I received a text message from this number in response to a Craig's List ad that I placed. The scam seems to be all to common place in the Craig's List world. The message indicated a desire to purchase my expensive "item" sight unseen, with a promise to pay the asking price and an exorbitant amount of money to ship the item to some remote location. A bank to bank or bank to Paypal money transfer was promised to be initiated as soon as account information was sent.
There were several red flags. The biggest one was the willingness to send nearly $2000 for a piece of jewelry the authenticity of which would NOT need to be verified. I reply to the text message with a promise to turn the messages and any information I had over to the FBI Fraud Unit for investigation. I will do just that!
this guy just did this to me about a white iphone! he kept texting me and telling me send it tomorrow i will send you money for 1200?!?!!??! what a psycho and i clearly said NO cash only and he goes "the customer is always right?" i quickly replied with a "YOURE NOT A CUSTOMER YOURE A RANDOM THIEF ON CRAIGSLIST" BEWARE!!!!!!!!!