Personal Messages - scam?

[jinky]

Has anyone else receieved a PM through their Photoradar mailbox asking them to do product reviews from Dinodirect? I have and had never heard of them before so did a google on them. Got some very negative feedback on the first pages that come up It`s a guy called Campbell using a ladofy user name. Asks if interested to email back at a hotmail account. Not sure what I will do - wouldn`t mind reviewing something useful if I could keep it after and was any good but how are they getting through the PM system like this?

[nick_gray]

I've not received a PM.

I'm very sceptical, so I'd question why an organisation like DinoDirect would have one of their employees ask you to reply to a hotmail account, it doesn't make sense. They are also predominately US focused, so again I would question why they would want a UK based person to write a product review.

As to why this guy asked you to write a review, who knows, maybe he works for a manufacturer or manufacturers agent, and wants your honest opinion on one of his products, without him revealing the company he works for, or maybe he's just a spammer/scammer, sitting all alone in his bedroom, harvesting live email addresses to sell on.

I guess the only way to find out if it's real is to contact DinoDirect and ask them if X is working on their behalf.

Regards

Nick

[Amy Davies]

Hi jinky,

I had one of those too (!) so he's obviously not doing his research as to which member is which, it's probably just blanket targeting.

I have sent him a warning and will ban him if he doesn't respond by tomorrow first thing.

Thanks,

Amy

[jinky]

Well done Amy - on the ball again

[chris-p]

Amy, can you send the mods the user ID just in case?

[jinky]

He just joined this morning - doubt if he`ll log on again

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by Amy Davies

Hi jinky,

I had one of those too (!) so he's obviously not doing his research as to which member is which, it's probably just blanket targeting.


Amy

I had one too but just deleted it. Except it was a Yahoo account.