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Originally Posted by spdrun
Not necessarily - he could be on a work system or on a VPN that routes all traffic via a certain server. Bank's check, wait 7 days or PayPal. If the buyer doesn't want to play ball, THEN you should smell a rat.
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Of course they can play VPN / proxy games, but in the products that I deal with, 99% of the scammers are in Ireland or the UK, so those IP addresses are immediate red flags. Usually there are other scammer clues, for example, someone claiming to be in Alaska posting an ad at 3am in his time zone, with a UK IP address is a clue. Describing a feature set that ain't right for a North American version is a clue. "You pay by Western Union" is a dead giveaway.