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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2013 18:25:45 GMT -5
We bought DH a "new" but used car. We are currently trying to sell his 1998 BMW on Craigslist.
I got an email yesterday that asked me if it was still available and the price. It gave me an email address that Outlook rejected. So I emailed back through CL's that said, "Yes, it is, and the price is $3500." That is the price in the ad, but we thought maybe he wondered if it had dropped since then. I also told him that Outlook rejected his email address. I gave him our phone contact number again and our names (first names only).
Today I got an email thanking me for my reply. It wanted to know our names and email so that we can "proceed." Huh? No one except a scammer "proceeds" by email. Everyone else wants to kick the tires and criticize the paint.
I told DH that the guy is obviously a scammer.
Do you agree?
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 24, 2013 18:28:08 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 24, 2013 18:28:13 GMT -5
I got several similar responses when I listed some furniture on Craigslist, and yes it was a scammer. The dude wanted to send a cashier's check or similiar (this is a known scam), and I simply responded Cash Only. I had no further responses each time once I said that.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 24, 2013 18:30:13 GMT -5
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Post by sesfw on Jun 24, 2013 18:47:47 GMT -5
Posted some things for sale in small local newspaper and got a phone call from someone that said their brother was interested but was deaf so needed email for communication. The 'deaf' person said he would send a cashiers check through his agent for over the amount and to send everything by truck to the address the agent would give us. He wanted the overage in cash ....... 'and this is not a scam'.
I told him I wanted the exact amount in cash only from his agent and the agent could send the things to him.
Didn't hear another word.
Yes you have been contacted by a scammer. Let your local police know.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 5:28:35 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by constanz22 on Jun 25, 2013 6:56:41 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 7:17:51 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 7:38:56 GMT -5
Well techniquely I'd say you're not being scammed cause you aren't falling for it. But they are trying.
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Post by midjd on Jun 25, 2013 9:03:22 GMT -5
Yes, it's a scam. But don't bother reporting it to the police, just report it to Craigslist ( www.craigslist.org/about/scams). The police don't really come into the picture until after you've been defrauded.
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 25, 2013 11:41:03 GMT -5
ROFL! Yeah, an effort is being made to scam you. I'd tell "dood" he/she can "proceed" by showing up with cash.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 14:58:28 GMT -5
Maybe we were too hard on the guy. Here's today's email: "contacting you through craigslist id which i don't know who am dealing with, Kindly send me your email address and name to know whom i am dealing with, so we can proceed with this transaction. i would have love to called but i have no access to make phone call right here." Lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 14:59:12 GMT -5
be done with that scammer.
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Post by Angel! on Jun 25, 2013 15:05:37 GMT -5
I would probably make up a fake name & give him a throwaway email address just to see his next move. But, I am curious like that.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Jun 25, 2013 15:09:53 GMT -5
I'm sure you could respond with something like:
Thanks Graciously. I am the lady. Olivia Ugduwllu, and my husband is his Lordship the Earl Cornell James Ugduwllu. The car also contains the sum of 400,000 (four hundred thousand) british pounds that are the legacy of our true sovereign, but that we cannot move as we are political refugees and our government will not allow our heirs to make contact.
Please instruct your agent that utmost haste send to make acquaintance. We require a deposit of two thousand (2,000) british pounds. You will be remunerated in totality from the remaining balance, which you may transfer to the banking facility of your choice.
His daughter,
Lady Olivia.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jun 25, 2013 15:11:41 GMT -5
No one "proceeds" by email. I "proceed" by email. I think I have a problem.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 25, 2013 15:31:35 GMT -5
Maybe we were too hard on the guy. Here's today's email: "contacting you through craigslist id which i don't know who am dealing with, Kindly send me your email address and name to know whom i am dealing with, so we can proceed with this transaction. i would have love to called but i have no access to make phone call right here." Lol. Yup, that sounds totally legit.
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Post by midjd on Jun 25, 2013 15:34:49 GMT -5
LOL, is he in prison?
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Post by Angel! on Jun 25, 2013 15:47:25 GMT -5
LOL, is he in prison? LOL, is it weird that this was my first thought as well? In the age of cell phones everywhere, who does not have access to a phone? Probably someone from a foreign country trying to run the scam & they don't want to make the call. It would certainly send off red flags to be calling from the other side of the world to inquire about purchasing a car.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 25, 2013 15:52:01 GMT -5
Maybe he left his phone in his last car...
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Post by Opti on Jun 25, 2013 16:04:14 GMT -5
Maybe we were too hard on the guy. Here's today's email: "contacting you through craigslist id which i don't know who am dealing with, Kindly send me your email address and name to know whom i am dealing with, so we can proceed with this transaction. i would have love to called but i have no access to make phone call right here." Lol. If you really want to play give him the email address of the state's attorney general and the attorney general's name. Although WWBG's idea is fun if more obvious.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 16:38:02 GMT -5
You guys are right that it is tempting to have "fun" with the guy, but I'm just not responding. I did think about prison, too, though. Lol. Who doesn't have access to a phone somewhere sometime? And who actually believes something that stupid? By the way, he signs his email "Elvis Luther." I guess he got that from pop culture.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 25, 2013 16:50:56 GMT -5
I just googled Elvis Luther - go take a look I googled the name of CL responder once before for a friend and it came up as scammer too. Google is your best friend sometimes!!!
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 25, 2013 17:00:17 GMT -5
Does this sound familiar, susanna? www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/world-wide-speed-post-colorado-c374127.html?page=5#c1348921Wow thank you all for these posts I met a guy on here his name was Elvis Luther and he wanted to buy some of my paintings but I just felt it was not right. He said a lot of strange things to me that did not make sense like he had no access to a phone and he was not home right now. He wanted me to send it thru pay pal and give him my address. Yeah right ok buddy I don't know you and I'm going to do that not on a good day. This is terrible what they are trying to do to people.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 17:20:22 GMT -5
Yep, Rocky, it does.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 17:54:21 GMT -5
I remember reading an article a couple of years ago about how the writer (journalist) gave the scammer such a hard time, the scammer ended up disappearing lol. I wish I could remember where! I will try to find it. It was about "the Nigerian scam".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 17:57:18 GMT -5
I have found similar things, but not the one I was looking for. I'm guessing it was on Slate or Salon, but I can't find it now and I need to go to bed lol.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 25, 2013 20:34:49 GMT -5
There are a boat load of links about Elvis Luther!!!!
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 25, 2013 21:34:48 GMT -5
What do these scammers hope to gain by this nonsense?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 21:51:20 GMT -5
I'm guessing our personal info, our car, and maybe our cash, Zib . . . ?
I don't know. I figured out here was a scammer from the second email. The first one with price question was "ok," but it went downhill after that.
I'm thinking there are people desperate to sell. There is a BMW for sale that is a year older than ours. EVERY SINGLE day he changes the price. He started at $4999. He is now down to $3750. If he doesn't think buyers who MIGHT be interested know he is lowering the price every single day, he is stupid.
I'd send Elvis "his" email address, but I don't know it. Lol.
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