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This is a Craig's List scammer. Says he's deaf so he texts

Probably a scammer. This one refuses to give full name, claims he/she is deaf.

Received a text from this no for a bike on Craig's listHello Is Your  BRAND NEW SCOTT BIKE - $350  still available for sale.Kindly get back to me . Txt only am deaf pls (1/3)Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I'm going on a vacation to London but I will instruct my assistant to prepare and mail your payment which (2/3)I'm sure you will get in about 4 - 6 business days. I'll add $20 extra for the delay. I'll pay by M O or cashier check so send me your (3/3)info (i.e full name, mailing address and your phone number) so payment can be mailed out immediately. I will also make arrangement for me
Crazy

Here is how the "PayPal Scam" works:

Says they will buy the item and will pay extra to cover charges by his shipping agent.
Says he will PayPal the funds and instruct you to send the extra money via wire transfer or pre-paid card to the agent.
He then sends you a fake PayPal deposit notice email, spoofing the official PayPal notice, that says the money has been put into your account.
You, thinking PayPal has your money, go ahead with the wire/prepaid transfer to the shipping agent, who is really the scammer.
After that, you then find out there was no money transferred to PayPal and are out the money your wired.


Here is how a "Craigslist Scam" or any other "I will send you a check for more than you asked" scam works:

He pays for the item + extra funds to cover his shipping agent costs with a bank draft or cashiers check.
He sends you a check, tells you to cash it and send the extra money to his shipping agent via wire transfer or prepaid card.
You cash/deposit check and wire/prepaid the funds to the agent.
Later, the check bounces as it was counterfeit. The money you sent to the agent, who is really the scammer, is unrecoverable due to it being wire transferred/prepaid card.
You are out money and now run the risk of being arrested for passing a counterfeit check.
See:
http://www.fraudaid.com/
http://www.fraudaid.com/solution_center/solution/draftsoption1/2a.htm

This scammer tried and actually sent us a check.  The check was drawn from a Miami bank and the name of the company was a real estate company.  It had a return address from Indiana.  I goodled the address and it was some residential home.  I called the bank, scanned and emailed them a copy of the check (The check felt thin, was regular paper and had no water marks or anything although it said that it did.  The lady at the bank called me back, it was a real account number, a fake check and not the right signature.  Since we received the check the scammer has been texting my salesman non stop making threats asking us to money gram the extra $1,000.  They keep speaking of the shipper coming to get the goods but they need the excess money they paid in error.  (The check was for l800 and our material sells for $400.  ) We sell rock, dirt and shell???? So they are sending a shipper to pick up a truckload of rock??????  I'm working with the bank to provide any information that I can, and the guy who's account it is is very thankful that the bank is alerted to this.  The person with this number claims to be deaf and is actually sending my sales person some harassing threatening messeges, I said tell them we wired the excess money back to the bank account.  LOL......it must be a good scam or they wouldn't keep at it.

This number just tried to scam my son out of his jeep bumpers. Same story, deaf going to London off of craigslist. Glad they have this site.

Same story- deaf, London, etc.  

Yep, this jerk got me too. Well ALMOST. Thanks to this site I stopped it early.

His texts were:

1. Hello is your (my item) still available for sale. Kindly get back to me. Txt only am deaf pls

2. I'm going on a vacation to London but I will instruct my assistant to prepare and mail your payment which I'm sure you will get in about 4 - 6 business days. I'll add $20 extra for the delay. I'll pay by M O or cashier check so send me your info (i.e. full name, mailing address and your phone number) so payment can be mailed out immediately. I will also make arrangement for pick-up which will be aft

(here the message ends)

3. Your payment will be sent ASAP please consider it sold. I will appreciate if the ad is taken off craigslist so i can be sure you are keeping it in my favor

4. How are you doing I will like to inform you that my assistance (sic) hasmailed (sic) out the payment to you...But there is something I think I must bring to your notice. After a reconciliation of my account, I di

(message ends)

5. The payment that was meant for another transaction was sent to youand (sic) the one meant for you was sent to another; however I want to believe I won't have a problem with you. Please once you receive the

(here the message ends, and my Googling of his phone number begins - Thankyou 800notes.com!)

Next time I will Google the incoming phone number BEFORE giving out my name and address.

We are currently involved in the same scam from the same person, just recieved the check for almost $1900.00 for a $ 700.00 item. there was no note in the fed ex envelop. He has been bugging my Daughter who posted the add for my wife. I did check the address and it's a church in Ca, written on an account from Vanderbuilt Univ in TN. I have told my daughter not to respond at all.