Man, scams are rampant

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TrailBeast

TrailBeast

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I haven’t used Craigslist for quite awhile but holy crap.
Listed a BMW R1200GS on there and pretty much spent all day dealing with would be thieves and lowlifes.

“I’ll send you a code and you can send it back to me proving proving you are a real person”
I answered, how’s this for proof?
**** you.

And then the “I can’t pick the item up myself, so I’m going to send a certified check and have my shipper pick it up.
I’ll make the check out for more if you can please pay my shipper.”
(So old I can’t believe people still fall for that one)

I swear, it’s gotten so I don’t even want to bother with CL any more.
AND it kinda chaps my *** that I had to pay CL for the listings.
Thinking to contact them and tell them that the ads I paid for exposed me to a bunch of scams and hackers.

Of course I know better than to fall for any of them, but they are still exposing people that don’t.
Somthin’s wrong there.
 
Marketplace isn't much better... As a buyer, I don't mind those places but as a seller... OUCH !
 
You think that's bad?

I ran across someone selling an 12 volt 35lbs capacity anchor winch on Craigslist

So I send him a text, and he responded "I got someone coming to look at it tonite"

Ok, please let me know if that falls through

Then a few hours later he texted me that it's sold

So I got the perfect seller, right product, good communication, and I still ended up empty-handed
 
diymirage said:
You think that's bad?

I ran across someone selling an 12 volt 35lbs capacity anchor winch on Craigslist

So I send him a text, and he responded "I got someone coming to look at it tonite"

Ok, please let me know if that falls through

Then a few hours later he texted me that it's sold

So I got the perfect seller, right product, good communication, and I still ended up empty-handed
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That’s normal acceptable stuff.
At least he contacted you back after it sold.
 
You came across a courteous seller.
Many sellers would not bother to contact you after the sale, and may not even respond to your attempts to contact them.
 
Other day someone messaged me on MP about my 16' Crestliner. "Is it still for sale?"

I wrote back "You sound like a scammer ask something else"

So he wrote "no I'm in Spokane and want to come see it"

So I told hime "best to phone" and gave him my number. You have to spell it as MP redacts phone no's

So he called and I asked him "when" and gave him my address. No show. Called him back no answer His PhakePhuck page goes nowhere. No material, no nothing. Searched his name and phone number, nada
 
I got a text today saying that the sender had fallen and hurt themselves on my property and unless I called back immediately they were going to initiate legal action.
Really?
 
my68barracuda said:
I got a text today saying that the sender had fallen and hurt themselves on my property and unless I called back immediately they were going to initiate legal action.
Really?
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I got that once.
My reply was go ahead, see you in court. Cameras all around the property.
Never heard a thing again.
 
gunbunny said:
I got that once.
My reply was go ahead, see you in court. Cameras all around the property.
Never heard a thing again.
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I got multiple emails saying they had hacked my computer and took over my camera which they used to record my “disgusting online activities” and if I didn't pay the 500 in crypto currency they would send the videos to everyone in my contacts.

I don’t have a camera on any of my computers. LOL
 
my68barracuda said:
I got a text today saying that the sender had fallen and hurt themselves on my property and unless I called back immediately they were going to initiate legal action.
Really?
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Dear "sender"

If you come back we can finish the job!!
 
If you want to see some inside scoop on scammers check out Scammer Payback or Jim Browning on YouTube. These guys lay it all out. They also block and stop a lot of activity.
 
TrailBeast said:
I got multiple emails saying they had hacked my computer and took over my camera which they used to record my “disgusting online activities” and if I didn't pay the 500 in crypto currency they would send the videos to everyone in my contacts.

I don’t have a camera on any of my computers. LOL
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I got that exact same e mail message a couple years ago, and every time I list something for sale I get scam e mails and texts on my cell, getting to the point that I just don't want to be bothered selling anything anymore.

I even had some clown try to convince me he was a serious buyer for a used 2002 Expedition I was selling about 10 years ago, he was going to ship it overseas from Winnipeg to Great Britain, but because he was stationed "somewhere in the ocean on a submarine", he would send his associate to pick it up, but was going to pay me an additional 5K which I was to give to the associate. Yeah right, sure. I told him to **** off, the next response I got was that he had already sent me the funds, and that the police were on the way to arrest me for fraud. Uh huh, yep, I'll be waiting for them, considering I had never given any information for payment. What a tool.
 
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Try being retired and have all the scammers call and tell you Social Security is shutting me off the pay roll unless I call and give them my SS# and fix the problem. Or now that I will be 65 soon all the medical scams that I'm getting lately. I tell ya guys I'm real close to shutting my internet and phone off and still I have the garbage mail that comes in about signing up for my health insurance that has nothing to do with my retirement but they make it look like it is until you read the fine print. :mob: LOL
 
TrailBeast said:
I got multiple emails saying they had hacked my computer and took over my camera which they used to record my “disgusting online activities” and if I didn't pay the 500 in crypto currency they would send the videos to everyone in my contacts.

I don’t have a camera on any of my computers. LOL
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Had that one too. I told him to go **** his hat, but make sure his computer was off.
 
This **** never ends. I set my phone to only ring with numers in my contacts. I add them as needed. I run a small auto repair shop at home and have lots of customers. New contacts either have to leave a voicemail or a text. No voice mail and repeated calls, i just block em.
My blocked list is longer than my contacts.
 
I saved my friends son from a scammer on his John Deere tractor, Ryan had accepted the check and was about to cash it and get a Western Union money order for the difference. He almost fell for it
 
Tooljunkie said:
This **** never ends. I set my phone to only ring with numers in my contacts. I add them as needed. I run a small auto repair shop at home and have lots of customers. New contacts either have to leave a voicemail or a text. No voice mail and repeated calls, i just block em.
My blocked list is longer than my contacts.
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Have a small business here and your right I do the same thing.
 
RON REAGLE said:
I saved my friends son from a scammer on his John Deere tractor, Ryan had accepted the check and was about to cash it and get a Western Union money order for the difference. He almost fell for it
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A friend of mine nearly got scammed a couple years ago when he was looking to rent a house. The person who responded to his inquiry told him that her husband was in the military and that she was in the process of moving to the base on the other side of the country, and that she could not show him the house for a couple of weeks, but if he gave her 2 months rent in advance (about $2000.00), she would send him the rental agreement and show him the house in 2 weeks when she was able to get back to town. He was able to see pictures that were posted on the listing ad, and agreed to send the money via Western Union. My wife and I found the same pictures from a realtor listing some years earlier, and told him about it. He initially refused to believe us, so we suggested he go to the house and knock on the door. Sure enough, someone answered the door, and told my friend that he had bought the house 3 years earlier, and it was definitely not for rent.
 
There was a john deere tractor for sale,cheap. Too good to be true, “seller” asks for a deposit via money transfer. i knew it was a scam. Went on for 6 months at least. The seller was avertising 4 or 5 different machines with similar wordingin every ad. It did finally stop.
 
I only do email relay using gmail on CL. All dialog is reliably documented, and only the buyer or seller knows who I am or how to contact me after the sale.
 
When I had hotmail and/or yahoo email accounts I got bombarded with crap emails. I switched to gmail a few years ago and they have pretty much stopped
 
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