Another Sunday Ruined by Scammers
Am I the only one getting annoyed at these scammers with their fake passport ads filling up the forum? It just ruins the forum seeing these filling up the active topics.
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This is why you rarely see this kind of rampant spam elsewhere.
The Tauck Forums are a great resource for their travelers, but are diminished by the unrestricted access provided a new member the moment they sign up. They'll spend less time reviewing the first posts of new members than they do cleaning up these messes after the fact.
Please Tauck Family, get rid of this scammer. Please put a firewall in place to block this person and others that are ruining a great site for all of us who love to travel with Tack.
This is about the 3rd time I have seen this and it is very disconcerting when you want to post a message.
Thanks for allowing me to vent.
But, of course, the scammers never try to use these documents. They sell them to the gullible who then get in trouble.
Sigh....
Actually these SPAMMERS are far more sophisticated than to use their real and own email addresses. They can create fake emails and more. False URL's are always used. If you do not know what an URL is, it is the unique identifier for an account.
That also goes for other things such as on my iPhone I get calls and the number on it instead looking like 123-456-7890 it will look like this 12-345-67-890
Darned if I can figure out how that may be done.
No use contacting Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or whoever.
I think a Tauck login is a Tauck login...no way to differentiate different parts of their web site.
That said, first, welcome to the forum. There is a HUGE amount of useful information available here, especially when you decide on a specific tour.
There is no real danger, just annoyance, from the scammers. Their posts are very obvious: same post in multiple threads, member with on a few posts (really, just one, but the counter goes up when they paste the same post into multiple threads), obvious scam posts (fake passports, etc.) or recommendations for another tour operator.
If you only follow links posted by members with many posts (after checking to see that the link looks legit), there is a very low probability of an issue. If you are still concerned, just never follow a link. The vast majority of useful information is in the plain text of posts.
The primary reason you see many of us upset about the scam posts is that we check the site often and look at the recent post lists to see if there is something we'd like to read. The problem plaguing the forum has been the weekend scammer who, knowing it will not likely be caught/fixed by Tauck until Monday, post the same idiot information in multiple posts which scrolls the valid posts right off the recent post list.
There are mechanisms employed by on-line forums with orders-of-magnitude more members and new members which can prevent this.