After my experience with the blue Acura, I had to start searching
for cars all over again. I went back to my trusted website, craigslist, to find a car.
As I browsed though Craigslist my
friends voice rang in my head “I got duped on craigslist.” He paid 7000$ or so for a car that he saw on craigslist. To hear him tell the story the car looked really nice. Unfortunately for him, it turned out to be one of those send
me the money first and I’ll bring you the car kind of scams. He fell for it
completely and sent the money. He waited and waited and received no car in return. He reported the guy to the FBI who told him after some digging that the guy
lived in Canada, which was out of their jurisdiction. His 7000 $
was puff, completely gone.
I sent out numerous text messages to the numbers on the car ads I liked. A few people replied to my texts saying that I should email a
certain email address. To me this was weird. Why would you want to use email when you can just text?? Anyways, I was not going to miss out on a good deal. I would still send out and see what happens.
I started corresponding with them via email. In response to my first email I got “The car is in
perfect working condition. The only reason we are selling it is because it gives
us bad memories. It was for our daughter’s husband that died. We want to get rid
of it because it reminds her of him and makes her sad. Now, the car is in North
Dakota but if you send the money and we will send you the car.”
Does this sound familiar? Smh. I replied with something
along the lines of “stop with this nonsense. I know this is a scam.
Foolishness!”
I got about 5 of these kinds of correspondence from
different numbers that I contacted from craigslist. That does not mean all of
craigslist’s advertisements are fake. There are legitimate advertisements on
there. You just have to keep looking and I did just that.
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