bdickens
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"You can't cheat an honest man."
I am 67 and was introduced to computers when the TRS80 was state of the art and I carried my operating system on a 5-1/4" floppy disk between classes. Still, I do not consider myself 'expert' by any means when it comes to computers and the digital world. I use them out of necessity and would do without them if I could.My 85 year old Dad, who passed in January, would laugh at the notion of being a "digital immigrant". He had been an active PC based computer user since 1990.
No legit seller will ask for payment in the form of untraceable money (money order).
A private firearm sale almost has to use a MO or a personal check. PayPal will lock your account and keep your money if they find out you violated their terms of service by buying a firearm. A legitimate business should be set up to accept credit cards, but if you buy something from me I’m going to want a MO.
It was also about GunBroker transactions. The one time I sold a gun on GB I requested an MO and the seller sent one after we had a phone conversation. As a practical matter I think it’s never a bad idea to talk to an actual human before sending large sums of money.Sure, but this was about scam website "businesses".
Ever since the last ammo shortage started scammers have stepped up their efforts to separate you dishonesty from your money. Several months ago a online scam called Sega Ammo Shop started using the address at GunRunner Arms (93244 HWY 99 S). Through pressure from the FCC and the Internet Crime reporting system Sega changed their address to another gun shop in Michigan. Now there is another site using our address (more on them later) If you see our address listed on another website and they claim it as theirs it is not. All communication will be done at https://www.gunrunnerarms.com/ or in our store and nowhere else.
Or just similar to "I saw it on the internet, it must be true."Scams would end if people used their brains and tempered their impulses. Most of the scams are not even very sophisticated.
Well past 60 here but a former systems analyst.If you’re in your 40’s then you’ve spent a good portion of your life in the connected era and have lived thru the evolution of these scams. I wonder if many of their victims are 60+ and only became exposed to online commerce much later in life and it’s such a foreign environment they don’t even know what they don‘t know.
Digital natives vs digital immigrants, to use the popular phrase.
Probably at a mailbox & fax place.Not guns, but outdoors: knifesilo.com has every Spyderco knife listed at $66.49, including some dealer exclusives costing over $200. They actually list an address on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hill LOL.
"You can't cheat an honest man."