Received the following text message yesterday from 661-748-3295:
"Hello,Good Day..My name is Chris Blair,I want tutor lesson for my Daughter for a month she is 12 years old, I want you to calculate the cost of 2 hours per day for 3 days in a week for the whole Month and Text me the total cost...Thanks"
It must be the classic overpayment scam using Western Union.
Received the same message. I sent back a message saying I had reported his attempt at fraud to the FBI and to the California State Attorney General's office. He replied back, "Really? Clap for yourself.". His brazenness has caused me to follow through with what before was just hyperbole. I hope they catch him!
By the way, this person is getting numbers form craigslist.com.
Sam thing happened to me. He said that he is going on a business trip to Canada and asked for my address so he could send payment through UPS or FedEx. I thought it seemed strange so I asked to meet him and his daughter and he just kept repeating that she needed tutoring and he wanted her to start ASAP and kept asking for my address. I reported him as well.
Same thing happened to us, we had posted an ad on Craigslist for lessons, his first few texts read EXACTLY the same... daughter is 12, trip to Canada, 2 hours per day 3 days per week for a month, etc. When asked direct questions about the lessons, he would never answer them. Definitely a SCAM. Will report as well.