I have a few things in the classifieds and this one of the emails that I received.

Greetings,
I really appreciate your prompt reply and i'm glad you are selling to me...First,I'm okay with the selling cost and as for the shipping i dont want you to bother about that,I have a shipping company that handles my shipments,All you need do is to keep the item in a safe and good condition...
I have a staff associate oweing closed to $2000 on our last transaction,so i will instruct him to issue it out to you Via Us Cashiers Check..When you get the payment you will deduct your $100 for the item and extra $200 for the stress and hazzle you may go through to cash and wire the remaining funds to my shipper for them to be able to come for the pickup at your location...Also i bought some other mechandise too and my shipper will be picking them up also,so they will need the remaining funds to enable the come for the pickup....It takes 1-2 working days to clear a check,so check must clear before pickup.Notify me immediately when you get the funds so i will funish you with my shipper's information who will be coming for the pickup at your location..
HOPE I CAN TRUST YOU....Am sure you can await the payment in the mail, It will be
sent to the Information you provided for me...
Can you remove it from the posting and consider it sold to me? I will be happy if you can do that today ok..I will be looking forward to read from you.
Patrick...

 

I'll forward this up.....see if we can't get that IP blocked.

 

Please use the support ticket system to report this, (its the proper place) and include a copy of the email, including his email address. Without his email address we can't block him.

 

Support ticket has been placed. It's hard to catch these people you can block them all day but they change email adrresses and IP's change all the time. The only way to get them is to go after the ISP that hands out the IP address. A lot of people really don't know their IP changes depending on their DHCP lease from their ISP.

 

First let me say NEVER cash/deposoit a check any of these scammers sends to you. I got quite a few of those scammers emailing me earlier this year over some hay I had listed on the internet. I turned it into a game of seeing how much of their time and effort I could waste; and, how much I could get them to send me a check for. I collected 3 checks in total from 3 different scammers. One check for a little over $9,000. Neither the Sheriffs Dept, the State Attorney General's office, or the FBI was interested in pursuing these guys. At the FBI's suggestion I eventually burned all three checks. If you want to have some fun jerking these jerks around do a search on "Scam baiting" and let the games begin.

 

This is a scam.....I received basically the same thing thru Craigs List when I went to sell a set of tires. I contacted craigs list but they couldn't do anything. I wrote the local TV station so they would put out a story....not interested. I deleted all info and never heard from the scammer again. I also got this type of stuff saying they were from PayPal. I then went directly to paypal, sent them the e-mail and PayPal's response was the e-mail I received was indeed a scam to get personal info.

 

I hate how phony all these companies are that say they want to stop the scammers and then you go to them and they say they aren't interested... what a joke...

 

Matt companies? try the FBI, the state AG, or ANY law enforcement agency at all but just for fun I had one wanted me to give my address so he could mail me the check, I gave him the address for the FBI office in DesMoines, never heard from him again.

 

I meant the FBI, State Attorney General... etc. I turned one in, and got referred to another agency, then referred right back... I was annoyed...

 

Yeah I know what you mean matt tried the same thing myself and got no where. I just read your post saying companies is all.

 

The only way to get anyone to pursue this is to go to the bank were the check is written from. I was selling choc. lab pups once and had some send me a fake Bank of America check. Bank of America was interested in looking into it. Of course they will never tell me who, why or where the check came from but maybe it will help someone else out.

 

Hey guys, I've been dealing with this over and over and over. Everytime I try to sell something I get some Frick'n idiot e-mailing me with the same BS. I saw a special on TV afew weeks ago were they tried too actually catch these thieves. They are ripping people off right and left from the US. It is all coming out of the republic of Benin. I have twenty of these emails in a folder that I've been saving. But I did play a trick on one them too. I actually told him that his checked had cleared ($19,500), and that I followed his instructions to send the extra money to his shipper and they came and got my Harley to ship to him. And thanked him and waited. HAH HAH HAH. You should of seen his responses!!! I told him to contact the shipper because they came and picked up the Bike. And that they had ripped him off. He said he wanted his money back. I said it was too late and that he should have insured the Bike thru the Shipper. It was out of my hands. I even sent him via e-mail some phony shipping documents to prove that they had in fact picked up the bike! I made all of this up! documents and all. He still thinks I got paid! HAH HAH!!! I took the check to my bank and they verified the check was a fraud. They made a copy of the check for there record and instructed me to take it to the PD/Fruad Dept. So I did, along with a copy of all the e-mail conversations that we had. The PD said " What da yah want us to do with it???.. DUH!! The local PD here is pretty bad. Anyhow thats my story with these scammers.. I got the last laugh though. HAH HAH Country

 

Good job countrycar!! The best thing we can do with these jerks given the lack of effort by the athorities is waste as much of the scammers time as possible by having them run all over the place checking stuff, printing bogus checks and sending them to us. At least as long as they are screwing with us they won't have as much time to try and ripoff some one else. If enough of us were jerking these A-holes around I think the scammers would soon decide this was to much work for to little return and their activity would drop off since they are basiclly lazy SOBs to begin with.