Ongoing CRAIGSLIST SCAM!!! Funny and sad, beware!
 

Long story short - I am shopping for a nice Boxster 986 and apart from the classifieds on this forum check eBay and Craigslist posts regularly. Here's a story about a Craigslist scammer who blatantly destroys our shy dreams of finding a top condition Boxster for a very very good price. I'll be posting all our email correspondence one chapter at a time as the story develops. Hopefully in the end it will be a good laugh and a great read for you all!

Chapter 1. "The Craigslist Post"

So yesterday night I find this CL post and obviously loose my sleep: the Boxster is awesome! The deal looks almost too good to be true)) I am hooked... Replying right away, hopefully it's still available. Looking at the photo again and again, almost hear the sound of it. Falling in love with a beautiful Boxster is SO easy... And I almost did.

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Chapter 2. "My Uncle Mark"

I am sending an email and waiting for reply with my fingers crossed - hope it's not gone yet... What a deal! Looking for a good Porsche mechanic, mumbling "I'll spend that money for the PPI, it's already a "steal", it will be money worth spending". Comparing insurance quotes, working on a checklist of the first things that might need replacement or service, checking my inbox again and again... Here's what I get in about an hour from "Jason":

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Hey, The uncle must live in Burlington Vermont because it's for sale there too!

Chapter 3. "The Boxster"

Hm?...Uncle?? But well, maybe it's true and Jason's uncle is an older guy with weak knees who's unfamiliar with Craigslist or internet in general. No, it's fine. Shooting him an email right away! Nothing to worry about!

...And then I receive a ton of stunning hi-res images of a gorgeous sweet Boxster... Try NOT melt!

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It goes on and on, there's no end to that stream of gorgeousness))http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...43a4b09482.jpg
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Breathtaking... Now I'm totally in love and my heartbeat is way above anything safe...http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...296decb13e.jpg
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I love to scam the scammer. I once replied to a CL ad where the scammer was using pictures of my Mercedes (which was not for sale), lifted them from a forum. It was a week of fun emails back and forth. I told him I wired him money, etc. good times while working nights.

Chapter 4. "US Navy Physician"

Can't believe my luck!!! ****************, I'm buying it man, there won't be a second deal like that. Let me read what he wrote...

Now the fun begins))

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US Navy?!! Greece??? Omaha???? No f*g way... Oh, sure, you f*k, we'll make proper arrangements... A quick moment of despair and I start laughing - what an assh*e, he got me, he actually did - I was almost ready to take a day off tomorrow to go get it))

Chapter 5. "US Military Cargo shipping rates"

Ok, I get it, it's a classic CL scam. But what if we continue...?)))

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I hope there is a special place in hell for these folks so they can compare notes. What an AH.

If you pass I'll take it!!! I can get my $60,000,000.00 shipped from that nice Sgt in Afghanistan on the same plane!!!! :rolleyes:

Yes a great deal at $11,511...and then he offers to drop the price $11 without even negotiating!

I posted a couple of cars for sale on local CL last fall...real cars, real prices. I was amazed at the replies...willing to buy my car sight unseen, just need to ship it!

Also love the reply "What's the lowest you will take for your car" to which I reply "$1"...and I don't even get another reply!

Ask him for an addr in OMA and I'll take a look at it for you. ;)

Haven't heard of the ebay angle. They always used to want you to send $$$ via Western Union.

Gotta love the fake ads. Palm trees and rock lawns in OMA? Right. The radio stn is in PHX, which fits the terrain in the pics. Wonder whose ad they ripped off?

I had someone once offer to fly a car from overseas to me. I asked about the title, he said he'd put it in the car. All this before I had to pay for it. Sure....

Same car on CL in Boston for $11, 506
 

It must be a really fast car since its getting around so much.

Now in Des Moines
 

I "played" with a scammer awhile back that had the same eBay scam going. The eBay link they send you looks very very good. You would think you are putting your funds into an eBay escrow account. For fun I sent the link to eBay (spoof@ebay.com). They acknowledged that it was a fake. I have a real problem with thieves.

I hate thieves. It is a very good looking car they use so I imagine they get a lot or responses.

2006 Porsche Boxster Convertible Automatic Transmission

Oddly enough, I am a deposed Nigerian prince with money that I need to get rid of.

Can I give you $45,000 USD and you can take $15,000 for the car and added trouble. Throw the rest of the money in the frunk of the Boxster?

I look forward to your response...please hurry before they find me and dispatch the Nigerian ninjas to assassinate me.

When I was looking for my Boxster I ran into this kind of Scam several times. 1 of the scams had pics of a car that was being sold by a member from this site. They stole the pics right off of his CL add. I used to love to mess with them, but they are pretty quick to realize when you have figured them out!!

Well, it's a Boxster))

Chapter 6. "A little patience and I think we both can get what we are looking for"

Here's the most recent email I received. Let's see how far we can take it)) Any suggestions from "the audience"?


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Same ad on Atlanta CL right now.

As for how to proceed, I sure wouldn't provide anything real.

Why not string him along and say you really want the car but how can you be sure its not a scam?

Might be fun to see the crap that he comes up with, I mean, as a physician!

Hope Jason wouldn't mind...

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Has anyone run a Carfax? Would be interesting to see what that says.

Ask him about the title. How is that going to work? That should make for some interesting reading.

Once again, I'm willing to go 'look' at it if he can come up with an addr.

Push him into the next level of story-telling.

That is so funny... you should tell the guy that to save him paper work and time that you will have your buddy show up with cash to pickup the car... no need for ebay and make it a cash-cash purchase !! hahaha Watch his eyes pop open!

Strangely enough, I happen to know a couple of Navy physicians currently stationed overseas who own a Porsche. :eek:

I love the cactus in the background in Omaha. :rolleyes:

Maybe give them this delivery address and see if he disappears.

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Between the cactus, the ocotillo and the tile roof and stucco houses it's got to be somewhere in the Phoenix area. Funny stuff.

Ask him how he manages to keep the cactus alive through the Omaha winters. Maybe some other folks from Omaha want a little desert in their yard and with his advice they too can have an ocotillo plant flower after a summer monsoon.

Tell him you had your cop buddy run the vin through NCIC and it came back as, flagged, suspect, stolen... etc. but you are still interested... In fact tell them you are buying it for a friend in W Africa. Have fun!

What was the conclusion to this?