Apparently Craigslist has been invaded by Nigerians
 

I'm looking for a cheap cash car ($4000 or so) and started looking on craigslist.

I wrote to a few listings asking where the car was located and when I could come look at it. (The prices were pretty much too good to be true)

These are some of the replies I've received.
This was in response to "how many miles does this car have on it?"

Next one, in response to question "Where is this car located and what's a good time to come by and see it?"
I wasn't aware that carfax had up to date odometer readings of all the cars in America, but I guess I was wrong. I'm also not sure how Ebay is faster than me showing up at your doorstep with cash. Who knew?

I've got half a dozen of these replies, it's pretty crazy. I guess there is a loophole or something in Ebay's car purchase program that allows these people to rip someone off.


Caveat Emptor

What!? You dont trust Sgt. Carlos Arellano?

Thank you, and have a nice day
:1orglaugh


Unreal. Must be a really FAT loophole in ebay for sure.

lol 10/10 for trying.

OMFG... gah... :1orglaugh

I would guess there is no loophole, but they just have some domain like ebay-escrow.com or ebay-car-escrow.com something like that... and just hope idiots won't realize it's no official ebay site...

They just want your Ebay commission, they have cookie stuffed you for Ebay.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What the hell is that? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

LOLZ, i ws going to start a thread about the same thing , but with home rentals.
i've been helping the g/f look for a new place- easily 1/2 the ads are bogus or an inordinate amount of homeowners are relocating to west africa to become missionaries.

I am god fearing, so many they will rent to me :1orglaugh

My sister is a real estate agent with a large property management business in the Phx area. She comes across people all the time that point out to her that someone on Craigslist is using her name and reposting her same rental properties at a lower price. The scammers then try to get the inquiring people to send them a deposit to secure the rental before looking at it. She gets Craigslist to yank the bogus listings all the time, but they just keep coming back. She will often meet up with potential renters and they will quote her the price listed from the scammers and she'll have to correct them which doesn't help her business.

At least there are some out there who are wreaking havoc on the scammers http://419eater.com/html/letters.htm

Oh man, i had soooooo many scammers contact me about my PDA and Breitling watch i had on craigslist. It was ridiculous!

They really need to crack down on that shit.

my parents almost fell for a scam
they sold a horse on craiglist and the guy wanted to mail a check and they would ship the animal lol

the check came overnight fedex i made them call the company on the check and sure enough a scam :P

CL is a joke. Now they are charging for erotic posts at 5/post. So the girls post in the casual encounters area. Trying to sell anything on there now is a joke as well. From the Nigerians to the Indonesians, both a waste in my book. Tried to sell a few things and the posts from those idiots are laughable.

Someone needs to come up with a moderated CL site.

I was trying to rent a room in my house and I couldnt undestand why the scam. why give me a fake check if you move in you just get arrested cause I know where to tell the cops to find you.

I just dont get it

I have sold a number of things on CL without any problems. Just deal locally in cash only

Craigslist is a mix of scammers, idiots and flakes... about 15% people on there are normal.

I was trying to sell my car on there a while ago and got 100 offers to have it shipped and they would send me a check... right

When i was in LA years ago looking for a new apt, i would submit emails and get responses back to send in this fake looking application plus a $100 deposit (which is illegal) via paypal or cashiers check (no personal checks is what caught my eye).

sucks that stupid people have to ruin it. shit, in 2 years even the tranny personals will be fake :(

actually, according to Sgt. Carlos Arellano, not only does Carfax keep record of the mileage of every single car in America. But the ones in the UK too, apparently! (since supposedly this car is coming from the UK with the guy's wife)

what a good scam!

I was recently selling something on Craigslist and I had two different people with similar stories, both send me checks for about 10x the amount it was supposed to be. Then they told me to ship the item (one to Nigeria) and to send the extra money they 'accidentally' sent me.

Here's know how this scam works: They send you a check for way too much, telling you to send the item and the extra loot they sent. Some banks will let you actually deposit the check and take money out. However, a couple days later when the bank turns around to you and tells you that the check was bad - and they want their money back. Meanwhile, many people will be some rushed into all this, they will send the item and the loot off, before the bank realizes the check is bad.

I saw thru this right away, but I can only imagine how many people actually fall for this.

Everyone is using Ebay for car scams. Ebay knows it and just doesn't give a shit. As long as they make a few bucks on the transaction. Same can be said for their sports memorabilia section. I've reported countless fake autographs and none get removed.

Mother fuckers, can't believe they are still around. I was toying with them for fun about 4 years ago.
They have HUGE fake check printing shop in Toronto. Thats where they will send you fake checks from and ask you to refund the remainder. :321GFY

what is really amazing is how many people actually buy into these scams.
I've known a guy who lost 10 grand back in the day when these scams were fresh.
He "bought" a BMW 540 from some guy who took his car to italy and couldn't clear customs there.

When will they ever stop. Assholes.

What sucks about it in alot of situations is that if you're buying something relatively inexpensive, like a used car or exercise equipment or whatever, you can't really find them in the newspaper classifieds because the cost to place an ad isn't worth it.....so a free service like craigslist is the only option.

Problem is I have no idea which listings are real and which aren't....and now the real listings look like rip off prices because the Nigerians use low ball prices to generate more interest.

I guess I'll only look at the listings that have a phone number with a local area code.

I'll have to remember that when I list something for sale there as well...to put the phone number in the listing. :(

This is hilarious! But I'm not shocked.

Also, outsourced 'autocomplaint' bots to kill off the competition

Yep, its hilarious, they don't even care what the product or service is, they just send out the massive scam replies to thousands of craigslist listings. I posted a mattress a couple of years ago on there and i got the standard scam reply with the overpayment check wanting the mattress shipped to Nigeria. Kinda funny when they want to spend more in shipping than I was selling the item for.

The funniest was a few years back when someone posted their dialogue with a scammer who was trying to con him on his listing selling an Apple laptop. He posted the ongoing email dialogue in a forum and with lots of suggestions they were able to get the scammer to pay for shipping upon delivery after he sent them a bogus check. So they packed an Apple computer box with all kinds of heavy things and shipped it to Nigeria. The scammer received it and had to pay a huge amount for the shipping charge only to find it full of rocks. Needless to say the scammer sent him a nasty email and the forum got a huge laugh out of it.

Damn shame :2 cents: Nothing is sacred to these fucking people

Damn those scamming Canadians:321GFY

Something like www.desivio.com where it's free to post and you can embed youtube videos :thumbsup

the whole internet is getting to be a fucked up place, you can't find shit because the se's are full of spam and auto-generated crap sites, ebay and craigslist are fucked, all the dating sites are full of fake profiles from scammers living in the phillipines trying to sell cams, any chat room is full of bots spamming, myspace and youtube are all spam where if you do a search for a video you find dozens of garbage videos spamming a lame url....

it sucks :2 cents:

NIGERIA? BURKINA FASO? Same Shit.

I am so stupid, why i Don't accept this shit?

"""""DR.LULU ZONGO
AFRICAN DEVELOPEMENT BANK
BURKINA FASO
(ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU - BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.


DEAR
FRIEND/DIRECTOR/CEO


I AM DR.LULU ZONGO AND I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE
ACCOUNTS & AUDITING DEPT. AT THE AFRICAN DEVELOPEMENT BANK OUAGADOUGOU
- WEST AFRICA. WITH DUE RESPECT I HAVE DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU ON A
BUSINESS TRANSACTION THAT WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH OF US.

AT THE
BANK'S LAST ACCOUNTS/AUDITING EVALUATIONS, MY STAFFS CAME ACROSS AN OLD
ACCOUNT WHICH WAS BEING MAINTAINED BY A FOREIGN CLIENT WHO WE LEARNT WAS
AMONG THE DECEASED PASSENGERS OF AN AIRLINE CRASH ON 6TH
NOV.2002.

SINCE THE DECEASED WAS UNABLE TO RUN THIS ACCOUNT SINCE HIS
DEATH. THE ACCOUNT HAS REMAINED DORMANT WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS
FAMILY SINCE IT WAS PUT IN A SAFE DEPOSIT ACCOUNT IN THE BANK FOR FUTURE
INVESTMENT BY THE CLIENT. SINCE HIS DEMISE, NOBODY, NOT EVEN THE MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY HAVE APPLIED FOR CLAIMS OVER THIS FUND AND IT HAS BEEN IN
THE SAFE DEPOSIT ACCOUNT UNTIL WE DISCOVERED THAT IT CANNOT BE CLAIMED
SINCE OUR CLIENT IS A FOREIGN NATIONAL AND WE ARE SURE THAT HE HAS NO
NEXT OF KIN HERE TO FILE CLAIMS OVER THE MONEY.

AS THE DIRECTOR OF
THE DEPT, THIS DISCOVERY WAS BROUGHT TO MY OFFICE SO AS TO DECIDE WHAT
IS TO BE DONE. WITH THE FEW PERSONEL IN MY DEPT, WE DECIDED TO SEEK WAYS
THROUGH WHICH WE CAN TRANSFER THIS MONEY OUT OF THE BANK AND OUT OF THE
COUNTRY TOO. THE TOTAL AMOUNT IN THE ACCOUNT IS TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THUSAND DOLLARS (USD 10,500,000.00)."""""

WOW, 10 mil.USD?

Fuck'em All. Don't Trust Them Anymore.

What he said.
Couldn't agree more.

I agree and I'll go even one further....you can't even read a news story without it having 200+ hate filled comments from people on either side of the political divide.
It's as though the internet has become nothing but a massive shouting match filled with spam.
Kind of sad really.

hahaha... I bet they are making loads of money though...

I've been using craigslist for 4 years and I've been getting shit like this the whole time. The Nigerians discovered this stuff a long time ago.

funny and sad at the same time. damned scammers. rot in hell please.


btw, that forum did a great job making him pay the shipping for a huge bunch of rocks :D