AM INTERESTED IN YOUR ADVERT ON CRAIGSLIST GET BACK TO ME WITH THE PROVE OF OWNERSHIP AND THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE ADVERT.........Despite the all caps, I want ahead and responded (the sign off name matched the email). So then I got this:
Thanks for the reply .am located in CA and we have a private shipper that will come to pick it up after you must have received cash from your bank.Our mode of payment will be via electronic cashier check. Echeck is simple, secured, legal, fast and it is setup to eliminate the stress of putting check in mail for days. .All you need to do is to get a business check paper for $20. Once you have the business check paper i will send the secured link to print out the electronic check to your email for printing. You can then print and proceed to clear and cash the check at your bank. The cost of procuring the business check paper will be added to the bottom price.So this seems all on the up-and-up. In retrospect, it's not the CAPS that were damning--it was the "advert" language rather than just saying "dress".
Please visit www.insticheck.com to to get more info on echeck,you can get business check paper from officedepot, officemax, staples or any stationery store around. I will be waiting to read from you soon.
Thanks
After looking at the CL abuse page, the angle here is that the cashiers check is no good. The bank would cash it, but then withdraw the funds when it was shown to be fraudulent. And by that time the goods are gone. This does seem to be kind of small potatoes for this kind of deal.
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we posted our condo for rent on Craigslist and received a response expressing interest in renting from a student in Europe coming over here for a graduate study program. Wanted to secure the unit with first and last month's rent plus security deposit, all in the form of a cashier's check. Because "she was short on time", she wanted to write the check for more money that was required and have us send the extra back to her so she could buy her plane ticket here ("please keep $100 for your kind effort and trouble").
classic scam.
p.s. you put Joanne's wedding dress up for sale? she will kill you in your sleep.
We got an almost identical email (to the one Keith describes) when Jill posted some old baby stuff on Craigslist. As you say, the giveaway is that there is no reference to your actual item, just a generic "saw your ad".
And yes, baby gear and wedding dresses are small potatoes, but email scams are like any other kind of mass marketing: it's just a numbers game, and if you send out enough emails (which is easy when you are just sending out the same one over and over) eventually someone will respond. And you can make a decent return on your investment selling used wedding dresses & baby gear when you get it all for free.
We still have Jill's wedding dress. Paid extra to get it nicely folded up into a lovely cardboard box. Waaaaay better than selling it to someone who needs it....
I think that you're taking the "cost of clutter" article a bit overboard here.
I was the one that responded to that wedding dress. I guess it's time that I let the cat out of the bag but I have a big place in my heart for used wedding dresses.
Anyways, you never cease to surprise me Keith.
I actually don't care if we get rid of my wedding dress. It doesn't hold any sentimental value for me. And, yes, I am female.
Besides I have a constant reminder of the wedding - I live with him.
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