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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 20:57:01 (permalink)
Reminds me of good ol' 419eater :P love reading that stuff! :D
 
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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 21:01:28 (permalink)
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Do the trade at a bank. My friend sold a laptop on Craigslist and agreed to meet in a parking lot. The guy attacked him with a hammer and made off with the laptop.

 
Similar thing happened here before... some stupid lady got dragged by a car cuz the "buyer" grabbed the laptop she was sellin and made a run for it. She chased after him and hung onto his car, ended up getting dragged and injured. You don't meet up with someone on CL to buy or sell in the middle of an empty parking lot at 3am for that reason... lol


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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 21:11:44 (permalink)
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Do the trade at a bank. My friend sold a laptop on Craigslist and agreed to meet in a parking lot. The guy attacked him with a hammer and made off with the laptop.

 
a Local Library would be a good place to test something like that, thats where I met someone when I got my parents last laptop

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 21:17:43 (permalink)
The library is fine, but banks are everywhere here. They have cameras and security, and if they want to pay by check I can get a manager to advise and inspect.


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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 22:45:49 (permalink)
Haha. You guys brought some funny stories to the table.
 
But yeah. I just decided to post it here so we could get a chuckle out of it and also educate the people who were not aware of these types of things.

I cant stop laughing about the hammer one. I know its messed up and im sorry your friend got hurt but ****? A hammeR?
 
people are just sad.

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 22:48:50 (permalink)
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Haha. You guys brought some funny stories to the table.

But yeah. I just decided to post it here so we could get a chuckle out of it and also educate the people who were not aware of these types of things.

I cant stop laughing about the hammer one. I know its messed up and im sorry your friend got hurt but ****? A hammeR?

people are just sad.

A hammer's better than a Hummer.  Does at least a little less damage.


 
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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 22:54:58 (permalink)
you can kill with a hammer intentionally, but a hummer can kill accidentally, I guess.


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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 23:17:56 (permalink)
Funny!     :)

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 23:24:51 (permalink)
I didn't want to tell him he was a moron for agreeing to that location, I think he figured it out when he was in the hospital.


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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 23:44:21 (permalink)
I remember when I was selling a laptop on Fleabay years ago.  As you know, scammers love them damn things.  Well the sale closes to an international buyer even though I said "only ship to US".
Well this guy did a pretty bad scam job, sending three emails together.  One being a very bad forgery of a Paypal email, instructing me to send the laptop immediately since the funds is being held by an escrow service.
The second was the "buyer" who thanked me for my purchase (huh?) and instructed me to send the laptop.
The third was a heated email demanding to know why I had not sent the laptop yet.
All sent at the same time.
Well I was pretty pissed that I had to deal with this obvious fake and was about to send an email to tell this trash where and how....
Then I remembered that 419 website with the people that mess wit hthe scammers and so I wanted to do the same.
So I sent an apology to the guy and told him it would be sent out the next day.  I then emptied my 3 cats' litter box into a box, put it in another one with an old cutting board to give it the right heft, and marked the value on the package for the sale, $450.
The scammer(s) place was in england so they paid through the nose (charged a fee for the value of the package) for a box full of cat poop and a stained wooden board.
Totally was worth the shipping cost. 

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 23:46:54 (permalink)
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I remember when I was selling a laptop on Fleabay years ago.  As you know, scammers love them damn things.  Well the sale closes to an international buyer even though I said "only ship to US".
Well this guy did a pretty bad scam job, sending three emails together.  One being a very bad forgery of a Paypal email, instructing me to send the laptop immediately since the funds is being held by an escrow service.
The second was the "buyer" who thanked me for my purchase (huh?) and instructed me to send the laptop.
The third was a heated email demanding to know why I had not sent the laptop yet.
All sent at the same time.
Well I was pretty pissed that I had to deal with this obvious fake and was about to send an email to tell this trash where and how....
Then I remembered that 419 website with the people that mess wit hthe scammers and so I wanted to do the same.
So I sent an apology to the guy and told him it would be sent out the next day.  I then emptied my 3 cats' litter box into a box, put it in another one with an old cutting board to give it the right heft, and marked the value on the package for the sale, $450.
The scammer(s) place was in england so they paid through the nose (charged a fee for the value of the package) for a box full of cat poop and a stained wooden board.
Totally was worth the shipping cost. 

 
Sounds like something I'd do to someone trying to scam me.


 
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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/24 23:54:34 (permalink)
New take on the old scam.
 
Glad you didn't fall for this , as its caused a lot of good willed people grief.

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/25 00:04:59 (permalink)
Lol bigfoot
 
I would have loved to see the reaction of whoever it was that recieved that. Did you get a email back about it at all?
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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/25 00:14:29 (permalink)
No I never got back a response....but I was hoping I would.  lol

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/25 00:57:39 (permalink)
LMFAO, shoulda taken a dump in there yourself as well, THEN sent the package. I'm surprised the carriers didn't notice the stench..? LOL


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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/25 01:03:33 (permalink)
Box within a box and I sealed it with a mile of tape.  I wanted to make sure that if they opened the first box it would pass inspection.  The second, well, I was hoping it would not get that far and it did not.  I watched the tracking info and it was claimed.  lol

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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/31 21:07:36 (permalink)
Thanks!
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Re:Watch out for this scam please! 2011/01/31 21:15:08 (permalink)
You mean your not gonna fix my laptops ?????

                                       
                                                                       
                
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