Bots or Scammers?

[troublesum]

Hey fish fam, I've been on this site a long time. and most know from my posts I've been looking for Sajicas for a while well in the last 2 weeks i have gotten 2 personal DMs saying to email a certain person. Both emails are from different feeder fish.

Casmine​

Feeder Fish​

MFK Member


Feb 17, 2025
vincentcasseur could be a resource for you. If you haven't tried him yet, it would be worth a email. If he doesn't have one, he might know someone who does. His email is trustautoscrap@aol.com

thegdfre4​

Feeder Fish​

MFK Member


Yesterday at 3:50 PM
if anyone can find Sajicas, its this guy JC and he lives in the great land of United state, so you have that going for you. you're free to check on him, his email is serenamark067@gmail.com

Here are the DMs i received and who sent them to me. Please advise

 

[Kayden]

Email both, get pics of the fish, reverse image search those pictures. If they come back as original they probably have the fish

Send money trough paypal goods and services and pay with your credit card so you have two layers of fraud dispute. Shouldn't have any issues if they are scams. If they demand other form of payment they are not legit.

 

[Deadeye]

I can’t speak to both but the second looks like a bot to me - a lot of welcome posts in different areas with random information.

 

[troublesum]

Email both, get pics of the fish, reverse image search those pictures. If they come back as original they probably have the fish

Send money trough paypal goods and services and pay with your credit card so you have two layers of fraud dispute. Shouldn't have any issues if they are scams. If they demand other form of payment they are not legit.

Seems to be too much work on both sides for a $6-10 fish

 

[Kayden]

Seems to be too much work on both sides for a $6-10 fish

Your loss. I use this for all my aquabid and ebay purchases. A paypal account takes 2 mins to set up, link it to your existing credit card. Reverse image search takes thirty seconds. I would say 2 mins 30 seconds is worth it if you really want this fish. All sellers should have Venmo, Paypall, and Cashapp as an option to be able to provide fish to anyone with those apps (I do) so it is not any hassle on their end.

 

[Kayden]

I can’t speak to both but the second looks like a bot to me - a lot of welcome posts in different areas with random information.

Agreed, Why would a guy, named JC, have the email adress serenamark LOL

 

[stratos]

Seems to be too much work on both sides for a $6-10 fish

Sadly, AI is making scams super easy. Imagine an AI set up to harvest thousands of $1-10 transactions across thousands of various hobbyist or special interest forums. You can see the incentive. And once set up, AI driven bots just keep going and going and going...