Close
Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 13
  1. #1
    Hello, my name is: KNOWN Gunner's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Parker
    Posts
    4,634

    Default How do these craigslist scams work

    Got this email about one of my bikes

    Hi thanks for the email, I am a marine technician and am always busy at sea.. I am contacting you via email because that works best for me as we are not allowed to make or receive calls frequently for security reasons. Presently, I am on duty and coming to your residence for inspection won't be possible as i have said earlier. I have gone through the add and for what am seeing through the add am highly interested in immediate purchase of it. So kindly get back to me with its present condition and Your absolute bottom price as I would love to go ahead with the deal right away.


    Note that I have a pick up agent that will come for pick up after payment have been received which would be through PayPal If this is acceptable. I am buying this for my son as a gift, I will be paying you online via my PayPal account which is linked to my bank account because it is the only form of payment that I have access to right now and also because of its good security nature. All I will need is Your pick up location and Your PayPal Email ID to effect the payment. if you do not have a PayPal account yet, its pretty easy to set one up at WWW.PayPal.com.


    I hope to hear back from you soon,


    Thanks.

  2. #2
    The "Godfather" of COAR Great-Kazoo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2003
    Location
    Washboard Alley, AZ.
    Posts
    48,097

    Default

    fairly easy for those who have no clue they are being scammed. That reply is standard form letter / e-mail for most things for sale.

    I tell them for the rock bottom price of $$XX they can purchase it.
    HOWEVER i need a retainer / deposit of $2000. I would not ask such a small price for a vehicle as immaculate as mine, ESPECIALLY, for anyone who is in the military.

    However due to the volume of interest in my vehicle, the $2000 deposit, guarantees it is here for your pick up agent. If this presents an issue i cannot accept nothing lower than $3000. Surely guaranteeing you ownership of such immaculate a vehicle as mine.

    Please, i know such a sum is paltry to one of great stature as yourself. but understand it is a must to place such a fine immaculate vehicle in one such as your self's possession.

    Please return your correspondence to me as soon as possible. This deal is one both of us will be most happy with for long time of our life.
    Last edited by Great-Kazoo; 02-12-2014 at 17:06.
    The Great Kazoo's Feedback

    "when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".

  3. #3

    Default

    Usually the first clue is that he never actually mentions what the actual 'item' is...
    This is a typical bogus mass mailing response.
    Don't even answer him because then he'll have your email addy and can do other crap.
    Anytime I post an item for sale I tell them to include a phone number or no response from me.
    Last edited by whitbaby; 02-12-2014 at 17:26.

  4. #4
    Machine Gunner Jamnanc's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2011
    Location
    Johnstown
    Posts
    1,671

    Default

    The paypal address would be fake, when you put in your username and password they would capture it and or your account info.

  5. #5
    Zombie Slayer wctriumph's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    N W of Fort Collins
    Posts
    6,184

    Default

    Total scam, just ignore it.
    "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
    George S. Patton

    "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
    John F. Kennedy

    ?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
    George Fitch. c 1916.

  6. #6
    Grand Master Know It All OneGuy67's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Denver, CO
    Posts
    2,508

    Default

    Always deal in cash with craigslist.
    “Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” Andrew Jackson

    A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'

    That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

  7. #7
    Grumpy Mountain Man crashdown's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Tanaina Alaska
    Posts
    758

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo View Post
    fairly easy for those who have no clue they are being scammed. That reply is standard form letter / e-mail for most things for sale.

    I tell them for the rock bottom price of $$XX they can purchase it.
    HOWEVER i need a retainer / deposit of $2000. I would not ask such a small price for a vehicle as immaculate as mine, ESPECIALLY, for anyone who is in the military.

    However due to the volume of interest in my vehicle, the $2000 deposit, guarantees it is here for your pick up agent. If this presents an issue i cannot accept nothing lower than $3000. Surely guaranteeing you ownership of such immaculate a vehicle as mine.

    Please, i know such a sum is paltry to one of great stature as yourself. but understand it is a must to place such a fine immaculate vehicle in one such as your self's possession.

    Please return your correspondence to me as soon as possible. This deal is one both of us will be most happy with for long time of our life.

    Good one Jim.... your grasp of the scammers native tongue is so scary good, I think you might be one of them.

  8. #8
    Grand Master Know It All hatidua's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    boulder
    Posts
    4,099

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by OneGuy67 View Post
    Always deal in cash with craigslist.
    I've sold a number of fairly valuable items via craigslist to remote buyers. While many are scams, there are people (myself included) who search craigslist nationally for hard to find items. I sold a sofa from my beach house in FL via Craigslist to a buyer in Dallas, they paypal'd me the funds and a shipping van showed up the next day to pick it up. Recently I sold $4,000 worth of surfboards via craigslist to a buyer in CT. There are a lot of scams on Craigslist....but there are legit buyers as well.

  9. #9
    CO-AR's Secret Jedi roberth's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2009
    Location
    Elk City, Oklahoma
    Posts
    10,501

    Default

    We don't call him The Great Kazoo for nuttin'.

  10. #10
    The "Godfather" of COAR Great-Kazoo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2003
    Location
    Washboard Alley, AZ.
    Posts
    48,097

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by crashdown View Post
    Good one Jim.... your grasp of the scammers native tongue is so scary good, I think you might be one of them.
    Many thanks most generous solicitor of humble acknowledgement. My name is George how may i be of service to one who calls such as your self.
    The Great Kazoo's Feedback

    "when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •