Craigslist scam? "Email me directly"

[JDawg1536]

I have some tickets up for sale and two nights in a row I've received texts saying the same thing along the lines of "I'm interested in your tickets but this is my friend's number so please email me directly" and they provide their email address.

Anyone experience this? Are they basically trying to get my email address to steal my tickets from Ticketmaster and sell them?

 

[smackababy]

Sounds scammy for sure. I'd respond with "Sorry, if you can't afford your own phone, certainly you can't afford these tickets."

 

[JDawg1536]

Haha, yeah I was going to say that.

 

[Blackjack200]

I'd just ignore it. I'm not sure it's email phishing or a more elaborate scam, but I'd say the likelyhood of you successfully selling your tickets by sending an email to that address is pretty low.

 

[Belegost]

This is why I always use a throwaway email account to interact on CL, use an alias to sign up with, don't use it for any other purposes than CL, and dump it when it starts getting spammed.

 

[Captante]

Pretty sure its just a POS spammer not anything more sinister. Of course either way at best its a complete waste of your time.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

This is why I always use a throwaway email account to interact on CL, use an alias to sign up with, don't use it for any other purposes than CL, and dump it when it starts getting spammed.

Or you could.. just use CLs built in functions for that.

 

[KeithTalent]

Or you could.. just use CLs built in functions for that.

Yeah, never had an issue using their built-in service.

KT

 

[Rakehellion]

Scam. That's the whole point of cragslist's email anonymizer. Never email anyone directly.

 

[Belegost]

Or you could.. just use CLs built in functions for that.

Why allow CL to know my legitimate email address at all?

 

[Rakehellion]

Why allow CL to know my legitimate email address at all?

So they can, you know, email you.

 

[smackababy]

Why allow CL to know my legitimate email address at all?

Why even use CL at all? If you are so paranoid about giving out personal information, CL is the worst possible place to be doing any kind of business on.

 

[Blackjack200]

Why even use CL at all? If you are so paranoid about giving out personal information, CL is the worst possible place to be doing any kind of business on.

No, you just use a fake email address, burner phone, fake name, fake id, then when the final price is agreed on instead of going to meet the person you just hide under the bed with a flashlight.

 

[pete6032]

No, you just use a fake email address, burner phone, fake name, fake id, then when the final price is agreed on instead of going to meet the person you just hide under the bed with a flashlight.

This is Jenny. My phone number is 867-5309. :awe:

 

[JDawg1536]

Clearly a scam, just wondering what they are trying to accomplish.

 

[smackababy]

Clearly a scam, just wondering what they are trying to accomplish.

Eh, it might not be a scam. Some people, especially those on CL, are incredibly stupid.

I mean, I'd ere on the side of caution and simply ignore the offer, but it could be legitimate.

 

[rh71]

This is Jenny. My phone number is 867-5309. :awe:

Tell please, what your area code so I can reach you kindly in USA? Also, please send picture of you.

 

[Rakehellion]

Clearly a scam, just wondering what they are trying to accomplish.

Farming email addresses.

 

[BUTCH1]

Why even use CL at all? If you are so paranoid about giving out personal information, CL is the worst possible place to be doing any kind of business on.

I've never had any issue using CL with the exception of someone not showing up but I've never sold or bought anything worth more than $200. Just use common sense if your selling a laptop worth $3,000 I would probably only do the transaction in a police dept. parking lot. One can always use Ebay but that IMHO is a far worse option these days as Ebay will almost always side with the buyer if an issue arises and your item and your $$ could wind up tied up for months.

 

[ImpulsE69]

It's a phishing scam. I am receiving the same type of responses. They will also completely leave out the friend part and all you have to go on is that the address it comes from is different than the email they tell you to respond to. It's practically all I get for responses any more. Really not liking CL these days.