Posted by ken in co [162.158.75.151] on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 19:46:01 :
In Reply to: Re: CL scammers (51 Power Wagon) posted by Gary Troxel [108.162.245.13] on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 10:34:13 :
Gary and friends...
I sometimes shop for things for a month or two straight on craigslist. Look in morning and evening. When I see a deal that is to good to be true any more I get to wondering. When you start using search tempest to look and you see the same item in many of the regions across the USA then that makes me suspicious. Sometimes you see the same item in different regions and they use a different photo angle in a different region. Craigslist cant stop them. I have contacted over 20 of these bums. Typically my husband died, I am deploying, I am on a secret military base, the item is in storage, the item is with base logistics (called the bases and checked, no such place), to be safe I am doing the transaction thru amazon services (does not exist, I checked), we can ship the item directly to you no problem, …. Always stories like these. When you try to make contact it is rarely their personal email, rarely do they leave a name, never a home phone. They do business in the back ground! They want all your contact info and then they will have a contact from amazon services contact you or from base logistics, or my partner etc. If you request to see the item it will not be around. There will be a reason why. If you want to meet them that cant happen, there will be a reason why. I insisted that I would not pay until we met in front of a police station at what ever location. The seller goes away! They want to have someone contact you and you will use paypal to pay up front, or you will be asked to buy visa gift cards and give them info on the phone that allows them to use the cards with out holding them. You will never see the product and your money is gone.
I spent some time with this and it frustrated me. I wrote down contact info and compared it with info from other adds. The same folks run several scams. I have googled the contact info and that took me to fraud reporting sites that rat these people out. One lady had dozens of pictures of items she was scamming over years, jet ski, cars, trailers, welders, you name it. It is most common on big ticket items. They want to sell something for 2 grand that would normally be found for 3 to 5 grand. The bad ones that you find will not even make sense when you read them. It is as if sw translated their language to ours. The text in the add makes no sense. But the deal is so good when you see the picture you want to believe you found a treasure!
Their are mostly good folks on craigs list. I have met many. Don't get me wrong. Please be careful! If it is to good to be true, well....be extra careful!!!
Sorry for the rambling on Joes site. It would not surprise me that a power wagon could be used as bait!
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