Another scam via Craigslist: offering more than asking price

Hey all, keep your eyes peeled for stephaniecollins64@gmail.com and paradiso.stephanie@yahoo.com

their emails are as follows (spelling mistakes are their own).

Hello
i am interested in the purchase of this item.But before any thing i will like to ask you the Following question.
1,wht is the final asking price for this item.
2,wht is the condition of this item.
3,can you allow our private shipping company to come for the pick up of this item.
4,will you accept a check or money order as a mode of payment.
5,Will you be able to send money to the shipping company that will be coming for the pick up of this item....Cos the payment that will be sent to you will include the money for the sales of your item and the shipping charges.You are to cash the check,Deduct the money for the sales of your item and then send the money left to the shipping company so that they can come for the pick up of this item.

If this is understood,i will like you to get back to me with the name and address you want payment to be address to .............
Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Phone #:
Email address:

____________________________________________________________________________________

Hello Sir/Ma
My name is Stephanie Paradiso , i saw your advert that was posted , so i am willing to purchase the item posted for sale at the site,i'm okay with the price and condition. But i will be leaving the state tomorrow to UK for speculative purpose. As per payment i will have to instruct my BANK to send you a certified cashiers check via fedex courier service which will take only 2-3 days to get to you.That is the only means of payment I can offer you now due to my departing schedule. You should not worry about the shipping, i have my shipper that will come down to your house for the pick up as soon as payment was done, and how much is the total amount altogether? . Hope to hear from you soon. Take good care of yourself..So to make payment out to you, you'll have to email me the information bellow:

1.Your full name or company name to issue on the payment.
Home Address:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Phone Numbers:
Regular Email Address.

Waiting to read from you asap.

Best Regards,
Stephanie Paradiso.

Thank goodness you all took the time to post comments... I was selling a binding machine and have been corresponding with a woman calling herself Anny Bell (anny.bell1000@gmail.com) who said that she had recently moved and that her movers would be delivering the check and picking up the binding machine. After several communications via e-mail (including her asking for my full name and address), she sent me this note:

Hello ,
I just receive the confirmation from the Bank that the payment as
been issued out and was mailed by the UPS courier but am very sure
that you will receive the payment very soon but
my secretary made a little mistake which we are still looking forward
to settle but never mind to bear with the situation , she made a
mistake by sending along the mover funds i owed them in the last
transaction we had, so the total you will be receiving now is
$1,900,she claimed that she thought i said she should send you a check
of $1,900,But i guess she didn't get it straight. But that should not
disturb our own transaction,but i have called the bank not to stop the
payment, that you will surely take care of the money the way you can
handle your own money,please take the check to your Bank and have it
cashed as advised by the accounting officer at the Bank.
You will then deduct the cost of my purchase plus an extra $100 to
offset the cost of your run around expenses.The rest of the fund
should be sent to my mover via western union
the same day you receive the payment so that my mover can make the
trip over for the pick
at once. Also i want to inform you that UPS have a technical problem
and that is why there is
a delay on my end but with the patient you have everything is going to
be in order as soon
as possible.
**I will need your immediate response via email assuring me that i
can trust you to handle
this with care and have the remaining fund returned appropriately,.I
am hearing impaired
and will hope that your intentions remains noble though out the
duration of this transaction**
Thanks.

HUGE scam if i have ever heard of one... Beware!

so I have an item on Craigslist here in Seattle and am getting these letters back from someone who will not provide me with their phone number.

Hi ****,
Your payment has been sent but there is something i think i must bring to your notice immediately. I just discovered there is an error in the payment sent to you. My assistant sent the payment meant for another item thats more expensive than yours. I have called the post office to see if they could retrieve it but nothing positive. I really dont know what to do now. Please and Please, you can go ahead and cash out the Money Order at your Bank when you receive it, deduct your payment and send the balance via western union to the details i will provide you with. Can i trust you to do that for me?
Michael
michael.h417@gmail.com

Whatdaya think?
Scam? I haven't recieved anything yet, but I did provide them with my mailing address because the replies before this seemed legit. DANG IT!....what a WASTE of time.

Immediately after I responded to this listing and showed interest, the listing was removed from craigslist. This is word for word what I recieved in 2 seperate emails regarding a house for rent in Fort Wayne, IN.
FIRST EMAIL:
Thank you for showing interest in our house.

I Mr. Robert and my wife Mrs. Jennifer Luckadoo own the 3 bedroom's /House.It was due to our transfer that made me and my wife to leave the house and we decided to give it out for rent. We are looking for a responsible person that can take good care of our house as we are not after the money for the rent but want our house kept clean at all times and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.

So for now, We are here in West Africa in our new house and also with the keys of the house in Fort Wayne. We tried looking for an agent that we would over the documents before we left but could not see which is why we took it along with us.

I and my wife came over to West Africa for missionary work, so i hope you will promise to take good care of our house. kindly get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of US $750 which includes all utilities.

RENT APPLICATION FORM

Your Full Name :

Your Full Address & Phone Number :

Age:

Marital status:

How many people will be living in the house:

Do you have a pet:

Do you have a car:

Occupation:

Religion (if necessary):

References:

Looking forward to hearing from you with all this details so that I can have it in my file in case of issuing the receipt for you and contacting you.

Awaiting your urgent reply so that we can discuss on how to get the document and the key to you. We may not see, yet we are only putting everything into Gods hand, kindly do not let us down in your taking care of our property and God bless you more as you do this Amen.

You can reach me on this number in case you have any questions 011 then 234-803-372-2592 or +234-803-372-2592.

The house is available now and you can move in whenever you are ready, we look forward to hearing from you soon. Here is the location of the house ( Buell Dr. Fort Wayne, IN 46807)

Kind Regards
Mr. Robert and wife Mrs. Jennifer Luckadoo

SECOND EMAIL (NOT ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS I HAD PREVIOUSLY ASKED):
Thanks for your interest in my house.

I and my wife read your application together,we are very happy to tell you that you have been accepted for the house.From your email we know and believe that you are the right people to occupy our house.We will like you to know that, it is not the money that really matters to us but that our house be taking proper care of that is why we made the house so inexpensive because i believe everybody deserves a home both the rich and the poor.I hope you understand where I'm coming from.

We will be gone for 3 years if the house is clean by the time we come back we will continue renting it out to you because we are always on missionary trips so it depends on how long you would like to stay and the house rent will not be increased for the 3 years.I hope it's okay by you.Here is the address of the house 4028 Buell Dr. Fort Wayne, IN 46807

However,if you are ready to rent the house now, then that will not be a problem but I will advice you to be a responsible person like you promised to be. You will have to make one month rent payment and i would like to send the following document to you via the DHL so give me an address to send it to and the tracking number will be sent to you so that you can possible occupy my house. Please once again, we are giving you this on trust and do not disappoint us and i promise you that, you will love the house.

So i am with the below document here with me and i will like to know whether you are ready for the payment one month rent now which is $750 so that the keys and the below items can be sent to you.

Here are the contents of the document;

Entrance and the rooms Keys

Paper/Permanent house form(Containing your reference details)

The house documentary file

Payment Receipt

So please get back to me today so that I can give you the information to make the payments, feel free to call me anytime.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

Remain blessed
Mr. Robert and wife Mrs. Jennifer Luckadoo

They reel you in with a sob story. You believe it. You give out your name and address. They send you a bogus/fake/forged/otherwise not-real payment voucher. You deposit it into your bank account. The bank will often post the funds within 24 hrs, especially if you have the funds to cover it. Then you send the balance via wire to the recepient via the instructions you recieved. Since it is a wire, your bank deducts the funds immediately, and poof, your money is gone from your account. Then the check they sent you bounces and you have to repay it to the bank so they deduct the amount necessary to cover the bad check, plus fees...and that is the scam... they convinced you to part with your money willingly.