Here is a classic scam from Craigslist.They offer to buy your item you advertised via classified for more money than you ask for ($375 in my case, he offered $500).They even give you a bleeding heart story about wife dying in accident.
From: ike derico Alright,i live in North Georgia United State.Am quite comfortable with the condition of the item since i wont be making any repairs on it,i will like to offer you $500 including packing materials without you paying for any shipping charges b'cos i already have an account with FedEx,i would have loved to make the payment in cash and carry but we are not in the same state so i will like to go ahead with the payment by sending you a Money Order But i will need your contact infomation in which the money will be deliver ok.I wonna buy this [item name] for my step son to fulfill the promise his mum made before she died,i lost my lovely wife to an auto accident on 29th of June 2005 and since then i and her step son john have been living seperately and i want to buy this item for him because his mom promised him before death took her away from us and i think with this i and tobi can live as a family. Kindly get back to me immediately you receive my e-mail and i will like you to take it off craigslist for auction cos am serious in buying it.So let me have your full infomation ofr pyment to be made.... Best Regards. .I.Derico
Note how they can't pick up proper English names? I got another from 'ortega hanson'.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Thanks to this page I avoided being scammed
Tue, 2009/04/14 - 17:01By a guy with the email address neil_schaeffer@yahoo.com.
I had a piece of furniture for sale and he responded WORD FOR WORD what was sent to a previous poster "Good day, nice stuff you got there. May I know if it is still available for sale? I would love to get it. Thanks have a nice day!!!"
Then of course he has the back story that he's busy with his "shift work" and will send me a check and then send a mover to pick it up and that the pictures are enough for him to buy the items from because all items are retouched after they are bought.
After reading these posts I realized he is setting me up for a scam. I will NOT be accepting any money from him.
THANKS to ALL HONEST PEOPLE for giving me a head's up before this happened!
Almost got me (not verified)
Glad I read this first
Thu, 2009/09/10 - 20:47My attempted scammers were Mira_Kaden@ yahoo.com and Sarah_whity2005@yahoo.com
I have horse stalls available, and it seems they both are taking a 4 month trip overseas and need the services of my stables for those 4 months. Willing to pay in advance for the stalls. They want to pay for the stalls and also their horse hauler, who will require payment at time of drop off, so sending the haulers fee with payment. Now how they plan on showing up with no horse to receive hauling payment that is the thing I cant figure out. I even got a full discription of the horse. I was a little suspicious that they were willing to put their horse in my care facility and persons taking care of your horse sight unseen. But I did give the first one my address to send money,,,,,untill I got the next request, same amount of time out of country. So my reply to them is, when your hauler comes to drop off the horse, send him with cash. Lets see if they reply to that email, as I will not be cashing in any check.
Anonymous (not verified)
mira kaden
Wed, 2009/12/16 - 10:42I posted an ad for room for rent and received this reply. I am so glad i checked her name on bing
Roommate......
From "Mira Kaden"
Date Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:43:07 -0600
Hi,
I'm ,female 26 yrs from Hamburg,Germany. I speak English and German fluently,I am currently working with the International Labour Organization in Berlin.I am on a programme supported by German Goverment i am searching for a place to stay.I will like to know much about the room and i would really want to secure the room before my arrival, more so to know if it would be possible for me to pay for the room before my arrival, i will like to know the total amount of the room in month with the utilities included. All these vital information are very important for me to know before submision of my proposal to the Organization.The Organization will be paying all the fees and the source of the money will be money order.
The following information will be needed to get the payment to you.
(1) Your full name as it will appear on the payment.
(2) Address
(3) phone number
Anxiously waiting for your quick response.
Thanks.
Mira.......
And a second email
Dear ,
Thanks for writing me back soon,
I'm absolutely okay with the breakdown details of the room.I will be making a payment for month rent to move in. I'll be so happy if you can reserve the room for me additional $50 would be paid for removing the advert from the site because i'm so much interested in renting the room.My organization will be responsible for all the fees and the payment will be by United State money order as i was stated in my previous email, paying my rent would not be a burden to me.I will need the following information so that the organization can send the payment out to you soon.
(1) Your full name as it will appear on the payment.
(2) Contact address not P.O Box
(3) phone number
(4) Available Time
Kindly get back to me with this requested address,contact information so that the money order can be made to you on time. I will be living for a minimum, of 6 to 12 months.I'm coming for a research on reducing poverty ,achieving fair globalization and advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.It works with governments, employers and workers' organizations to promote Social protection Enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all.Social dialogue Bringing together representatives of governments, employers and workers to foster cooperation and to deliver "real world" knowledge about employment and works.Paying the rent will not be burden to me get back to me with the cost of the room and the utilities included.I'm ,female, and i am from Germany, specifically Berlin.I speak both English and German fluently, and i am 26years of age,i'm real fun person &hard working clean and quite person and easy going and respected My laugh is soft and contagious. I eat breakfast 24/7 and i cook very well .My addiction is to taking photographs of people,Places and things has re-surfaced and put into Art work.I'll send you more
pictures in next mail..Okay.
Anxiously waiting for your response.
Have a pleasant day.
Sarah....
Thanks.
Mira.......
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Anonymous (not verified)
Scam by Mira Kaden looking for a room to rent mira_4022@yahoo
Wed, 2010/03/03 - 15:34So My roommate and I were looking for someone to sublease for her and our ad on Craigslist was responded by Mira Kaden. First she was only talking to my roommate, who didn't live in the same city as I did. This was the first e-mail she received:
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:02:07 -0800
From: mira_4022@yahoo.com
Subject: Roommatee.........
To:
Hi,
Hello to You over there and how is your day going? I saw your advert that You have a room available for rent and i am interested in knowing the availability of the place and i will also want to know more about the neighboourhood ,the place and the utilities included...?
I am MIRA,a Medical Humanitarian Nurse ,and ve been involve since the past 8 years,taking care of the motherless babies,Homeless ones ,I am still kind of young because i just turned 27yrs old...I Can speak both english and french.,i love to live with clean people,caring,responsible,neat type. I'm 5"7' straight,i currently live in south Dakota now ,I will want to move in by the first week of next month depending on the availability of the room ,I speaks english fluently ,so no worries
I'll let You know more about me if i am to rent this particular room that you have to offer
I will be anxiously waiting for your next email
Kind Regards
Mira............
My roommate answered her and this is the response she received:
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:00 -0800
From: mira_4022@yahoo.com
Subject: Intrested in Roommatee.........
Thanks
I really appreciate the reply ,I am okay with the price for rent,paying the rent wont be a problem as i have a Medical place i work for as an out of state mdical researcher which i will be doing within the hospitals in my neighbourhood and environ and i should let you know that i have my furnitures,and i'm also trying to get everything set up as soon as i can cause i don't have much time to spend here again..am comfortable with the cost of the room and its quite reasonable and affordable.I promise to send the payment to you as soon as i have the necessary information that he willneed to get the payment across to you.The check will be mail out to you via USPS regular mail delivery service and you
will get it in couple of days. All you have to do now in order to get the payment to you is to provide the below information.
(1)your full name. So that the check can be made payable toyou.
(2)your contact address. In order to mail the check to you.
(3)your phone #. You can be reach in case of emergency.
I will proceed with my arrival arrangement as soon as you confirm you have payment, check will get to you as soon as possible so that i can secure the place prior to my arrival..
Waiting for your responce.Take care of yourself and have a
pleasant week.
Regards
My roommate thought this was legit and gave her the info.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:27:15 -0800
From: mira_4022@yahoo.com
Subject: consider the room rented by me!
Hi ,
I am very happy for the concern,and i want to thank you for giving me the room,I really appreciate it. I want to let You know that i'll make it up to You and will be arriving by the first week of next month but will be mailing the payment to you as soon as i can as i have said,and it will get to you soon,Please let me know if this is okay by You i want you to know that my luggage and my car will be delivered before my arrival,please do let me know if you can be there to help me receive my luggage and my car ,I won't cause you any financial problem as i will be including the shipper's fee in the payment that i'll be sending ...So you will be getting the shipper's fee and the rent fee together ,You will just deduct your rent fee and keep the shipper's fee till he comes to deliver my things
Hope you can understand me? pls include your cell number, as i will be giving you a call this week
I really appreciate you for u've been so nice from the start.
Regards
This is when I decided that since I was going to be the one living with her I should talk to her. So I e-mailed her and this is what I got:
From: Mira Kaden
Subject: roommate
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 12:01 AM
I am MIRA,a Medical Humanitarian Nurse ,and ve been involve since the past 8 years,taking care of the motherless babies,Homeless ones ,I am still kind of young because i just turned 27yrs old...I Can speak both english and french.,i love to live with clean people,caring,responsible,neat type. I'm 5"7' straight,i currently live in south Dakota now..
The check i will be mailing to you will include the shipping cost for my car and furnitures that would be deliver for me and you get them paid from the check..
Thanks so much for being there
Mira
From: Mira Kaden
Subject: roommate
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 11:54 PM
Thank you so much ,
How are you doing and think you are enjoying the best of the weekend ..i will be mailing the payment on monday unfailinglt..
It would be highly appreciated if you can send me the info to mail the check to for you ...
Thank you for the care and concern ...cant swait to meet you
Mira
Considered the room rented by me!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:45 PM
From: "Mira Kaden"
Thank you very much for the info...am really for the acceptance and the care you have shown towards me ..i will have the payment mailed out this week and for now i dont think there is much to what i need ..i will apprciate it if you can pick me up at the airport ..
Thank you very much and take the add off craigslist
Your roommie
Mira
By this time I started to get suspicious and google her name.. this is were I found this page and then I thought to myself, why would Medical Humanitarian Nurse be coming to a little town like where I live. All I had to google was "Medical Humanitarian Nurse" and I get a lot of links talking about some Anja James person the more I read on the more I knew I was being scam!! The emails other have gotten are basically word for word of what I got. I was lucky enough to become aware of the situation before anything else happened!! Don't let this happen to you!!
Need more proof!! Read the very first email in where she describes her self, then read the e-mails this person got on this link and you decided! http://hubpages.com/hub/Rental-Scams
Anonymous (not verified)
MELLISSA TRIED TO GET ME TOO!!!
Wed, 2009/01/28 - 19:03they just tried to get me with that same shit.. offering more than the price and sending a phony check... we need to find out who "she" really is and fuck her up. who knows how many people they've scammed. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION ON THIS PERSON PLEASE E-MAIL ME!
i would love nothing more than to make "her" pay.
Anonymous (not verified)
This seems fishy, I get these
Mon, 2009/04/13 - 18:06This seems fishy, I get these responses alot, are they trying to steal my identity?
Hello
Thanks for the quick responce, my uncle from CA will be resposible for the payment of the item and i called him on the issue so i was told that he will pay you via a certified bank check or a money order..and as for the shipment of the item,the shipper will come for the pick up at your door step..He will pay you $15 more to your asking price for holding the item for me.do get back to me if you are willing to sell the item to me with the your
1 Full Name....
2 Full Address...
3 City...
4 State...
5 zip code...
6 Phone number to reach you on...Reply back Asap
Anonymous (not verified)
I practically got the same
Fri, 2009/05/22 - 13:39I practically got the same exact email... Larajacob22@aol.com. She was trying to rent a room in an apartment, so I don't know exactly how the scam would work, but here's part of the email:
"More about me again i am a nurse..I am the neat type,I like honest,responsible,trustworthy and hardworking people while I dislike lazy,messy,uncaring people and I love pets so much,am quiet and easy going person to live with. I'm 5"7' straight. i like tourising and,i don't keep late nights neither will i have overnight guest around, but i am okay if you do,I was born and bread in france as there was where i had my university education and stays with my uncle there!!
I lived all my life way in paris before coming down to SD,,I grew up with my uncle since 15 years old...I ve also wanted to be in the medical way since i was born,I served in the Paris Red Cross for 8 months,we have involved in projects that includes orphans,orphanages,heart related diseases in children betweeen the ages of 4-10yrs .
Ambition and Work:
I was looking to move over to your state because i understand that i'll be doing good overthere as i ve been told by my uncle's friend who ones live overthere..And i will be working with any hospital around as i am also making enquires about that now...
Am sure You 'll really like the person that i am ,because i will also do the dishing if you like,I work when i am to and relax when i am to,I also like sharing my thoughts also....paying rent on time will not be a problem as i will also be making the rent fee before the month ends....
Right now.I ve the support of my uncle about my well being,so you shouldn't be bothered about if i am competent of paying the rent
I must confess am comfortable with the price and I will want to secure the place down before my arrival so i will want you to tell me all about the place,as i can't see it before my arrival but the pictures...I also will want you to know that i have my car that i will be coming over with,and little of my furnitures,please let me know if there will be room for them..
With all that i ve said above,I have told you more about me and more picture of mine will be attach in the next email,Let me also know how i can go about securing the place down before my arrival as i will also be busy from next week preparing to come over and let me know if you can take off the ad off the site as i am going to secure the place with a deposit
Feel free to ask me any question and as i ve said,i am looking to move in by the availability of the place,but want to secured it now"
She then offered me a money order... Someone's using a really lousy translation service.
Anonymous (not verified)
Exact Same E-mail...
Tue, 2009/06/02 - 14:56I got this exact same e-mail from a Diane Marshal (dnelapss@gmail.com)... I actually sent her my address, but if I do get a money order then I'm just going to throw it out now... Don't I feel stupid now.
Anonymous (not verified)
same thing, different email address...
Tue, 2009/06/23 - 21:10I am dealing with the same exact thing. I did get the money orders, they looked very real, but after calling and email contact with MoneyGram, all 4 of the money orders sent to me turned out to be fake. I don't know what the angle is, because I was never asked for money, and if what she claims is true and movers are going to show up, they will be out of luck as will she. I have no intention of allowing anyone to move into my property without payment, and if this girl is in fact really looking for a place, she should not have sent me fake money orders to pay for it. As of now I am still awaiting a reply from her after I forwarded the information sent to me by MoneyGram, but I find it unlikely that I will hear back, unless there is in fact an actual mistake somewhere and she is on the level. I wont hold my breath. the address I have for her is dianemarshal01@gmail.com
Anonymous (not verified)
same thing as you all with same AND different address
Fri, 2009/08/07 - 17:13I put an add for a room for rent. I received an email first from teresavienna101@aol.com. The initial email and 2nd email from her are almost identical to the ones listed above. I decided to post the same room for rent the next day to create a separate listing (figured it might boost my chances of getting new viewers to see it?) anyway I received an email from larajacob22@aol.com and since it read the same as the teresa email, i realized i was almost scammed. but like all of you, i don't really see the angle because by the time they get to it- money gram stuffs and wanting me to send money back- that right there would be a big red flag. anyway THANK YOU to the people who posted the larajacob22@aol.com email because i did a google search and it brought me here. the teresavienna101@aol.com didn't come up in my google search but since this site is indexed, i hope it will now to warn others!! also, i'm reporting it to craig's list and to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
I'm hoping that if enough people complain, they'll be able to shut down these scammers. The FBI web site also has info of other scams - pretty crazy and interesting stuff going on in cyberspace!
good luck to everyone and if you did fall for a scam- don't be hard on yourself. these people work very hard to scam innocent people!
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