Quote from: BurtWagner on February 06, 2012, 02:32:05 PM

Quote from: gurg2.o on February 03, 2012, 11:11:25 PM

Just got out of class on my way to gym (on my phone) will send repayment when I get home. Cheers

What the hell was this? Why write this and then vanish - why not just vanish? This post serves no purpose unless this is some kind of scam/prank. Has anyone checked over at SA to see if they are laughing their asses of over there? Or, has anyone checked to see if anyone died on that day in some freak weight lifting accident?

Looking back now at his entire posting history I see some obvious bad signs. Here is what I learned:

I did not read his entire post history becaues he was already at 123 posts and a full member - I got lazy and assumed he had been around a while. You can bet your bottom BTC that from now on I will at least check the customers profile to get their first post date, even if I don't read every single post. 123 posts in that short of a time is what got me.

Also, I got caught up in his story. He was offering to help someone out, someone we all know, this would also help out some of the lenders, blah, blah, blah, bs, bs, bs.

Once others jumped on the band wagon and started loaning I got lazy and figured that they had done the homework.

Valuable (and expensive) leasons learned.

Edit: And then I found this:

Quote from: Tril on January 25, 2012, 03:24:57 PM

pass, this OP only has 1-liner posts, only for a few weeks since account creation up until this loan request. As if he's trying to get a high post count with little effort. I got scammed by someone who did that before.

How the heck did I miss this post? Double Doh.

This is why I stay put and never lend people more then they've repaid in a single time. Works every time and I've not got scammed (yet!)