How does this Craigs list scam work...?

[MR Felt]

I have these guys trying to scam me. Scammer A wants to Paypal me and send a shipper to pick up the bike. He is an engineer and is 2000 miles away??

thanks for the mail.I'm interested in your 2006 Hayabusa
and I'm okay with your asking price. Will love to go ahead with the
deal right away because this meets my perfect search for time being
now, I'm currently out of town, so coming to your residence for
inspection won't be possible, so you have to assure me that its in
condition described. Please do consider me your favourite buyer and if
possible withdraw the posting from the site,so that I can be rest
assured that it is all mine.

Like I said earlier, I'm a busy man, I work as a Structural Engineer
and am currently out of town ,so I will be making the payment on line
via my PayPal account which is attached to my bank account because it
is the only form of payment that I have access to
right now and also because of its good security nature. If you are
interested in selling it please provide me with the following
information:

1) Your full name
2) PayPal email address,
3) Address for pick up
4) Your personal mobile #

Kindly get back to me with the required for us to proceed,You will not
be responsible for the shipping as shipping agent will be coming over
to your address for the pick up after I have made the payment and you
have received the confirmation of Payment from PayPal. Do hope to read
from you.

Thanks John


Scammer B want to move to email communications right away and won't answer me when I tell him my email is down?




WTF is the angle if he Paypal's me or is he just fishing for info ??

 

[MR Felt]

Oh yeah.. I took some pics and re posted my bike and Scammer A showed up again....

 

[pashnit]

Why do you bother with this stuff?

Say it with me. CASH.

 

[oldgixxer]

They'll hack your PayPal and get your info(bank,CC,whatever).
You could always go along with it&send him your info to find out

 

[RedBusarider]

Email him back and say.....

Before I can give you what you asked for I need the following from you.

DNA sample
Blood sample
Retina Scan
Fingerprints
A photo of your Drivers license
Your SS #
Your credit report
Bank statement with your Name Address and account balance
Arrest record with incarceration dates

All verified by FBI and State Police.

Failure to produce any of the above items will result in NO DEAL.

Have a nice day.

Bet you never hear from him again.

OR

CASH only AT A BANK to verify it's real.

Bet you won't see him either.

 

[Dennis]

I've dealt with similar scammers and wondered how the scheme works.

A buddy just sold a Triumph about a month ago and the guy was working on an offshore oil rig. He agreed to pay what my buddy had paid new for the bike (low miles, only a year old) but still ... tough one to believe. My buddy got a bank check and the transport company came a month later to get the bike, so the check had cleared for sure. All is well, but talk about a deal that sounds like a scam.

 

[MR Felt]

Why do you bother with this stuff?

Say it with me. CASH.

That's how I answered Scammer A the first time. Cash Only

 

[GNBRETT]

they ask for ur paypal address and pay YOU from a hacked paypal address. if u ship to anywhere that is NOT a verified paypal address you will not be covered by paypal.

or they send u an email from paypal (fake BS account) and u must click on the link to confirm the transaction. it takes u to a real looking paypal site where u enter your log in details and and then they hack into your account and take your money!

buddy who is quite the scammer himself so I guess it was karma went to buy a truck last year from an Ebay sale and sent the guy $8000 and it was a phony paypal site. the scammer apparently got several others but the FBI won't touch it unless its a very large amount. he was SOL.

 

[oldgixxer]

^^^^OOoooo I fricking HATE scammers!!!

 

[outlawbusa]

They'll hack your PayPal and get your info(bank,CC,whatever).
You could always go along with it&send him your info to find out

That's exatcly what this scam is all about. It has nothing to do with your bike or a transfer of funds to you or from you to him...It has 100% to do with giving your personal information out so they have most of what they need to be able to access your Paypal account.