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drewskie · Aug 31, 2010

Wow, the shit these guys pull is crazy. So, say some retarted buyer buys this bullshit, and sends him their info. What does he do next? I know they try to get you tp give them money, but what's their next move. I'd be interested to know what the phone number is as well. probably just a voice service though............hence the "if nobody answers"

98tacoma27 · Sep 1, 2010

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Have you called it yet? If it is a legit Duty Desk they might want to know that their phone number is getting passed out on the Internet.
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No I haven't. It's a Seattle number.

remdawg · Sep 1, 2010

Check out this scam...

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detai...2Nm=miles&rpp=50&feedSegId=28705&aff=national

It actually looks like a nice truck (besides the horse on the side), but advertising a 4 cyl as a TRD Off-Road?

Also is that someone from here? It looks like a sock monkey decal.

Baadboy11 · Sep 1, 2010

google the phone number, got lots of weird stuff for apartment listings...heres one....
http://sublet.net/classifieds.cgi?d...results_format=long&db_id=301&query=retrieval

his name is Michael Garrett in this

drewskie · Dec 13, 2010

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Unfortunately, my sister's stupid husband fell for one of these scams. They lost $5K, which he took out on a 401K loan (they don't have a lot of money to begin with). The ad was on Craigslist and they used a spoofed eBay escrow page to have the money sent. Tried to buy it sight unseen.

My parents almost fell for a real-estate scam as well but fortunately they told me about it before they tried to buy it. My mom said, "Guess what? We're moving to San Diego!!!" I'd advised them against trying to come here in the past saying it would be too expensive for their fixed income so my first thought was "oh no..., what did you find". They were claiming they were going to get a 3000 square foot home in Escondido for $800 per month. I told them "No way. My two-bedroom condo payment is about $2000 per month" I looked at it and the home sale was a finance scam. They put you in the home and charged $800 per month for the first year. After that, it went up to a normal mortgage amount. And since they weren't paying even the full interest amount on the home, that would be tacked onto the loan balance. Actual payment would have been around $3000-$4000 per month.

My advice to them was not to make any major purchases off craigslist.
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Wow, I can't belive someone actually fell for this. Maybe it happens more than I would like to think.

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