Google search your e-mail address

[Eliphalet R. Moderator]

Type your e-mail address into Google's Search Bar.  (Google casts the widest net.)

If your e-mail address shows up in a SASS Wire post, delete the e-mail info.  If you can't, report it to us to delete it for you.

This is how scammers are finding your personal contact information and attempting to intercept payments by posing as the seller.

[Sedalia Dave]

Yes definitely do this. 

 

Also google your alias.  A lot of current and former club officers have their alias and email linked on their respective club websites.

[John Kloehr]

I have a standing offer for any SASS member in good graces to do a search on them. I can do it off of just the alias, or off the alias and email address and/or phone number.. PM me, do not post any request in public! Ever!. Not even a "PM sent."

 

My goal is to find email, phone, real name, home address, relatives, work history, and more. I budget about 10 minutes for this. I have also had more than enough in under two minutes. Some members have had a bit of an eye opener. I have even found previous addresses, selling prices of previous homes, new owners names and phone numbers, and more. I just stop at about 10 minutes. Some members have no trace in this time period.

 

Some of the scammers on this forum have more time than I do. I do delete all info and search trace after PMing what I found, so starting with just the alias gives me only what the scammers have. Additional information is more comprehensive but there is a trust element. For a few members, I even got to social security numbers in that time. I do this only from free public information, I am not using any paid services which scammers do have access to.

 

My reply will include information found only by alias (if any), and separately anything I find based on additional information. I will not text or email you, contact from me will be purely and only by PM. Contact by any other method is a scammer.

Edited May 2, 2025 by John Kloehr

[smokedawg SASS#60968]

According to google my alias means I'm a dead Canadian rapper.  

 

Thanks to you guys for helping us non tech guys.

[Eyesa Horg]

My search came up with quite a few people with same name, but only one is me and relatives and past addresses are incorrect!

[Tequila Shooter]

I guess I’m boring, my email and alias didn’t turn up anything.  Not doing social media helps. 

[Eliphalet R. Moderator]

Cruising through a sales post for "Taylor's Deluxe Gunfighter 5.5" 357/38 spl pistols" by MB Fields

I found email addresses posted for:

@Bull Skinner

@Thunder Creek Kid

@Turkey Creek Red, SASS # 22854

@Texas Buschwacker

@No Limit

@dokdoc #61722

@Ricochet Jose

 

The post is now deleted.  But, this is how scammers intercept payments!  Use Google to cast a wide net and search for your e-mail address

[AlOvera]

On 5/1/2025 at 7:54 PM, Eliphalet R. Moderator said:

Type your e-mail address into Google's Search Bar.  (Google casts the widest net.)

If your e-mail address shows up in a SASS Wire post, delete the e-mail info.  If you can't, report it to us to delete it for you.

This is how scammers are finding your personal contact information and attempting to intercept payments by posing as the seller.

My email is showing up in past posts. Scammers are starting to sneak into my system.  Can you get it corrected for me?

Thank you!

Al

[John Kloehr]

2 minutes ago, AlOvera said:

My email is showing up in past posts. Scammers are starting to sneak into my system.  Can you get it corrected for me?

Thank you!

Al

Find the posts and try to edit them yourself. If you can't, then use the 3 dots to report the post and ask for cleanup. Can't expect the moderators to do the google search for you.

 

Best format for a google search is:

 

you@domain site:sassnet.com

 

Replace "you@domain" with your email address. Do the same with your phone number. Then repeat the search without the "site:sassnet.com" directive to find where your email might be elsewhere on the net. If any of those other instances are on local club sites or other SASS/CAS forums, FaceBook, etc. along with your SASS alias, figure the scammers are just as good at search as I am.

[Eliphalet R. Moderator]

2 hours ago, AlOvera said:

My email is showing up in past posts. Scammers are starting to sneak into my system.  Can you get it corrected for me?

Thank you!

Al

 

Please hit the "report" link next in each of those posts.  You have three different log-ins each with different email addresses.

[RidgwayPlinker]

I've recently been targeted in an attempted scam.  Apparently way back on 11/29/2016 I did include my email in a classified listing for Uberti Cattleman revolvers.  I attempted to edit the listing but was unable to do so.  Please delete the address or the entire posting.  Whichever is most effective.  Thanks!  RP

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

1 hour ago, RidgwayPlinker said:

I've recently been targeted in an attempted scam.  Apparently way back on 11/29/2016 I did include my email in a classified listing for Uberti Cattleman revolvers.  I attempted to edit the listing but was unable to do so.  Please delete the address or the entire posting.  Whichever is most effective.  Thanks!  RP

 

2016 posts DELETED.

[RidgwayPlinker]

Thank you!

[Bad Company, SASS #20195]

I found some but I can't delete them. How do you do this. Thanks

[John Kloehr]

5 minutes ago, Bad Company, SASS #20195 said:

I found some but I can't delete them. How do you do this. Thanks

If out in the wild, depends on where. if you found them here, report the posts. As reason, just state "please delete my personal contact information." And going forward, assume the scammers already found it. if selling or buying something here or elsewhere, be sure of who you are dealing with.

[Sedalia Dave]

PM one of the moderators with a link to the post. They can take care of it.

[Tall John]

Curious to know if anyone has used a service like “Cloaked” to remove info from data catalogues on the web?

 

if so what was your experience?