Hi. Thanks to KG7QBB Timothy I know that someone is trying to steal us. Someone is making fake offerts to sell ham radio gear with my callsign, but it is not me. I am Rafal SQ6PNP, I live in Wroclaw, Poland JO81KD Thief use Rafal Adelajda (it is not my surname) with fake email address. He tried to sell Kenwood TS930S with the serial # 4 110089, but he can offer You everything. My real email address is just sq6pnp@gmail.com, thief is using address: rafalsq6pnp@gmail.com whitch is not mine. Please be carefull. Best 73, Rafal SQ6PNP, Wroclaw, PL sq6pnp@gmail.com
Adding a disclaimer to your QRZ Bio Page, along with making sure you have an up to date E-Mail address remains one of the best practices....
I added that to my bio as well, I don't have much gear and I'm not offering any of it for sale. (Not that I've anything worth much anyway) I had made an off hand remark that I was looking for a kenwood ts930s, and lo and behold, this person offered it up with photos and everything! It looked legitimate, but too cheap and convenient, so I double checked using the qrz database to check call sign and address...contact made with the legitimate holder of the callsign, and confirmation that someone was trying to scam me using a lifted call sign. "I may have been born yesterday, but I've been up all night" Thank goodness qrz allows us a way to check on each other and make sure we are who we say we are. Without the database, I might have been just another novice tech with a baofeng getting ripped off by some lowlife guttersnipe. Respectful 73, KG7QBB Timothy
