Fortunately for me, I saw it was a scam immediately, even though his first didn't say much. And I knew I wanted to blog about the whole back and forth and put him on the Internet so here goes... I'll keep adding to this until he realizes I know and moves on to greener scam pastures.
Notice how he put this weird thing at the bottom of his email to make it look like it was contacting me from his DROID, but then the phone number wasn't even properly falsified. Gads. Scammers are dumb. And they STILL make so much money. Baffles the mind.
First Email from my scammer:
Reply-To: roberyfourty@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:42:02 -0400
From: wallinsino02@gmail.com
To: wzdwx-3332982329@sale.craigslist.org
Subject: Evenheat GT-14-6 120volt Kiln - $500 (marina / cow hollow)
Hello
is the above item still for sale?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
(267) 607-924I noticed the FROM and the REPLY-TO were different emails. Also a sign of a scammer. Just for grins, because I like to mess with them, I replied to both email addresses and in the body of the email (and the subject line), I removed all references to what the item was and will see what the scammer does with that.
Oh, they reply to *thousands* of sellers on Craigslist so they may just move on, but I had to see.
Second Reply (of course he ignored that he had no idea which item I am selling):
Subject: Re: Craigslist posting
From: Merry Jack [roberyfourty@gmail.com]So I wrote back and told him he would need to overnight the check (I want him to lose a little money at least) but then I didn't provide him my address. I want to waste more of his time first.
Hello,
Thanks you for the response, I'm okay with condition on the Craigslist.
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 payment, . I really wish to be there to check out the item but
due to my work frame i can not be able to get there , am very busy
woman (Nurse) and i don't mind adding an extra $50 dollars for you to
take the advert down from Craigslist, so that i can be rest assured
that am in hand of it. More so my husband will process your payment
as soon as you provide your infor,and i promise everything will go smoothly,
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:
Physical Address:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Phone Number:
And as soon as this is provided, the payment will be process
tomorrow and i will let you know when its mailed out. Thanks and i
hope we handle this in good faith.Additional $50 will be added for
remove the item from the list.I will happy if you can sell the item for me.
although this is first time in Craigslist, So please be honest with me, thanks
for understanding, looking forward to hear back from you ..God Bless you
Regards.....
Merry Jack
To be continued....
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