eBay/Craigslist Can you say scam

[Martian]

My email service actually put the auto send email alerting of new replies in the junk folder because of the content! :laughing::laughing:

Funny how an email service can figure it out but Craigslist can't!

 

[Stargazer]

my wife just bought me a bx-22 that i'm not supposed 2 know about $49.95 +11.95 shiping problem is its only 1/24 size. think hit gold PR

 

[Brushhill dave]

Just saw the same type deal in a Deere but she was divorced and in london

 

[KU Gator]

Interesting that she has her name on the title. No one else seems to get a title on their tractor. I guess this is a special tractor. The way it can move across the country, Santa should consider using it instead of those deer.

 

[jonyyuma]

Must be really the Nigerian Tooth-fairy? Lots of takers if it was a J.Deere ?

 

[JB4310]

My biggest complaint about craigslist is not the scam BS.

It's the fact that everything is priced at the high side of what it's worth. Great for the seller, but not for the thrifty buyer

I check every day in Tools, Farm and Garden. It's hard to find a decent deal, if there is a deal you better of seen it first, cause a dozen other scavengers will beet you to it.

Because it doesn't cost anything, people will always start at the top, I've seen stuff priced more than what it would cost new at the store, but they keep running the ad for months.

In the good old days When you payed good money for an ad, you had better price what ever you were selling right, or you wouldn't get any calls and you would have to pay again to run the ad again.

If they just charged a dollar an ad, it would eliminate alot of crap. Like the guy selling the 5 dollar utility knife for 7 dollars :confused2:

Or what about all the broken wheel barrows people dig out from behind their sheds

JB

 

[David_Kb7uns]

Go read this on how to scam the scammers, they actually go and fish for them and sometimes they get a big sucker.

419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!


David Kb7uns

 

[scrappy isb67]

Found an ad on Craigslist this morning for a BX23 with backhoe,loader and mowing deck.Price $2200 dollars.Just for fun I thought I would answer the ad and this is the reply I recieved.



Sorry for my late reply but i was in hospital and unable to respond. My tractor is in excellent condition and it has 97 hours. The price for the tractor is $2,200, FIRM.
I am the owner of the tractor, my name is on the title. Because of my divorce settlement, i own this tractor and as a woman i don`t need it so i`m trying to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Right now i`m in Omaha, NE (the tractor is here with me) because i got a new job here. I can't conclude this transaction personally because my work involves a lot of traveling, the tractor is already at the shipping company and will be delivered from there very fast. You will receive the tractor in max 2-3 days and you will get the chance to inspect it 10 days, after will be delivered.
The shipping is free from you, so the total price you will have to pay for the tractor is $2,200. If you will not keep the tractor the money will be refunded to you ($2,200.00) and the tractor shipped back on my expenses.
If you're interested to purchase just email me with your full name ,shipping address and your phone number, so I can notify eBay that you are selected as my buyer and they will contact you to explain the entire procedure, such as payment, shipping and insurance.
Thanks,
Karen

P.S. Please do not reply if you don't have the money or If you need a loan.

Model Year: 2005
Make: Kubota
Model: BX23
Engine Cylinders: 3
Engine HP: 23
Fuel: Diesel
Hours: 97
Transmission Type: Hydrostatic
Drive: 4WD
Serial Number: 67167
Including: loader,backhoe & mowing deck

This is the prime indicator of the scam, EBAY does not do anything UNLESS it is sold thru EBAY

I'm just 20 miles south of Omaha. I would be happy to go look at this for you. I think some wild goose would be good for Christmas.:licking:

Take Care,
Doug in SW IA

They will say it is crated up and not accessible to look at.

About a year ago I found a 2320/200cx/46 BH for $2000. it was worded almost EXACTLY like this one. They were dumb enough to give a S/N for the tractor. I took that serial # to my local dealer and inquired about it. that tractor was owned by someone in Indiana with a different name than the craigslist seller.

 

[LBrown59]

With all these BX's listed for $2200 I'm surprised it doesn't drive the price down on the real ones!:laughing: For that price, I wouldn't mind having a couple around.

I have 3 BXs around but not at that price.

 

[LBrown59]

Have seen that scam many times on Craig's list when I was searching for my BX23. As they say, only deal local and face to face. I found my BX23 on Craig's list, but
I went to the guy's house
and picked it up. If the price sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

That could cost you your life.
2 more bodies may be related to Craigslist plot

Shallow graves found in Noble, Summit counties

November 26, 2011

For the second time this month, investigators in Noble County have found a man's body in a shallow grave in Stock Township.

Hours before that discovery was announced Friday, authorities in Summit County located a body in a shallow grave near an Akron mall. That death is believed to be linked to a murder-and-robbery scheme involving a phony Craigslist ad for a job in Noble County, where earlier this month one man was shot and wounded by two suspects and another body was found buried in a shallow grave in Stock Township.
A statement from the Noble County Sheriff's Office did not directly link the body of an unidentified white male found Friday morning with the ongoing investigation. However, FBI special agent Vicki Anderson, with the bureau's Cleveland office, acknowledged a connection seems likely.
"Do we think it could be? Sure we do. This is highly coincidental," she said. "But we can't definitively say."
Sheriff Steve Hannum could not be reached for comment, but the statement said his office would not be releasing any more information at this time. A gag order was issued for the case after an attorney for one of the suspects, a 16-year-old student at Stow-Munroe Falls High School in the Akron area, requested it.
The boy has been charged with attempted murder. His alleged accomplice, 52-year-old Richard Beasley of Akron, has not been charged but is in jail on unrelated charges.
The sheriff's statement does not provide specific details on when, where or how the latest body was located, only that it was found before noon Friday in Stock Township. No identification was found with the body, which was taken to the Licking County Coroner's Office for an autopsy. No one at that office could be reached for comment early Friday evening.
Stock Township resident Duane Dimmerling, 45, said he saw a helicopter and law enforcement vehicles Friday as he was working with his cattle in the area of Don Warner Road, where the body of 51-year-old Norfolk, Va., resident David Pauley was found in a shallow grave nearly two weeks ago.
"I travel that road quite often," Dimmerling said. "And probably the last eight years, I've met not five vehicles traveling on that road.
"Somebody scouted the area pretty well," Dimmerling said, adding that he wondered what led the suspects to this area in the first place.
Anderson said the body found in Akron is scheduled for an autopsy in Summit County at 8 a.m. Saturday. She said she could not discuss how authorities located the body.
"We obtained some information, and we acted upon that information," she said.
Prior to the announcement about the body in Noble County, authorities were working on the supposition that the body found in Akron could be that of Massillon resident Timothy Kern. The 47-year-old has been missing for nearly two weeks, after he responded to the online ad, which his family said promised him $300 a week, a trailer and a truck.
Authorities first learned of the plot after a South Carolina man who responded to the ad emerged from the woods near Fulda after seven hours of hiding from the suspects. He reportedly met them at a Marietta restaurant before being taken to what they said was the jobsite. As they got out of the vehicle to walk, the man said he heard a gun being cocked and pushed it away. He was shot in the arm as he fled.
A woman who heard about that attack contacted the Noble County Sheriff's Office later that week to say her brother responded to a similar ad. Investigators returned to the area where the South Carolina man was shot, and eventually discovered Pauley's body.
The FBI has contacted people who responded to the ad but were not brought to the area, Anderson said. While there seems to be a good chance one of the bodies is Kern's, there isn't anyone right now who fits the bill for the other one.
"We haven't been notified of anybody else that responded to (the) ad that has not been seen," she said.
Dimmerling's mother, Darlene, a lifelong Stock Township resident, said she worries about her son working on his farm alone, even if the suspects are in custody.
"I told him ... you got to stop going up there by yourself," said Darlene Dimmerling, 65. "You wonder, was it just those two doing the killing?"