I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
breath.
It has been up about three hours. I just got my first scammer,
supposedly up in Vianna, VA, but unable to write English really
coherently. He wants me to take a cashier's check, to which he'll add
50 bucks for my inconvenience. Is "inconvenience" another word for
getting screwed out of money?
I emailed him back, telling him to check the notes on scammers at the
end of the ad.
I probably should have agreed to the deal, waited until his agent
showed up, and hammered the shit out of him just for practice. Except
the agent is probably some DC doofus without a real idea of what's
going on.
On 9/8/2009 6:36 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
> I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
> the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
> also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
> breath.
You already made a mistake there.
I advise all my friends and clients to follow the #1 rule when posting
to Craigslist: never ever give out *any* contact info in the posting. No
phone #s, certainly no addresses!, no real email addresses, nothing.
If you use their email anonymizing feature, you're safe and can then use
discretion and common sense to filter out the scammers from the legit
buyers.
--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
On 9/9/2009 4:28 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
> On Sep 8, 1:58 pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 9/8/2009 6:36 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
>>
>>> I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
>>> the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
>>> also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
>>> breath.
>>
>> You already made a mistake there.
>>
>> I advise all my friends and clients to follow the #1 rule when posting
>> to Craigslist: never ever give out *any* contact info in the posting. No
>> phone #s, certainly no addresses!, no real email addresses, nothing.
>>
>> If you use their email anonymizing feature, you're safe and can then use
>> discretion and common sense to filter out the scammers from the legit
>> buyers.
>
> Probably true, David, but it doesn't bother me a whole lot to tell
> scammers to go piss up a rope.
>
> The oddity is, I've never once gotten a phone call from one of them.
> It's always email, through the anonymizing feature.
Well, the thing is, this type of scamming is more than just an
annoyance. 'Round 'heah in Oakland recently there was a string of home
robberies (or burglaries, forget which) by thieves who answered
Craigslist ads for vehicles for sale, where the sellers had stupidly
given out contact information in the listings.
--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:a36e1f95-de94-416b-8f28-1f549dabbbbb@r39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
> the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
> also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
> breath.
>
> It has been up about three hours. I just got my first scammer,
> supposedly up in Vianna, VA, but unable to write English really
> coherently. He wants me to take a cashier's check, to which he'll add
> 50 bucks for my inconvenience. Is "inconvenience" another word for
> getting screwed out of money?
>
> I emailed him back, telling him to check the notes on scammers at the
> end of the ad.
>
> I probably should have agreed to the deal, waited until his agent
> showed up, and hammered the shit out of him just for practice. Except
> the agent is probably some DC doofus without a real idea of what's
> going on.
Tell him to make it easy on himself and just sent the exact amount of CASH.
"Charlie Self" wrote:
> It has been up about three hours. I just got my first scammer,
> supposedly up in Vianna, VA, but unable to write English really
> coherently. He wants me to take a cashier's check, to which he'll
> add
> 50 bucks for my inconvenience. Is "inconvenience" another word for
> getting screwed out of money?
What they want is a home address.
Accept the offer.
Ask them to send check to local FedEx station (give address) marked
"Hold for pick up".
Trust me, they will go away.
BTDT
Lew
same here - last friday i put up a home gym for sale (to make room for my
inherited woodworking eq) and all i got was the generic "i wish muchly to
purchases your item" and will send a cashiers check, and someone will come
pick up the "item".
yeah, right - a 4-station home gym, buying it sight unseen, and they will
just come and "pick it up".
craigslist could be so great if it weren't overrun by these guys.....
On Sep 9, 1:47=A0pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/9/2009 4:28 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 8, 1:58 pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> On 9/8/2009 6:36 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
>
> >>> I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
> >>> the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
> >>> also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
> >>> breath.
>
> >> You already made a mistake there.
>
> >> I advise all my friends and clients to follow the #1 rule when posting
> >> to Craigslist: never ever give out *any* contact info in the posting. =
No
> >> phone #s, certainly no addresses!, no real email addresses, nothing.
>
> >> If you use their email anonymizing feature, you're safe and can then u=
se
> >> discretion and common sense to filter out the scammers from the legit
> >> buyers.
>
> > Probably true, David, but it doesn't bother me a whole lot to tell
> > scammers to go piss up a rope.
>
> > The oddity is, I've never once gotten a phone call from one of them.
> > It's always email, through the anonymizing feature.
>
> Well, the thing is, this type of scamming is more than just an
> annoyance. 'Round 'heah in Oakland recently there was a string of home
> robberies (or burglaries, forget which) by thieves who answered
> Craigslist ads for vehicles for sale, where the sellers had stupidly
> given out contact information in the listings.
>
> --
> Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
We don't get too much of that around here. For one thing, there are
fatter pickings near Roanoke and Lynchburg, and inside the cities. For
another, stealing from people living in the country isn't really safe.
On Sep 8, 1:58=A0pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/8/2009 6:36 AM Charlie Self spake thus:
>
> > I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
> > the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
> > also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
> > breath.
>
> You already made a mistake there.
>
> I advise all my friends and clients to follow the #1 rule when posting
> to Craigslist: never ever give out *any* contact info in the posting. No
> phone #s, certainly no addresses!, no real email addresses, nothing.
>
> If you use their email anonymizing feature, you're safe and can then use
> discretion and common sense to filter out the scammers from the legit
> buyers.
>
> --
> Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
Probably true, David, but it doesn't bother me a whole lot to tell
scammers to go piss up a rope.
The oddity is, I've never once gotten a phone call from one of them.
It's always email, through the anonymizing feature.
>> I thought I'd give Craigslist one last try. I put a tool up, gave all
>> the specs, price, my phone number, said I had a couple photos, etc. I
>> also posted, at the end, that spammers and scammers should save their
>> breath.
>> Charlie Self
>I advise all my friends and clients to follow the #1 rule when posting
>to Craigslist: never ever give out *any* contact info in the posting. No
>phone #s, certainly no addresses!, no real email addresses, nothing.
>
>If you use their email anonymizing feature, you're safe and can then use
>discretion and common sense to filter out the scammers from the legit
>buyers.
>David Nebenzahl
Exactly David. Never give out any personal information and use the
anon email feature only. I've sold a ton of items on the crailist this
year including an entire living room of furniture, no problem. Of
course I don't give out any personal info and I merely delete trash
emails that are obviously spam/scams. Why even respond to them?
`Casper