was from the seller and part of the scam or from a local Portugese model engineer who had visited my website. I have not replied just in case.

I assume someone is trying to pocket the cash without having anything to sell, I don't think it will affect me. Yet something else for web users to be aware of.

Should you happen to be in Portugal and looking for a lathe, mine is NOT for sale and I think the shipping would cost rather lot!

Just thought I would post this for information, if it is happening in Portugal I have no doubt is it happening here very much a case of buyer beware.

John

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

[dcostaParticipant @dcosta]

Helo John.
I'm in Portugal and am portuguese.

I've already denounced the possible scam to the custojusto organization.

Regards
Dias Costa

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

These people are relentless, they seem to have infiltrated this quite well. I would just be careful if it seems theyre talking rubbish. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Michael W

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Thanks for that, my language skills were not up to letting CustoJust know about the scam.

John

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