Attemped scam. (against us)

We have a hevy duty delta shaper on Cragslist. It had been there for a while with no offers so last night at 2 am dad lowered the price from 1200 to 900 bucks. By 6 am, we already had three emails on it. One was asking if we would take 800, and the other was asking for more info. Those seem to be legitimate. The third was a little suspicious. He said that 900 was a fairly reasonable price and to email him to make pickup arrangements. Dad emailed him back, and within two hours, had a response. It was saying that the guys secretary would send him a check for 5000, and he would send movers to pick it up. Then, dad would be supposed to give the change to the movers, and they would get it back to the buyer. Yeah Right.
The little plot was way to obvious. The check they would send would be bad, and they would get a free machine plus the amount of change. Dad emailed him back that he only accepts cash in person, and with witnesses. Then he goes to report them.
This thing was way to obvious. Do people actually fall for something like this?

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Obviously some people fall for it since it is continuing to happen.
The same thing happened to my Brother-In-Law. He had a camper for sale on the web and finally took it down because all he got was scams. Some were the exact same scam you ran into.

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If it doesn't sell in a short while, we will sell it on ebay. We put it on craigslist to see if someone would buy it without having to deal with ebay fees and hassles.

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It works, but only on greedy people. They usually offer to give a kick back.

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Kinda why I don't shop Craig's or ebay. I just don't trust any of it.

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JRJ said:

Kinda why I don't shop or sell Craig's and ebay. I just don't trust any of it.

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oh yeah. usually it's a cashier's check and usually they try to entice you by offering more than your asking price.

want to have some fun with scambaiting, check out www.419eater.com

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I've had great luck with Craig's list. I'll never use ebay again unless it's for some wierd little item I can't find anywhere else. I get a fair price for stuff I sell and don't have to worry about shipping or ebay fees. I've bought stuff on there too and it's better than ebay because you can go look at the item before buying and you don't have to pay for shipping. Scams are always a possibility, but if you adopt a "cash only" policy, you'll never get hurt.

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Drowned said:

I've had great luck with Craig's list. I'll never use ebay again unless it's for some wierd little item I can't find anywhere else. I get a fair price for stuff I sell and don't have to worry about shipping or ebay fees. I've bought stuff on there too and it's better than ebay because you can go look at the item before buying and you don't have to pay for shipping. Scams are always a possibility, but if you adopt a "cash only" policy, you'll never get hurt.

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I agree Drowned. Craigs List is great if you use a normal amount of caution and common sense. JR

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Donde esta Craigs List?

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We have always had great luck on ebay. It is just a pain to list an item to sell so we thought we would leave it on Craigslist for a while.

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I just about got scammed by an e-mail purportedly from an eBay member. I recently auctioned a couple of items, one didn't sell. E-mail in my Bulk folder (should've tipped me off right away) had a guy asking if the item was still available. Didn't specify the description, just the item number. Well only one item of two didn't sell, so I hit the RESPOND NOW button on this totally authentic-looking e-mail and it went to what looked exactly like the eBay log-in page. So I log in to let the guy know the item was sold to a guy that did the same thing, only it was an authentic e-mail that time. It didn't log me in, so I hit the Back button and look at the address. Even had eBay in it, way at the end. Heard about that.

Happened to be logged in eBay in another window at the time anyhow, so I started checking my items and nothing matched the item number in the e-mail. Did a search and there was nothing matching the item number. Looked in Messages in My eBay and it wasn't there. The light went on and I immediately changed my password and clues in both eBay and PayPal and reported the e-mail to eBay. Then went back and changed my passwords and clues again to be double-safe. I caught it quick enough so that they shouldn't have had time to take advantage. The first password change was within 5 minutes of my goof.

Lesson learned. Don't respond to eBay e-mails. Go straight to eBay.com and log in there. Messages are posted there too. Won't get stung by that one again.

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We tried reporting him. Problem was, the authoritys don't care unless he actually perpetrated the crime. They want to know, only if money was lost.

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I have a 26' boat for sale and have received so many scam responses it is ridiculous.

The next time I get one, I'm going to say "Sure, send your guy over".

Then I can have some fun.