mikelz777
Well-known member
I listed a uke for sale on Craigslist and got a response in less than 24 hours and it has to be a scam attempt. This is the first contact:
"I want to pick it up. because,it looks very nice.please text me to XXXXXXXXXXXX,if it is still available"
I replied to the given text address indicating that the uke was still available. The next day I received this message:
"I am OK with the price, Am currently out of town right now, My daughter having kidney transplant. Am attending to a lot but I will send you a cashiers check. It will include my movers payment, my mover will come for pick-up as soon as you get it cashed from your bank, okay?"
How many red flags do you see?
- The first text address they gave me to contact them is different than the one I got their 2nd contact from
- A kidney transplant?! That's pretty serious stuff. Why are you trying to buy a uke in the middle of all that?
- Send a cashiers check? Really?
- It will include mover's payment? What does that even mean? I'm supposed to cash the check and pay the mover? So they're trying to scam a uke as well as some money out of me and then be gone before I'm told by my bank that the check is no good days later?
- The grammar and punctuation are pretty bad.
I told them that their suggestion wouldn't work for me and that I'd expect it to be a cash only transaction and that we would meet somewhere in a public place to do the transaction. I'm not expecting to hear from them again but I did tell them that I hope their daughter is OK.
"I want to pick it up. because,it looks very nice.please text me to XXXXXXXXXXXX,if it is still available"
I replied to the given text address indicating that the uke was still available. The next day I received this message:
"I am OK with the price, Am currently out of town right now, My daughter having kidney transplant. Am attending to a lot but I will send you a cashiers check. It will include my movers payment, my mover will come for pick-up as soon as you get it cashed from your bank, okay?"
How many red flags do you see?
- The first text address they gave me to contact them is different than the one I got their 2nd contact from
- A kidney transplant?! That's pretty serious stuff. Why are you trying to buy a uke in the middle of all that?
- Send a cashiers check? Really?
- It will include mover's payment? What does that even mean? I'm supposed to cash the check and pay the mover? So they're trying to scam a uke as well as some money out of me and then be gone before I'm told by my bank that the check is no good days later?
- The grammar and punctuation are pretty bad.
I told them that their suggestion wouldn't work for me and that I'd expect it to be a cash only transaction and that we would meet somewhere in a public place to do the transaction. I'm not expecting to hear from them again but I did tell them that I hope their daughter is OK.