Another scam via Craigslist: offering more than asking price

I have appliance and furniture on craigslist for sale and I received the 1st email below and than when I replied "I am the original seller" than the 2nd one came in. If you look at the way they write some of their wording, you can tell they are not from America. Most people with accents will write the same way they speak. These are some of the signs to beware of. Others are when they give you a long sob story, anyone that is doing business with you will not detail personal things about themselves I know I don't. Also beware of checks or money orders no one is not going to buy something they haven't even seen before I don't care how desperate one is or how nice the item is, again I know I won't do it. Anything that you wouldn't do or ask for when conductiong business will be a tell sign that it's a scam. Buyer and Seller beware! They are out here and ready to take your money and run.

1st email:

ladybug.val813@gmail.com Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Reply-To: ladybug.valbee@gmail.com
To: fk3g6-3342556478@sale.craigslist.org
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** 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

ARE YOU THE GENUINE SELLER???..

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Original post:
http://richmond.craigslist.org/app/3342556478.html
If this email is a scam or spam please flag it now:
http://craigslist.org/flag/20121016165447XplHMbIX4hGc1WBh7OOIqw

2nd Email:

Vicki Sealover Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM
To: Shay Shakur
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I appreciate your prompt response, I will like you to email me with
some close up pictures of this nice item. I am buying this item ASAP.I
will arrange for it to be picked up by a pick up agent who will be
coming for the pick up once the payment clears, I will also be paying
you through PayPal which i believe is safe and secured for both of us,
I will also be responsible for the PayPal charges. All I need from you
now is for you to get back to Me with your PayPal email id and name so
that I can send your payment ASAP. I will also like you to get back to
me with the following Answers:

Why are you selling?
When have you been using it?

Looking forward to read from you.....
Thanks

Also beware of anyone that won't give you a phone number to contact you or if they do, they never answer the phone. Any true buyer or seller will gladly give you their contact information. I will post more when I discover them.

just got scammed from a sale on Craigslist by Williams G. Gulder; movers were listed as Pamela Lewis then changed to Toni Day. Took me for $1980!!!

THESE PEOPLE ARE RELENTLESS. I JUST RECEIVED A CHECK FROM THIS "LOREN B MCDONALD FOR $3,000.00 I JUST CALLED THE BANK - FROST NATIONAL BANK IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS AND THE INFORMED ME THAT THE ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE CHECK DOES NOT EXIST.

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Hi Again ________,

I just received the tracking number and found out the payment will delivered today here is the FedEx tracking # 510908215020887 Please get back to me to confirm the delivery and also let me know if you got the instructions from my previous email.

Thanks Loren.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Loren B. McDonald wrote:
Hello _________,

Good morning, I will like to thank for your patience and honesty towards this transaction so far. Well, i believe my check should have been delivered to your place by now. The check is for $3,000.00 the over payment is meant to cover the cost of shipment for the Sailboat Mast - Z-Spar 40' alongside my other properties including tax and insurance plus the movers fee.

Here is the movers information you will be needing to send the rest of the money via money gram money transfer below.

Name : Kerri Beattie, Address :- 2045 N Marine Blvd Jacksonville, NC 28546

Do let me know your schedule for the week regarding pickup as i have some other properties to be moved alongside the Sailboat Mast - Z-Spar 40'.

Please do act accordingly as agreed, you are to go ahead and have the payment deposited into your account upon receipt, you might have to deposit it for a period of 24 hours if need be before the funds are made available to you. As soon as the funds is released you are to deduct your money for the Sailboat Mast - Z-Spar 40', make the rest fund available to the Coordinator in charge of the Pick up arrangement via Money gram money Transfer at any Walmart around you and get back to me with the transfer details below (as it appears on the receipt) so i can contact the movers for the pick-up at your location ....

You are to deduct the Money gram transfer charges from the overage and also $50 for yourself (meant for any hassle or run around) and you get back to me with the Sender's name and address (as it appears on the money gram receipt) 8 digit Reference number and the actual amount sent after deducting the transfer charges.

Hope i can trust you with the over payment? Your Honesty and transparency will be appreciated.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Loren.

keep away from this thief as well

Jared Rashid [jareshid@gmail.com]

I did not fall for it, thanks to doing some internet research. Identical to the above, he offered to pay 350 for a 300 dollar flute. Would have "personal mover" pick it up.

Names / emails he contacted me by:

Jim Torstenson dbank30@gmail.com

and

Brian Jones porphet1989@gmail.com

This guy emailed me from richardcharles357@gmail.com about if my gaming system was still available. He emailed back from a different email address and different name with that old "im out of town and ill send you a check" ..... BS if you ask me.

I have a huge list..

There's Jim Torstenson who's claiming he's working too many long hours at work. I told him I'm a college student and can pull all nighters, I can meet him anywhere at any time to exchange items, with cash in hand. He never responded after that. I looked that name up, found out he's scammed some people.

There's Sara Leigey, she has a nephew in Africa that'd she like to ship the item to.

Keep in mind, this one guy got the goods that he wanted. I posted $500 for two laptops that both were half broken. What ended up happening was he and I exchanged PayPal accounts (I've never used PayPal) and he ended up hacking the system and sending me fake accounts. He made the PayPal's money status claim that funds were approved and that all I needed to do was provide the tracking number. The emails were very legitamate. I've never dealt with PayPal. I thought it'd be trustworthy. The copywright was on them and everything. PayPal can't reinburs me because the emails were not through PayPal. The only way to tell if the emails were from a stranger is if you allow your cursor to sit over the "from" selection of the email the addresses are not the same. I'm not doing this again. Also, USPS is so disorganized that they ended up losing track of my item even though I shipped it 5 hours before I wanted to recall it back. I sent it priority. Needless to say, I've learned my lesson. The guy didn't give me his name. His phone number is:646-481-5769