Thanks for the heads up.


:-)


Chris.....
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The wife and I have used Craigslist before and understand what we were in for. Tons of replies from deadbeat scam artists who kept up with their ruse. We had one girl from New Mexico send a cashiers check to us,,,but we gave her the address of the Chief of Police in our city with his real name. These people are always using "agents" and stories about their sick family members to try and get you to trust them,,,,as if they are really human beings who care,,,please! I had one person who used AOL as their address and I caught them on AIM and started talking to them as to why they are scamming people,,,they were very truthful and told me the reason they do this is because they hate Americans and they were doing this from another country. They kept saying that they are a very organized group of people who's sole purpose is to scam Americans out of their money,,,nothing more and nothing less.
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Out of curiosity, why do they always insist you remove your ad right away? I haven't quite figured that part out.

Thx,
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They do that because they keep a file on all of the "scams they are running" and don't want to send duplicate responses to their targets,,,,they know it looks shady when they are trying to scam you and it appears as if they forget that they have been talking with you and send you another email like it was the first time they responded back to you.
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Thanks for the explanation. I knew there had to be a logical reason but I just couldn't figure it out. It makes sense now.:-)
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Wow, thanks for the heads up guys. I hope you're able to sell everything David.
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:-) How you doin' in ND? :-)

Awesome.

Wow...how terribly sad.

Ah! I didn't think of that either! Although it's obvious the same guy is emailing me about every item I've posted and often confuses the 'item' for a cabinet even though it's clearly a BIG-A$$ mirror so it's obvious the guys are carpet-bombing with abandon. It's a shock they even care if you take it down or not.
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OOH! Way to start a Friday morning! Fresh meat.


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Yeah, it's like playing with yourself after awhile. I just completely stopped communicating with these idiots when I see stuff. They could really care less what you think of them,,,,they are a very organized and relentless lot of parasites whose sole purpose is to seperate you from your money. You can tell a lot from how they write their emails to you as to whether this is a scam or not and it's a "boiler room" set up they have. These idiots hardly deviate from their scam in how they write their letters and they always use the same type of banter,,,,they are from the Midwest,,,they have sick relatives,,,they always have a shipper or agent that is going to set up the payments,,,yadda yadda.

I even told one scammer ( after they sent the check to me ) that I was not going to send the money to them until I met with them personally and I also told them that the check they sent to me was cashed at one of those places that charge 10% to cash checks like they sent. ( They sent a check for $2000 to cover the cost of the item plus they overpaid $1500 so they could get the money back from me,,,supposedly because I'm an idiot and wouldn't think twice bout sending them $1,000 back while keeping the extra $500 for my trouble ,,,,yeah right) When they found out I cashed their fake check ( which I really didn't,,,just said it so it would piss em off ) they were all over me like a white on rice to send them their share of the money. I kept answering that I just couldn't send that kind of money thru the mail so if they wanted it they would have to send their agent to meet me on a certain day at a certain place and I'd give em the money. They never answered me back about it,,shucks,,,otherwise I'd have involved the police in a sting operation.
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Great thread. I tried selling some items on the craig only to have people contact me and tell me that they are going to pay 50-100 extra for "my troubles" I emailed back and told them that I am the po-po and I have all their information and I am reporting them. Never heard a peep again.
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More fun with craigslist scammers!!!

This guy wrote me today:

To which I responded:

And he responded:

And I responded:

Jim would love to hear from you guys....
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Here's another one.......this from janemorgan04@gmail.com surprisingly at the very same time as when James Colbert's came through:

the setup to get my email address

And I replied:
here you go, here is my email address, come & get me

And Jane replied:

and so the scam is set!

And I replied in very very large font:


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oh, and i should mention that jane too would love to hear from you guys
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what the hell dude i was going to give u that $20 why wont u give me all your details and i am nice i like to stick cryons on my ears thay get stuck sometimes tho
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OMG.....:-):-):-) dude, you didn't go see Raul...

love the cryons....

I forgot to mention that Jane's email I typed in 72 font size.
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ROFLOL!! :-):-)

Funniest thing I've seen in awhile - thanks for the laughs! :-)
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thanks Bill! :-)
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You're having way too much fun David.
:-):-)
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:-) That is exactly what I was thinking!:-)
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I know....and no emails this morning to play with, damn it!
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