Scammers targeting Gumtree users

I have bought and sold a bunch of stuff though gumtree and have always had a good experience, but today got a strange text/sms message within a few hours of posting an advert. The exact punctuation of the message was this: "hello is your car still for sale?please get back to me through my private email deanmills2007@ymail.com.thanks" Seemed a bit strange, so thought I would google deanmills2007@ymail.com which turned out to be the correct response as I found someone else who got this strange message. Needless to say, I won't be replying to that and I hope this helps someone else who gets this message. Update: Got another message today which went: "Anything else to add to the ad you posted on gumtree or the ad says it all?, get back to me at 123438jhy4@gmail.com,I only have access to email for now , Robert" References: http://www.perth-wrx.com/vb/showthread.php?t=39863 http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/61427042684#p188846000049626632

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