If you go to the federal trade commission website, they list the
international cashiers chec scam as one of the top scams going on in the
country. It's really getting bad. I think someone may have even created
a program to automaticaly respond to everything on Craigslist because
when I've listed things there, al lthe responses were from cashiers
check scammers and most were a form letter that didn't even mention the
item listed, it would just say something like "your item" or "your Product"
These clowns bid up cars on ebay all the time too. I bought a volvo
diesel from a guy last year that I knew, I thought he had sold the car
already, he had listed it on ebay, a scammer had the high bid, he listed
it again, a different scammer had the high bid, he finally gave up (
good for me, bad for him ) I got ahold of him 5 months later just to
see, and he still had the car and i lucked out, but that guy got stabbed
for listing fees on ebay. i don't know if he ever got out of that due to
non paying bidder or not.
-------------Robert
John Berryman wrote:
On Jan 20, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Brian Chase wrote:
As soon as I read a certain one of those responses, I recognized it
as a scam. I tried to sell my truck on CraigsList and some guy with
very bad English (much like the message in question here) tried to
get me to pay (using his check) the guy that he would send to pick
up my vehicle.
When my wife tried to sell something on CraigsList, she got
virtually the same message. This must be VERY common!?
I politely asked him to elaborate and that I could not accept those
terms. No response.
It's the all-caps one with the "I will like to... and My client..."
Oh, I just read the seller's response to it. It must be a well-
known con?
Brian
CL is very aware of these scams. Everyone should be by now. They
always throw a disclaimer/warning up for those who choose to
advertise there. It is usually highlighted in yellow..
Johnny B
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