I found out that sometime in late September, my account had been hacked and used to scam a user here. The sales post was deleted before I got a chance to see it, but apparently it was for a Benchmade 940 for the low price of $80, and of course payment was requested via PayPal friends and family. (Today I sent that user a sharp token of apology in the mail.)
Luckily, my account was quickly banned so no one else got scammed, and after contacting Spark I got my account reinstated yesterday.
My lesson learned: work on your password game! I had a fairly weak password that was used on a few other websites, and my password was likely leaked during a summer data breach that affected a bunch of sites (not this one). More info here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/hacked-accounts.1806493/. I now have a very strong, completely unique password for Blade Forums, so hopefully this never occurs again. That was my mistake!
Lesson for the community: be leery of prices that are too good to be true, and more importantly, turn around and don't look back as soon as someone asks you for payment via PayPal F&F! Because you never know, even with a user such as myself (with 173 positive feedback), whether the account may have been compromised. For my part, I will never request F&F, and my real PayPal email will remain this username. Yet my sales prices will continue to be too good AND be true!
Luckily, my account was quickly banned so no one else got scammed, and after contacting Spark I got my account reinstated yesterday.
My lesson learned: work on your password game! I had a fairly weak password that was used on a few other websites, and my password was likely leaked during a summer data breach that affected a bunch of sites (not this one). More info here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/hacked-accounts.1806493/. I now have a very strong, completely unique password for Blade Forums, so hopefully this never occurs again. That was my mistake!
Lesson for the community: be leery of prices that are too good to be true, and more importantly, turn around and don't look back as soon as someone asks you for payment via PayPal F&F! Because you never know, even with a user such as myself (with 173 positive feedback), whether the account may have been compromised. For my part, I will never request F&F, and my real PayPal email will remain this username. Yet my sales prices will continue to be too good AND be true!
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