Strange response to my advert!

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I have just, in the last 10 minutes so this response is very quick, put a pony up for sale, this is the email I have received , do they expect a reply because they will be waiting a long while :rolleyes:

"Hello

In reference to your online placed ad, am interested in buying your item.What is your asking price? please could you tell me whether your advert is still for sale? And also could you tell me more about about its present condition.

Write soon

Thanks"

Do they have some way of just picking up every new ad that goes on line sending out a standard reply in the hope that people respond:confused:
 
Yes, if you respond they will ask to pay more than you have asked for, and that you return some of the money when you despatch the "item". Their money will apparently clear into your account, but it will be withdrawn again just after you have supplied them with the cash, leaving you out of pocket.

Nice work if you can get it.
 
cptrayes said:
Yes, if you respond they will ask to pay more than you have asked for, and that you return some of the money when you despatch the "item". Their money will apparently clear into your account, but it will be withdrawn again just after you have supplied them with the cash, leaving you out of pocket.

Nice work if you can get it.
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That exact thing happened to me when I was moving home from California. I put my bed up for sale on craigslist for about $100 or something like that and someone emailed to say they had accidently sent me their whole paycheck for $4000 or thereabouts. They had a Dakota address, but not to worry, their sister or something was in Cali and would pick the bed up the next week. And instead of getting their employer to stop the paycheck (which was somehow now made out to me???) urgently like any sane person would have done, they were kindly trusting me, as vendor of beds, to keep $100 as payment for bed, a little extra for my trouble, can't remember how much, say $20, and Western Union them the rest back up to Dakota. In their dreams. Can't believe anyone would be that stupid. But when I called the police to report it they said lots of people fall for this prank otherwise why would anyone do it?
 
I had several like that when I sold the box.

The best one was telling me they would send me more than the asking price, I must drive the box to Spain bringing some of the money back with me.

I could not work out how that set up benefitted the fraudsters.
 
I suppose someone must respond otherwise they would not bother, I have not have one so badly worded before, they have obviously no idea what they are responding to, it is on the PC site so hardly likely to be an "item":rolleyes: Although present condition, wearing a wet muddy rug, plastered in mud himself may put them off.;)
 
AdorableAlice said:
I had several like that when I sold the box.

The best one was telling me they would send me more than the asking price, I must drive the box to Spain bringing some of the money back with me.

I could not work out how that set up benefitted the fraudsters.
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If they pay by Western Union it is possible for them to withdraw the money again after it has apparently apeared in your account. I think there is at least one other money transfer method where they can do the same, anyone remember the name?
 
cptrayes said:
If they pay by Western Union it is possible for them to withdraw the money again after it has apparently apeared in your account. I think there is at least one other money transfer method where they can do the same, anyone remember the name?
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The basis of this is that they pay you with a stolen credit card over the telephone as a customer not present transaction, this will then be recalled by the bank about ten days later by which time they hope to have got your money and done the off. Google "shipping scam" to see the latest one that is now targeting the UK, although quite how stupid you need to be to fall for these scams I'm not sure!!!
 
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