Strange reply to my freecycle request!

rosie383

I put a 'wanted' on freecycle a couple of weeks ago asking if anyone had any old garden tools or gloves that I could use on the allotment.

I just got an email today which said

"
Greetings, I have this, I was planning to publish a cost-free offer for it, but I noticed your wanted post first, very good timing!
I put up a several pics and my personal area upon this site
http://freeitemcycle.com/results.pl?qwr=s&item=tools%20or%20gloves

<br><br>
Marian "

I checked out the freeitemcycle.com and it looks like an American site. I don't want to open the email as it looks a bit dodgy.
Has anyone come across this type of thing before? Is it dodgy or legit?

hermum

I'd forward it to the mods, sounds like a scammer, who will want payment & you want get anything.

rosie383

That's what I thought. So i forward it to the mods of the freecycle site, then would they be able to check it out and warn other site users?

hermum

Usually only registered users can see posts, I think that if there are several reports of abusing the system they'll cancel their membership.

rosie383

OK. I will just forward the whole message to the moderators. TBH, if the email had come within a few days of posting, I wouldn't have paid much attention, but someone would have had to be looking back over a few weeks worth of posts to find it, and who ever does that on Freecycle? Seems computer generated to me.

rosie383

I forwarded the email to the admin of freecycle and they have flagged up a warning in the messages board. Apparently a few other people have had similar responses.

hartcjhart

99% of emails that start with 'Greetings' will be a scam of some sort