Got a simple email from someone yesterday about my recent CL ad for the Cayman. You know the kind - they show up a day after you post and they ask if you still have "the car" and how much. Since I was using and old email acct for the ad, I thought why not play along. So I responded that I did.
This morning I get this email from Danny :
"Thanks for your mail.i will appreciate more pictures..I am ready to buy it now for my son as a surprise promise gift,And due to the nature of my work,phone calls making and visiting of website are restricted but i squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an email regarding it.i would be glad to pay for it as soon as possible though i will not be available to come for an inspection due to my tight schedule.Kindly get back to me with the following questions below:
1) Are you the Owner?
2) Pick up Location?
3) Your PayPal Email ID to effect the payment
4)what is The final Price
5)is there any other issues with the item not mentioned on Craigslist?
6)kindly remove the post from craigslist
I would be glad to make the payment immediately through PayPal so kindly get back to me with your PayPal ID. You need not to worry yourself about title transfer and shipment,i will instruct the shipping company to handle that therefore in order to complete the transaction do get back to me with your PayPal ID and total cost so that I can make the payment asap. I will
be waiting for your reply"
Red flags all over the place. I found it interesting that he wanted my PayPal so bad but I suppose they figured they had my email addr so all they had to do was put their crack pw team on it to break the code or attach some sort of spyware pgm on my PC.
Anyway, here's my response:
"Hi Danny,
Wow, you're a tremendous dad. Wish the world had more great people like you rather than all the people filled with hate and deception.
Attached are more pics that you requested.
Here are the answers to your questions:
1. yes
2. the city of the advertisement
3.
4. I'll make you a special deal and knock the price down to $36,000
5. nope, it's perfect
6. I have a standing practice to keep ads up until the car has left the premises. Leaving it up after that would be false advertising and would lead people on. I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. That wouldn't be nice.
I left #3 blank as I'll happily give you the ID over the phone. I figure if you're able to squeeze out a 5 min email, you should be able to give me a quick call. You can reach me anytime at the # listed in the ad.
Tex"
I attached the pics below.
It's too bad that you have to weed through this crap. I got an email from someone the other day that was sort of similar and the addr looked suspicious. But then when I looked again it was t4968 and I thought it might be a Porsche person. I did respond with basic info but didn't hear back. Don't know if he was legit or a spammer.
Think I better go run my spyware protection now.
