0. Newbies, NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH OTHER NEWBIES, EVER.
1. New account (usually created within the last 3 months, plus or minus)
3. Use of a seemingly realistic first/last name as their forum account name
8. Any user blatantly claiming to be female
There. Pretty much in a nutshell how to spot a scammer.
Tomatocage pretty much wrapped it up there....
Hands down for Tomatocage
And did you notice the date he wrote that - October 23 2012
And these kind of scams are still going.
I guess it must really work for scammers then.