Monday, June 30, 2008

What a Joke -- Scammer Indiana Jones is Now Fossil Finder

The Scammer becomes a Professor here:

I' m Prof. James Farrell from UK' i was searching for apartment to rent,i saw your apartment in the craigslist.com i have an interest, i will like to asked u if still available or not tell me, i am waiting to hear from you and I would like to make an inquiry of the duration in which you want to lease the unit. Preferably 6months/12months If you require any specific information, pls let me know or you can call me on my cell phone, please dial as presented for international calls . {+447024017688 }

Give me the detail of the fees.
1- Security deposit fee ?
2- Monthly rent fees ?
3- Utilities if applicable ?
4- Dimension/measurement of the unit {s} ?
5- Crime rate of the area where the apt is located ?
6- Park lots if any ?
7- If the unit is Furnished or Unfurnished ?
8- Total Move in fees ?
Thank you.
Prof. James Farrell
Middlesex. London .
Tel: +447024017688
United Kingdom
Another letter:

Many thanks to your prompt response and brief details on this unit. I am indeed
a potential tenant and serious about renting this unit.

As a Bristish Fossils hunter, Having discovered lots of Dinasaurs fossil such as Dinosaurs Megalosaurus ,Oviraptor, Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Velociraptor,plesiosaur, Ichthyosaurus etc. Am coming to state to Trade those fossils with some US Museums.

In view of my work schedule, i would want us to finalise basic arrangements. I'm and i am currently working with British Fossil hunters team on late 1880's Imperial dinosaur Fossil Research in Middlesex. London UK . I will be in the states for the next one year with my wife and five year old daughter and during my stay i will be Trading dinosaur fossils with Some USA Museums and Research with some America Palentologist on fossils hunting and field work. Am willing to offer you 1month rent + the security deposit and utilities if any to secure this unit prior to my arrival to state, and on my arrival, i'll pay for the 11months fees in Cash. My Trustee in the states will be the one to handle the Move in fee, and we will instruct him to send you the check for this as soon as you give us the go ahead to make payment to you. Due to the limited time that we have before our arrival, we are making arrangements with a furniture companythere in state to supply the home with some befitting furnitures.

We can start the lease at your ealiest convinient time and we will be effecting a one
year lease although, we will be arriving on 12th of July 2008. You can prepare the lease in me and my wife name "Prof James Farrell / Mrs Florence Farrell

Once again, thank for the measurements that you sent to me, it will indeed be of great help to deternine the Sieze of Furnitures that my furnitures company will supply to the unit... As regards my furniture, am planning on having them delivered to the house before our arrival so that we can settle in comfortably, you can understand that transporting furnitures across atlantic is not easy, so we are making arrangement with the furniture company there in State to deliver the furnitures before our arrival after the rent and security deposit has been fully paid to you by my Trustee. I want to seek your indulgence and favor. Can we rely on you to take delivery of those furnitures for us when they are delivered? We will instruct the furniture company to contact you to schedule a delivery date and time that will be convenient for you to receive those furnitures for us. As you will be handling the delivery of those furnitures for us,we may askour Trustee to include the costs of our furnitures with the rent and deposit to be sent to you so that you can help us to make the payment when
it is delivered.

We will really appreciate if you can do this for us and promise to compensate you adequately for your time and efforts on our arrival in your place.Please let me know if this will be okay with you so that i can instruct our Trustee to go ahead with the payment. Let us know how to move ahead as we intend to complete this deal before we move in by 12th of July 2008, we will let you know the exact date as soon as we get a booking on a flight to the states. I want a less risk, fair,transparent and a hitch free transaction so i attached the pictures of my family so that you can have an ideal of who you are dealing with. If you require any specific information, pls let me know or you can call me on my cell phone, please dial as presented for international calls .
{+447024017688 or +2348027171717}

P.S: Forward the lease agreement/application form to Review it ahead of time. I would eventually have it signed physically when i arrive. In my opinion, appending signatories should be done properly and at best physically. Please, send me a picture view of the living room and bed rooms only if that will not take time to do. This is an international situation and am not sure how you can run my employment and Credit check background, there's no way we can go about this until i arrive to state, hope you understand my concern.

With this arrangement, my Trustee in the states,will be effecting your payment deposit to you. I believe we can work together and ensure every arrangements that we shall both execute in line with my taking up the tenancy should be done accordingly to ensure we have a proper understanding. For Payment, Get back with the below details

1- Name to be written on the certified American check

2- Mailing address , No p.o.box

3- Phone Number

4- City 5- Zip Code 6- State

Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.

ProfessorJames Farrell

British Fossil Hunter {Paleontologist}

Griffin Close
Burnley Lancashire

BB11 5SG

United Kingdom

Tel: +447024017688 or +2348027171717

Scammer Requests Excess Funds Be Sent to Decorator

Here's a fresh one -- the scammer says the rental property owner should send the excess funds to a decorator instead of mover. Nice try!

From: Goldman John
Subject: Re: $1350 / 3br - Rent to Own/Rent 1400 sqft 3bd 2 bth house (Lake St. Louis) (map)
To:
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:03 AM


Thanks for the details on the Property, i am satisfied and will like to go ahead with the renting process, i will like you to go ahead and reserve the property for me.
So i will be needing the following informations so that the check for payment of the deposit $2,700 can be processed and posted to you soon.
Name:............
Address:.............
Phone number(cell and land):............
I want the 1 year lease to start on the 1st July. 2008, i will also want to notify you that i have in the mean time arrange with an interior decorator who will be handling the purchase of furnitures,entertainment system and other appliances that i will need in the property,they will as well be incharge of moving down my luggages down to the states.

So the check of $5500 will be sent over to you which is a relocation grant by my employer, and all you need to do is deduct the deposit $2,700 and you will forward the rest to the Decorators so i can have the place all prepared for my arrival. All applications and lease will be signed as soon as i arrive.

Also for familiarization I Am Goldman John,I am 31 yrs of age, a British citizen, married to a lovely lady, with a daughter (Family staying over in the UK), I work with Equity Insurance Group Limited (UK), as a loss adjuster agent, I am a Christian, reserved in Nature, Non smoker also i don't keep pets. I look forward to meeting you and hope to have a good relationship as a tenant with you. I await the details.

You can reach my at this number +447031953474
Below is my present landlords information for reference :
Christopher John
34,TIVOLI GARDEN SE185PD
UNITED KINGDOM
EMAIL:john_christ4all@hotmail.com
Cheers
John

Thursday, June 19, 2008

June 18 Letter from Craigslist Scammer

12-21-09 Update to the following blog entry: I received the following note from Stephanie Parks, the person whose name was used by a scammer. See Stephanie's note to me.

My name is Stephanie Parks. You listed me and my husband as 'craigslist scammers'. I would like to let you know this was not us. Someone got a hold of our account number and wrote hundreds of checks, even to different countries. I am still not sure how this happened, but it was a very stressful time for us. We had never even used or heard of Craigslist at that time. I would like to sincerely appoligize to anyone that was hurt during this whole scam. We contacted the FBI and made local police reports, we have never heard if they caught the person or not. When I google my name, 'craigslist scammer' comes up, it is very hurtful to me. Do you know how I can fix this? I have always been a very upstanding christian woman trying to raise my family the best I can. Hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Stephanie


Now see the scam letter that was brought to one of htis blog readers' attention:

One of the Scammers attempted scams backfired when they found this site. Here's a letter the scammer is using now. It has some slight modifications from previous letters, but since he copies and pastes his letters to craigslisters, I thought I'd post for people to see the latest:

Dear Person I'm Trying to Scam:

As a matter of fact everything is going as planned infarct the payment is on the way and according to i and my Secretary discussions just today, i was informed that the payment has been sent out to your address, (it will arrive by usps). The payment should arrive in a short while from now.

Kindly let me know as soon as you receive it, and please don't bother about any other buyer for the bmx bike. Because there was a little problem which i guess we can handle with trust and understanding, just today that i contacted my Secretary for the update on the payment, i got to know that there was a misinterpretation while sending the money ordered her to pay you.... according to the instruction i gave to my Secretary , She was suppose to have sent you a check of $150 for your bmx bike out of the money instructed them to pay to our debtors at office, But instead the she sent a payment of $2500 that meant for one of our client and your own payment was sent to him. It was a terrible mistake, and the payment is already out for delivery to your address on your name. She claimed that she thought the $2500 was for you. But i am quit sure that i told her to send to you just $150, but i guess she didn't get it
straight, but that should not disturb our own transaction.

What will happen is this, once you get the Payment you will cash it with your Bank immediately, and You will deduct $150 for the bmx bike and a $100 for your running around. You will then send the excess fund in cash to the coordinator in charge of pick up via Western Union Money Transfer OR MoneyGram International Money Transfer that same day.

And since the payment is on the way to you now, i believe in you that you are an honest person and i believe i can be assured in you that you can handle this matter with care trust and love understanding and have the remainder cash sent to the coordinator in charge of pick up of the bmx bike at the courier services to enable them proceed on the pick up, hope all is well? And i have let my client that owns the excess money with you known that, Her money is in save hand that it will get to Her. I wait to read from you to let me know that i can trust in you to handle everything properly. I will be expecting your mail as soon as possible.

Have a great day and God bless you
Regards
Terry Parks & Stephanie Parks

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Words of Thanks

I know this blog does some good because I get lots of notes from readers telling me how I saved them from this predator. Here's one I received today:

He’s still at it. I just wanted to send you a quick thank you note. I have fallen on hard times and have been forced to sell my things and move to be near family. Thank you so much for publishing your blog about this piece of crap of a human being. I wish you much success.

Monday, June 16, 2008

New Names and Email addresses for the Craigslist Scammer

I've been receiving heads-up on more names of the CraigsList scammer. Here they are:

Bill Pedro - bill4pedro@gmail.com
David Friedman - david.friedman1145@yahoo.com
Donald Smith - smith.donald49@yahoo.com
Edward Moore - edwardmoore99993@yahoo.com
Robert Adams - rbmails024@fresnomail.com
Robert Adams - rbmails000@gmail.com
David Ying - david.yingnow200@%20sify.com
George Brown - gbrown07@live.com
psamuel001@aol.com
dr.kimble002@hotmail.com
mailto:dr.kimble001@hotmail.com
John Goldman mr.j.goldman.001@gmail.com
John Christopher - john_christ4all@hotmail.com
Robert Turton - rturton03@gmail.com
Jennifer Brown - jeniffer_brown003@yahoo.com
Sydney Hall - sydneyhall7@gmail.com
John Miller - ultimateart.miller@gmail.com
Williams Peron - billye403@gmail.com
Williams Perron - dr.billy101@gmail.com
John Deng - johndengb11@gmail.com

Ronald Watson - rwantsit@gmail.com
Geral Terry - gertay01@gmail.com

obrjo6@aol.co.uksean344@live.com

Miriam Dawson: miriam.dawson1@gmail.com

Anthony Scott 17, TIVOLI GARDEN SE185PD UNITED KINGDOM EMAIL:honyescott@yahoo.co.ukYou can also call my employer at the number below to verify employment. (Ivan Samuel +447024017745)

Terry Parks
5 West University Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32601
Terry Parks & Stephanie Parks

EDITOR'S NOTE: A STEPHANIE PARKS SENT ME A NOTE SAYING THAT SHE WAS THE VICTIM OF IDENTITY THEFT. PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT.


you can reach my at this number +447031953474Below is my present landlords information for reference :
Christopher John
34,TIVOLI GARDEN SE185PD
UNITED KINGDOM

Thursday, June 5, 2008

IRS Refund Scam

Scams come in all shapes and sizes so I thought I'd post a scam email I received today saying that I am due a refund under 501(c)(3) rules. Well those rules regard non-profit organizations and I am not a non-profit. I can't think that the US government is very happy about this scam and will likely quash it very soon.

This is a departure from my usual postings on Craigslist scammers but I thought readers might benefit from it as well:

Dear Applicant:
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Tax refund value is $252.60.Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to IWP the data received.

-If you distribute funds to other organization, your records must show wether they are exempt under section 497 (c) (15). In cases where the recipient org. is not exempt under section 497 (c) (15), you must have evidence the funds will be used for section 497 (c) (15) purposes.

-If you distribute fund to individuals, you should keep case histories showing the recipient's name and address; the purpose of the award; the maner of section; and the realtionship of the recipient to any of your officers, directors, trustees, members, or major contributors.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here (or please copy/paste the link below in your browser) :

http://job.sungkyul.edu:443/IRS.gov/index.php

This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service,a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.
______________________________________________________________________________
Note:
-If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your ISP
- For security reasons, we will record your ip address, the date and time.
-Deliberate wrong imputs are criminally pursued and indicted.

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A.

Tax ID :

HKVHOKFQZIWTXLGUXLGWFMOIJQGEWRIZPGEMXB

Monday, June 2, 2008

Rental Property Scam Going Strong

These are some of the more recent names and identities, addresses, emails that the Craigslist scammer has been using of late. Keep sending them my way so I can post them here.


Howard Richard
Mayer Collection
William Brown Street
Liverpool L3 8EN

And a note from Steven Nandros:

Thanks for the details on the Property, I am satisfied and will like to go ahead with the renting process, I will like you to go ahead and reserve the property for me.So I will be needing the following informations so that the check for payment of the deposit $2600 can be processed and posted to you soon.
Name:............Address:.............Phone number(cell and land):............
I want the 12 month lease to start on the 20th June 2008, I will also want to notify you that I have in the mean time arrange with an interior decorator who will be handling the purchase of furnitures, entertainment system and other appliances that I will need in the property, theywill as well be incharge of moving down my luggages down to the states. So the check of $6,500 will be sent over to you which is a relocation grant by my employer, and all you need to do is deduct the deposit $2600 and you will forward the rest to the Decorators so I can have the place all prepared for my arrival. All applications and lease will be signed as soon as I arrive. Also for familiarization I Am Steve Nandos, I am 31 yrs of age, a British citizen, married to a lovely lady, with a daughter (Family staying over in the UK), I work with MMH Insurance Group (UK), as a loss adjuster agent, I am a Christian, reserved in Nature, Non smoker also i don't keep pets.I look forward to meeting you and hope to have a good relationship as a tenant with you.I await the details. you can reach me at this number +447024045677Below is my present landlords information for reference : Dr.Joseph Williams. 34,TIVOLI GARDEN SE185PD UNITED KINGDOM EMAIL:mortalrain01@yahoo.com


And James White:

Thanks for the details on the Property, I am satisfied and will like to go ahead with the renting process, I will like you to go ahead and reserve the property for me.So I will be needing the following informations so that the check for payment of the deposit $2400 can be processed and posted to you soon.
Name:............Address:.............Phone number(cell and land):............
I want the 12 month lease to start on the 20th June 2008, I will also want to notify you that I have in the mean time arrange with an interior decorator who will be handling the purchase of furnitures, entertainment system and other appliances that I will need in the property, theywill as well be incharge of moving down my luggages down to the states. So the check of $7,500 will be sent over to you which is a relocation grant by my employer, and all you need to do is deduct the deposit $2400 and you will forward the rest to the Decorators so I can have the place all prepared for my arrival. All applications and lease will be signed as soon as I arrive.Also for familiarization I Am James WHite, I am 31 yrs of age, a British citizen, married to a lovely lady, with a daughter (Family staying over in the UK), I work with MMH Insurance Group (UK), as a loss adjuster agent, I am a Christian, reserved in Nature, Non smoker also i don't keep pets.I look forward to meeting you and hope to have a good relationship as a tenant with you.I await the details. you can reach me at this number +447024045677Below is my present landlords information for reference : Dr.Joseph Williams. 34,TIVOLI GARDEN SE185PD UNITED KINGDOM EMAIL:mortalrain01@yahoo.com


New email addresses and aliases:

ssray1760@googlemail.com

Mark Ronald , mark_ronald01@live.com