these SCAMS have being going on for many years !!!! EVERYONE should well versed in them by now.... ( most originate from AFRICA / nigeria ) and related...........
easy dead giveaways it's a scam :
1) send " cheques" for more than the asking price
2) FAKE NAMES ....usually 2 simple and first names: john jakes / bill franks / judy jills / joe henry......etc...scammers can't think of a real name.......
2) strange and dead phone numbers
3) poor grammer and english phrases / bad spelling.... ( i.e. asking for pictures when there are usually some in your ad........asking you to send " last offering price" ! who uses this phrase ?
4) will never come in " person"
most or all of this noted appears in every scam from auction sites....
5) claim to be " hearing imparied " / " offshore on a military boat somewhere" / AWAY ON VACATION and unab le to come in person........any many various statements
We too have had a dealing with this phone number. My husband was trying to sell something on Craig's list and a person, pretending to be a woman was in a hurry to buy what he was selling. They sent us a check for $550 more than we were asking and then asked us to wire the $550 Western Union to a person Named Jimmy Deadwyler in Asheville, N.C. RIGHT AWAY!!! We called our bank and they contacted the bank the check was from and that bank told us it was not a real account. So, had we sent them the money we would have been out.
Yep...me too...I'm in the process of trying to return some Western Union Money right now. Avoid this one on Craigslist...Raquel Carrington, Jimmy Deadwyler.
what I don't understand is...
why can't the police stake out the western union at the
North Carolina location and arrest whoever shows up to get the money???
it seems so simple.