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Re: Help! Someone seems interested in my time share but it doesn't sound legit (by KC):
kathleenp72 stated: >> HI All, I emailed Marty a thank you for updating me on this TUG website. Apparantly my husband had posted our timeshare on this website that he heard about from a friend and that's when the emails started. I didn't know about (great communicating between husband and wife...happens sometimes) the other listing and automatically thought something was going wrong with the redweek listing. Although I have had no response on my current listing with redweek at least to my knowledge there has been no negative emails come out of it. We are pulling out of TUG as I don't like having my email being available to scammers. I have had at leat 3 people contact me in a scam situation from that TUG website asking me for personal information including my name, address, ss#, DOB etc. Please be aware of this and thanks for all your help! Happy Holidays! K << ===============================================
In all fairness to TUG, in my own experience (after some years of TUG membership and participation) NONE of the scammers who abuse the emails which they "harvest" from TUG ads are actually TUG members. They are just scammers and "phishers" who use the easy access to TUG ad email addresses to "ply their trade". TUG is a great site, but administrators there really should develop a much better way to "mask" the email addresses of members placing ads. RedWeek found a way to accomplish that, MyResortNetwork too, VacationTimeshareRentals also. TUG just doesn't seem to be sufficiently motivated to bother to correct that particular serious shortcoming of their site. Then again, sales and rental ads are not exactly a particularly high priority there either --- discussion and BBS are clearly their forte.