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01-01-2017, 04:03 PM
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Listing on RacingJunk spammers
WTF??? Listed my GP for sale on RacingJunk yesterday afternoon.
I got four hits within 2-3 hours. All fraud guys. Even to point of sending fake PayPal emails saying the funds plus a shipper fee were there but to release them to my account I was to send a payment to their shipper first. Right!? I wasn't born yesterday!! Be wary. I did contact PayPal and forwarded the bogus emails to them.
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#2
01-01-2017, 04:05 PM
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Did you get the one "I'm overseas and can only pay with Paypal"?
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01-04-2017, 12:46 PM
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 I usually get away with it on here because people have seen me around the forums. But when I spy something on my local Craigslist when I'm in the sandbox it can be a problem. I missed out on a complete 429 SCJ engine for cheap last year because I couldn't find anyone at home to go get it and the dude thought I was trying to tell him I was the king of Sudan and he had won the lottery.
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01-04-2017, 12:56 PM
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Every time I run a new ad, I get a text within a couple of hours asking me to send something to an email address. The text is obviously computer-generated and always has the exact ad title, exact asking price, a question as to whether the item is still for sale and then some sort of request to send something to email. The purpose is to harvest email addresses for spam emails. One amusing texting exchange:
them: please send pictures to email blah, blah, blah me: can I just text them to you? them: I can't receive texts. I'm on a ship at sea. me: but you're texting me now them: (silence) A few times, I've gotten exactly the same message from 3 different phone numbers. Eric
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#5
01-01-2017, 04:09 PM
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X2 on that. I got the Invest in my Company in Africa scam constantly at work until we set up filters for that bs. Right before I retired the stuff went to spam and immediately was killed and deleted without ever being opened. Internet Exploder had so many holes in their system that we eventually went to different software.
Tom V.
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#6
01-01-2017, 04:21 PM
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Spammers everywhere ! Pretty sad really. You have to be carefully when buying and selling these days.
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01-01-2017, 04:31 PM
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Recently on local craigs list there has been someone advertising a 12k$ Ford 7.3 crew cab for 1500.00.
The amount of posts this person is generating is astounding, not just once or twice but dozens of times. |
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#8
01-01-2017, 05:09 PM
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I get that on Craig's list. People will text me right away on my listing but always say I need to respond to them via email. Not sure where the game goes from there cause I always tell them to F off.
What, do they just capture email addresses to sell that way?
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#9
01-01-2017, 05:13 PM
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Internet Exploiter, Ford Exploder . Let's keep it straight.
So, PY is good, and ebay is relatively okay then? Last edited by Half-Inch Stud; 01-01-2017 at 05:19 PM. |
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#10
01-01-2017, 05:24 PM
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60 man
So thank you I could never figure out how that would work in the favor of the scammers to get my money. now I understand thank you.. not that I would ever fall for the scams from craigslist but I just don't understand how they said that they send me the money all the time to my PayPal and pick up a truck when all I was selling it was a tailgate and they also want to send me $3000 for a tailgate that I was asking $300 for.. and also these people are on a marine reconnaissance or an Air Force boat and they can't use the telephone they can only email me. ha ha very nice guys
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01-01-2017, 08:33 PM
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Our state just put some people in Prison for a Craig's List deal where they advertised a vehicle at a good price, pictures, etc. Meet at the Holiday Inn on ******** road.
So the buyer shows up with the cash and he gets robbed and HIS car car-jacked which is used in the next scam. But the cops caught the people and jail time for the three of them. Be very careful on any car deal and especially Craig's List type deals. Tom V.
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#12
01-01-2017, 09:04 PM
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01-01-2017, 09:53 PM
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Good luck on the sale Troy. Hopefully all this kind of b.s. is behind you |
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01-01-2017, 09:38 PM
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I like the ones where some of the photos are not the same car.
Hmmm... those "cash only" $15k+ deals...sure... not without a swat team lol. |
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01-01-2017, 10:18 PM
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Police departments here have a few parking spaces reserved for "internet" transactions.
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01-01-2017, 10:53 PM
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01-01-2017, 11:22 PM
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A good idea for sure. |
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01-02-2017, 12:02 AM
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Tom V.
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"Engineers do stuff for reasons" Tom Vaught Despite small distractions, there are those who will go Forward, Learning, Sharing Knowledge, Doing what they can to help others move forward. |
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01-02-2017, 01:23 PM
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I have one going right now -- I advertised some wheels for 650 bucks - the guy asked no questions and mentions "moving" expenses -- he sends me a check via postal envelope for 1863.00 with no info in the envelope --WTF
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01-02-2017, 01:30 PM
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