Is this a Scam ? - Slightly Odd Response to Me Selling Computer Power Supplies

[gunDriller]

Normally, how it goes is, what's your phone number, where do you live, let me buy one and see if it works. I advertised a box of about 12 for $10 each.

Plus I like being paid in CASH.

I'm not sure whether to ignore him or what.

Anyway, it smells scammy to me. Though I'm not sure what the scam is. email address farming ? Who knows.

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I appreciate your response and I Believed it's good ? I want to
purchase it from you. I'll want you to remove the Craigslist post and
consider it sold to me, I'll be paying you via Cashier's check and
the check will be delivered to you via courier service and I want you
to keep this item for me, I don't mind adding extra $30 for that. Get
back to me with the following details information for the payment so
that I facilitate the payment to you asap get back to me so that I
can believed we are on same page.

Here is the information you are send back to me ;

Your First and Last Name
Mailing Address (NOT P.O BOX)
City, State and Zip Code
Home Phone/Cell Number
Amount

Just to let you know that you won't be responsible for the shipping
and handling , my mover will come over and pick it up as soon as you
received the check and Cash it. I also have some other goods I already
bought in nearby which my mover will delivered all together to me. I
need your quick response

[Dogman]

It can be looked at in a few ways, They are buying sight unseen? Hard to give advice not knowing what you are selling.

First your info sounds like is for the check, bill of sale all in one (?) and them doing it that way makes the sell traceable. Not sure abt requiring the dropping from CL.

It sorta sounds legit, but who in the hell knows.

I also like cash!

How high is your comfort level, posting here sorta shows ...not very high..and really do not blame you.


Edit: Read the entire title of post,

If you can sell them all, on one lump and seeing the market for old supply's might be thin..
What do you have to lose? If they follow through and you get the money?

The only thing on second thought is they will know your address and p/numbers.

[madfranks]

It's a scam, I recognize that language from other scams I've seen.

[govcheetos]

Bunch of bullshit. I wouldn't even respond. I had a lady call about a boat for sale on craigslist once and said she wanted it. I said "well, come by and pay me and it's yours" She couldn't come by until a few days later and was pissed that I didn't take the ad down and sold it for full price to someone else with cash in hand.

This is your deal. Like hell if I'd let some BS buyer try to dictate to me the terms of the sale.

[Neuro]

It sounds like something Google translated from a different language. Don't know what the scam can be. But it may be an attempt at attaching your real name and address to your e-mail, for the real scam... There was never anything specific in the mail suggesting that they knew what they were buying. Which makes it likely they send this out to everyone advertising Craig's list. And then they'll sell their database including your info to e-mail scammers, that know they get better results from a better database...

[Libertytree]

The exact same bullshit was tried on me awhile back, verbatim word for word. Ignore and run!!

[madfranks]

Don't know what the scam can be.

The scam is that the cashiers check he gives you is fake, after he takes the real stuff.

[BrewTech]

The scam is that the cashiers check he gives you is fake, after he takes the real stuff.

Exactly. I used to bait scammers like this for fun. There is actually a huge internet community (http://www.419eater.com/) that does this to derail their efforts (called scambaiting)... easy to read the language after a while and recognize it for what it is.

Here's another hilarious scambaiting site:

http://scamorama.com/

[gunDriller]

Exactly. I used to bait scammers like this for fun. There is actually a huge internet community (http://www.419eater.com/) that does this to derail their efforts (called scambaiting)... easy to read the language after a while and recognize it for what it is.

it's tempting to make them waste their time, though i don't want to waste my time.

though you did answer the question. i was thinking about emailing them and informing them that i'm aware it's a scam, and asking how do they make money.

on the other hand, it's not like Apple 2e power supplies are worth that much money. why on earth would they spend their time - so they can see your account information when you try to deposit the check ?

[BrewTech]

it's tempting to make them waste their time, though i don't want to waste my time.

though you did answer the question. i was thinking about emailing them and informing them that i'm aware it's a scam, and asking how do they make money.

on the other hand, it's not like Apple 2e power supplies are worth that much money. why on earth would they spend their time - so they can see your account information when you try to deposit the check ?

It's called phishing. They are looking to get a gullible mark they can scam later for even more money.

[still afloat]

The way I've seen this scam work is they pick out an item on Craigslist contact the poster with offer to buy sight unseen . As a act of "good faith" will send $30 + - extra with the guise to show the buyer is trusting YOU , they then instruct you to cash their check and send them the product and the extra $ that they sent as a show of faith . The gullible buyer then follows instructions and sends product and cash to buyer ony to find out the check was actually bad and then the actual price of the item sold and the extra FAITH money comes out of your bank account . You are out product and the cash . Screwed many times over in the same deal .

[Jewboo]

As a act of "good faith" will send $30 + - extra with the guise to show the buyer is trusting YOU , they then...





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In David Mamet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet)'s film House of Games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Games), the main con artist gives a slightly different description of the "confidence game". He explains that, in a typical swindle, the con man gives the mark his own confidence, encouraging the mark to in turn trust him. The con artist thus poses as a trustworthy person seeking another trustworthy person.

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

These scams will always (in broken english) talk about "the item" and nothing specific.