Over the past few months I’ve been selling stuff on craigslist. (Sometimes the name’s capitalized, sometimes not, and I’ve even read interviews where they’ve said not capitalized is more correct so I’ll try to be equally inconsistent.)
I’m a bit of a pack-rat and space is becoming tight. If I chip away at it I figure I will have lightened my load considerably in, oh, say two or three years. We’ll see.
Anyway, while my sales have by-and-large completed quite nicely, the amount of spam and scam has been an eye-opening experience. How about this email, for example?
Hi
Thanks for the response.I am willing to pay your asking price.I will pay by money order as its the only way i can pay you at the moment.I will make arrangement for the pick-up after payment have been received by you. I don’t mind adding an extra twenty dollars so you can keep it in my favor.Reply with your full name,cell phone number,and address where payment should be sent.Please take the posting off craigslist today and consider it sold to me. Expecting to hear from you soon.
Regards
How ’bout that? Would you respond to this? An extra twenty bucks. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it?
I came close to asking the writer if I could offer my Social Security number as well as the other stuff he asked for, just for giggles. But nah, into the junk it went.
Yawl be careful out there!
