Fraud Alert

[HillbillyWizard]

It has come to our attention that scammers may be trying to sell "Hillbilly Wizard parts" by reaching out with @gmail.com or other non legitimate emails here on the steel soldiers forum. Their goal is to capitalize on a business with a good reputation and collect the money fraudulently. We are not the only business having this issue. We wanted to warn everyone to only respond to emails or payment request from the @hillbillywizard.com domain which has been and remains secure.

Thank you for many years of continued support and more to come!

 

[patracy]

The scammer registered here as Rock12. But was never approved. I've figured out what happened. The scammer is watching the classifieds and saw where the other person emailed had posted his email address in a thread for a want ad. The scammer basically went completely around all the means I've setup to thwart these scammers. There's really nothing I can do to prevent scammers from viewing a website and lifting email addresses, phone numbers, or any personal info people post up.

 

[HillbillyWizard]

Thank you for the time spent looking into the issue. A possible best practice is to utilize the message feature as the initial contact methods and avoid posting emails.