240-489-5489

caller(said he was a " Molecular biologist/oceanographer ") curently at sea wanted me to give him my e-mail, and paypal info to purchase an item from me off of craigslist, & that someone would pick up the merchandise at my house.
I declinde, as he seem to hurried and suspicious.

Your message helped me quickly decide the call from 240 489 5489 was a fraud. Ha, it said just what you indicated... whew.. missed that jerk. Thanks

Just had text from same guy trying to buy something I had on Craig's List.
Too willing to pay asking price and accept condition.
Said he'd send someone to pick it up, and yes, it was for son's birthday.
Read the whole response and immediately thought; "bad JUJU!"

He just wanted to buy something expensive from me by paypal from car.com. Got suspicious because even though I did not say I do not know paypal, he already answerd my question a minute later by sms... intuition..
I quecked the net for the phone number and found this feedback. Thanks - glad found your notes. :-)

I guess I'm not the only one. Same thing just happened to me as he's trying to buy off Craigslist for his sons birthday.

Yep just got the same thing. Craigslist, sons birthday all that jazz

We got the same type of text.  Wanting to buy a motorcycle for his son's birthday.  Sounds like a type of home invasion type of situation to me.  scary.  thanks for the prior posts.  The e-mail he provided us was ryanvey001@outlook.com.

The way that this scam works is ... he asks for your paypal account name (which is your email address) so he can send you the money via paypal. You get an email, from what looks to be paypal, stating you have received payment and in the email there is a link that you can click that will take you to the paypal login page. You click on that link and it does take you to a web page that looks exactly like official paypal one. But its a page that is running on this scammer's server. You put in your paypal username and password and click OK. Your paypal login info is now in the posession of the scammer. If you have any money in your paypal account, kiss it good bye.

I am selling a fishing boat for over $2000 and after telling him it was still available, he agreed to buy it .... What kind of person buys a boat without looking at it first? RED FLAG!!

Here is the content of his SMS to me ...
I'm a Molecular biologist / Oceanographer and am currently on sea , im buying it for my son as a Birthday Surprise gift and he doesn't know about it, so can you assure me i will not be disappointed? no shipment involved as i have a mover that will come for the pickup. Im okay with the price and condition , I can only pay you via one of the fastest and secure way to pay online (PayPal).. Do you have a PayPal account?

We just received the same message as we are trying to sell a motorcycle.

Here is the content of his message.
I'm a Molecular biologist / Oceanographer and am currently on sea , im buying it for my son as a Birthday Surprise gift and he doesn't know about it, so can you assure me i will not be disappointed? no shipment involved as i have a mover that will come for the pickup. Im okay with the price and condition , I can only pay you via one of the fastest and secure way to pay online (PayPal).. Do you have a PayPal account?


This guy is moving quickly.

Sellers Beware!!

Yep just a RV trader and same story!!!

He just tried to get me to sell him my Audi TT Roadster that is listed on craigslist. Total scammer.

I am currently arguing with him.  Knew he was being a little too pushy

this same scammer tried to buy a car from me on cars.com...he first sent a text to me
luckily I checked the phone number online and found this forum...have had other scammers do the same thing
good explanation of scam by seller in phoenix above
Thank You

this guy just text me from Cars.com and said to email him at davebar234@gmail.com so he can buy my $11,000 Sequoia.  Really?!  So I look up his number and find all this!  He claims he's unable to respond back because this number 240-489-5489 is his office phone.  He closes with the Bible (Psalms 149:4)  A real joker.  Like he's not going to get his sometime when he's least expecting it.  Karma...

Same story as above. "Dave Barnett" with this phone number trying to buy my car unseen for his son's birthday. Wanted to use Paypal and send a mover to pick it up. Sounded suspicious to me. Glad I came across this site info.

Same as all of the above, Sam,Scam,Scam. This individual also uses a number of 810-433-4283.

Same Scammer tried the same scam with us on a motorcycle. I have reported everything to the powers to be. Paypal, Creiglist etc. This guy is a joke!

Same story here just this morning, received the text from the same number saying he wanted to buy for son birthday and he send someone to pick up and for me to give paypal info to. No way am I doing that as he wants to rush this thru and I thinking that if you got paypal, you can wire money. What a joker... stay away fromn this cat, he said his name was Dave Barnett and the phone number was his work so don't text back but email him at his personal gmail account (davebar234).
AVOID, AVOID, AVOID!

You're not eBay. No need to take Paypal. Sometimes you have to treat the scammers the same way they treat you. Just tell your scammer that you'll be very happy to accept 'Western Union' as a form of payment. Now that we've had our joke, remember Western Union is a wire transfer service. CASH. Never to be used for business, an online purchase, or to send money to someone you do not personally know. Family & friends. Real ones not the internet ones.

Ya this loser tried to buy my bike for full asking price and yes it was for his sons birthday!!
Very eager also.
No questions and wanted to use "pay pal" !!
I think I'm gonna do some Investigative work,track him down through my computer geek friends and pay him a friendly visit :)