SMS response from an out-of-state ad on Craigslist, the usual "My assistant will pay you with a certified check & make arrangements for the pick-up later" except with weirder capitalization, spelling, and grammar. Does anybody fall for these?
SMS response from an out-of-state ad on Craigslist, the usual "My assistant will pay you with a certified check & make arrangements for the pick-up later" except with weirder capitalization, spelling, and grammar. Does anybody fall for these?
Yep. I got the same text message from an ad I posted on Craigslist.
At first the message offered to pay me by check an additional $50 above my asking price to hold my item. I agreed and then got another message saying the assistant had confused my check with someone else's and overpaid me.
I was instructed to deposit the check when I got it into my account and wanted me to wire the extra funds to a "mover" that would come pick up the purchased items.
The message sender even told me that his wife had just been diagnosed w/ breast cancer. What an [***]!
5 days later I still had no check. I ran a search on the number and found this listing.
Also got a text message reference a product for sale on Graigslist. Sender offered fifty dollars over my price to remove listing and hold for him/her, promised cashiers check.
I did send my address but my home is protected by two large dogs and Smith & Wesson.
How dare they scam on people that are trying to make a living. They would be the stupid ones. How can you want to buy an item without looking at it first. We're we born yesterday?