Another Craiglist Classic

Why do these IDIOT scammers say they are from the UK? Their English is worse than if they had never even been in America!! much less ENGLAND!

I had one posted a really nice 2008 Honda Accord EXL with less than 20,000 miles for $10K. This person indicated that she was a divorcee, and she was awarded the car after the settlement. She does not know how to drive so she needs to sell the car, which just happen to be in Canada. She even provide the VIN number to me. A quick search reveals the car belongs to a dealer in New Jersey. I contacted the dealer, and they said they have the car in the lot. I then forward the dealer the e-mail this scammer sent me, and they are looking nto it.

The guy selling the camera is from London named Daniel Sanchez? Hummm, I am J.Corona From Minneapolis Mn via Austin ,Texas. Hispanics in London? what the...........

Well I wrote indicating I could have someone pick it up in person in London and have not heard back from Daniel Sanchez. What a surprise.

someone on CL tried this scam on me for a $100 fusball table.......darn scammers....we aren't that stupid in NY either!!!!

I'm seeing a new angle lately. Replies are usually well-worded and coherent,
giving the impression that they're interested in what I have for sale. So I respond,
only to be met with a very spammy auto-reply with ramblings and a link to some
sort of get-rich-quick scheme. I'm now putting a standard disclaimer in my ads
that tell viewers I will delete immediately anything without a dollar-amount offer
in it. Makes it much simpler to sort the peanut gallery from the real ones.

Yeah - I just got a very nice request to ship a couple of Sigma lenses to a gent's son in London but that he would send me a money order here. Oh - and he would pay me $200 over my asking price. When I replied I would be happy to meet and do a local sale, he gave me a lecture about how easy paypal or money orders were and why couldn't I just ship....

The worst part is that people get scammed by these Craigslist posts all the time. About three weeks ago I had an account holder wire $3000 to England for a 2005 Caddilac. We did everything we could, short of refusing service, to keep him from sending the money.

He comes back last week and wants to know if we can recall the funds since he thinks he might have made a mistake.

Really

-F

Here's my latest response to a spammer. Though no one would really care to use this trace info it's nice to have some record of their behavior if it ever were needed.

How about you suck a fat terd spammer. DNS trace. Booyah!!
Sent from my iPhone

This guy tried to pull the England thing from me the other day.
http://athensohio.crai​gslist.org/ele/1612420​573.html

A craigslist tip: Whenever I see an item I want, I copy some text from the ad and paste it into Google followed by "inurl:craigslist" without the quotes. If I find the ad spread all over the place, I know it is a hoax. You can put the ad text in quotes so you only search for that exact text.

I always wondered who got fooled by these... Until a friend Western Unioned some money to buy playoff tickets. Needless to say, no tickets came.