Been running across a lot of scams lately on Craigslist and elsewhere. Some are so obvious it makes you wonder how anybody can fall for them.
Rentals: Nice pictures of a suite. A description that glows and a price to die for, usually a few hundred below others in the area. Answer the ad and you get a story of how the landlord is on a mission to Africa, or working with a charity in the U.K. But, fill out the application and if approved ( you always are ) he will send you the keys and a lease once he gets your deposit and first months rent.
People are actually falling for that. There have been a couple of postings by those that did.
SUV's: Picture and details in the ad. Low mileage and a price half of others listed. Reply and you get either a single female that doesn't have a DL but got the vehicle as part of a divorce settlement. That's why it's so cheap. Wants you to send money by Western Union to an ebay agent in U.K. at which point the vehicle will be shipped to you at her expense. If you don't like you an ship it back at her expense and you'll get your money back. A variation is the army Sgt. just transferred to Hungary to foster better military relations between them and the USA.
Then there's the website boys. If you have a business and a website here comes an urgent notification that somebody wants to register a bunch of sites using the same name. They want to protect your business, so if you get back to them within five days they'll arrange to register all the sites for you.
Again people are falling for it. How stupid or gullible do you have to be ?
Rentals: Nice pictures of a suite. A description that glows and a price to die for, usually a few hundred below others in the area. Answer the ad and you get a story of how the landlord is on a mission to Africa, or working with a charity in the U.K. But, fill out the application and if approved ( you always are ) he will send you the keys and a lease once he gets your deposit and first months rent.
People are actually falling for that. There have been a couple of postings by those that did.
SUV's: Picture and details in the ad. Low mileage and a price half of others listed. Reply and you get either a single female that doesn't have a DL but got the vehicle as part of a divorce settlement. That's why it's so cheap. Wants you to send money by Western Union to an ebay agent in U.K. at which point the vehicle will be shipped to you at her expense. If you don't like you an ship it back at her expense and you'll get your money back. A variation is the army Sgt. just transferred to Hungary to foster better military relations between them and the USA.
Then there's the website boys. If you have a business and a website here comes an urgent notification that somebody wants to register a bunch of sites using the same name. They want to protect your business, so if you get back to them within five days they'll arrange to register all the sites for you.
Again people are falling for it. How stupid or gullible do you have to be ?
