Craigslist Scammers and crooks
Do you post items for sale on Craigslist? Most everyone does or knows someone who has. Well there are a lot of scammers trolling Craigslist looking to steal your merchandise……..
Please take note that craigslist posts big warning boxes on their site advising you do deal locally, etc, yada yada yada…… 
These scammers will usually use the same types of email verbiage (see the example that I posted below) They always say that they are out of town or out of the country for some reason and want to wire you a check or even pay you through PayPal (They know that Paypal appears to look legit, because it is an escrow service, but there are major loopholes in the PayPal system.) They usually target items with an asking price in excess of $100.00 and more, however I have been targeted with items as low as $50.00. Also they will sweeten the offer by appealing to your greed and offering you more than you ask for the item, for the inconvenience of shipping, etc.
I have also posted high end items on Craigslist in excess of $1,000 and have received the same types of scam offers to buy my item, over and over again.
What types of offers? Take a look at the following and see if you have been victimized by these crooks, degenerates ass-clowns and monkey Fuc*ers from Nigeria, through Craigslist:
These people sometimes start off with a leader email such as “Do you still have the item for sale,sold or you already dealing with a potential buyer.?“ OR “Hello i just want to know if this item is still up for sale and how much is gonna cost me thanks and hope to hear from u ASAP“
Sounds innocent right? The first alert is the bad grammar! Also they are never in town, which they will tell you once you reply to their leader email. If you reply to these assboners, this is a sample of what you get:
From pj064real@gmail.com AKA Tamera Lewis
Thanks for your reply and am glad to know that it is still available for sale.However i have few questions on the product you are selling.
1,I would like to know the reason you are selling it?
2,What is the current condition of the item ?
3,What is your firm price, though am okay with the listing price ?
4,Do you have the original box and the receipt for it ?
5,Do you mind if i pay through paypal even though i would cover the shipping because am currently not local at the moment,Am out of town participating in a research project and i would like to purchase this item from you on behalf of my colleague for the replacement of her crashed computer and i think this is the best thing i could buy for her as gift because she did the same when i lost my computer……If you do not have a PayPal account, you can do so by going to www.PayPal.com and set up your account it is free,easy and guarantees transaction safety.Once you send me your paypal email account, I will send you the payment for your item as well as $100 USD to cover shipping via USPS EXPRESS MAIL INTL.
I would be glad if my request is favorably considered.
ThanksOR
collins714@gmail.com AKA collins shall says:
Hi,
Its great asking if this item is still available for sale
Get back to me asapHello,
Am okay with the price
Do you still have it with you???
How old is the item,?
Does it work perfectly?
Am located in cedar rapids Iowa but i’m presently out of state to
Albanian for work shop seminar..and this unit is exact of what i want
for my representative as a Xmas gift..so i will add an extra $190.00
USD as the shipping charges confirm from http://www.usps.com (EMS
SPEED POST) for international shipping…And i will make the total if
you can help me handle the shipping perfectly..You can send me your
PayPal email ID or a PayPal money request through PayPal and i’ll
proceed with the Payment right away…
There are hundreds of these emails posted on the internet, warning of this fraud, and just as many stories of people being taken advantage of by these scammers. When will you learn? That is why these people keep doing this… It’s a numbers game for them and it apparently, it pays off.
I like to have a bit of fun with these fools and act like I am interested in their proposition, then I finally tell them off .
What’s your experience with this?
From : collins714@gmail.com
Thanks for the mail , and thanks for the price given, still at therange, cos am buying the car for Birthday Gift for my wife and i amat sea at the moment as, am a marine engineer and i really want thecar to be a surprise for my wife so i wont let her know anythingabout the car until it gets delivered to her , i am sure she will bemore than happy with the car.I insisted on paypal because i dont haveaccess to my bank account online as i dont have internet banking, buti can pay from my paypal account, as i have my bank a/c attached toit, i will need you to give me your paypal email address so i can makethe payments asap for the car and pls if you dont have paypal accountyet, it is very easy to set up, go to http://www.paypal.com and get it set up, after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you usefor registration with paypal so as to put the money through.I have apick up agent that will come and pick the car up after i have made thepayments. PS:you can end the auction on the site yourself,you will seea place where u can end the auction and my pick up agent will comearound to do the pick up as soon as i have made the payments for thecar. My pick up agent says i will need to pay for the pick up Fee beforethey can schedule a pick up time,And they charged me $1000 for pick upand delivery, get back to me with your firm price of the car so i canadd it with my agent fees. Await your response. Would love to see more pics of this
Thanks
Before buying or selling anything on CraigsList, you must have a look at this site! Search the entire site by First Name, Last Name, Email-Address, etc. to see if that person buying from or selling too is who they say they are. Dont be the next victim of an internet crook!
People really need to start checking sites like http://www.craiglistcrooks.com before they buy or selling anything on that site. Since craigslist isn’t like Ebay with it’s rating system and tying user accounts to an accounts bank account, people can basically go on there anonymously and sell fake crap and never get caught (unless the person being screwed gets reealllly lucky). That site has caused it’s share of headaches for me and I’ll never buy or sell anything on there before checking sites like craigslistcrooks.com to see if there are complaints about them.
This one just in from Collins. Surprised he hasn’t changed his email address.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, collins shall wrote:
Thank you for the quick reply, just to tell am offer you EUR150 of the article, I am ready to purchase and my form of payment via PayPal.I would really love to come for viewing but because of my work environment that is not possible working inspection in Mexico
right now and I have no access to a phone, but if you have more pictures, might want to have a good overview. I will be responsible for pick-up and enable the company to pick an appropriate day for pick-up on your site after funds has been received. All I need your e-mail PayPal to make payment, then I will make arrangements for pick. I We await your email.so not you need this port Item .. I arranged for .. jump back to me your home address so I can send it to the shipping company .. agent and they will contact you.
On 9/14/10, arbourman wrote:
To be honest Collins, this sounds a little dodgy! For starters, the bed is selling for €125, not €150.
If you are in Paris or have a contact in Paris, I will happily deal in personal cheque or virement.
Please let me know if you are still interested.
Regards,
Sam
Collins
i said i want to offer you €150 and if you don’t want my offer am ok with the price ok..am presently out of paris to Mexico i can’t send you personal cheque or virement. if you don’t have paypal account to set up to http://www.paypal.fr it very secured, safe aslo very fast online payment get back to me when you are through with it
Regard
And this will probably be the last email in the exchange:
collins shall ,
gofuckyourself@gmail.com
date Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:08 PM
subject Re: Lit / Bed – EUR125 (Paris 75003)
mailed-by gmail.com
Hi Collins!
Actually you’re in luck! My housemate who is from Mexico, is currently there on business. He’s suggested to me that he can meet up and you guys can make the transfer directly.
Let me know your current location over there and I’ll let him work out the details. I’ve copied his email address into the address bar.
Speak to you soon,
Regards,
Sam
My latest Craigslist scam letter received from johnniewalker@gmail.com:
Thanks you for the response according to the description,am okay with
the price and the condition pasted on cl. I am ready to make instant
purchase.My mode of payment would be in CERTIFIED CHECK and i will
arrange for a local pick up as soon as you get the check, because that
is the only inconvenient means for me and due to my work frame i can
not be able to get there and i promise everything will go smoothly.I
really wish to be there to check out the item but i don’t have chance
cause am very busy person (US MARINE). Concerning the pick up, i will
arrange for it after you receive the payment and it clears… Pls get
back to me with below info so that i can proceed with the payment
immediately if you are selling to me.
Name:
Address: Not P.O.BOX
City:
State ::
postal Code:
Phone Number: That i can send text
And as soon as this is provided, the payment will be overnight to you
and i will let you know when its mailed out. Thanks and i hope we
handle this in good faith while waiting to hear from you. i will add
an additional $30 so that you can hold it for me till the check reach
you.
Best Regard
AND NOW MY RESPONSE TO THIS:
Name:Youfagyou
Address: 123 up your ass street
City:you monkeybreeder
State ::smell my ass
postal Code:xxx your a fag
Phone Number: your momma is a monkey
First of all….How dare you claim to be a US Marine? That is the most despicable part of your scam! You could not be the shit in a latrine of a U.S. Anything let alone a Marine! Your attempt at using English, or lack of it, gives you away right off the bat. (some statements like: Thanks you for the response? and I am ready to make instant purchase? and just the whole bullshit letter that you are a US Marine and will arrange for pickup?…… really? come on Grow a pair and find a real job you loser piece of shit)
Does this type of scam even still work for you? I appreciate you sending me this as I am posting it on my blog for others to be forewarned about this type of scam, and that they still do exist. No one would have believed, someone like you, would be so stupid or desperate enough to even attampt a dumbass scam like this without this email as proof….. hahahahahaha
Johnnie Walker? come on, really? (Whiskey?) Could you pick a name that better suits your kind? lol. How about Fish Faced fag lover ape monkey loving mouth breeder @gmail.com….That is a better name for you.
In closing I hope that you may find a conscience because you obviously do not have one . Read the Bible and practice what it says so you can keep from going to hell and joining Obama and the rest of your friends and family there.
p.s. Send any of your “Certified Checks” to FBI headquarters, I am sure that they would like to get a hold of one of them.
Watch out for jmsgril@gmail.com. Tried to SCAM me out of $3,000.
I am SO glad I found this information on your site! I posted an ad for a diamond engagement ring, $3K. jmsgril@gmail.com was my first contact! The email she sent was almost identical to the one posted up above! I knew it didn’t seem right, so I searched for the email address to see if I could find any information. Whew. I will tell her to shove my diamond up her crazy a$$ self! Thank you again……so much!
I had my camera listed for sale on Craigslist and low and behold The scammer came out of the wood work…
His scam started like this:
First email to me: Do you still have your item for sale?
I reluctantly reply: “Yes” my gut telling me that this could be another Craigslist scam.
Their reply and scam to my saying Yes:
Email from:Clark Denilson wrote:
> Hello thanks for your urgent
> response am interested in immediate purchase of your item but i will
> like to hear from you the conditions of it and also why are you selling
> it, i will also need to know are you the fist owner or not and since
> when have you been using this item i will like to hear from you all
> this information about the item and also if you do not mind you can
> reply me back with some pictures of it as well…Kindle get back to me
> soon,
> Thanks.
Now My reply to the scammer:
Are you local? No I don’t believe that you are. Did you hack and steal the email you are using or do your masters set up new ones for you to use? I would like to show you this item face to face, and in person….I’d really like that.
First, obviously, I believe that you are just another Craigslist scammer who is such a low life that they will steal from citizens.
people like you usually lack in English grammar and make the most subtle mistakes which are enough to recognize that they are one of those terrible foreign skunk people. You are not one of those are you? I mean a low life garbage scammer who should get infected with a terrible disease as long as you are on this earth. because after you die you are going to hell anyway but still you should suffer while you are here too
Your King, Barack Hussein Obama says hello and says that he ripped off more money from hard working Americans than you this year, so you need to try and catch up.
As for the pictures you asked for, well they are here waiting for you, with me. Yes I have them here for you……. would you like to come out and see them? No? I thought not.
How does it feel to have to steal and eek out a meager stinking living in an impoverished environment? Living your miserable poverty and filth filled life as a third world ugly and malnourished criminal, while we Americans are living the life of luxury being able to work and purchase the fine items (that you try to steal from us) and use them in our beautiful and clean homes…. Homes, which are warm, clean and have fine furnishings and plenty of food in our kitchens?
In closing, I hope that you enjoyed my opinion of you and the people? like you, who have no better life that to try and scam Craigslist sellers… Shame on you! Maybe if you Pray and Find Jesus, you will repent and be an honest human being instead of the godless heathen animal that you are now. You really suck and I hope you get caught or turned on and beaten by someone just like you. GET A CONSCIENCE AND A LIFE.
wow this is unbelievable. i wish my roommate and i had did the research. little miss jennifer at jmsgril@gmail.com strikes again. i posted on craigs list for a 1caret dimond neclace, got the same email with the same question exactly to what you got. it struck me that she didnt even care about the price of 2200 . But this was the first time for doing this and boy did i get scamed she got the necklace and i got screwed…the jewely had sentimental meaning to me ….i will never use craigs list again…..!!!!!1 what can a person really do when this happens? Do i report them? i even tryed to stop the delivery of the pkg. to late for that i believe..all i can say is that carma needs to catch up to her quickly…….I am going to post this on Facebook and on craigs list….so that know else hopefully wont get scamed…poeple like that need to be stoped…you are a total looser jennifer……i hope you get stoprd and caught soon…..
just got an email did a search on the sender but that email showed nothing I hit reply and realized after I hit send that the email was now slightly different and now I found this site! Within a few minutes I received this email
Good to hear from you,however i have few questions on the product you are selling.
1,I would like to know the reason you are selling it?
2,What is the current condition of the item ?
3,What is your firm price, though am okay with the listing price ?
4,Do you have the original box,all the paperwork and the receipt for it ?
5,Do you mind if i pay through paypal even though i will add an extra dollars to cover the shipping to CALIFORNIA
Am purchase as a gift for someone very special to me.
If you do not have a PayPal account, you can do so by going to http://www.PayPal.com and set up your account it is free,easy and guarantees transaction safety.Once you send me your paypal email account, I will send you the payment for your item as well as $100 to cover shipping overnight Shipment
I would be glad if my request is favorably considered
from
jmsgril@gmail.com
I cant get over this person can still contact people from this email! I want to mess with them!
What exactly is the scam? If they send money via PayPal and you ship the item to California, aren’t you covered by PayPal’s Seller Protection? I’m not sure I understand the scam here.
Ever hear of stolen Pay Pal accounts? PayPal is geared to protect the buyer not so much the seller.