Scammer answered my ad here on HAMB

[willowbilly3]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=1586625

Can you believe this crap? Anyone else have this happen?

[Benzine440]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=1586625

Can you believe this crap? Anyone else have this happen?

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[Slammed88]

I took him up on his offer. All he wanted was for me to send him back the excess $5000 that the money order is made out to. Seems fair enough to me.

[roadkillontheweb]

They will use any online source they can.

I had some freinds in small town Iowa selling a late 80s Dodge Omni in the local paper. They did not know that the paper had a webpage but they got a call from a guy in the UK (I doubt that is where he was from) wanting to buy the car for thier client. They sent a money order overnight by FedEx and instructions on where to find the nearest Western Union office. After they cashed the Money Order they were to wire the extra money to the shipping agent that would be passing through thier area in a couple days so it had to be done right away or they would miss the shipper. The Money Order came on friday so they would need to take it to the bank on saturday to get it cashed and then wire the money to the shipper right away. Of course the bank would not have told them the MO was bogus until Monday at the earliest.

They were all ready to go the bank when they called me to ask about paperwork needed for overseas sales since they knew I had sold overseas before. It took a bit of talking to convience them they were being scammed, the guy was really nice he even added a hundred dollars to cover their expenses and time.

[turboroadster]

the wife cashed a check once for 6.5k (2 months ago) the bank, gave her the cash. 3 weeks later, they contacted her and requested the money back. She had stashed it untouched, they came calling like I said they would. The check was from a good account, it just wasnt theirs to spend or write, basically a fake but good duplicate check. She returned and thye were happy

[corncobcoupe]

I banned the guy last night.

Cob
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[Richard D]

I took him up on his offer. All he wanted was for me to send him back the excess $5000 that the money order is made out to. Seems fair enough to me.
You are kidding, right? No one really falls for that, do they?

[randydupree]

i have a $50,000 dollar counterfiet check from a scammer.
he didnt get the item!
i'll sell this check for $500,what a deal! you get 5o grand for only 500 bucks!

[krylon32]

I have sold 1 car in Portugal and 1 in the UK and it took a lot of conversation to get me convinced they were on the level. Seems like when you are running car ads year around there are always scammers. Makes you kinda gunshy.

[Ryan]

I got the dude... and he was infact a scammer...

[elcornus]

Thanks for gettin him Ryan, there's nothing I hate more than a scam artist.

If I don't know the person I'm dealing with, I ask for a copy of their D/L and a copy of a utility bill in their name.

I tell them if they've got nothin to hide, there should be no reason NOT to give me this info. I'm allways willing to do the same for them, if they ask.

Most times, the guys on the up and up, agrees to give me this info, and we never even need to exchange anything more than shipping and payment address's

I can use the info to track them if they flake, and I've not had to to this day.

[willowbilly3]

I got one answered an ad I had on craigslist. I have been playing him (them) like a cheap fiddle for about 10 days now. I am sure it is from scammers school 101 because it is obviously not the same person every time, at least 3 totally different ones from the method of butchery to english. I keep sounding excited to do business and asking them what kind of car they are building to put the transmission into, stuff like that. These guys just keep digging a deeper hole. I am just too easily amused.

[roadkillontheweb]

I got one answered an ad I had on craigslist. I have been playing him (them) like a cheap fiddle for about 10 days now. I am sure it is from scammers school 101 because it is obviously not the same person every time, at least 3 totally different ones from the method of butchery to english. I keep sounding excited to do business and asking them what kind of car they are building to put the transmission into, stuff like that. These guys just keep digging a deeper hole. I am just too easily amused.

The only way you can hurt these guys is to waste thier time and money! Get them to send you checks and say you did not get them or the bank would not cash them? Hell tell them you got a better offer from a guy in the UK (where a lot of them claim to be from) and get them to offer more!

[THX_138]

I got one answered an ad I had on craigslist. I have been playing him (them) like a cheap fiddle for about 10 days now. I am sure it is from scammers school 101 because it is obviously not the same person every time, at least 3 totally different ones from the method of butchery to english. I keep sounding excited to do business and asking them what kind of car they are building to put the transmission into, stuff like that. These guys just keep digging a deeper hole. I am just too easily amused.

Every time you respond back they are recording your I.S.P. and probably using that I.D. number for specific purposes...not to mention whatever they are embedding into the emails to you tracking and recording any and all user names and passwords etc...

Unfortunately.......YOU may be the one THEY are playing like a cheap fiddle!

I heard an old man once say.... "Never mess with a person who has more time on their hands then you do....You will ALWAYS lose!"

These people are doing this crap for a living and dedicating every waking moment of their lives to it. Sadly the true fact is....these are RICH computer wise geniuses that live right here amongst you and I in the United States (probaly could even be a neighbor!)....they are not the broken English foreigners that they are pretending to be!

Your best defense is to not respond back to them.... you are drilling holes in your own sinking ship with every contact by email.

"Scammer's School 101"???? you're probably correct with that statement...but I think they graduated with honors. The SCAM isn't about the body of the emails subject matter with doing some sort of "deal"..... it's about someone responding BACK to them ......ESPECIALLY more then once!