Nasty.. I had a weird scam attempted on me last year but it was a band one! Basically it was a guy asking if we could play his daughters birthday party.. All seemed legit at first until it started smelling fishy.. I asked various things about this 'party' then the next email came asking for my bank account details as he wanted to pay into it directly! But he asked for my debit card number the idiot ! I then started asking him things about this 'venue' and could I see a photo of his 'garden' where the gig was gonna take place..

He sent me a photo of a farmers field off Google and his postcode according to google maps was about 3 feet long in Bolton! Classic!!

It's been rife on Loot for years. First time I have heard of a Gumtree Ad being targetted. have a Bass For Sale on Loot at the moment and have had 2 Scam e-mails already. Someone i know actually got the better of one of these low lifes. He won't tell me how he did it as apparently it turned a bit hairy.

I had an ad on Loot one time advertising for a singer.. I got a reply from some guy offering me money for it.. ?????? After telling the thick dildo that it was an advert for a SINGER and nothing was for sale, he replied offering me double! Thick *******!!

Yep had that one as well. They use some sort of scanning software to pick the ads up and then sends a proforma type of e-mail. The "english" is always appaling as well.

i got scammed twice by the same guys. it was a german guitar company that i bought a guitar with a pearl dragon up the neck and it had a floyd rose on it. however the floyd rose snapped off entirely and i thought, "well its not really their fault". i brought ANOTHER guitar off them which was a apocalypse v shaped (like the ones from kiss) but that all started to fall apart too. i was just a beginner at the time so if it looks cool i went for it.

but recently i took them both apart since they dont work and i found out that the electronics were held together with sticky tape and the body was attually made from some kind of plywood (like sawdust stuck together by glue). so i salveged the good parts and its speared me on to make my own guitar. it aint gonna be a prs but it will be fun though

hi guys i personally work for barclays and im not gonna sit here and preach but i obviously see quite a lot of this sort of thing going on. the best advice for any sort of fraud is if it seems to good to be true it generally is! always do your homework guys in regards to booking gigs etc. and never ever ever give out your account details or card numbers to anybody you dont know. seriously guys its fucking scary how sophisticated fraud is now. take care guys much love the fix