! Sellers/buyers be careful with Tomw2000 !

[hughtrimble]

https://forum.tz-uk.com/member.php?8673-Tomw2000

This account has just asked two sellers of a PAM and Blancpain to PM him (peculiar request in itself) and hasn't had any posts on here since 2017.

Might be legit, but seems mighty suspicious.

https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...=1#post5388206

https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...51#post5388251

[Senninha]

Good spot. Might be nothing, but timing and style seems concerning.

[Alansmithee]

Looks clearly hacked to me.

[charlies]

I noticed that too and thought is was suspicious. Who knows


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[Metalic Mud]

Thought all these old accounts had been deleted.

[Ruggertech]

Thought all these old accounts had been deleted.

I think Eddie deleted the long term inactive accounts. I suppose If a hacker got into an inactive account and posted something or sent a pm to someone just before Eddie acted, it would not have shown up as an inactive account?

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[bwest76]

how do people/criminals get into these accounts?

[Onelasttime]

How do TZ accounts keep getting hacked? I'm sure it's something simple but I can't figure it out?

[Raffe]

how do people/criminals get into these accounts?

How do TZ accounts keep getting hacked? I'm sure it's something simple but I can't figure it out?

No hacking involved, in 99.9% of the cases members are just sloppy with their passwords. Too many members still seem to use the same password across many sites. There have been numerous hacks of passwords (Yahoo LinkedIn, Adobe, Imgur and thousands more) where lists of 100 Mio+ email/password combinations are freely available on the internet. Anyone can download these and programm a little script to try them on hundreds of thousands of unrelated sites. You'd be surprised how many still work, years after the original breaches have been made public.

Anyone can check if there are records about your emails in the downloadable datasets and I can only recommend that you do that: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

In any case, use different passwords for every site, use a password manager if you cannot remember them.

[Alansmithee]

How do TZ accounts keep getting hacked? I'm sure it's something simple but I can't figure it out?

People use simple passwords and use them on multiple sites - nothing more complex than that.

[IAmATeaf]

Pity that site doesn’t tell you the details of any matches it finds, tells me I’ve been p’wned 10 times but no idea where.

[hughtrimble]

Tomw2000 says it's a mistake and he is legit now, so apologies if this is indeed correct:

Always worth highlighting suspicious account activity especially in the context of buying and selling high value items.

After a few years out of ‘watches’ due to personal circumstances - had to sell most of my modest collection to cover divorce legal fees (still have my ‘86 16660 Brought From chinook here via this very forum) - I’m now back and interested in potentially buying a watch or two.

But thanks for the heart-warming ‘welcome back’. ;)

I'm still perplexed why someone would tell a seller to 'PM me' in their sales thread when you're the one wanting to buy it. But, welcome back, if it really is you Tom

[Raffe]

Pity that site doesn’t tell you the details of any matches it finds, tells me I’ve been p’wned 10 times but no idea where.

I think it does when you register?

In any case, just change your passwords.