Members Mr_GoodBomb Posted December 28, 2010 Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 I have a few guitars listed on Craigslist at the moment. Craigslist here is a wasteland, the only thing I've ever sold is a couch, all my musical instrument stuff ever gets is spam. I got this this morning. From: Ronald Elder Subject: ltd hybrid guitar (tele/les paul jr combo) with dimarzio super 2 - $350 (sharpsburg, pa) To: ___________________@craigslist.org Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 7:42 AM ** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY ** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home ** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping ** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html Dao u allow direct bank transfers? My response. I briefly felt bad, just in case it was a genuine buyer, but... would ever do bank transfers for a guitar? I used to respond with horse porn in attachments, but that required I look at horse porn to send to them. I also noticed that, if he were a scammer, he wasn't even smart enough to copy and paste, because while most are exactly the same as the listing, which is a good indication of a scammer, this guy copied it exactly without the capitalization. {censored} yourself. They promptly responded back! Attention C-list User, My name is Ronald Elder, Ceo of Craigslist. We have recently partnered up with The apple company regarding a one-time promotional event today, we are giving away free Apple iPads to randomly selected folks who have published an advert on Craigslist. You have been chosen as one of our newest winners for today. We randomly choose numbers to match up with ads on Craig's list and your ad matched with our latest drawing. We have partnered up with Apple to advertise their hottest product yet, the Apple iPad. Once yet again, we are running this campaign for one-day only. All you need to do is CLICK HERE to go to our website made for this promotion and enter your email to recieve yours for free. Just make sure you enter your email so we can locate our records to guarantee that we have reserved one for you. That is it! Congrats on winning a free Apple iPad (valued at $800). In case you have any query or concerns, feel free to e-mail me back. However, you need to claim your free iPad first to ensure one will be reserved for you before the deadline ends. We do understand that you may well not receive this e-mail until after the deadline, but, we suggest you check the site and enter your email to see if we still have got yours on hold, which we often-times do because others haven't claimed theirs in time. Ronald ElderCEO, Craigslist Cuss people, get free stuff! Know knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sleewell Posted December 28, 2010 Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 i never respond, as tempting as it is you are basically giving your email address to hundreds of spammers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted December 28, 2010 Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 I hate this kind of {censored} with a passion. My old man was hit hard when the economy took a turn about 2 years ago, he ended up losing his ass on his house, most of his company and is still working his ass off to get back in the black when he should have been scaling down for retirement. But I remember him calling one night almost in tears because he was so happy. He had apparently won $75,000 from Publisher's Clearing House. From what I could figure out his fiancee had entered them online and he received a notification along with an advance check for $2000 that was to be used towards the transfer of funds. You have no idea how hard it was to explain to him how he was being scammed and that the check was stolen (because they do use real checks). The scam basically gets the victim to cash the check, transfer the funds and when the actual company who that check came from disputes the charges it is taken from the victim's account. I believe that there was something in there that would have enabled them to get basically all of his personal information as well. I just had him read me a line from the letter verbatim and I entered it into google; about 20 links popped up siting this as a known scam. I don't know which is worse; the stealing or the false hopes they provide. I don't know if $2000 would have done anything to the situation he was in one way or the other, but it was a psychological mind{censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Slave2TheAudio Posted December 28, 2010 Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the_gunslinger Posted December 28, 2010 Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 Come on, don't fall for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr_GoodBomb Posted December 28, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2010 Come on, don't fall for that. It was a joke. Do you really think anyone is that dumb to think the CEO of Craigslist is responding to their "{censored} yous" with free gifts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grantus Posted December 29, 2010 Members Share Posted December 29, 2010 Ronald Elder seems to be CSA of Craigslist. Chief Scam Artist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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