I received this same posting on craigslist, please note his name and address have once again changed.
Sounds Good,
Am okay with the price & condition, my mode of payment will be via a Bank Certified Check, i will handle the shipment via my private shipping company, they will come for the pickup when the check clears your bank, the check will be mail via FedEx which will deliver to you in 1-2 days inwhich i will need your full name and address also with your phone number to mail out the check to you,if this is okay by you, you can proceed to delete the advert on craigslist because i don't want any other interruption by another buyer.
I'm getting the same nonsense from CarolineKelly...was suspicious right from the start that someone in StJohn would be trolling the Whistler Craigslist for items to send to NY!
I got this EXACT same email from this same woman. I had a wedding dress for sale and she told me that my money would be released to my account once i sent the tracking number. I waited weeks before sending the dress, this was a 2000.00 wedding gown mind you. So I packed it up and sent it off. Then I got an email saying they could only deposit 2500.00 into my paypal so I had to send HER back 500.00.
I knew right away this was not right, and called paypal myself...no money was ever given to me, I had already shipped the dress to what was her cousin Sara Jones, who lived at 113 Skinner Road Connecticut. I googled the address after realizing what she done, the home belonged to a 93 year old woman that had passed away.
I got on the phone right away with the post office in which the dress would be coming, they kept and eye open and as soon as it got there, they stamped it and thankfully shipped it back to me. In the end, I got my dress back and Caroline, or whatever her name is, got a VERY large email.
She managed to get the dress shipped, but I got it back in the end. And I am from a small town called Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia, Canada !
This Michael Smith is still at it! I just got an email from Craigslist from him that is very similar, won't be falling into this trap! Thanks for the warning!