Update: Watch Out! Scamming technique

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Update: Watch Out! Scamming technique

Recently someone contacted me very politely via my email, asking if the watch was still available. I replied back it was still available indeed. He seemed very interested, and asked if I was interested in a trade. Most of the time I'm curious what someone has to offer. He had sent a link directed to photobucket (that was visible in the link), to see some of his collection. When I clicked on the link, I got redirected to a (look-a-like / copy of) a Outlook log-in page, but with a very strange url code. Luckily I was sharp this morning, becayse it's a fake Outlook page obviously and didn't enter my email and password. It's a scamming technique to get access to your email account and that could be horrible when selling on sites like these were the email of someone is all you got.

So, concluding: DO NOT ENTER YOUR EMAIL AND PASSWORD IN A OUTLOOK PAGE WITH A STRANGE URL. ALL FLAGS SHOULD BE RED WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE LINK OF A PHOTOALBUM AND INSTEAD GET REDIRECTED TO A LOG-IN PAGE. NO MATTER HOW NICE THE PERSON SEEMS, IT'S A SCAM!

Hope it helps, of people were unaware.

Cheers and best wishes,
Jelle

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