{"id":8456,"date":"2019-02-25T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2019-02-25T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:50:56","slug":"qrz-fake-email-scammer-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"QRZ Fake Email Scammer Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was notified via a sharp eyed ham who recognized a bad photoshop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how it works. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1) Scammer goes on QRZ and finds a valid call sign.<\/span>
\n2) Scammer then goes to FCC ULS database with the call sign to get your name and address.<\/span>
\n3) Scammer creates an email account that includes your call sign. In my case it was ki5aiu.qrz@gmail.com<\/span>
\n4) Scammer trolls the QRZ (or other) swapmeet areas looking for someone who wants a specific piece of equipment.<\/span>
\n5) Scammer downloads pictures of the equipment off the web or from prior sales.<\/span>
\n6) Scammer photoshops the pictures and adds your call sign to the picture.<\/span>
\n7) Scammer contacts buyer with a too good to be true offer. The scammer wants to be paid via Paypal (friends and family – which offer no buyer protection), and at a different email address than the one they just created.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, the buyer was suspicious and contacted me at the email I have listed in QRZ (my real email address).<\/span><\/p>\n

1) have contacted the scammer and blown up his scheme.<\/span>
\n2) I have updated my QRZ bio with a warning to contact me should anyone contact them about an offer to sell equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

73s,<\/span>
\nDon KI5AIU<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was notified via a sharp eyed ham who recognized a bad photoshop. Here’s how it works. 1) Scammer goes on QRZ and finds a valid call sign. 2) Scammer then goes to FCC ULS database with the call sign to get your name and address. 3) Scammer creates an email account that includes your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}