Fun With Craigslist Scammers

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So I have this bar I am selling on craigslist and as anyone who has ever posted something to CL knows, you get scammer emails. No big deal. You can spot them a mile away. Well yesterday I had 5 of them in a period of about a half an hour. I was in a playful mood so I decided to have some fun.

First email:

Thanks for the response. I am willing to pay your asking price. I am
paying with Money Order /Cashier Check and  I would like to send
payment directly to you the above mentioned. You should receive
payment within the coming ( 2-3 days ). As per pick-up,I have a
reputable shipping company and i will make arrangement with the
manager of my shipping moving company to come for pick-up after
payment has been received by you and cashed out. The payment will be
sent via Fedex Mail and a fedex tracking number will be provided to
you. I don’t mind offering you an extra $60 so that you can tell other
buyers the item is no more available. My assistant will mail out the
payment to you once i have the details below from you :

FULL NAME ( Name to issue the payment to. )
HOME OR OFFICE Address ( No P.O Box Address Please )
CITY,
STATE,
ZIPCODE/POSTAL CODE,
PHONE NUMBERS.
Immediately i have these above information from you i will  have it
handled to my assistant so that he can proceed on sending out the
payment to you today. I would really appreciate if you take the
posting off craigslist today and consider it sold to me. .We’ll
proceed on the shippment once the payment is delivered to you by the
FedEx Mail man.
Thanks for your understanding and i will really like doing business
with you……
Warm Regards.

Obvious to me what this is, my response. Bear in mind that my asking price in the ad is $400

Sounds good to me. You can make the check out for $4879.00

Scammers response to that:

send me your mailing address for the payment asap.
Thanks.

Hmmm. Ok so someone did not read the email. My response:

Make the check payable to

Barry Soetoro

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20500

Figuring the most famous address in the world would surely give up that I am screwing with them. Scammers respons:

Hello,
As i said on my previous email, I did send out my assistant to help me
in sending out the payment. But there is something urgent i think i
must bring to your notice. After a reconciliation of my account, i
discovered that somehow my assistant must have over paid you.The
payment that was meant for another transaction was sent to you and the
one meant for you was sent to another; however i want to believe i
won’t have a problem with you. All you have to do is to cash the Check
at your bank when you receive it get your required amount and send the
balance to the shipping company.
It is the policy of the shipping company to receive payment before
going for any pickup. You have to please bear with me as it is the
best i can do in this transaction so let me know if i can count on
you. The shipping company will contact you in good time. Please feel
free to ask me questions. Check should arrive by Friday or latest
Saturday this week.

I’ll be awaiting your Urgent response.

Thanks

Oooo Kaaaay. Someone is getting their scam threads mixed up. Time to turn up the heat and get a bit more aggressive. My response:

 I see from your correspondence that you are an intelligent individual. Since you have a reputable shipping company already in place, may I entertain you with a business prospect?

This item is one of thousands that I have. I run two small but reputable secondhand consignment stores. One is located in San Francisco and the other which is my headquarters is in New York City. I have three warehouses full of electronics, computers, furniture, antiques, jewlrey, and other quality items in excellent condition.

With the state of the economy, I just cannot move the stuff as fast as I would like. Would you be interested in helping me? I would be willing to sell items to you in bulk at drastically reduced prices. You could mark the stuff up at 75-85% of what I would sell it to you for and still be giving people a great deal.

If this would interest you write back quickly. I have made this offer to two other people and they are very interested.

Warm regards,

Norm

This time they read it. Scammer’s reply:

Let us finish with this transaction and we talk about that affer this. Keep me posted once you get the payment.
Looking forward doing business with you.

At this point I’m not liking the responses I am getting. So I bump it up a notch. Keep in mind the bar was the original item for sale. I decided it was time to change the subject of the item for sale. A cougar sounded like something far fetched so why not?  My response:

About this transaction. Is your shipping company certified to transport wild exotic animals? I must warn you that the cougar recently had dental surgery and has not quite been itself lately. Nevertheless $20,000 US dollars is still a fine deal for such a great animal. You will like him I’m sure.

At the very least I would do a double take and ask the person I am corosponding with what the heck they are smoking, but alas that does not matter to a scammer.

Scammer’s reply:

Okay.
I will inform them about that.

Still nothing. Ok, I can do better than that. This time I was going to use some real creativity.

Also just as an FYI, under no circumstances should you ever attempt to milk a male cougar. I found out the hard way. They do not appreciate it at all to say the least.

Oh yes I went there :)

No response from that scammer as of yet. Will keep you posted if I do hear back. But I doubt I will this time.

Tell me about your fun with scammers.

If You Are Not Paranoid, You Should Be

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So way back on January 1, 2012, the POTUS signed into law the NDAA with the provision and language that allows the POTUS the sole authority to detain US Citizens not only abroad but here on US soil indefinitely without being brought up on charges or given a trail by jury.

Then all the way back in February the story broke about Congress authorizing 30,000 drones to be flown over US airspace.

Next of course there is the wonderful, trustworthy, and always well intentioned, Department of Homeland Security, placing a contract for 625 million rounds of ammunition. Meh!

Now we have the NSA spying on every communication inside and outside the ConUS. And they have the power to break any encryption in seconds. All of course outside the bounds of the Constitution.

Our country is run by Godless men. They have an inert need to control your every thought and action. And they do it all in the name of peace and security of course.

Wake up people. They are planning for something and whatever it is you can count on two things. 1. It will be big. and 2. It was planned.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

UPDATE – 4/6/12 : This just in from SHTFPlan.com DHS to Purchase Bullet Proof Guard Shacks - does not specify the quantity.

George Soros Endorses…..Mittens!

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Yes you read that right folks. “Spooky Dude” endorses Mitt Romney. Check it out.

I’m not going to jump the gun on this one yet and say that he is really endorsing Romney. I’m suspecting that this has more to do with Soros’s arch-enemy Glenn Beck.

Beck is now backing fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney. And in what I view as him placing his allegiance to the Mormon church over his espoused principles of fidelity to the Constitution and the Rule of law. For all of Beck’s talk over how he believes in the Constitution and Free Markets, he ignores the only candidate that has consistently defended those principles, Ron Paul. Beck conveniently site’s Paul’s foreign policy as the source of his disagreement. Dr. Paul wan’ts to bring our troops home from all counties of the world and end all foreign aid – including to Israel but exclusively.

So it would seem to me that Soros may and I stress may be saying this to force his foe’s hand. That is to say to see if Beck can actually put his mouth where his money is.

I would love to see if Soro’s, Media Matters, and all the other places where Soro’s has his hands in actually put’s his money where his mouth is. I would love to see Soro’s make a big ol’ public contribution to Romney’s campaign and his SuperPAC’s.

 

Ron Paul The Tire Reader

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Presidents are not an Island. This is an important truism to bare in mind when casting a vote for who you want to be the next President of The United States of America.

My opposition to Mitt Romney, Newt Gingritch, Rick Santourm, Rick Perry, John Huntsman, and even Michelle Bachman and Herman Cain (both have now dropped out) is not solely based on ideological differences. I can find lots of areas to agree with all of them on. In fact as Congressmen, Governors, and Senators I would root and support all of them. In many ways they all have exceptional qualities as individuals that I admire. I don’t doubt for a second that they all are in office to improve the world and our country in some fashion to the best of their abilities and the best of their influence. My hat is off to them for that.

However as the POTUS, it is not just their policy ideas that they are bringing with them to DC, much more important is their appointments to federal beaurocratic departments, judicial appointments, and cabinet level positions. These appointments have to happen and they have to come from somewhere. Generally speaking they come from the Presidents friends and campaign contributors. Understanding the above, you have to ask yourself who would a President Romney or Gingritch, etc. pull from. The obvious answer is his friends.

Watch the short video below. I would like you see something amazing as Ron Paul predicts the next decade [2002 to present] with amazing, dead on accuracy.

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So is he a prophet? A sooth seer? Clairvoyant maybe? Not at all. He’s a tire reader. What’s a tire reader you may ask?

Let’s say I drove my car over to your house and we had a conversation over the bed of my truck. During the course of the conversation you look down and see the my right rear tire is bald. There is some steel belt showing through and a bubble has formed on the side wall. You look over to me and say “You might want to get your tire changed because it’s going to blow soon.” YOU ARE A TIRE READER. You stated what is obvious to anyone who has ever seen a tire in their life. You can tell me with certainty that the tire is going to blow soon but you can’t tell me exactly when and where. You can say that if I continue with out changing the tire that I am at great risk of being left on the side of the road with a blown tire and that it will probably be at the most inconvenient time possible. And that my friends is Ron Paul.

That still begs the question how did he know? What tire was he looking at? To answer those questions you have to understand what I said when I opened this post, no president is and Island.

If you look at the past three Presidents, Clinton, Bush, and Obama, you begin to see the pattern clearly. They pull from their social network of rich and powerful people. The people that helped put these men in power have a lot of say in their administration. I’ll make this clear and upfront, it is not a conspiracy, it is a natural process that all of us share. There is nothing insidious or devious about it. It is nothing more than what we as social creatures tend to do. We tap into our sphere of influence to solve problems. You would no more make a complete stranger a Senior Vice President of your company than you would make them Chief of Staff or Secretary of some department. It is social networking.

In the case of President Obama, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, are all top contributors. Which is also the case for President Bush. Not surprising at all Mitt Romney has the same fans as the past two presidents. Which leaves us with the man I  endorse Ron Paul. In case you did not click on the link on his name I’ll list his top 20 contributors so far as of the last reporting cycle. Unfortunately I can only tell you 4 of them because that is listed.

Contributor Total I
Beefcarver Restaurants $1,000
Carolina Designs Realty Inc $1,000
Microsoft $300
Clean Gas Inc $250

That chart speaks volumes.

So America and New Hampshire, the choice becomes even more clear. Do you want 4 more years of Goldman appointees (John Corzine anyone?)  because a vote for Obama or Romney is a vote for 4 more years of Goldman influencing our foreign and domestic policy in their favor. Or do you want the candidate who will appoint such kooks as god forbid, Andrew Napolitano, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, [sarcasm off] and other’s who have their freedom and liberty as their selfish motivation and by logical extension yours too?

The choice could not be clearer. Ron Paul 2012!

 

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Obama Has Picked Who He Want’s To Run Against….Listen Up GOP

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On my lunch break I was listening to this video that Peter Schiff released yesterday from his radio show.

Peter does a stellar job of countering the speech and dissecting the POTUS’s propaganda. What really struck me though are Obama’s remarks, they are not directed towards Gingrich or Romney, for all the ideology that Obama is weakly countering is not coming from either of those candidates. Listen closely, Obama is railing against Ron Paul’s limited government platform. That is why he chose to channel Teddy Roosevelt. At 12:30 in the video this rings real clear “ There are some in Washington ….. same old tune – the market will take care of everything…” and this “…even if jobs don’t trickle down, well that’s the price of Liberty…”

All of the clips that Peter plays when looked at from the stand point of who the POTUS is addressing, you can clearly see that there is only one candidate that he could possibly be referring to.

And for those of you who really want to hear the POTUS’s entire speech, here is Part 1 below.