We diligently repost all listings and all rental vacancies to Craigslist every week, on Friday. The listings were posted this last Friday, as always, and yesterday I saw this response in my email
are you avaiable to show me this property
tomorrow?
When is this place available to move in? i'm
flexable and sold already my house.
Please contact me back - thank you
Great, sure. I was just about to email back ... then I noticed I had 8 other emails, all from different email addresses all with the same identical text ... all with the same misspellings .... the same double spacing and the line breaks in the exact same place.
So I figure, this is the latest scam making the rounds. Anybody respond to one of these? What was the scam?
This is a new one for me. They might be looking to sell you something.
hmmm going to great lengths to farm email addresses, eh?
The scam may be robbery, so be careful.
The scam may also be related to the group of people who have recently been collecting information from agents, re-posting the info as if the address is their listing, collecting money from multiple people to rent one location it but walking away, leaving these people robbed and/or homeless.
Get ready to receive the $6000 check that they want you to then send $4500 to the moving company!
Ah, Ellie -- I see we share the same spammer! :-)
C -- Yes we had a bunch of the reposts a few weeks ago...
I will keep an eye out...thanks for the post!
Its amazing how many people try to copy-cat a scam that works. Now, every dishonest schmuck with half a brain will be sending this same thing...
I haven't seen it but will watch out for this thanks for the info.
Thanks for the heads up. Haven't seen this one yet.
I have not ever received a reply like that, but nothing surprises me anymore!
Hi Cheryl,
Oh shoot, what a bummer just when you think you have a live one on the hook.
That's a new one but then again there is a new one every week, isn't there?
Cynthia, unfortunately this appears to be true. I can't believe some of the things people have asked me to do (and some by email no less). They are amazing in a very negative connotation...
You have to be so careful!! You should report this to craigslist.
It's probably either the check or the hijacking. Craigslist is full of that stuff, unfortunately.