A few years ago I had a vehicle for sale. I got a call from some guy, said he had the money and was ready to buy. He wanted to test drive it to his wife’s work about five miles away. When we past the gas station she supposedly worked at, he kept saying one more block. This went on for about five blocks. Till he finally pulled over and said, if you don’t trust me you can drive. He got out of the car with the engine running. He thought I was going to exit through the passenger side, he would jump in and leave. Instead I slid over to drivers side and said ok bye. The look on his face was priceless. I left him there and laughed all the way back.
crispyspa I’m not a brave man. I’m in my mid fifties and have a bit of boxing skills, but I gotta admit it was weird feeling. The kid was about 25-27 years old. I’ve always had that what would you do scenarios in my mind. A couple hrs after that, some gal called me asking where he was. She told me she thought he was planning to steal my car.
I had something similar and I led him on for about a week. He sent me a fake check, four times the amount I was asking for my item. So I would go to the bank, tell him I am there and ready to make the deposit, then something would always come up last minute. I'd forget I left some lights on at home, didn't say hi to the neighbor, forgot to flush the toilet, or forgot to rearrange my sock drawer first. I'd leave the bank, and he'd get pissed. Everything would have to be perfect before I could make this deposit comfortably! This went on a few times before he started threatening me. I finally lied and told him I'm a federal agent and now have all his information, then he stopped the threats. If you have the time, always lead these guys on and get them to send you multiple checks if possible. It costs them like $16 every time they send a check, plus you are wasting the time of the person that could be scamming someone else.
Barkeroni Didn't say hi to the neighbor, forgot to flush the toilet, forgot to rearrange sock drawer..... My kind of funny. Good for you. You are such a talented bear.
Barkeroni Dude! Did you check the gas? If I recall correctly, the shampooing instructions said to lather THEN rinse THEN repeat.. did you repeat? If you don't repeat then you won't end up looking like that brunette supermodel! Heck, I'd hold up a meeting if a friend said he wasn't sure that he'd done the repeat. Oh, and brush again after flossing, just to be sure. ;)
Barkeroni FYI, any costs they have the con someone else into paying one way or another. Check sent by UPS? Guess what - they used *someone else's* credit card to pay the shipping costs. And they've usually conned a third party into printing the check, etc. They are greedy and have no scruples, but they are not fools.
i live in the 719 ..but i dont use craigslist anymore ..a guy came by to sell us a lawnmower locally..caught him trying to steal it back a week later hahahah
@@XDiZzYX911 but most Craiglist scammers are local. It's just easier to get off the hook appearing to be a foreigner with the police and the excuse not being able meet in person. This is a very common technique all over the globe. It usually ends up being uneducated local that scams the wealthy.
@@ichillalot2938 I believe they pay you with PayPal, and do friends and family so they can undo the payment, but since you already shipped it you cant get the package back. I think that's how it works but I'm not 100%
Kevin Do bs eh I don't think you need to go to a police station... I've sold stuff on Craigslist outside my apartment, near a bank and near popular areas without issue.
The humor he gets out of the scammers and the fact he has enough humor in his blood to send those funny msgs back instead of talking madness just earned him a new sub
Nathan Warneke they have entire call centers with hundreds. They are fooling Americans out of thousands daily. Most of these places are very poor. They get paid dollars a day to sit and do this. I'm sure some are just evil. Stealing is never the answer but there is a very human side as well. To fucking eat. lol I watched a documentary about these places this week. I wish I could remember the name so I could post it.
Nathan Warneke youre wrong actually, they only scam stupid people, they do it because it works , its easier than you think to trick some people. thats why the tech support scams are an actual job in india or wherever they most commonly are from.
I know, right? Never in my wildest dream what I have ever suspected this video would go viral. 4.4 million views? That's ridiculous. Thanks for watching anyway.
@@CrisStan so they hope that the seller accepts the "fake thing" as confirmation of payment instead of waiting for the money to arrive on the paypal account? Thanks for your answer
you can always tell they are scammers when they use the word "kindly" such as kindly read these instructions.. I will ship the check and kindly deposit it in your bank. when you do so kindly withdrawal the money and please kindly wire money to nigeria thank you good day.
Funny how they try to sucker you by telling you they will pay significantly more than the asking price. I think it's interesting what an imperfect grasp they have of the English language. One thing though. I am NOT a scammer but I don't think I would send a copy of my driver's license to ANYONE.
Maryann Anderson The driver's license is to show that they're legit, and if something happened they can call the police and have the info on the scammer they need to arrest
+tbc1085 Don't do that dude! A scammer out of nigeria tried to pay my $60 price with a $2500 fake third party cashier's check and then demanded the difference. I tried to send him some dog turds out of my back yard but found out you can get nailed by the postal service for sending hazardous materials. So, I sent him some real nasty porn instead because I knew it would get him in trouble with his local law.
By the way, is your phone still for sale? I'd like to buy it if it is. I'm going to send it to my dead grandmother who has Parkinson's and stubbed her toe before death. I would like to pay you 50,000 Kenyan Shillings for it (plus shipping of course) which is many Shillings above your asking price. Would you kindly let me know if we have a deal? Thanks.
Got the same response trying to sell a different item. Thank's to these clips, I knew right away what was going on. Appreciate the heads up. God Bless!!
Whats the price? $350. I pay you $450 and you send to my bisexual son in the western India because I'm hiking the Appalachian mountain currently won't be back in States for year you send now
This, sir, feels like an insult. Why do we blame our country or specify our country's name for every retarded things these people do? I think we should label them separately and not associate them with anything. They don't deserve the privilege of association, anything they are associated with loses value and position in else's eyes. I, sir, have no idea if you have ever been to India, but these people are hated even here. They don't deserve anything. Live long, brother.
Can somebody explain me. I don't understand how they scam ? They say they would send the money through the paypal, what's wrong with that ? Just ask the money first and send it to them. And he didn't try that why ?. Can someone explain please.
theirs a scam on paypal where they send a fake email that mimics the email you receive from paypal when you get a payment, this works because the balance wouldnt appear in your account for 3-4 days if it was a real transaction, so by time you realize, its already shipped
Damn. I keep looking for this rare guitar and keep finding it states away, but no one is willing to risk shipping it. These scammers are a huge hassle. I may have to make a far ass trip.
Dragon Steel Isn't Paypal one of the most reputable paying methods? i use paypal for almost half of the online stuff i buy. i guess if its not ebay or any large online retailer. its all spam?! i highly doubt that...
lot I get these messages all the time when I'm trying to sell my PS3's after I'm bored with them. I'm like "and then closest country to Africa you can find a PS3 in is Canada???"
This would be great for people who are unable to leave their home for whatever reason. They would have unlimited conversation and be able to drive these people crazy. It would give nursing home patients great past time and dinner conversation. Always a silver lining.
My great-great-great-great-great-great grandad Henry IV, King of France, would like to buy your smartphone. Can you ship it to him? Offering 3,000 piastres for the phone and another 1,000 for the shipping. Will send courier pidgeon with money as soon as it arrives.
You do realize that all your text messages had no answer because you literally sent them at 1am according to the sms timestamps, while the convos started around noon to late evening. Granted they were pretty much guaranteed to be scammers, but still, even a legit customer wouldnt fuckin reply at 2am to say "ya bro lets hook up tomorrow at the police station". People have lives, and sleep.
+Baleur Yeah, but the scammers are clearly out of the USA, and when its like 1am for us its like afternoon in other countries. Plus...people are awake at 1am lol.
I friggin love love love this guy 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 U ARE THE SHEEOOT!!!!! I know this is an old video but I’m moving soon 2019 and will NEVER EVER USE CRAIGS LIST!! Thank you SIR🙏🏽
They once tried it with me on gumtree in the UK. I was selling a PS4 and they claimed they was on a submarine in the atlantic and needed it asap. They was also willing to pay me £800. I have no clue how they expected it mailing to a submarine. 🤣
EmeraldStarryEyez actually that would be real interesting to see what address they give you You could check it on Google maps..and say. Is it the submarine address? Then show them the street view
Love this bro. I've been selling misc on Craigslist since I was 13. I'm 21 now and have seen it all. Even scammers that are actually regular dudes. I usually respond with a quick "eat my ass real nice like" nowadays.
+Luis John Gemini ..... In today's world you need to be very weary of people. There are so many scammers out there that you can't trust every Tom, Dick & Harry. I didn't question the fact that these people weren't in need of the money, as they most certainly were because they were selling their belongings. They just didn't think. You can't just trust that you are being told the truth.
Yes and they just want money. That's something Giancarloparimango11 doing right now as we speak. I have a playlist featuring videos of his scams if you want to check it out.
+Claire Mahony But that is precisely the problem, you have older, younger and handicapped people who are just too good for this world and believe everything people say because they just CAN'T defend themselves and I'm sick of the people who take advantage of that moment of weakness. (I have autism and ADHD, that means I'm handicapped myself, my luck is is that it is not physically but mentally so I look completely normal but whereas I've learnt of my mistakes and don't trust people that easily anymore others won't ever change because they don't have the power in themselves to be anything other than a all believing person.)
No. A sentence requires a subject and a predicate. "*Would have, you idiot" is lacking of both. That's basically knowledge of 8th grade btw grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules-and-tips/basic-english-grammar-rules.html
I have a different story with a great outcome. My grandson advertised a motorbike on Craigslist for $900. Some guy in Fla sent him a check for $1900 so he could pay for shipping. He deposited the check in his bank account. He asked about shipping, I told this was a scam and wait until the bank informed him that the check was a fraud. He waited for 2 months, then checked back with the bank. The bank said the check was good. I told him to contact the guy for an address to ship the motorbike, but there was no phone number on the check. He tried for several weeks to contact the buyer with no success. I told him to wait for the buyer to contact him. He waited 6 months, nothing. So I told him to wait a couple more months. He did, so I told him I guess the money was his but not to spend it for a while . It's been over 2 years and still nothing, so I said he was free to spend the money.
why do they scam? because they are trying to find gulable people, which you are not. now if the phone is still for sale I would like to buy it for my half brother on my second mom's side, he lives in Amsterdam, if you have a PayPal we can arrange somethign
Rob G. not a bed, it's a couch in the basement livingroom. Covered by a bed spread because the flower pattern is just too much to take. LOL. Thanks for watching.
Well, he could have turned off the camera. He could also have used a screen recorder. I am not being mean, I'm just trying to make sure your videos are good because I'm kind. Lol.
Rob G. You could have stopped watching...but actually, we don't have free will so you couldn't have, just like he couldn't have done anything other than what he did.
It's to make the seller take that offer instead of telling them to fuck off. The seller would think "Why would I SHIP and get my money in digital space, have it held for 21 days, and possibly have the funds charged back, and have my account go negative when I could just sell locally and get it in cash?" Then they think "Oh, well I get 150$ extra... I'll do it!"
I thought when somebody paid you through PayPal it would receive the money right away and even if you don't, it's held there and if you have a shipment bill or something that proves you actually shipped the product you keep the money anyway and PayPal go after them...
+ramon feliciano you are correct. people should be nice and not feel like because they are not seen they can say whatever unkind thing they want. it is cowardly.
samiul Islam sajib lol because it is. They're shaming our country. Apparently we're really poor but honestly? Our brains are much better than theirs and ofc we're making more money 😒
They send a fake paypal receipt making it look like you've been paid. Most people actually go to paypal and look.....some don't, and that's how they get you. You send the item to them thinking the fake receipt is real and they get a free phone.
They send you a fake looking paypal receipt, you click the link on it and go to a fake looking paypal website, you type in your log in info, and boom you're account is compromised.
***** 10 times huh? Lol. Didn't learn after the first 3 times? Lol. Wow, and you are trying to give others advice? Please everyone do yourself a favor and don't listen to anyone that let's themselves get scammed 10 times with the same method
They tried that craps when I was selling my boat. I just kept telling them if you want it you have to pay cash in person. Funny how they were all out of the country
He didn't really mess with them he just kinda sent them(probably bots anyway) messages but they didnt react because they were probably bots anyway. Kind of feel like this was clickbait. This was like the 'dad joke' version of "messing with people"...
+Marvin Lim Yeah it would be a bot just trying to harvest email addresses. He possibly wouldn't even receive the paypal payment. The bot will store the email address entered and they will make their money by selling the emails to some (foreign to us but local to them) marketing firm or another scammer.
some are bots & some aren't. I had several contact me like that & gave them a generic Email address (with no PayPal account tied to it), and they sent me a fake PayPal Email saying that the payment posted! Perhaps also wanting to capture my log in information? I clicked on the link via a virtual machine & it looked like a legit PayPal log in page. After looking at the address bar I further confirmed it was fake! I was still texting the persons & they said they were from Lagos Nigeria! Ironically I do have a friend here that is from that very place, and know a bit about that city so I told the scammer I would have my Nigerian friend pick up the money in person at a particular place there, and deliver in person since the scammer gave me a shipping address there. They kept insisting that the payment went through in PayPal & they ended up sending 3 Emails saying the same thing after going back & forth!!! My friend gave me some actual Nigerian currency since I collect foreign currency, so I took a picture of that money along with the phone I was selling & sent it to them. I told them to pay me in Naira(that's the name of their cash) in person at the given Nigerian address on the Email. I played with a couple of scammers that way for fun... Just when they thought they had me, I had the last laugh!!! :)
they arent bots, they are out of country businesses who can legally lie to you to take your money, because in their country its legal. so most messages are from google translate, making it seem very bot like. thats why you always text spelling some things wrong or putting s p a c e s between words so they cannot be translated :)
I've gotten a bunch of these, they even went so far as to send a check to my address for 1000$ over what I was asking they wanted me to cash the fake check and send them the extra thousand via pay pay. Needless to say I too the check and turned it in and reported it to craigslist, they didn't do anything but I also made sure they sent the check before I sent the item Because I've always been extremely careful with these scammers. It's a bad sign when they wont even Answer the phone. So good for you and stay safe🙏
I was looking for an apartment on Craigslist and I ran into scammers 3 different times. They will tell you that they are out of town so they can't show you the inside and expect you to send them money. The monthly rent price is always way cheaper than the rents in the area.
I'm assuming the scam is they pay, you ship, they say you sent them a brick and they get a refund and keep the phone? I don't see any other way that could work out for them.
Joel Foreman No, they get your email then they send you a fake paypal page saying that the payment was received so that you ship the item but because the email was fake paypal is not even aware.
+Joel Foreman From what i've heard they normally use something of the sorts: - Scammer agrees to pay you through paypal and even pays extra to cover the costs, but asks you to send the item to his brother who happens to live somewhere else. - You give him your paypal and he pays you the money. - You ship the item to his "brother" - He files a fraud claim stating that the item was not delivered to his confirmed paypal shipping address and he did not receive the item (Which he of course did but Paypal doesn't know that) - You are unable to prove anything because you most likely didn't use a tracking number nor did you use the shipping address that Paypal can see linked to his account. - Paypal then chargebacks you and you lose the money AND the phone you just sent out which the scammer then happily picks up from his friends house or whatever address he gave you earlier. Another thing they might do is send you a very dodgy email that is supposedly from Paypal saying that the funds they sent are being frozen or put on hold or whatever until you show them proof, i.e a receipt that the item has been shipped, so they can release the funds to your account. If they'd accuse you of sending a defect they would have to return the product to you with proof of shipping and everything which i'd doubt they would want to do. Then again i've never had the "pleasure" of dealing with one of these scammers so I wouldn't know 100%
Wrong. That's not the scam. The scam is they send you an email that looks exactly like a PayPal email and has a link to a page that looks exactly like a PayPal webpage. Boom boom boom, you think you got the money, you send. Money's not there..Something of that sort. I know a couple Nigerians lmao
Silerios when their English is horribly bad and use the word "kindly". Many scammers have turned out to be from overseas, that's why their English is so bad. Some Native and other fluent English speakers might not have good grammar, but they tend to use words appropriately and in the right order. When you see a text like this, you either think they are retarded or a scammer.
I have scammers ask me for the "final asking price of the item" all the time. I sent back $10,000 USD once as a reply and they confirmed "OK this price is ok for me. What is pay pal email?" Lol they have to be from freaking India or something
PayPal is the easiest way to scam.... all you have to do is say you sent the money on accident or you didn't send the money and PayPal will give your money back but takeaway some money
Javon Frazier lmao um, that’s called fraud. and you can only do this probably about 2-3, maybe 4 times tops, and then they’ll catch on and you’ll be fucked.
NaruBATTLES You *do* realize those stories aren't actually real, right? Seriously, scams are the real things to be wary of, because at least those stories are generally true.
My local police station allows us to use their lobby for safe exchange and will run all serial numbers to make sure it hasn't been reported stolen. Love my local police!
