Scammed on Craigslist...

[goodburbon]

Translation, most police depts have no clue what to do or how to handle it.
My company was attacked with a DDS, called the FBI, useless.

Yes, incompetence entrenched in burecracy, it's quickly become the american way. On the plus side the detective did call my wife to see if everything was "ok" a week later...:sure:

 

[kastein]

Someone used a dentist to attack your company?

Think he probably meant DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service attack. Usually means some script kiddiot thinks they are proving how awesome they are by telling a few hundred thousand infected home computers to dump a bunch of network traffic on your webserver.

 

[heyhar]

This wasn't one of those Nigerian checks, was it? My wife works in a bank, and this stuff turns up a lot. A fellow a few weeks ago had a check for just a little more, same story- Wrong amount, just send the difference. Within banking, it's not too hard to find out if a check is worth anything, even if it's drawn on another bank. About a year ago, it was Walmart 'rebate' checks. The PA State Police did pursue it, and I believe they made a few arrests.

 

[prerunner1982]

NO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WOULD EVEN LOOK INTO IT!

Sounds about right. When I worked in the restaurant (chain) business all stores in an area of town were notified of numerous stolen checks that had been used repeatedly. One night we received a stolen check we had been notified about and the driver remember exactly where he had received it. Local authorities could care less and never investigated. I guess they don't give a crap unless it is making them money... like writing tickets.

 

[xjrev10]

On Ebay, I use Paypal. Never had a problem yet.

Ron

I just bought an owners manual for my 88 Comanche off Craigslist and used paypal. Works great and you are protected.

 

[AIbandit]

Actually I've been told it's not. Someone ran this game on us, sort of. Stole our credit card information, sold it to someone else. That someone else used it to open a fedex account, then in one day sent out dozens of checks, overnighted, draining our account. A few of them were returned to sender, a few of the people tracked us down and asked if we were scamming them. WE called the FBI, who didnt' care. We called the US marshalls, who didn't care. We called the State police who didn't care and told us to call the local sheriff. We went to the police with the scam e-mails, fraudulent checks in unopened envelopes, and the name of the only place we had ever given that particular credit card info to. They opened the envelope, fingerbanged the evidence, told us there was nothing they could do since the checks didn't come with any instructions and there was no way to link the sender of the e-mail to the sender of the check/credit card fraud.

So we went home. We now have a very lucrative business defrauding lots of people out of money over interstate lines and as long as we keep the communications seperate, the law doesn't care, and has no idea how to fingerprint a piece of paper.:guitar:


4wdlifeform, we'll take you off our mailing list.:shhh:

Lol I don't doubt it.

I've had my card stolen before bank payed me back but nothing happened to the perps.

Op Everyone that sells on CL gets these emails.
Usually the responses with typos or ones that don't say what you're selling in the response throw up a red flag. "the item you're selling" not real, legit buyers usually
say what it is "I'm interested in your ____"

 

[RCP Phx]

You dont have to "sell" anything to get caught up in this.My girl friend contracted to do "hair" for a wedding(4 girls for 750$)got a check for 2500 and a "story".There is a website that you will get directed to for just these scenarios(FBI/something).We had all the E-mails over a couple weeks and forwarded it all to them!

 

[AIbandit]

Then they pressed delete

 

[bigalpha]

I got my identity stolen and the local PD actually did an investigation. Of course, the lady who stole my identity tried to cash some checks at the bank.

 

[Darky]

I got my identity stolen and the local PD actually did an investigation. Of course, the lady who stole my identity tried to cash some checks at the bank.

Same here, except they opened a Target card in my name and spent a whopping $248. Seems like an awful lot of trouble and risk for a couple lamps and some shirts...

 

[bigalpha]

Haha, This lady tried to cash a check for "house cleaning". When the teller called me, I looked around my apartment and was like, "Nope, she sure as hell didn't clean here".

 

[4WDlifeform]

So get this... I respond to the guy, and said "DO NOT contact me for any reason!"

He sends me a huge email with detailed and specific instructions, including an address to send the balance to. But, the thing I dont get is... the check is from a company in Oregon, it shipped from Chicago IL, and they want me to send the balance to a person in Kentucky... This has SCAM all over it!

Now that the moron gave me an address, I feel that I have something to report to the police. I was expecting some P.O. box for an address, but its and actual house address.

I know the general trend on how well the police actually "serve" and protect. If its not exciting, they don't seem to care. Been there. It might be worth a shot at busting a few criminals? I just cant get how stupid this guy is... Like its not supposed to look suspicious at all...

 

[RCP Phx]

This is where I was sent to from the Local FBI.They say they get 1000's a day!
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

 

[cracked-butt]

don't ya'll get it?
from the top of our "great" government down to the local fingers of it.... they don't care about us "regular joe's"!

 

[AIbandit]

Now that the moron gave me an address, I feel that I have something to report to the police. I was expecting some P.O. box for an address, but its and actual house address.

Google earth it I want to see if enough people have fallen for this for him to buy his mansion yet.