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Are we able to curb such practice, or an educational campaign to discourage such behaviour?

I don't remember offering loans in this forum.

I agree this needs to stop, loans are irreversible, easy for people to get scammed

Scammers are just targeting random users of this forum who seem to have a large amount or even just a little BTC. They would get negative trust if they post it in public(and they know that), so they go through the method of PM'ing.

Well we're already trying our best to prevent this from happening by implementing the 360 second rule for newbies... So they have to wait 6 minutes before sending another hoax to another user. That and points of evil.

This isn't the first time nor will be the last, I recommend to ignore them and to publish the message in the meta section (maybe a single topic to collect this crap isn't a bad idea) and inform the mods/admins about it.

informing them wont do anything, most of the pms are likely from brand new accounts anyways. just ignore them, put their names in your pm ignore list, whatever. there isnt much that can be done to prevent them from creating new accounts (vpn, tor, etc). you can report the pm to the admins using the report function that should be on every pm and have their ip banned though, maybe.

Ignore that person and report him on Scam Accusations. Vod will take care of the rest ;)

Just report such PMs with the 'Report to moderator' link and they will get banned.

You should report such messages to an administrator (although they also can be reported to global moderators), as such PM's are generally considered to be SPAM (they are unsolicited and are attempting to get you to engage in a deal).

The forum has had so much spam lately

Alright. I shall put them into my ignore list. Thanks.

Just ignore them, they should come with massive red bold font at the top of the message alerting you that they're a noob.

I think sold accounts are far more dangerous especially Senior Members & above with positive or even 0: -0 / +0 trust. I can imagine people falling for that if it's a fairly well known, respected member.

Always use escrow in any type of deal here.