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Recently I have been spending a fair amount of time messing around with craigslist. I like craigslist for the open access it gives me to wierdos and for the fact that I can sell things with the most minimum of effort. I enjoy searching for products and then sending people emails with offers for their stuff that are so low the offers are pretty much insulting and then seeing what sort of replies I get back. Once in a while they actually accept my offers and then I end up with some new, thing. This is not to mention the strange casual encounters section and the misc romance section.
A couple days ago I put up a Bose ipod sounddock my dad got as a gift for the holidays but never opened. The thing retails for $299 (not to mention tax) so I figured what the hell its unopened but I just want to get rid of it I put it up for $250. Oh boy was I surprised when ten minutes after posting I already got an email inquiring about it. The email was from someone named "sinter queen." A sketch sounding name but I am not one to judge a potential customer. The email read as follows:
hello
i want to buy your item see on craigslist...i just want to no if you still
have it for sale
and the you have a yahoo messager so we can have a chat about the item
glotmp4luv@yahoo.com
thank
This sounds pretty legit. Its a bit weird he spelled know like n o but maybe he is young or just hip or something, again I was not going to judge so fast. I responded that I did not use yahoo but if they would send me a phone number and name I would call them. In response I got:
Hello,
I am located in texas.i will make the payment straight away.I will make
additional payment of $100 for the shipping of the item to my friend
address because I want the item for my friend as his birthday gift.
Oh, so now your sketchy. I see the hundred dollars and that seems weird, he is now offering $350 for a product which you can buy from the Bose website for $299. Why would you read LA's craigslist if your in Texas. What is going on? I then ask if the friend is domestic and tell him to just send me a bank check or cashiers check and I will send it after I receive them. (S?)He then tells me he will pay through paypal. I tell him I don't have paypal (I do but not something I want to use right now). I get this response:
HELLO
THE YOU HAVE A BANK SO I CAN ASK MY FRIEND LIVING IN CANADA...TO HELP ME
TRANSFER THE PAYMENT INTO YOUR ACCOUNT
JUST SEND ME UR BANK INFO SO THE PAYMENT CAN BE TRANSFER NOW
Oh yes let me just get you my routing number and my social security number and maybe my mom's maiden name. Good thing you have a friend in CANADA?! WHY ARE YOU TYPING IN CAPS?! You live in Texas right? Is the Canandian friend the one whose birthday it is? Was I drugged sometime recently? So now nothing makes sense anymore. At this point my brother came by and I told him about it and he wanted to try to use his paypal account since he has no money anymore for them to steal. We get this back:
hello
here is the shipment address just let me no if you have receive any
comfirmation from the paypal
name peter faleke
address no 10 olaifa close askar paint eleyeel
city ibadan
city oyo
zipcode 23402
country nigeria
i will be waiting for you....just let me no if you have recievered any
confirmation from the papal
thank
sinter
Nigeria?! You are a texan, with a canadian friend whose good with banks, and you want me to ship this to Nigeria? Oh and you learned how to turn the caps bar off now? I tell him a flat out "no." I will not ship internationally. Plus at this point there is no paypal confirmation because there was no payment. So dont worry about me ripping him off or anything. This piece of poetry arrives:
hello
am not from nigeria...my friend is there schooing
you will only have to talk the item ti the usps office and give it to them
with the shipment address i give to you...and i will add 20 to it making
$120 for the shiopment and $250 for the item
thank
sinter
just make ur rep[ly fast to i can make the payment now
So okay, his friend might be schooing there and he might just be terrible at spelling , grammar, and ect. Now he's upping the money offer to. This is awesome. I better send out the shiopment. No, still no, this is rediculous. I offer to send it to Texas overnight service and then he can ship it Nigeria if he wants. At this point I am really just curious as to what he could possibly respond with. Well I never expected this:
hello
i dont all have time i will add to the shipment...just plx help me in the
name of god
So I guess if his friend does not get a Bose iPod Sounddock he will die, maybe a bus will explode, or the dinosaurs will make it off the island. If it's in the name of god I better respond. This ends it. I am tired of these shenanagans. I tell him forget it order it from the website, don't bother me anymore. That is when I get thsi final masterpeice:
hello
thank am not bothered..if you can help me with that i will be very
happy..plx you no am a woman
thanks
I have no idea what "plx" means, and I can't tell if he meant that last line as a compliment or an insult. I hate nigerian scammers.
