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Is this a scam?

Nessal

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Bay Area CA
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I was trying to sell my xbox 360 on craigslist and this one guy contacted me. After his first email asking if I still have it, this is his second email.

Hi,
I'm so happy that you still got it. I'm presently on vacation but I will ask my assistant to prepare and mail your payment. And I am sure you will receive it in the next 3 - 7 business days. I will add $35 extra for you to keep it in my favour and also for the delay. I will pay you with Money Order. If this is acceptable by you, Send me your info i.e your full NAME and ADDRESS for the payment and also a contact NUMBER. Arrangement for pick-up will be after you must have received and cashed the Money Order.
Awaiting your info
Thanks,
Ray Busher.



It sounds shady but if I cash the money order and everything is alright, then it should be legit right? Anyways, my gut tells me to back off this deal.
 
It sounds shady but if I cash the money order and everything is alright, then it should be legit right? Anyways, my gut tells me to back off this deal.

Nope, you cash it, then 30 days later when the bank finally fully clears it, it comes back fraudulent then you are out of a 360 and owe the bank the cash for the money order

CASH ONLY unless you are AT THE BRANCH with the person getting a money order
 
respond cash only, as if a used xbox360 is really THAT expensive. should scare em off if its not legit


(it's not legit)
 
Dude its totally legit. To make it easier on you give me the xbox and ill take care of the transaction for you.
 
So I got a question about some scams(?) I keep getting emails about like I'm getting a job, psyche!

Dear Sir/Madam,
We're glad to offer you for a job position at our company, F & Q Limited is a UK textile company. We produce and distribute clothing materials such as batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costume worldwide. We have reached big sales volume of textile materials in the Europe and now are trying to penetrate the US market. Quite soon we will open representative offices or authorized sales centers in the US and therefore we are currently looking forpeople who will assist us in establishing a new istribution network there.The fact is that despite the US market is new for us we already have regular clients also speaks for itself.
ADVANTAGES
You do not have to go out as you will work as an independent contractor right from your home office. Your job is absolutely legal. You can earn up to $3000-4000 monthly depending on time you will spend for this job.You do not need any capital to start.You can do the Work easily without leaving or affecting your present Job.The employees who make efforts and work hard have a strong possibility to become managers.Anyway our employees ever leave us due to our excellent work condition
JOB DESCRIPTION?
1. Recieve payment from Clients
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to(Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer)....You will be offered 10% of any of my payment that passed through you and the balance of 90% will be returned the company as we will direct you.You will never invest any money at the course of this. We only need dedicated worker who will be of earnest assistance as F & Q Textile and Fabric Limited will be glad to work with you. And please know that Everything is absolutely legal, please respond with the following details in order for us to reach you
Full Name:
Contact Address:
State:
City:
Zip code:
Home and Cell Phone numbers:
Office Number:
Age:
Sex:
Occupation:
Importance Notice...
Once you are Interested in the Job Opportunity you should have it in mind that you will always check your mail time to time ,It is neccessary and important for our worker's F & Q Textiles and Fabrics
Jack William
Representative Manager


and



Dear sir/ma,

We have a job opening for the position of Accounts clerk/receivable position.Would you like to work form your home and get paid weekly? We are
offering this position to all interested applicants.

Please carefully read through.STELLIOS MARBLE COMPANY is a well established Manufacturing Firm,That delivers delivering high quality precision furnitures products to some of the largest and best known companies in far back Asia and United States,the Regions Of America and Rest of The world for a longtime. You will find our high quality furnitures in the BEST products on the market today.


We serve the entire United States and a growing export market, particularly in the supplies of selected products. Superior products including Sofas &
Love seats,Bedding Ensembles, Chairs & Ottomans.

Your primary task for now , as a representative of the company is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.


You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received and sorted we
deliver the product to a customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they order for.



About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through bank cheque or Draft drawn from the United States based on the amount involved. We have decided
to open this new contract -to-hire job position for solving this problem.
Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.,
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities
near you.
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on
Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay
to any of the offices you will be contacted to send
payment to,



You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job is part time, you'll get good income.


But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are considering your application because you satisfy our requirements and we are sure you will be an earnest assistant till we start running
our branch office in your state.


Get back to us with information below information , so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
Here is a copy of the form...
Reference No:-
LSLCA/2031/ 8161/05 Batch No:- R4/A313/2-60

EMPLOYMENT FORM
First Name:....
Last Name:......
Address............
City.......
Zip Code....
State....
Home Phone..
Cell Phone.....
Gender.............
Marital Status.....
Age...............
Nation of Origin.....
current job....
YOUR PREFFERED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE
OR BY EMAIL
Your response to this email is needed , so that we can reconfirm your mailing address details we have in our database.


We will be updating you as soon as the payment is being sent to you and you will be directed as to whereto have the remaining 90% of the money sent to, afterthe deduction of your 10% pay on any payments received
and processed by you.


A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.
Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Staffing and Recruiting Dept,
Regional Manager...

and

Hello there,
I saw your Resume online and im willing to offer you a stress -free Part time Job in which you will be my Payment Rep in the States and will be earning as much as $3000 - $4000 per Month.Let me know If you are Interested in working for me & you are not too busy at the moment Kindly reply me asap for more info on the details of the job or howsoon you can get started.Do reply as soon as possible cause i need to give the Job Out as soonas i can.I hope to hear from you Asap.

Regards.

Rick Donald

(CEO)Rick art company
1 Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire.
SL4 1YB. United Kingdom
+447024064841


What is this? They send you fake money orders then you send them back real money?
 
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Hello there,
I saw your Resume online and im willing to offer you a stress -free Part time Job in which you will be my Payment Rep in the States and will be earning as much as $3000 - $4000 per Month.Let me know If you are Interested in working for me & you are not too busy at the moment Kindly reply me asap for more info on the details of the job or howsoon you can get started.Do reply as soon as possible cause i need to give the Job Out as soonas i can.I hope to hear from you Asap.

Regards.

Rick Donald

(CEO)Rick art company
1 Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire.
SL4 1YB. United Kingdom
+447024064841


Fantastic command of the English language, and from Windsor too. I am sure HRH Queen Elizabeth II would be so proud of this

Not :hand

Is it a fake - dear me :rolleyes
 
Craigslist scam

Quick post just to say that I received the exact same email as Nessal's 11/18/08 post. I was selling a bunch of books and received the following email:

Hi,
I'm so happy that you still got it. I'm presently on vacation but I will ask my assistant to prepare and mail your payment. And I am sure you will receive it in the next 3 - 7 business days. I will add $30 extra for you to keep it in my favour and also for the delay. I will pay you with Money Order. If this is acceptable by you, Send me your info i.e your full NAME and ADDRESS for the payment and also a contact NUMBER. Arrangement for pick-up will be after you must have received and cashed the Money Order.
Awaiting your info
Thanks.

His name matched also.

Just wanted to give a heads up about that one...
 
The word "favour" is a deal breaker for me.. You know they are foreign.

Ha! Sucker! I use British spellings all the time.

I could fail to scam you from right here in the bay area and you'd never know! BWA HAHAHAHA :x

OP: You see what your gut did there? It's good to use your head, but your gut can fill in nicely much of the time.
 
I hate scams. but I love the facepalm smiley! :facepalm
 
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