Hello Joey I wanted to post this on your blog but didnt know how I was wondering if this AD is a legitimate business AD or scam if someone has seen or knows about it pls advice. I cant reason why someone would want this help seems strange to me but I might be missing something or over-reacting.
This person is asking for a helper to post items on Craigslist and says I need to create a new gmail and new Craigslist account send her the passwords, post the ADs she will send me and i will get paid $3 per item listed by me every 3 days...have an idea whats going on here?
I asked that,. since I will send her the passwords that how come she doesnt do it herself and she responded she doent have time...? is that reasonable to believe?
anyway, thanks for all advice
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Scammers want your help in getting new email addresses
So how do scammers come up with all these fake names and fake email addresses? I received a note from someone who was asked to help secure email addresses. Don't do it, I said. You could be considered an accomplice. Here's the note from the reader:
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Hi Joey,
I posted my car last week just for kicks and got an e-mail within 24 hours of posting from a Mazie Galentine - she asked me if my price was negotiable and what the approx. mileage was of the car (WHICH WAS LISTED IN THE AD.) At the time I didn't think anything of it but the e-mail was sent at 1 o'clock in the morning.
I responded to her, coming down $500 and giving her the mileage, yet again. Then I received an e-mail, sometime around 3 AM (odd hours) from a different e-mail account with the name of Wanetta Gabel, saying that the she was satisfied with my offer and that her boyfriend would be the one purchasing the car but she would be making the insurance payments. She went on to explain their financial situation and duh duh duh. Anyway, she said she was at work, AGAIN THIS EMAIL WAS SENT AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, and that it would be conveinient for her if I could get a quote for her, sending me a link to a website. When she ended the e-mail, she signed with the name Jill (so that's three different names she used)
I looked up the website that asks for your full name, your credit card info, your address and even goes so far as to ask for your SSN. I of course did not fill it out and promptly responded to this 'Jill' character saying that I would not fill out the form and that if she was interested in my car she would use the phone number provided on the ad. (I didn't provide my number in my email to her just in case I really was dealing with a scammer.) Well guess what? No reply after that. I hope people can catch these signs pretty fast, was almost a bad deal for me. The emails were very believable.
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