Am I being scammed by [email protected]?

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• 100% scam.

  There is no buyer.

  Notice how the scammer doesn't call what you are selling by name? He uses the generic word "item", that is because he sends the same stock copy/paste email to anyone selling everything that he can find and he has no idea what you are selling and doesn't care. That scammer is also happy with the condition of "it", wants "it" for a gift and is in a huge hurry.

  There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

  The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake certified check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "movers". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

  Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

  When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "[email protected] gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement officer can be extremely funny.

  Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

  You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

  Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

  Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

  If you google "fake check buyer scam", "fake Western Union buyer fraud", "fake craigslist buyer scam" or something similar and you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

• Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and if you don't believe anything that he has written in the Holy Bible, and you think it's all a bunch of lies, then you will surely not be going to the heavenly gates of heaven. How dare you ask if the promise of heaven is the greatest scam of all time? There isn't one Christian Church out there that asks for money except for your regular gift every week towards general funds, or missions. Then some of the other organizations, like the Lutheran Hour, or these church programs on TV will ask you for money in order to get a book or gift of some kind. You have this all confused man. Go to a Christian church and you'll believe the truth once you start going a lot. I don't miss church a single Sunday, and I've gone to at least 6 Bible studies already in the last 5 yrs. I used to sing in the Junior choir, and Senior choir, and taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. All children of God from infant age and on up want to hear about Jesus' wonderful miracles. If you truly believe this then you surely won't be getting into heaven. I know an atheist is someone who doesn't believe any of the faiths that are preached. You need to sit down, and reevaluate your life man, because if you don't you'll surely die and go to hell, which is a burning fire pit, and Satan will only like it that you had to go down there.

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  Am I being scammed by [email protected]?

  I posted an item on craigslist, and I got an email from [email protected]

  This person told me that he could not meet me in person because of his business, and that he'd send me a certified check in the mail if I gave him my address. He then said that once I cashed the check, he would send...

• I posted an item on craigslist, and I got an email from [email protected]

  This person told me that he could not meet me in person because of his business, and that he'd send me a certified check in the mail if I gave him my address. He then said that once I cashed the check, he would send movers to pick the item up from my house. Should I give him my information and hope its not a scam, or just not respond altogether???

• Ok, I have been selling a watch on CL, and a buyer has been texting me, that he wants to buy the watch. He wanted my email, I asked him let me have YOUR email address so that I can send you an invoice. He then gave me an email, we [email protected] , He's also happy with the price, and is willing to pay my paypal fees. I invoiced him twice, once for the total amount, and one for paypal fees. He never responded. Then he texts me again, to re-send the invoice. I just did. But now reading all this, it is sounding more fishy to me. He wants to pay for it by paypal, and then have some one, which he calls it "movers" (that already rang a bell) will come to pick it up, now he wants my address info. I said first pay, then I though I'd give a starbucks address.

  I wonder if this is fake.

• Hmm this is tricky. It might be a scam.

  To be on the safe side, cancel! Other buyers will be interested in whatever you are selling

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