[jimmydean]

I posted my truck for sale this morning and within 2 hours, I've gotten 4 emails all in this format:

Hello.....how are you? am interested in your post on craigslist...is it available? let me know the present condition.....and the picture of it...and also get back with your mailing address so that we can arrange for the payment.........i await your quick reply to my mail.....
best regards

John...

Jackass, the condition, pictures, and price are all listed in the ad. Do people actually fall for this crap?

 

[shocktower]

I thinkth CL tools have no life ,how about the women for men adds ,I check them just to chuckle ,they are crazy ,btw ,don`t put addy` just a phone # ,and only the real peeps will call

 

[jimmydean]

A friend of mine who was newly single used to surf the CL personals. That is like an online dive bar, it's awesome.

 

[reflux]

A friend of mine who was newly single used to surf the CL personals. That is like an online dive bar, it's awesome.

I assume your friend is a guy. Did he actually meet any of the girls? If so, were they really men disguised as women?

 

[jimmydean]

I assume your friend is a guy. Did he actually meet any of the girls? If so, were they really men disguised as women?

He only looked, they are scary enough in text form, no need to meet in RL.

 

[blue]

When I was car shopping a few weeks ago I ran across a last-gen RX7 for $5k. It looked mildly promising, the price was cheap but not ridiculously so, and the ad was written in English, car had local plates, and the description seemd not very form-lettery. Emailed a few questions and got back a wire transfer scam...guy claimed to be stationed at a USAF base in Kentucky and wanted all the money wired to him, and he would arrange for delivery of the car. Ha. I think he might've been local, as there wasn't any broken English or odd phrasing going on...

 

[ire]

Up here they have a problem with hookers advertising on CL

 

[trailhacker]

Up here they have a problem with hookers advertising on CL

Where's up here?
Seems on any location for CL their is a "services" area. And by looking at the number of posts there is a whole lot of massagin' goin' on.
I don't really see a problem however...

 

[jimmydean]

Up here they have a problem with hookers advertising on CL

I wouldn't call that a problem, I call that convenient.

 

[stoney]

I just had someone offer me $150 in check form for a $100 table. When I told him to bring cash he just hung up on me.

 

[ire]

I wouldn't call that a problem, I call that convenient.

let me rephrase, the police define it as a problem, I say its just getting your services out there

 

[N8 v2.0]

When I was car shopping a few weeks ago I ran across a last-gen RX7 for $5k. It looked mildly promising, the price was cheap but not ridiculously so, and the ad was written in English, car had local plates, and the description seemd not very form-lettery. Emailed a few questions and got back a wire transfer scam...guy claimed to be stationed at a USAF base in Kentucky and wanted all the money wired to him, and he would arrange for delivery of the car. Ha. I think he might've been local, as there wasn't any broken English or odd phrasing going on...

AFB in Kentucky... hahaha!

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/statefacts/blky.htm

 

[Urban FR'er 666]

I just had someone offer me $150 in check form for a $100 table. When I told him to bring cash he just hung up on me.

That's when you just wish you could reach through that phone line and strangle the bastard!!!!!!!!lthumbsdown: