How Many Of You Think This Letter Looks Like A Scam On Craig’s List?

1. Anonymous Says

   100% scam.
   There is no job, you are correct.
   There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom.
   When the credit card owners, shipping companies and stores discover you accepted the packages, you get the real life job of paying them all back along with looking forward to the local law enforcement agency asking you why you are fencing stolen goods for someone you never met and have no idea where they are located.
   The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses and will demand you pay for made-up fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.
   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.
   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 great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell you 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.
   As you know, 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.
   6 “Rules to follow” to avoid most fake jobs:
   1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
   2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
   3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
   4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
   5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
   6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
   Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed ‘red flags’ and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

2. Piggly Wiggly Says

   HAHA. Yes, it’s an obvious scam and the spelling in the letter is terrible!

3. justavie Says

   knew it was scam when afte Australia. Craig advices to deal locally. sorry i didnt read rest of letter.

4. someone Says

   it is a scam

5. Kittysue Says

   It’s a compete scam – you are correct
   First of all, it’s illegal for any employer to ask your Age or Sex. Second, there is NO reason to ever give your home address to anyone you have not met
   This is a classic reshipping scam and you are being used to fence merchandise. The scammers use stolen credit card numbers/hacked paypal accounts to order products online or by phone (mainly electronics), send them to your house, then have you reship them to another address (usually Eastern Europe or West Africa). Then when the real credit card/Paypal holder discovers the scam, reports it and the companies investigate, they see the goods were shipped to your home and you get a nice visit from the police or FBI. Since the products were shipped to your home, you must be the person who stole the credit cards and you will go to prisonhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3730401/ns/t…http://www.fraudguides.com/home-business…http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-103964…
   Even the US Postal Inspector has issued an entire pamphlet about this exact scamhttp://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach…
   A friend’s credit card number was stolen and she discovered someone had charged over $3000 worth of electronics (laptop, iphone, digital cameras) to her card. She called to report it, the credit card company investigated and the police arrested the man who received the items. He claimed in court that he was just doing a job for an overseas employer and even produced emails to show that he was hired for this job. But the judge and jury didn’t believe he could be so naive not to know that he was doing something ilegal, especialy since this scam has been reported in the news for the past 5 years, and he is now serving 18 months in prison for theft and fraud.
   Report this to the FBI’s IC3 division and do not respond to these criminals for any reasonhttp://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
   Unfortunately since you already responded once and got that email back, your email address has now been sold to other spammers and you will be targeted for new scams. Just be vigilant and don’t open emails from people you don’t know. These scammers don’t like being exposes and will often target you with infected emails containing viruses/malware/trojans so don’t open anything unless you know the sender

6. Victoria Jones Says

   omg!! i am going through the same thing right now!!! he actually sent me a check, thing is, the check was from somon that he did not mention, the address was from flordia, the postage said it was from neworleans…im not going to cash it, its th biggest scam!!

7. colt45 Says

   Looks like young kids running a scam. Not too bright, are they? This one is obvious, but internet thieving of identities and scams are abundant and are not funny like this one. Many look very professional, which makes them very difficult to determine their authenticity.

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