They tried to scam us!!!

[smurfalicious]

In our business we get them as the "deaf phone calls." If I'm not swamped, I will play along long enough to get the crdt crd info in order to call the banks. They always ask if we sell guitars. I say yes, and they ask for a price. I always quote something outrageous. They have no problem with the price, and they'll want half a dozen shipped to Nigeria for a church program. It's a shame that they use a system designed to help hearing impaired people use the telephone.

Ugh, yeah we got that nonsense at T-Mobile too. I think my general distrust in the human race helped a lot. I caught sooo many fraud accounts and fraudulent phone orders. We have policies in place to prevent that but ya know enough calls and people catch on and learn to work within them. The fraud department loved me, every time I talked to them I had everything in a row and I stopped tons of bogus orders from shipping. I'd go back there in a heartbeat if I could work in that department. I hate selling anything on Craigslist for that very reason. I get all excited that maybe I have a legit response and it's not.

This site is rather amusing. Some people apparently have enough spare time to screw with these jerks: http://www.419eater.com/

[mtbdarby]

Sorry to hear about the scam RM but glad you caught it.

I was contacted by my cc company this morning - someone stole my number and was making charges under the company name "craigslist". At least they noticed it and contacted me. I just paid my bill so I wouldn't have caught it for month. The account is now closed and a new card on the way.

Some people need to get honest jobs.....

[beccaB]

A woman in our community manufactured a fake illness . The community had fundraisers to help offset the cost of treatments that weren't covered by insurance. She was from a very well known local family. She had even fooled her family into believing she was being treated for cancer several years ago, and that she was having a recurrence.The community fundraiser was a big success. She went on a few nice trips. She got in trouble with the law when a co-worker became suspicious. Turns out there never was any illness. I am out $250 for donating products to a raffle. I probably will keep my money and time from now on. It is sad to think people are such liars and that good people can be taken in like this.

[Aggie_Ama]

Becca- My friend's ex husband claimed to have brain cancer at the same time my own father had colon cancer. She found out he lied to her to manipulate her into not leaving him. I was so angry I told her he deserved cancer because that is the only way he might learn. I doubt it though, people stoop pretty low when they think it benefits themselves.

[Running Mommy]

Oh Becca and Aggie those are awful stories!!!

So the perp called back yesterday- multiple times!! At first my manager told him that he sent the item to the billing address here in AZ, expecting the guy to say "NO. it was suppose to go to LA". But he didnt. He called back for a tracking number. So my manager goes "you know I would have sent the bike if you were the real Hon Fung. But your not. I talked to the real Mr. Fung. But I have a question for you... How do you get away with it?? I mean you have called us multiple times, and you gave us an address. Both things have been turned over to the fraud dept. and police. So how do you get away with it???'. You would think that the guy would have hung up by now, but he DIDNT!! He played dumb. It was AMAZING!!!!

[alpinerabbit]

Gotta love the spambaiter/419 page, what about the handwritten copy of Harry Potter the guy obtained, or a hand carved Wallace and Gromit sculpture. Hilarious.