Selling on Craigslist ; Have You Seen This Scam?

Published on November 26, 2006 By Xythe In Personal Computing

I sell on Craigslist from time to time, but this is the first time I've been attempted to be scammed on as a seller.

Notice the info the scammer requests. What is so useful about this info.

What is the worst that could happen to a seller that gives out this info, yet does not sent the merchendise?

Comments

Bichur

on Nov 27, 2006

What is the worst that could happen to a seller that gives out this info, yet does not sent the merchendise?

You mean besides being charged with running their own scam?

adnauseam

on Nov 27, 2006

All I can say is: Craigslist needs to jack itself up!

starkers

on Nov 27, 2006

Sorta reminds me of Whimpey from the Popeye show: "I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.".....

As we all know, tomorrow never comes.

MasonM

on Nov 27, 2006

Yeah, the old forged money order scam. You cash it, give the "over draft" to someone else and then the cops come after you for cashing a fake money order.

Or a simple information fishing scam.

starkers

on Nov 28, 2006

Yeah, the old forged money order scam. You cash it, give the "over draft" to someone else and then the cops come after you for cashing a fake money order.

That's if it ever arrived, forged or otherwise....the bit that makes me immediately sus is the 'immediate dispatch' payment later part - the $50 bonus as temptation/incentive to send the item post-haste.....

****"I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.".****

Xythe

on Nov 28, 2006

****"I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.".****

Better yet:

The checks in the mail.

LittleBearJason

on Dec 09, 2006

Craigslist has Scam warnings marked all over their site.

If you have not read already:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

starkers

on Dec 09, 2006

Craigslist has Scam warnings marked all over their site.

Maybe so, but it don't stop scammers from trying, coming up with inventive new ways to cheat people out of their money/products.....

Also doesn't stop those who see an item of interest and go "Oh WoW, that's a must have" and subsequently forget/overlook the warnings.

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