Need your advise

[VictorL]

Hello,

I?m selling my Delta JT160 jointer on Craigslist site for $135.  It?s in excellent condition and seldom used. But this is not a point.  I?ve received e-mail with an offer that looks very suspicious for me. E-mail is quoted below. $135 for jointer, plus $50 on top, plus $30 for shipping it is $215. Local Lowes still sells it for $218. Plus sales tax $13 - $17 (CT or NY). But you?ll get brand new shiny machine with full manufacturers warranty and money back guarantee. What does that e-mail means? Is it ?eccentric millionaire? from North East or some kind of money dragging scheme?  Or these  so called ?movers? will remove other stuff too? I?m feeling that there is something not right, but I don?t see what exactly wrong there.

Thanks,
Victor

Hi...I'm very glad that the item is still available, thanks for the prompt response and i will love to make an instant purchase, so please and please do withdraw the posting from Craigslist, i dont mind adding an extra $50.00 for you to take the posting down from craigslist so that i can be rest assured that am in hand of the item. I will also like you to know that i will be paying via check,and it will be over night payment due to the distance. You dont need to bother yourself with the shipment ok, i will do take care of that. So i will need you to provide me with the following information to facilitate the mailing of the check.
1. Your full name
2. Your mailing address be it residential or postal address
3. Your Phone Number.
Once again, I will like you to know that you will not be responsible for shipping...i will have my mover come over as soon as you have cashed the check. Thanks
J****

 

[rnt80]

Tell them you need a $300 deposit to hold the item and that they can send the check to John Moron, 3332 Imasucker Lane.....It's a scam.  If you just ignore you'll never hear back from them.  They are just fishing to see if they can get someone to take the bait.

 

[woodshopdemos]

Victor,
  It does sound to good to be true. There is nothing that he asking that would add to suspician. I think I would go for it. But, rather than to give your phone number why not ask him for his and youwill call at a certain time.

 

[monte]

Hello,

I?m selling my Delta JT160 jointer on Craigslist site for $135.  It?s in excellent condition and seldom used. But this is not a point.  I?ve received e-mail with an offer that looks very suspicious for me. E-mail is quoted below. $135 for jointer, plus $50 on top, plus $30 for shipping it is $215. Local Lowes still sells it for $218. Plus sales tax $13 - $17 (CT or NY). But you?ll get brand new shiny machine with full manufacturers warranty and money back guarantee. What does that e-mail means? Is it ?eccentric millionaire? from North East or some kind of money dragging scheme?  Or these  so called ?movers? will remove other stuff too? I?m feeling that there is something not right, but I don?t see what exactly wrong there.

Thanks,
Victor

Hi...I'm very glad that the item is still available, thanks for the prompt response and i will love to make an instant purchase, so please and please do withdraw the posting from Craigslist, i dont mind adding an extra $50.00 for you to take the posting down from craigslist so that i can be rest assured that am in hand of the item. I will also like you to know that i will be paying via check,and it will be over night payment due to the distance. You dont need to bother yourself with the shipment ok, i will do take care of that. So i will need you to provide me with the following information to facilitate the mailing of the check.
1. Your full name
2. Your mailing address be it residential or postal address
3. Your Phone Number.
Once again, I will like you to know that you will not be responsible for shipping...i will have my mover come over as soon as you have cashed the check. Thanks
J****

hmmm, let's see

he's asking for your...

1. Your full name
2. Your mailing address be it residential or postal address
3. Your Phone Number.

4. he's going to have your bank account number (because he is paying by check - remember checks get stamped in the back with your info)

So, let's see what else do we need for identity thief?

Watch him vanish when you ask him for a postal money order.

think a moment, this spells ..... S  C  A  M !

 

[Dane]

I get at least one of these every time I post on craigslist.  It is a scam, always, no question.  I automatically delete any message that even mentions mailing a check.  If someone wants something shipped, it is paypal or nothing.

 

[johnsonri]

...I'll join the chorus here....scam-bait for sure.....instead of giving that person your identity, do this:

1. think of an arbitrary amount of money
2. send that money to someone here on the forum to spend freely

You'd accomplish a few things:
1. The money would stay here, and not go oversees
2. You know your money would be used on a Festool (technically this could be considered going oversees, but good stuff anyway)
3. You'd have a new 'BFF'

 

[nickao]

If that is an email send me a copy of the header info. I guarantee it is from Nigeria or somewhere in Africa. That is a scam 100% for sure. The way it is worded is like many emails I have received in the past.

You can get your own program to track the email header info. Remember the words mean nothing, but the software will track the header info to the point of origin.

I bet the first thing you find is it originates in CA, than checking further you will find it is an account that goes through CA but originates out of country.

Just last week I received an email worded virtually identical except he put down he wanted two inlays, I tracked him to an African country right down to the very building and sent him a picture of a  satellite image of his exact location(you could see the building crystal clear). He never emailed me again.

Nick

 

[VictorL]

Thanks a lot everybody.
Victor

 

[Dave Ronyak]

Thanks, all, for exposing this scam.  I learned a lot.

Nick,  would you be so kind as to post what software can be used to do as you did, and where it can be obtained?

Dave R.