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I just got this response to an ad on Craigslist, and something just doesn't smell right. Any similar experiences or opinions?

Thank for your mail. Am satisfied with your advert price, as are questing this transaction should be done via PayPal so the PayPal charges is on me. Get back to me with your PayPal email and your name or send me PayPal invoice so i can pay you right away as soon as i conclude with my shipper, For more inquiry or information contact my shipper (carrier) on 561-767-4742. I am always busy at work and do not have much time around me to make or answer calls. Make sure you get back to me so that we can arrange for pick up as i will like the item to be picked at your residence location. Confirm the sales to me by removing it from the CL post and i will like more pics.

Lowry Field,
Colorado,B-18
Bolo medium bombers.
Military in colorado

Mery
 
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Many red flags......... and how many professional shippers use a cell phone with no name attached?

(561) 767-4742 is a Mobile Phone

Florida (Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach, Lake Worth)
South Florida/Gold Coast metro area, Palm Beach County
 
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"No one talks like that. Scam!"

I agree it is a scam, but the syntax is clearly someone who is not a native English speaker. It is common to find that in bogus emails sent from outside the U.S. If you contact them, they will probably "accidentally" send a certified check for more than the advertised price, then want to you wire them a refund (before you find out it is a bum check in the first place).

Definite scam. They probably have just put it in big letters in the subject line!!!
 
It doesn't even mention the particular item they're interested in. Not only is it a scam they didn't even read your ad. I get similar ones all the time.
 
I like to be buying item any you sell.
I need bank account number for to be sending money you ASAP. Will send all funds much money.
Click here to send important data so to be paying you is fast with the much money.
Very much thanking you,
Honest Abe

:D
;)
 
This scam is extremely common on Craigslist and one reason I don't use it anymore. Try to sell something and 95-100% of the replies, it seems, are either scam or spam.

As I recall there is a section on Craigslist warning users of this very scam and others commonly used there.

Andy
 
Craigslist Scam

Thanks for all the help, guys. I've never used Craigslist before, so I wasn't aware of this common scam. But using a little common sense, it certainly didn't sound right. Lesson learned.
 
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The reference to B-18 bombers and "military in Colorado" flagged this as a scam from the start.

But me sell reel gold AAk-57 riffle direct from Sadam Hossein palace
to you for only shipping cost -- I got this's riffles form cousin with Oil
Ministry of Iraq -- he said you are honorable businesman who cn be trust with 200 of this solid reel gold riffles to hold in trust for my cousin
who soon to live in Dalas, Texxas. You send depposit of $500 US to cover ship costs and riffles all be shippped to you. Contact informatin
soon to be emailed to you.
 
I am receiving order cancellation notices (a bunch) from Amazon. That's strange because I opened an account there but never supplied payment method info, and have never ordered anything.
 
JcMack said:
I am receiving order cancellation notices (a bunch) from Amazon. That's strange because I opened an account there but never supplied payment method info, and have never ordered anything.
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That is also a scam.

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Probebly Nigeria. They work even with a false paypal website. It looks that they have donate the money. You can see it on an account. But when you link it to your own paypal account it is never there. It is a scam.
 
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Between the forum email accounts and my personal one, it is not unusual to get 30-40 scam emails per day.

SIMPLE RULE-
NEVER do anything involving an account you actually have from an email link!

Read that again-
NEVER do anything involving an account you actually have from an email link!

If you need to check on one of your accounts, LOG IN to the website itself.

Do NOT click links in those emails!
Do NOT open attachments in those emails!

On the others that don't involve your accounts:
You did NOT win a lottery.
A Marine in Iraq is NOT shipping three barrels of $100 bills to you.
The UN and the FBI are NOT compensating you for being harassed by scammers.
The old lady dying of cancer is NOT sending you 12 million dollars to bless God's children with.
That crooked banker in Hong Kong is NOT going to split the 8 million his dead client left with you.

Your cell phone bill is probably NOT $4683. If you're worried, check through your phone company, NOT that email.
The email on your online banking site was probably NOT changed, but again, if you want to check, check on the WEBSITE or with the bank, NOT through that email.

I have trouble believing anybody is dumb enough to fall for some of the ones I get, but they keep coming.....:rolleyes:
 
handejector said:
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The UN and the FBI are NOT compensating you for being harassed by scammers.

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Now wait a minute there BigGuy..

I actually got an email from The FBI for just that reason!

NO WAY The FBI would scam an Amercian - NO WAY.
The UN - Well, duh - They scam us all the time, but NOT The FBI

I mean, come on - It's The FBI for Goodness Sakes == TheGoodGuys
 
Another scam, told to me by a local bank official, involves you actually receiving a certified check with instructions to cash it and send them a part of the amount "for their expenses". Even for bank officials it's difficult to tell, by examination, if it's legit. Of course it isn't and bounces, but a week or 10 days later. You then have to return the $ to the bank and are out any amount you returned. The gal I talk to told me she has been bullied by people to cash the check, dispite her warnings.
 
JcMack said:
I am receiving order cancellation notices (a bunch) from Amazon. That's strange because I opened an account there but never supplied payment method info, and have never ordered anything.
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i have been getting the same messages for the past three weeks...........they go right to the delete button..........just some more nonsense to lure the curious
 
I got almost the exact email for my boat on CL. I did answer and tell him cash or postal MO. He still tried to scam me with paypal as he said he was at an overseas base and had to use pay pal. I didn't reply.
 
handejector said:
I like to be buying item any you sell.
I need bank account number for to be sending money you ASAP. Will send all funds much money.
Click here to send important data so to be paying you is fast with the much money.
Very much thanking you,
Honest Abe

:D
;)
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