Scammers are aggressively targeting the retro bike community.

[d8mok]

Hi.

To validate for sale photos, use Tineye if possible. A net photo trawl site.
You can see if the image is being used elsewhere.

Yeh it doesn’t work very well. I’ve just tried 3 images I’ve used myself on various sites in the last week and none appear. These images are on various forums, gumtree, eBay and Facebook

 

[Imlach]

Yeh it doesn’t work very well. I’ve just tried 3 images I’ve used myself on various sites in the last week and none appear. These images are on various forums, gumtree, eBay and Facebook

Yes, unfortunately TinEye doesn't work for very well recent stuff, it has to have been sitting about on pages for a while, to ensure that search engines/crawlers etc include them.

 

[jimo746]

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Stay away from this guy. He keeps posting in the Facebook retro bike groups ever few days.

I've quit almost all the Facebook retro mtb groups I was in , too many scammers and unscrupulous individuals, and some absolute sh*the being sold.