Unfortunately, life on the Internet requires dealing with scammers and spammers, and the WCHA site is no exception. The WCHA webmasters waste considerable time combatting these folks, and unfortunately that draws us away from making constructive improvements to the website.
Scammers - As with business dealings in any part of your life, be aware of whom you are potentially doing business with. The WCHA Classifieds are trolled by scammers who'd like nothing more than part you from your hard-earned cash. The most common scam is that they will offer to send you a cashier's check or money order for more than the amount, and ask you to wire the difference back to them. Their shipper will then come to pick up your canoe. Of course, the original check is no good, and if you've wired them any money, you will never see it again. These folks will respond to emails and try to convince you they are legitimate. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is...
Spammers - Spamming must be a lucrative business (perhaps more so than canoe building) because we are simply inundated by it by email, in the classifieds, and on the forums. Truth is, the vast majority of new registrations to the forums are spammers. Despite stepping up registration validation, we are still getting them. Rest assured that any spam that makes it onto our forums will be deleted at the first opportunity by one of the three webmasters. But remember, we are folks with other jobs, demands and so on, and do like to sleep once in a while, so a bum message may linger for a few hours. It will be deleted. In the meantime, just ignore it. There is no need to reply to spam messages on the board, or to email us about them (unless they've been there a couple days). The next step in combatting them would be to go to full moderation of the forums, and since that would really slow down discourse, I doubt anyone would like to see that take place...
Scammers - As with business dealings in any part of your life, be aware of whom you are potentially doing business with. The WCHA Classifieds are trolled by scammers who'd like nothing more than part you from your hard-earned cash. The most common scam is that they will offer to send you a cashier's check or money order for more than the amount, and ask you to wire the difference back to them. Their shipper will then come to pick up your canoe. Of course, the original check is no good, and if you've wired them any money, you will never see it again. These folks will respond to emails and try to convince you they are legitimate. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is...
Spammers - Spamming must be a lucrative business (perhaps more so than canoe building) because we are simply inundated by it by email, in the classifieds, and on the forums. Truth is, the vast majority of new registrations to the forums are spammers. Despite stepping up registration validation, we are still getting them. Rest assured that any spam that makes it onto our forums will be deleted at the first opportunity by one of the three webmasters. But remember, we are folks with other jobs, demands and so on, and do like to sleep once in a while, so a bum message may linger for a few hours. It will be deleted. In the meantime, just ignore it. There is no need to reply to spam messages on the board, or to email us about them (unless they've been there a couple days). The next step in combatting them would be to go to full moderation of the forums, and since that would really slow down discourse, I doubt anyone would like to see that take place...
