They wanted to buy off of me I know its a scam
Dear seller,
How are you doing today,I'm jones from uk . I saw your item posted on Cragslist online for sale i'am interested in buying item has a birthday gift to my friend in African Nigeria, I would like you to get me a feedback with the item present condition , including the total cost of the item so that i can make the payment to you I hope to hear from you ASAP.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Thanks .
jones,
I wrote to him "I dont want to sell to you Suck My Balls Mr.Jones"
Will I get in trouble for this?
2007-09-22 14:26:55 · 5 answers · asked by LuvSawngz 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
99.999% of the Nigerian emails and posts are scams. I think responding back to them isn't worth it, you may just open yourself up for more scams since they know your email address and can sell it on a list to others who work off them.
Ignore them from now on. OR you can tell them sure, but you have to wait 6 months for a money order to be approved by your bank before you can ship the item in question. They know that a bank will find out in about 4 months that they used counterfit funds so they'll back off.
2007-09-22 14:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by hudsongray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I usually tell them to just forget the item and I'll just send them some money. Then I ask them how much they would like. Sometimes I worry about pissing someone off and starting a verbal e-mail war. But I think these guys usually want to aviod trouble/exposure.
But, really, everyone knows about this one now. You'd think they would try something new. It's probably just the stupid crooks who are left. They maybe even purchased a get rich quick book from E-bay that told them how to do this scam. Hehehe.
2007-09-22 14:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by LG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does sound a little not right...I had the same thing on Kijiji I am looking for another puppy and having a hard time finding any so I thought I would throw a ad up..got some nut job trying to sell me this "puppy" never told me what type of dog or pics the whole email was screwy.
2007-09-22 14:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LMAO!!!! HAHAHA GOOD FOR YOU!!!! He is obviously a low life scam artist. What is he or she going to do? Report you to Craigslist? Unlikely.
2007-09-22 14:32:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha Good for you. They might flag it and remove the post if you posted it on CL. But if you just emailed it to him, I don't see what they could do. ;)
2007-09-22 14:29:17 · answer #5 · answered by Liz M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋