Yah, user “dusko9" tried this same scam on me a few weeks ago. I reported him and I'm glad he has a warning on his profile. Why not just ban his account altogether? It's an obvious scam and hurts everyone on the board just by being here.
You should play with this person for a while. Get all their personal details, including the address etc. Then inform him/her that you have posted the notes to him/her. I once did that to a scammer and because they used a PO Box, they went to their post office to check for mail not once but a few times. In Australia, international registered mail cannot be tracked and as such there is no way they can tell if the registered number was genuine or not.
I fully applaud this. While playing them they are too occupied to target others. I use that approach for every type of scammer, e.g. Microsoft support. I find it my civic duty to keep them busy and frustrated.
Yah, user “dusko9" tried this same scam on me a few weeks ago. I reported him and I'm glad he has a warning on his profile. Why not just ban his account altogether? It's an obvious scam and hurts everyone on the board just by being here.
It's better to have him use an account with a warning on it than to have him go create a new account that's not marked in any way.
Yah, user “dusko9" tried this same scam on me a few weeks ago. I reported him and I'm glad he has a warning on his profile. Why not just ban his account altogether? It's an obvious scam and hurts everyone on the board just by being here.
It's better to have him use an account with a warning on it than to have him go create a new account that's not marked in any way.
Well, you suggested that the scammer would worry about violating a ToS and get banned. Don't make daft comments if you don't want daft replies.
I've relayed to you the explanation previously offered by the Numista team. Perhaps, it appears daft to you, but it is what it is. Ultimately, the one thing scammers do care about is getting a return on the time they spend trying to scam someone. Creating a new account takes time, especially if they go through the effort of setting up some fake swaps to build up positive feedback to make themselves appear more trustworthy. Trying to scam someone from a flagged account is an almost guaranteed waste of time.
I know that it has been nearly two years since, but dusko is back at it again; he tried to scam me as well by first creating a swap with a single $20 bill. I immediately canceled the swap since I only do swaps within the US. A day later, he spams the same message that everyone has received regarding that he collects modern American notes.
Somehow looking at his profile, his last successful swap (scam?) was last year in 2025.
It would be easier to ban any member with less than 50 quality posts about coins and what they collect with at least 10 showing coins from their collection or coins/notes they have bought, before they are granted the right to do swaps.
Stampboards had a similar issue with some Indian members wanting to swap stamps and then send nothing back in return, one guy sent one guy pretending to be a Bollywood Actress, 100 very high quality stamps and got nothing back but the Indian claimed he had not received the items, yet was selling them online. The Stampboard authorities named and shamed him and he had to send back 100 Indian stamps, except all of them were 2 and 5 Paisa definitives (The cheapest possible) and in poor condition.
He pulled the racism card when the mods referred to him as a “freebee stamp vaccuum”. This Dusko guy sounds like a freebie note vaccuum. I would send him some worthless notes like the 50 Meticals of Mocambique, Hispanic inflation notes, 1 rubleniks from ex soviet stans and the 1 sen from Indonesia from 1964.
Also sometimes the swaps can open the floodgate for the begging emails that go like "I saw a beautiful stamp and loved it so much, I decided I want more of them, but I am so poor living in (insert poor country) and can't afford them, but will heap praises on you and bless Allah/God/Buddha/Spaghetti Monster, if you send me just a few beautiful stamps of your exotic country.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
