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use kijiji , big around here , craglist not at all
use kijiji , big around here , craglist not at all
Free rooster ad on Craigslist...interesting response
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Me too!!! Also
Me too!!! Also
I'm surprised you didn't get the:
"I'll be paying you $10,000 usd by special bank check for your good guy rooster chicken, if you can send me the change by western union to Nigeria"
"I'll be paying you $10,000 usd by special bank check for your good guy rooster chicken, if you can send me the change by western union to Nigeria"
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I've actually never had trouble with Craigslist at all, but THIS time, I got 3 spam e-mails wondering if I wanted to make a gazillion bucks a week working at home, and then ONE guy e-mails me telling me to carefully screen whoever contacts me because someone might want my free roosters to EAT. Oh, NO!
I have alot of trouble with craigslist.. I was trying to get rid of my bridesmaid dress on there and someone replied wanting it (like a normal person) she had said she was to far to pick it up and didnt have paypal and asked if she could send a check to me, that was fine, for a week I didnt get a reply then I got one saying she had been in the hospital sick why she hasnt msged me, No problem then a week later I get a $2,427 check in the mail and a note asking me to cash it take mine out of it for the dress then send her the rest?. Needless to say that was never cashed and im still stuck with that ungodly dress! oh and I get atleast 3+ spam emails per post I put up.
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Uh oh! Hubby went thru that scam some months ago from someone in England wanting to buy his motorcyle. Well, they told him to cash the check and send them the rest to the shipper. We got alittle suspecious and we did some investigation. We went to Western Union about this they said they never got any check from them. So we played along, saying please send us the check. So I think two or three weeks went back and forth, they finally sent us a check and it was a Chicago Porsche dealer. So hubby went to the bank and told them whats going on and thinks it is a bogus check. So the bank went ahead and did their investigation by calling the business in Chicago. Guess what, it was a FRAUD! The guy kept emailing my hubby to send him some money because he did take the check to the bank. He emailed them back saying the bank did the investigation and told him it was a FRAUD check. Well we never heard from them again and they tried to do it again after hubby relisted the bike back on the website. He simply emailed them, you are a fraud and scamming people out of stuff. I am not selling you the bike! Craiglist didnt do anything to stop this scammer so they are still out there doing it. Wondered if it is the same scammer that hubby faced.
Uh oh! Hubby went thru that scam some months ago from someone in England wanting to buy his motorcyle. Well, they told him to cash the check and send them the rest to the shipper. We got alittle suspecious and we did some investigation. We went to Western Union about this they said they never got any check from them. So we played along, saying please send us the check. So I think two or three weeks went back and forth, they finally sent us a check and it was a Chicago Porsche dealer. So hubby went to the bank and told them whats going on and thinks it is a bogus check. So the bank went ahead and did their investigation by calling the business in Chicago. Guess what, it was a FRAUD! The guy kept emailing my hubby to send him some money because he did take the check to the bank. He emailed them back saying the bank did the investigation and told him it was a FRAUD check. Well we never heard from them again and they tried to do it again after hubby relisted the bike back on the website. He simply emailed them, you are a fraud and scamming people out of stuff. I am not selling you the bike! Craiglist didnt do anything to stop this scammer so they are still out there doing it. Wondered if it is the same scammer that hubby faced.
heh, i had a response to my posting cockerels/roosters on CL months back.
i mentioned that i needed to find a good pet friendly home for a few i did not need. the response i got a couple of days after putting it up? 'i'll give you the ones i have and you can find homes for them.'
i was going to send a rude response but i instead decided to delete the message.
BTW Rainstorm, that is what they call the Nigerian Scam. i worked at a bank and had a customer have the same thing happen with a motorcycle selling on ebay. when he told me the situation it threw up red flags that this was wrong (i didn't know what it was called at the time but knew it was fraud.)
DO NOT fall for this if you have this happen. if you receive one of these checks take it to your local bank and tell them the situation but DO NOT CASH or Deposit the check. the bank will do the research and any investigating will be started through them and sent onto the appropriate people. if you had deposited it or cashed it you would be held responsible for the full amount of the check and could be out thousands of $$$. if you deposited and them took out the funds before it fully cleared it would make you look like an accomplice to fraud and not a victim.
CL would not be able to limit people responding to ads on them since they do not have a way to record everyone's email or responses to a post, so this will be an ongoing issue with them for some time.
i mentioned that i needed to find a good pet friendly home for a few i did not need. the response i got a couple of days after putting it up? 'i'll give you the ones i have and you can find homes for them.'
i was going to send a rude response but i instead decided to delete the message.
BTW Rainstorm, that is what they call the Nigerian Scam. i worked at a bank and had a customer have the same thing happen with a motorcycle selling on ebay. when he told me the situation it threw up red flags that this was wrong (i didn't know what it was called at the time but knew it was fraud.)
DO NOT fall for this if you have this happen. if you receive one of these checks take it to your local bank and tell them the situation but DO NOT CASH or Deposit the check. the bank will do the research and any investigating will be started through them and sent onto the appropriate people. if you had deposited it or cashed it you would be held responsible for the full amount of the check and could be out thousands of $$$. if you deposited and them took out the funds before it fully cleared it would make you look like an accomplice to fraud and not a victim.
CL would not be able to limit people responding to ads on them since they do not have a way to record everyone's email or responses to a post, so this will be an ongoing issue with them for some time.
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