Oh, wanna add a few points as well...
1. The conman's join date is usually very recent (usually in the same month they opened their thread)
2. Their total post is usually 0, or sometimes very few... Usually less than 5 posts. They dont participate in other forums.
3. Their profile is very basic and simple, doesnt have much info. No custom avatars, no signature, no location, no birthday, etc.
4. They never sold anything on LYN, they dont have any successful tradelist, yet sometimes 'people' (dupes) are posting stuffs like "good seller" or "highly recommended" or "very nice item u have there". (sometimes people do this to bump their own thread, not to scam. but just be careful anyway.)
5. The 'poeple' who gave positive feedback or posted any inquiries on their thread seems to have similar join dates. Example, seller joined in January, and the people who give feedback also joined in January. Their style of writing, grammar, etc, are also similar. and all of their profile are also simple and very basic. quite common to see this sort of trick actually.
6. Sometimes they are smart and they know that potential victims wont trust them if they say cannot COD. So they put something like "COD in Sabah", assuming their potential victims are most likely living in Peninsular Malaysia. So they will have no choice but to do postage with the conman. If a buyer from Sabah wants to COD with him, he suddenly doesnt reply, or he will suddenly say item is reserved, etc. There are lots of genuine sellers from Sabah / Sarawak, i know. I'm not telling u guys that seller from Sabah / Sarawak cannot be trusted. but these conman disguising themselves as Sabahans / Sarawakians are causing a lot of problem for the genuine sellers from West Malaysia.

The tips above may be very vague in order for u to actually tell that someone is a conman. I'm not saying that a forummer who fulfills the above criteria is a definite conman. i'm just saying that we should be careful with them. Do some research on his profile, his posts, the items, etc. Hopefully it helps.

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Added on January 29, 2010, 4:37 pmOne point which is not very reliable in order to judge whether or not a person is a conman:

-Invalid courier tracking number. yeah, conman might give u fake trace number. but sometimes even valid tracking numbers dont show up any records. Once i sent an item to a buyer and gave him the trace number, the next day he SMS me saying that the trace number is not valid. i double-checked with the poslaju and it's true that the trace number is not valid. the buyer was sort of unhappy already, cos at that time i looked like a conman. i told him to wait for a few days, and if he still doesnt receive the item, i will give refund. good thing the item arrived, one day late than the expected date though... even when the buyer received the item also the trace number still doesnt show up in the records.

This post has been edited by danny_sp15: Jan 29 2010, 04:40 PM

Just wanna share my recent experience:
I'm selling my lcd tv on mudah.com, and got this one buyer e-mailed me... She said:

"Hello,i am Mrs mary from Canada,i am interested in your item posted for my son as a new Year Gift,i will Like to know is the item is still available for sale and how much is your final price for the item."

New year was like a month ago, and what kind of mom would buy her son a 42" LCD for a new year gift? if she's rich enough to buy those kind of presents for her son, i'm sure she wont have any problem buying it herself at the local store... and i wonder how come a Canadian's English is that bad... so i suspect this is a scam.. so i said the lcd is already booked...
then she replied:

"Thanks for your Mail,i will Like you to get me another one,i will offer you 2,000USD for it including the shipment,i hope thats better..."

2000USD??!! she could've bought a bigger lcd tv if she just buys herself from her country... anyway, i just ignored her. dont wanna reply anymore..

This post has been edited by danny_sp15: Feb 6 2010, 11:12 AM