| Author | Message | ||
     Interceptor |
So, I was cruising the web looking at bikes and came across this on Craigslist. http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mcy/264609603.ht ml Sounds great right. So I email the guy and this is his response: "Hi Chris, There are 9240 miles on it, the bike is in great condition, never dropped. It has clear title and the price I will sell it for is $2,800.00, which includes all the shipping taxes and the insurance. I live in Brooklyn but currently I am with work in United Kingdom ( London ) for the next approximately 5 months. Anyway, it shouldn't be any problem, because I am using BuySafe services so I can sell the bike without difficulty. I left the bike in their custody in US before leaving overseas. They will take care of the shipping. There's a 14 days return policy included so you could test, inspect and ride it before final decision. So if you want to purchase it, let me know and I will explain you how BuySafe works and how we can move forward. I am waiting your email. Best Regards" Anyone realize a problem here? Anyone see this lightning before? | ||
| Spiderman |
It is a scam. They have you pay, then they keep promising the bike which never shows. | ||
| Glitch |
Anyone see this lightning before? Looks familiar, but I can't place it. They have you pay, then they keep promising the bike which never shows. I've heard plenty of these stories, makes me very weary of buying anything I can't see with my own eyes. In fact I wouldn't even consider it. | ||
| Blackbelt |
oh man I even recognise it.. dang it... | ||
| Glitch |
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| Nutsnbolt |
What a cheesedick. I hate people like that. Here's the other scam to look out for. I was selling a bike one time on Craigslist and some A-Hole emails me and says that he is interested in my "item" and basically he needs my information so he can send me a money order. The money order ends up being for 1000-4000 over the purcahse price, where you pay the shipping company and give cut him a check for the rest. Here's the problem. The money order is a fake and the bank cashes it regardless and now, you're stuck without a bike, and owing the bank the original amount of the money order and you also just cut him extra money on top of that. So, if you sell your bike for 6k, you could be out 10k by the time it's all over with and no bike. Like i said. A-holes!!! I didn't fall for it, I just called his bluff and told him to F off. | ||
| No_rice |
i am getting a new one now, atleast new to me. a guy keeps emailing me saying that if i dont pay him the money i owe him soon on the item i purchased on ebay he will report me to them. blah blah blah. i havent bought anything on ebay for awhile now. funny thing is it only comes to my hotmail account and not through ebay, plus none of the links to ebay in it work so i cant even see what i supposedly bought that i didnt know about. how dumb is someone got to be to pay for an item they never purchased just because someone threatens to report them. | ||
| Damnut |
No_rice I get that message ALL THE TIME!!! but it usually comes in through my tech support email address that is posted on my company's website. | ||
| Kdan |
That's called phishing...Never access E-bay through those links. That's how they get your e-bay logon information. Report them to Spoof@ebay or spoof@paypal. | ||
| Rachieletz |
Hello, Same thing happened to me just last week. I believed the person who claimed herself as "Susan" and the shipper had very odd email address which was to my2way.com which it s odd for shipper to own that email address. They said on their email: Hello , Thanks for your swift respond regarding it. Since it is in okay(in good condition),and i'm pleased to inform you that the price is okay with me, and I am ready to purchase from you immediately, I will offer you $4,500 for it, and I want you to delete the ad from the website. I have a reputable shipping that will take care of shipping from your end, and i have inform the shipping agent and he said that he is ready for the shipment as soon as everything is ready. I want to let you know that i have an associate in Europe that is oweing me a sum of $9,000. I will instruct him to issue you a certified cheque on my behalf and as soon as the cheque arrives (clear),you hold out your amount and send the difference to my shipper for the pick up in your place altogether with other goods i got with him. I hope i can trust you with my balance. Do get back to me with the following details: 1.Name to be issue to... 2.Contact Address(City,State,Zip code,Country): 3.Contact telephone number  home, cell or work...) Do get back to me as soon as posible with this detail for payment to be made out to you immediately. Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards. Thanks... " the most common thing like Nutsnbolt said... Will give you over 1k to 5k more than the bike itself for us to contact the shipper to pick the bike up. and they tend to use word "cheque" or "regards" in the email. Also they tend to have a funny grammar and spelling mistakes. The check came in, it looked SO real, it even had copy right on it, and on the back it said original document. I deposited it in my bank and they contacted me next day saying it is not a real check and it’s a scam. The shipper contacted me through email a day before and said i will come to your place tomorrow at 630 pm to pick the bike up. I told them no, because I’m waiting for the check to clear. Thank god i did not let them come and rip me off! it is really sad how people are that desperate and sick out there.. It’s really hard to trust people out there nowadays... | ||
| Rainman |
I've written about this and similar scams many times before. If the writing in the letter doesn't sound like decent English, don't believe it. In fact, don't believe it, anyway. I get the e-bay notice and I've NEVER bought anything from e-bay. | ||
| Xl1200r |
The whole international shipping scam is old news... I rememebr this being s big problem on eBay starting about 3 or 4o years ago I think. | ||
| Rachieletz |
I never knew and it was my first time selling something that costs over 100 bucks on internet. My sportbike was over 4,500 and im glad i was not that stupid for giving the shipper my sportbike. | ||
| Glitch |
http://www.419eater.com/ Check this out for a few laughs. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Glitch, you beat me to it. Some of their "bait the scammer" stories are hilarious. | ||
| Interceptor |
xl1200r, yeah I know its old news but this was the first one I saw on craigslist. There sure are a bunch of crazies out there. When I first saw it, I was like: O sweet!, I'm gonna get a killer deal and get some PM wheels too.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Funny I heard about it ten years ago, but it was with Russian Brides... ok so it was not exactly the same thing, but you still lost your money. I dont know how many people I warned on that one. Finally I told one guy to just give me your money, at least then you will know where it went. | ||
| Swampy |
This is one I got from craigslist this week from bubjanet22ster@gmail.com: Thanks alot for your respond over my request and i really appreciate it lot.i am okay with the price and present condition of the product.I would have love to come down and take a look at it but am presently away on a business trip.As soon as i received your email,i had to contact one of my Business associates in state who is ready to make a payment of $3000 out to me in payment of some fuel equipments supplied to him . I will ask him to send the payment out to you. All you just need to do once you receive the Cheque or money order is to go ahead and deposit it and once it clears ,deduct the cost price of your product and send the remaining balance to My Shipper who works with an international freight company(IFC) via Western Union Money Transfer for immediate Shippng Arrangment of the product from your location once your consent is granted. Do get back to me, If this is ok by you, with your information Full Name Contact Address Phone Number so that i can forward it to my associate to issue the payment. for you ASAP. Hope to hear from you soonest. Best regards And of course my response: Sir, as you see I have already included my phone number, why have you not called me yet? You agent in this country has contacted me today and I am not so sure of his sincerity nor am I sure of his sexual orientation. Please do not send him to me again until you can acertain for sure of his sexual orientation, do you find that too difficult of a task to accomplish? Thank you, I thought not. Seeing that you have sent such a cad to represent you in your business dealings I now question your sincerity in these business dealings, and now wonder what kind of business man would do such a thing and cause such an afront to me a fellow business man. Please, to show your sincerity please forward me your address so I can send my business blessings to you and your communityv will be totally blessed by this as it is my custom and one of the indiginous peoples of this area before persuing business dealings with peoples sending representitives such as the one you have sent to me yesterday, I had quite a mess to clean up due to your business representative doing what he did no my front yard. Now I have incurred costs that will raise the price of the 1996 Skidoo Touring E Long Track - $1200 to the princely sume of $1800 as the cost incurred by your shameful business representative mess. Please let me know what your next step in this simple business transaction will be. Thank you very much, much blessings to you and your community. | ||
| Leftcoastal |
Criminals just LOVE the internet - they never have to look their victims in the eye! I get those fake ebay and paypal messages daily! For a while there I was getting those offers from those fine people that were so graciously offering to let me help them move that 27.3 million out of their foreign bank, into MY personal account! Their generosity was overwhelmingly thoughtful! Those have slowed down lately - maybe they got all that $ moved? AL | ||
| Cochise |
This is a response I give to "lottery" people: Wow, a lottery that I didn't even enter, and an email address that I never gave out to you before?? Wow, talk about luck. I'm so lucky to get an email from a complete Hag trying to scam me. You have got to be the stupidest son of a bitch in the world. You were too stupid to get a real job so you try to scam others out of their money. What a loser!!!!! This is a variation of the response listed above response I send out to the banks that want to "give" me money: Wow, money from a Bank that I don't even know, and an email address that I never gave out to you before?? Wow, talk about luck. I'm so lucky to get an email from a complete Hag trying to scam me. You have got to be the stupidest son of a bitch in the world. You were too stupid to get a real job so you try to scam others out of their money. What a loser!! | ||
| Swampy |
And the second one: Hello Seller, Am Dan,i saw yor item which you place for advert on craig web and am interested in purchasing it,am ok with the condition,i will like to know the price inclusive shipment ,and i will be able to make payment via a certified cashier's check and i will be able to add $100 to the asking price if am able to have it so get back to me with your address,mail address,name and every other needed info,i will be paying via a certified cashier's check,get back to me fast because i will be fo1999 Ford Escort - $2500rwarding ur address for issue of payment immediately and after the clearance send the excess to my son in-law for some other preparation immediately you've cleared the check. so get back to me with the price inclusive shipment,your mail address and your full contact address,do get back to fast so that we can proceed .thank you........ Get back to me if there is anything you need to ask about this and i will be willing to explain more better..... Dan......... regards.... |
