As much as it ****s there are still people falling for easy to spot scams. I hate it but the worst are the low down pos that prey on the elderly. Being a cop I work about a dozen a week. So to the op remember there are people being taken everyday by these ***holes so if this post opened at least one persons eyes its a good dead. Guys lets watch out for each other.
I keep getting asked to claim my rightful inheritance as a member of the Nigerian Royal Family. So far I've resisted, believing it to be a scam. However my uncle claims him and my dad were quite the party animals in their time.......................
Well Sphynx, I do agree with you. I read the HAMB nightly. Every once in a while I do find a poster asking about just this thing. Heck, I've seen posts where HAMBers have fallen for this stuff. So, your right, there may just be someone who saw that truck for sale and thought it legit. Now they'll know.
to answer your question there is around 30 people on location at all times. then you have people like me that drive to all of them to ******** with the company men for a living
Easy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Newmark Believe it or not, he is actually a real person and not a scam. Like a lot of good things in life, the idea is great in concept, but is challenged by a bunch of a-wipes who can't stop themselves from trying to screw people over any and every chance they can get.
I had a stainless toolbox/chest on C/L here for sale - as soon as it sold I marked it as such. Was still getting the "you sound hot in your ad" !????!!!!??!!?? replies a month later. How on earth can you sound hot in an ad for a tool cabinet? There's no doubt about it - I'm hot - but how would she know that?
Someone gave me the same story about a car I was selling and they wanted to send the shipping company with a money order... I was born at night but not last night!
If you were to find yourself in my shop, and told a story about being surprised (even sarcastically) to find that a good deal on Craigslist was a scam, yes, you could count on getting **** flung at you from all directions. Wasn't being "nasty" at all, just curious as to how that raised his news flag. I'm just surprised that a Craigslist scam is still a novelty to anyone. I guess I'm getting jaded in my old age. My apologies if I hurt your feelers, and to all of those without my "vast experience": yes, people will try to take your money, they will do so by any means necessary, even by using something as loving and kind hearted as a site that, until forced by the federal governments hand, thrived on being a home base for m***ive pros***ution rings. P.S.: Everyone who works in the **** industry has AIDS. You're welcome! No worries, tone is hard to convey in type.
Actually, I listed a dirt bike last year and a guy emailed me and asked if I could hold it. He said he was working offshore on a Chevron platform and he really wanted the bike but it would be 5 days before he could get it. I turned away several other prospective buyers but 5 days later he showed up, cash in hand, still wearing his Chevron offshore Nomex firesuit.
The follow up to this one is easy. Just tell them to go ahead and have the shipper bring the check and give them the address for the local Police department or Jail. When they get to that location, maybe they will figure out who was scammed.....
I've posted this before on here, but the same thing happened to me with my slightly o/t 67 Nova. I bought it in Walton NY which is about 200 miles from me on Long Island, but my brother in law lived there so I asked him if I could leave it by him till the spring it was fall.I went up there after winning the car to make sure it was what it was suppose to be and pay the guy he then offers to deliver it to my brother in law about 4 miles away.About three days later I get a second chance offer stating that the winning bidder backed out and they had moved my item to a centrally located warehouse in California. The amount of work these guys put in you would think they could get a real job.
Around here, The scammers list a car well below it's value. Someone calls them and they are told where and when to meet with cash in hand. The scammer shows up and sells them a car with a current ***le and the deal is done. Buyer thinks they got a great deal until they go to register it and find out that the car was stollen the day of the sale. The scammers case a large work place parking lot and find the car they want to steal. They write down the VIN#, follow the person home. The next day they check their mail so they can get their name and address. Then they go to the DMV and file for a lost ***le in the owners name. They then keep checking their mail until the new ***le arrives. Then they list the car on CL. when they get a buyer which they will only meet during the day while the owner is at work, they go steal the car and sale it. This is why I keep all of my VIN#'s covered up with a sheet of paper.
You would think the DMV could come up with a way to prevent that. Oh wait,that takes brains and a caring at***ude......
The scam is they take your picture and send it to your missus if you don't have enough to pay them not to. You are better off to say sure when your doll says, "Hi, I'm chucky wanna play?"
There is no chance I would go out and play, I have been with my wife for 40 years there is not another woman that would have put up with me that long. The first thing I tell anybody that's thinking of doing it is, look around if you get caught would you trade what you have for that and most times it's no.
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