Fraud and Spammers

Unfortunalty we must all be aware of fraud attempts and spam online.  We take extra precautions to ensure that your contact information is not readily available to automated programs which collect email addresses for the purposes of spam or fraud.  This does not stop those that wish to manually email you in an attempt to spam or defraud you.  At DressageStar.com we believe that as a horse community the best way to deal with this type of thing is with education and discussion.  If you get a fraud message (or think it may be an attempt at fraud) from someone,  send us an email.  Copy the message body and paste it in your message to us.  These people will stop sending fraud messages when people stop responding to them.  Don't respond to these messages.  Just delete them!

How to recognize fraud attempts:

Be aware of the general tone of the emails that the scammers typically send out.  To start off with here are a few examples below.  They often involve a forged cashiers check or over payment so you can give them back some real money, etc.  They usually are not hard to spot as so many of them sound the same and rarely do they seem interested in your horse specifically- just how they will pay. 

Some Sample Fraud Email Messages:

Note that these often originate from free email systems like these do:

Obvious fraud email #1:

"My name is JOHN LUCAS, i was going through the ad listed on www.horse101.com and i saw your advert for the sale of An exceptional dressage import. I 'll like to know if you still have it intact for sale just as the description on the ad stated it, also i will like to know your last asking price and anything new on it, any new pics will do too if you have one.
My means of payment will be through a certified cashiers check, the payment will get to you through my client, it is going to be an over-payment for the horse and the shipping. All you need to do when  you get the check is to deposit it in your bank and wait for it to clear with them before you can take your payment for the item out of it and send the balance to my frieght agent so he can come for the pickup.
I believe we need not waste time on this going by how urgrent i'll be needing the horse,  so i suggest you get back to me pretty soon even with your information to prompt the mailing and writing of the check.

FULL NAME........
CONTACT ADDRESS....
PHONE NUMBERS.....

I await your response soon, thanks.

J.LUCAS
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Fraud email #2:

"Hello.

i'm interested in buying HORSE  kindly get back to me the following information the pics, the general information .

so that we can discuss about the payment.

Thanks.

larry ken