jay_merrill
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Re: Rippoff Alert!!! Craigslist!!!
You ought to see if your local FBI office is interested in this. I know they can't deal with all of them, because there are so many scams, but you never know. EBay might be interested in it too.
One of the things about the correspondence that cracks me up is that this bozo contnually spells "information" as "informations. He does the same thing with the word "debt" and puts the "$" sign after the amount. That's a pretty good tip off the the person is not an english speaker as a first language.
Another tipoff is the use of "+1" in the phone number. The digit "1" is the country code for the US - you would not use it unless you were calling from outside the country. Obviously, no one who lives here uses this convention when advertising a phone number in the US.
I have less patience to fool with these guys than you do, so my usual game is to reply with great enthusiasm that I will buy the boat, car, motorcycle, whatever, but that they should send me a money order for an amount that reflects the sale price plus the shipping fee. I then tell them that I will pay the shipper the whole amount and have that shipper forward the difference to the scammer.
Gee, I wonder why that is always that last communication that occurs on the matter?
You ought to see if your local FBI office is interested in this. I know they can't deal with all of them, because there are so many scams, but you never know. EBay might be interested in it too.
One of the things about the correspondence that cracks me up is that this bozo contnually spells "information" as "informations. He does the same thing with the word "debt" and puts the "$" sign after the amount. That's a pretty good tip off the the person is not an english speaker as a first language.
Another tipoff is the use of "+1" in the phone number. The digit "1" is the country code for the US - you would not use it unless you were calling from outside the country. Obviously, no one who lives here uses this convention when advertising a phone number in the US.
I have less patience to fool with these guys than you do, so my usual game is to reply with great enthusiasm that I will buy the boat, car, motorcycle, whatever, but that they should send me a money order for an amount that reflects the sale price plus the shipping fee. I then tell them that I will pay the shipper the whole amount and have that shipper forward the difference to the scammer.
Gee, I wonder why that is always that last communication that occurs on the matter?
