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Once in a while, I receive messages from users who created their new profile that day and claim to be a great-grandchild or distant niece of a ball player from long ago, and were looking for cards of said ‘relative’. The users never sign in after the day of their post. Anyone else ever receive similar; what are they phishing for?

Not yet... what players' "relatives" have you heard from?  HOFers or just a random player from long ago?

I've received messages here and here from brand new accounts about various things, "buy from me" being the most common. However, never received one about distant relatives. I'd do the same as always, ignore until a track record is built, which never is.

I was actually contacted by a former Hudson Valley Renegade player's brother on here. I had a fairly rare playing card set that featured his brother on 4 of the cards and he offered to buy it from me. He made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and sold it to him. Thankfully, a couple years later, I found a second one on ebay and was able to purchase it.

I also was contacted by someone who was a relative of a minor league pitcher, and though the card in my collection wasn't marked as for trade, this person was hoping I could make an exception. I did! I figured that such a card would bring more joy to him than it would tucked away with me. If the person wanted to buy things from this other person then different story... I would be hesitant to trust anyone without a strong track record here.

Nothing 🤪 crazy sent to me yet. 

I had a couple here and the price was right.  I gave them my paypal and they paid then I shipped.  

This is interesting as I probably get a message every 6 months or so from someone who is friends or relative of some of my rarer WSU cards.  I always feel a little guilty when I don't have an extras as I know most of these people never knew these cards existed until they found them on our site and because they are college cards the players themselves never received any compensation for their participation.

The requests were for random players from decades ago.

If a user creates an account to search for cards or memorabilia of relatives, wouldn't you think they would post in the forum first? The fact that the accounts remain dormant from the day of creation is a red flag.

Actually if they don't collect cards and are trying to buy it or not that I suppose is why they signed up. They maybe 🤔 signed up only for 1 card