You have a point but why the risk?
if I want to defraud anyone on this forum I will never use my main account, it's safer to use a newbie account because it costs nothing, high rank accounts have reputation to protect.
I was a newbie on here and the majority that wanted to try nonsense with me are always new accounts, I've never read a scam looking pm from hug ranks because it will be easier to just report such account.
Newbies? I don't always feel like reporting because they are not worth my time, they have no reputation to call them out for, they knew very well that using newbie accounts is the only way to scam someone.
You are right, newbie account is easier to do all sort of things, you they don’t have anything to lose that’s why scammers can just open a newbie account to defraud whoever they wish, but the general thing I like in this forum is that, when a newbie message you on private, you will see a warning which indicates the person is new and you should be careful to interact with them.
But why do anything through PM in this forum when all discussions are public? We get all the guides we need here publicly and we don’t need to go through PMs that’s why we don’t advice attending to PMs no matter how reputable the forum member is.
