Warning to all, beware of possible buyer scam. I was contacted by a "Debra Hughes" wanting to buy my windsurfing gear via email. She is apparently an Oceanographer working at sea so was happy to buy without viewing the gear in person, she had a courier company able to pick the (ITEM) up and wanted my Paypal details to make payment. I became suspicious due to the (TEMPLATE) style of the email and the poor English language. After a bit of googling I found that others had been scammed by an Andrea Hughes, Oceanographer away at sea etc, etc. This definitely spells SCAM but if I am wrong I apologize to all, better safe than sorry. Cheers 
Yes, I have seen this one and the (...Item name..) was the give away. She sounded hot, Oceanographing in her bikinis and stuff, so I took the risk and sent her my details and life saving anyway.
did you let seabreeze peeps know?
I had the same hot chick (which makes sense since I kite)
sent Laurie an email and outlook wiped the email account of the scammer
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Warning to all, beware of possible buyer scam. I was contacted by a "Debra Hughes" wanting to buy my windsurfing gear via email. She is apparently an Oceanographer working at sea so was happy to buy without viewing the gear in person, she had a courier company able to pick the (ITEM) up and wanted my Paypal details to make payment. I became suspicious due to the (TEMPLATE) style of the email and the poor English language. After a bit of googling I found that others had been scammed by an Andrea Hughes, Oceanographer away at sea etc, etc. This definitely spells SCAM but if I am wrong I apologize to all, better safe than sorry. Cheers
you had to google it ?
I've just been contacted by dear old Debra the oceanographer...she wanted to buy my leather sofa that I have advertised on this classified app called OLX...
My email had the standard I'm out at sea blah blah....I think Deb's personalizing her scam emails now, the first couple of sentences (in a different font) had her apologizing for the delay and enquiring if the "leather sofa" (not the standard "item") was still for sale...
I remember getting the same scam email about 3-4years ago....it's the whole oceanographer away at sea line...why go into such elaborate and unusual detail....I don't want to tell these fraudsters how to do their job, but I fairly certain their success rate would dramatically increase if they kept it simple & said they were away on business, maybe ran a spell check....
also raises questions about how useful a 2.5meter vintage leather sofa would be to an oceanographer out at sea....
I googled her and found you guys amongst other groups....
Koutabex scammers actually want to weed out the smart people (immediate delete), the fairly smart (google it), the average (get excited at first but won't send money) and leave only the dumb (Shut Up And Take My Money).
It's a waste of time to deal with the rest. I've had the most success baiting them by acting very very dumb.
<--- like with him.
