Phishing attempt from Blau Jewelries

[mtherrmann]

I have a few items for sale on TRF at the moment and recently received a message to my email account on the listings from blaujewelries@gmail.com. I responded to the first message and received a reply asking if I would also consider trades. There was a link for what the seller supposedly had available. Upon previewing the link it was disguised as a TRF url but went to another site and prompted me to login to TRF (I was already logged in). Caveat emptor!

[Andad]

Have you reported this to the mods?

[mtherrmann]

Yes, i just did.

[77T]

Thanks for advising/warning us.

If the person isn't a member here, there is nothing Mods can do since it was conducted via email.

Do you recall if they mentioned having a TRF user ID? If so, please share that too.


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[wclock]

Glad you were smart enough, these things happens a lot on WTB ads.

Thanks for the heads up.

[masyv6]

The same account just tried to phish me. Glad this thread was the top result when I googled "Blau Jewelries".

[rs4ever]

I am new here but have been trading high end knives and tools on FB/Reddit/Bladeforum(since 2013)/eBay(25years).
Recently I inquired about a Rolex GMT-Master II 116710LN that's asking $10650 on the rolex classifieds here. Seller is besttime, no facebook and claim to be on RLF only.
One of the reference is Ethan ethan at blaujewelries dot com, so it brought me here upon searching. I am not comfortable with the seller at this point.

[NebraskaZach]

Glad I found this and that it popped up when I googled. Attempting to buy from TRF and Ethan was provided as a reference. Seller was unwilling to FaceTime and had no other references. So finding this thread and seeing the only existence Blau Jewelries with presence is this thread….you guys may have saved me a lot of money.

[seattleal]

Got an email today in response to one of my ads here, so beware, this person is still active.

[brandrea]

Thanks for sharing guys … you can’t be too careful,