Pagoda SL Group

W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shvegel on October 03, 2019, 02:02:32

Title: No comment.
Post by: Shvegel on October 03, 2019, 02:02:32

http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/mercedes-benz/514498-1968-mercedes-benz-280sl-pagoda-280-sl-113-project-car-for-parts-or-restoration.html

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: johnk on October 03, 2019, 03:07:12

did you notice the 356's on the racks in the background?

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: Tyler S on October 03, 2019, 03:15:58

That website is a crock of s@#*. Just trying to scam. They dont even use a secure server.
See these two adds. One from website above and one from Bring a trailer.

http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/mercedes-benz/532075-1967-mercedes-benz-250sl-5-speed-w113-pagoda.html

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-mercedes-benz-250sl-3/

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: Crestfyre on October 05, 2019, 04:28:59

This is another one but from Craigslist, it has been listed for months. Looks like the same yard.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/los-angeles-1964-mercedes-230sl-pagoda/6974153568.html

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: Cees Klumper on October 05, 2019, 12:31:17

Yes, that is what I commented yesterday in a post that has disappeared. Usually, moderators give some account of actions like this.

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: Garry on October 05, 2019, 14:57:04

Yes, i moderated the post and was trying to splice up the different posts.  Late at night and after a day of Pagodafest and doing it on a small ipad, it got all too hard and i went to bed.  All or any of the posts that had cross comment to the original post that had caused some to ask for moderation were removed.  Unfortunately Cees, yours also had some other comments that i did not seperate out.  Sorry for that.


Garry

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: Cees Klumper on October 05, 2019, 19:12:10

No worries Garry, hope Pagoda Fest is going well, the weather sure is good today!

Title: Re: No comment.
Post by: mdsalemi on October 07, 2019, 15:25:05

YES comment.

Don't mistake facts for "my personal opinion". Make of this what you will; if you want to click on spurious websites of dubious locale and origin, go right ahead. If you are on a PC instead of Mac, do so with a measure of extra precaution--because you are more vulnerable to attacks of any kind.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/from-russia-with-objective-spam-stats/  That's not from me; that's ZD Net, one of the most respected business technology news sources.

But let's go back to the website that engendered this conversation: http://topclassiccarsforsale.com
If you want to find out just a little bit more about any website, simply go here for a report:

https://www.webnames.ca/whois

Type in any website that you might find "interesting", and there you may find a telling report...

My initial conclusion, moderated away, is clearly visible in the report. Someone even suggested, without the benefit of facts, that because the website ended in ".com" it couldn't possibly be from a place I suggested. But run the report and draw your own conclusions. Don't forget to read deep enough into the report to get to contact information, and server addresses and location.

For nice guidelines, a Canadian software expert offers these tips:

https://blog.webnames.ca/how-to-determine-if-a-website-is-a-fake-fraud-or-scam/

One might think that [Canadian] software expert David Hall's suggestions are merely common sense; but if they are so common, nobody would ever be scammed.

So: draw your own conclusions. Caveat Emptor. The serious danger to your own cyber security with websites such as this one brought to us by Shvegel, and properly commented on by Tyler S. "That website is a crock of s@#* is that you may be tempted to start clicking around...and once you do that, all bets are off.