by prettywu
Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:02 pm
I am a frequent buyer and seller at Craiglist.org and then later on, i encountered this person by the name of Jay Williams with email address that he first used jay williams <[email protected]>,
asking if my items are still up..and i replied said yes..then he replied back with a diff email add
Jay W <[email protected]>.. For some reason, i became doubtful so I just rode along with his jokes..I tried to google search his email address and name and i got a result in another site saying he is a scammer.. I read all complaints and how they received the message is likely 100% the same as mine...
Read his messages : (in black and my reply in BLUE)
yes it is still available..
Hi,
Am glad it's available. I'm going on a business trip to London but I will instruct my assistant to prepare and mail your payment which I'm sure you will get in about 5 - 7 business days. I'll add $30 extra for the delay. I can only pay via money order or cashier check as am going on a business trip now so send me your info (i.e full name, mailing address and your phone number) so payment can be mailed out immediately. I will also make arrangement for pick-up which will be after you must have received and cashed the payment. Awaiting your info.
Thanks
Your payment will be sent ASAP please consider it sold. I will appreciate if the ad is taken off craigslist so i can be sure you are keeping it in my favor.
sorry but i cannot take the add off because im a distributor of the items and i continuously sell those...but i have reserved one for you
Hi
Your payment has been sent but I urgently have to bring something to your notice. I just found out that my Assistant overpaid you. The payment meant for another transaction was made out in your name and sent to you in an error. I have called the post office to see if they could retrieve it but nothing positive.However I want to believe I wont have a problem with you on this. Once you receive the payment, Please proceed to the bank and cash the payment, deduct your money and send back the balance to me via western union. So I can proceed with arrangement for pick-up. Once more, I hope I can fully trust you with this? I will await your response on this so my mind can be at rest.
Thanks
no problem i will return the over paid money to you, just give me the details..
Thanks for putting my mind at rest. I am sure you will get payment very soon. Please let me know as soon as you have received it so i can tell you where to send my balance and also schedule pick-up. You can deduct the western union fees from my money.
how much is the over paid?
two money order each worth $987
my bag is just worth $60 and is free shipping too, so how come you overpaid too much?
Please let me know if you have received payment I am in London at the moment. If you have, you can go ahead and get it cashed at your bank,deduct your payment and send the balance via western union to the following details:
NAME OF RECEIVER: Anthony Welbeck
ADDRESS: 59 Queen's Gate,
CITY: LONDON
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
ZIP CODE: SW7 5JP
Please make sure you take care of everything today and send me the transfer details i.e Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) and the total amount sent after charges. I will need the money to take care of some pressing bills and pay for pick-up.
Waiting to read from you.
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From the beginning of his inquiry I already know that something is fishy...so I just rode along with his joke so he can be at peace that he is actually scamming an intelligent business person.. I have been in an online business for 13 years now and have never been scammed, coz i perform investigation first.. In this case, since he has a lot of victims already, I want to be different, and make him believe that he got a bait...
So when I got the counterfeit check, which allows you to encash the money, after 10 days, your bank will call you, and you will be liable for whatever "GRAND" you owe them for encashing money from a bank who is not really existing..Counterfeit check allows you to encash or clear a check for 3 days, and then you will withdraw it, but bank can only notice or realize after 10 days that this check is a fake one..So you have sent your item to the scammer, and you sent him the "overpayment" he was talking about, and that left you a huge debt as well..losing a profit, the original price of the bag, and huge sum of money from your bank...
What I did, to make him feel happy, I sent him a mail about MTCN # from western union, but is a fake one...
he kept on coming back to the western union office only to withdraw money that is not really in the system...
let your victim be a lesson to you to stop scamming people..
beware of this person..be smart...
asking if my items are still up..and i replied said yes..then he replied back with a diff email add
Jay W <[email protected]>.. For some reason, i became doubtful so I just rode along with his jokes..I tried to google search his email address and name and i got a result in another site saying he is a scammer.. I read all complaints and how they received the message is likely 100% the same as mine...
Read his messages : (in black and my reply in BLUE)
yes it is still available..
Hi,
Am glad it's available. I'm going on a business trip to London but I will instruct my assistant to prepare and mail your payment which I'm sure you will get in about 5 - 7 business days. I'll add $30 extra for the delay. I can only pay via money order or cashier check as am going on a business trip now so send me your info (i.e full name, mailing address and your phone number) so payment can be mailed out immediately. I will also make arrangement for pick-up which will be after you must have received and cashed the payment. Awaiting your info.
Thanks
Your payment will be sent ASAP please consider it sold. I will appreciate if the ad is taken off craigslist so i can be sure you are keeping it in my favor.
sorry but i cannot take the add off because im a distributor of the items and i continuously sell those...but i have reserved one for you
Hi
Your payment has been sent but I urgently have to bring something to your notice. I just found out that my Assistant overpaid you. The payment meant for another transaction was made out in your name and sent to you in an error. I have called the post office to see if they could retrieve it but nothing positive.However I want to believe I wont have a problem with you on this. Once you receive the payment, Please proceed to the bank and cash the payment, deduct your money and send back the balance to me via western union. So I can proceed with arrangement for pick-up. Once more, I hope I can fully trust you with this? I will await your response on this so my mind can be at rest.
Thanks
no problem i will return the over paid money to you, just give me the details..
Thanks for putting my mind at rest. I am sure you will get payment very soon. Please let me know as soon as you have received it so i can tell you where to send my balance and also schedule pick-up. You can deduct the western union fees from my money.
how much is the over paid?
two money order each worth $987
my bag is just worth $60 and is free shipping too, so how come you overpaid too much?
Please let me know if you have received payment I am in London at the moment. If you have, you can go ahead and get it cashed at your bank,deduct your payment and send the balance via western union to the following details:
NAME OF RECEIVER: Anthony Welbeck
ADDRESS: 59 Queen's Gate,
CITY: LONDON
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
ZIP CODE: SW7 5JP
Please make sure you take care of everything today and send me the transfer details i.e Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) and the total amount sent after charges. I will need the money to take care of some pressing bills and pay for pick-up.
Waiting to read from you.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the beginning of his inquiry I already know that something is fishy...so I just rode along with his joke so he can be at peace that he is actually scamming an intelligent business person.. I have been in an online business for 13 years now and have never been scammed, coz i perform investigation first.. In this case, since he has a lot of victims already, I want to be different, and make him believe that he got a bait...
So when I got the counterfeit check, which allows you to encash the money, after 10 days, your bank will call you, and you will be liable for whatever "GRAND" you owe them for encashing money from a bank who is not really existing..Counterfeit check allows you to encash or clear a check for 3 days, and then you will withdraw it, but bank can only notice or realize after 10 days that this check is a fake one..So you have sent your item to the scammer, and you sent him the "overpayment" he was talking about, and that left you a huge debt as well..losing a profit, the original price of the bag, and huge sum of money from your bank...
What I did, to make him feel happy, I sent him a mail about MTCN # from western union, but is a fake one...
he kept on coming back to the western union office only to withdraw money that is not really in the system...
let your victim be a lesson to you to stop scamming people..
beware of this person..be smart...