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Is this guy trying to scam me?

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hm1

Junior Member
I recently lost my job and was looking at craigslist for job postings in the tech support area. I received the following email, he basically wants windows xp w/ office on 7 laptops. But I'm a bit cautious to the way he wants to go about the transaction. Also, he's sent two emails and they're both very early in the morning like 2:40am and 5:00am. not sure where he is located.

Email:
Hello
I have all the necessary software needed for the service installations
of the Laptops, there is no any Hardware problem and they are working
fine but need those upgrade...Let me know the final asking price of
my jobs.. I will instruct my secretary to prepare the Payment (
Cashiers Check) which will include your own money and the shipping
cost of the laptops to you back and forth.All you have to do is to get
the payment and deduct the money for your Service from the check and
the rest will be sent to the shipper as soon as you have the cash
available so that they will be able to bring down the laptops to you
and will later come for the pickup after you are through with it.i
will like you to get back to me with the followings.....
Full Name:
Physical Address:
City:
State:
Zipcode:
Cell phone

I'll look forward to hearing from you to assure me you can handle this
with all perfection.
 
We have:

1. Random sentence breaks.
2. Random words capitalized.
3. Missing letters.
4. Horrible punctuation and grammar all around.
5. Mention of a cashiers check
6. Cheesy sign off.

Also, due to the time zone issue you mentioned, lets assume he sent those emails around 10 in the morning, placing him roughly 6 hours ahead of you. Let me load up a map to determine his location

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Seems legit.
 
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it's the nigerian check scam. they send you a check, you take your portion of the check and mail the rest back. meanwhile the check is fake or from a stolen account. they get the money and you get the prison sex.


total scam, dude
 
The term "cashier's check" stands out like a KKK at a NAACP conference.

Look at it this way, what he wrote looks like they don't do business professionally.
 
check scam as someone pointed out

You can find out where the sender is by checking the email headers.
 
You should head over to ScamWarners.com and post the emails you have. They collect that sort of stuff so that others who get similar (if not the same) emails often google part of the info and would find it on that site before they lose out.
 
gimmewhitecastles said:
is anything legit on craig's list anymore?
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Not sure. We put up 7 llamas for sale on 3 different places (2 specializing in farms/animals, the other being Craigslist.) I'm not sure which site we're getting the hits from, but there are a hell of a lot of people who are going to have their own shipping company pick up the llamas after we package them.

Anyone got a realllllllly big box?
 
DrPizza said:
Not sure. We put up 7 llamas for sale on 3 different places (2 specializing in farms/animals, the other being Craigslist.) I'm not sure which site we're getting the hits from, but there are a hell of a lot of people who are going to have their own shipping company pick up the llamas after we package them.

Anyone got a realllllllly big box?
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rofl
 
Ask yourself -- would I ever overpay for something and expect the recipient to send the extra money along? It's ridiculous.
 
This is such an obvious scam that it's even got me wondering if the OP could itself be a meta-scam! Surely nobody would have a moment's doubt about its scamaciousness...er scamitude...er...

Something about the 'will instruct my secretary' bit sounds suspect to me as well as everything else mentioned. A guy who writes like that has a secretary?
 
pmv said:
This is such an obvious scam that it's even got me wondering if the OP could itself be a meta-scam! Surely nobody would have a moment's doubt about its scamaciousness...er scamitude...er...

Something about the 'will instruct my secretary' bit sounds suspect to me as well as everything else mentioned. A guy who writes like that has a secretary?
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He needs a secretary to prevent his correspondence from looking like that.
 
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