Craigslist Text Scam [email protected]

This scammer was trying to avoid using Craigslist email. I received a text asking "Is your item still for sale?" They asked me to reply to their email address at [email protected] and the text came from 1-210-100-001 I know that's not a full number, but that's exactly what the text message detail showed.

The fake paypal email used in this scam
©[email protected] [email protected]

No legitimate shipping company demands payment via Money Gram.

The email contained links to the legitimate PayPal site in an effort to hide the true origin of the email.

Safety Measures to Protect Both Buyer and Seller.

Dear <email address remove>

This message is originated from PayPal. We hereby want to assure you once again that the total sum of $700.00, will be credited into your account as soon as you provide us with the complete details of the Money Gram money transfer used to send the additional fund of $250.00 meant for the pickup. We are waiting on you to send the proper Money Gram Transfer Information for the pickup fee before we can credit your account and this is due to the large increase in the rate of the online scams recorded last year (2013). We have changed some of our policies and regulations to make sure our clients (Seller and Buyer) are safe, PayPal in conjunction with The FBI and The IFCC has invented certain preventive measure to ensure the safety of both our seller's and buyer's in this Year.

Such Safety measure are :

1. Once a payment is made, A confirmation Email will be sent to the seller that the payment has been made to state the transaction details which has been sent to you. Also a confirmation is sent to the buyer that the money has been deducted from his or her account. once you get the payment notification message, go ahead and send the pick up fess and get back to us with the Money Gram Details so we can credit your account.

2. Once a payment is made and it has been approved by PayPal, such transaction is Sealed (because both seller and buyer must have come to a conclusion before payment is made by the buyer) so therefore neither the buyer or seller can cancel this transaction or ask for the returned to the buyer's account. Also, this is where we generate our income, because the more transaction made through PayPal, the more we generate our Income.

Treat associate with the safety measure :

3. Failure to abide by these laid down safety measures by PayPal may lead to suspension from PayPal, Bank or Credit Card linked to the PayPal account and further more invitation to the authority.

We are very considerate about the safety of both buyer and seller.


**PLEASE NOTE**

This PayPal® payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your account until the Money Gram money transfer details is sent to us for verification, please send the pick up agent fees and get back to us with the Money Gram money transfer details,to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below is the necessary information requested before your account is credited. Please reply to this e-mail with the Money Gram information and our customer service will contact you. As soon as you send us the Money Gram information it will be verified for security purposes and the money will be credited to your account, for the protection of the buyer and seller.





Thank for using PayPal,
The PayPal Team.

from [email protected]

When the scammer did not get his money he threatened legal action. This is a bluff trying to scare the victim.
These lowlife scammwers will never file a police report and risk being arrested for criminal activity. If you receive a similar email from a scammer just ignore it and he will go away and look for another victim.

Collaboration Complaint From PayPal To FBI



Dear Customer,

It is important we have the information of the Money Gram Transfer Details required from you for the transaction made into your account otherwise, legal action may be taken against you since you have not replied to the confirmation of payment made to your account by our client via PayPal. We request for the Western Union Money Gram Transfer Details and we will fund the money into your account or you face the consequences of LEGAL ACTION.

We believed you entered into bidding agreement by requesting money through PayPal , and by non response to the payment confirmation made to your account you have violate PayPal agreement. However the buyer has already contacted us in other to make report about your non response. We are ensuring to make PayPal a safer place, therefore we need to set confidence on our users.

From IC3 you are given the next 24hours to send the money to the shipping transport address also send the Western Union Money Transfer Details immediately for us to verify that means the money as been send.

Immediately we confirm the information. You will receive a confirmation e-mail that your account has been credited.


NOTE:

Failure to respond to this means your Name and Address will be forward to the law enforcement Agency in your Country which may result to an Arrest, because you are practicing Scam, And your Account with PayPal will be BLOCKED, In order to free yourself from this'' send the money within 24hours and send the Western Union information to PayPal for them to Verify. If you have any comment on this issue do not hesitate to contact us. If the information you wish to provide pertains to an emergency situation, please contact us. directly to this mail ([email protected]).

I almost fell for this scam!! At the last minute, they said they were leaving town and I couldn't see the pups, but that they would ship them to me and not charge what they were asking for , but instead, I was to send just the shipping fee to them which was like $150. I went to a site like this and found out it was a scam. I was so heart broken about it! What sleaze balls would play on someone's emotions to this point for $150 bucks?

But instead of just ignoring these people, I went on a personal email blitz, and would send anywhere from 25 to 100 emails a day saying "You are a cruel, heartless fraud. Shame on you!" everyday for about three weeks, and it wasn't just one sentence. I filled the whole page with it!

The responses went from playing stupid (huh? what are you talking about?") to downright nasty, physical threats! (I won't post those). Finally, when I was sure they were not dropping their email and moving on, I reported them to the FBI and demanded that Craigslist remove their ads. Showing the headers to Craigslist, is what finally got them off my State's Pet list on Craigslist. I haven't checked to see if they have more on there recently, but it was very satisfying getting these lowlife's blood pressure up!

One of the things that kinda sent a "red flag" up with me from the beginning, was the really poor spelling and poor grammar, just like in the posts above. It's just off!

When I got the notification of where to send the money, I looked at the header and saw it was from Cameroon, then I knew and looked it up online.

Oh also, I looked at the header of the pictures, they had posted!!! It showed the exact web page that the photos were posted on from a professional breeder. I sent them an email as well letting them know that their pictures were being used in an online scam and gave THEM, the email addresses as well! Never heard back from them, so I don't know if they are a part of the scam or not, but the pups on THEIR website, were $2500, which is more like it for a pure bred, and not the $150.

I don't believe in being passive with heartless scammers like this. Just ignoring it and letting someone else go through this is just not right! I was sooo set on getting my pup!!!