Recent Craigslist Robbery Article

[rdonovan1]

TA is Territorial Army...as I said part time soldiers. Here at least it's a good way into full time employment.

I would love to hear more about your country and your people sometime if you of course would be so kind to share with me.

 

[MJS]

My issue with Paypal is not because I was trying to sell anything through them at all.

I got my Paypal account initially so that I could purchase things online, but then after I started learning about eBay I decided that I wanted to sell SMC products as well as other related products online through eBay and through things like my own websites.

Unfortunately because of one of my former employers who terminated me for refusing to violate federal DOT hours of service laws I was left with basically little to no income coming in.

Prior to Swift terminating me for refusing to violate the law I had spent over $950 dollars trying to help a girl out that I had met on MySpace and whom I thought was legitimate. She told me that she had a client who was going to reimburse me the money that I spent trying to help her out and who was supposedly going to be putting up the money so that this girl could supposedly return to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The whole thing was nothing but a personal issue and not one of a b2c relationship.

The way that I see it if Wells Fargo can determine and trace an IP Address to Egypt and they can understand and take action on something they know to be a scam due to their own investigative efforts, then so should Paypal as they are supposed to have professionals working for them that are supposed to know what they are doing and that are supposed to protect their customers from fraud.

Umm....who, I repeat who in their right mind would spend $950 on someone they know from myspace?????????????? And then you wonder a) why people are saying the things they are about you and b) why you are in the paranoid state of mind that you're in.

 

[Tez3]

I would love to hear more about your country and your people sometime if you of course would be so kind to share with me.

Feel free to Pm if you wish. I can chat for England frankly.

and you lot can stop laughing!

 

[Flea]

I'm a widow with seven children and am about to be thrown out of my house as I can't pay the rent please send me money asap and I'll let you have it back when I sell off one of my children into the sex trade.

I don't know if that thread is still around, but I am considering a new career. Tez, maybe you're on to something ...

How about this? I'm a newly-quadruplegic MA'ist being harassed by neighborhood kids. They keep stealing my service monkey and making it shoplift cigarettes for them. Please send me $700 so I can give it to these kids to buy their own cigs and leave my money alone! I'll repay you as soon as we perfect our sidewalk organ-grinder routine.

:lol:

 

[Hawke]

I know people that advertise on CL as massage therapists, but they do house calls not in home. They also spend time to get to know them before they go to their client's homes. Some of them don't have offices because they can't afford the extra money for the city license(s). Usually these massage therapist are part timers.

I personally don't invite strangers to my home.

 

[jks9199]

Actually, really "new" scams are rare. Most turn out to be a slight variant on old scams... The Nigerian Scam is just a different take on the Spanish Prisoner... Pigeon Drops are rampant.

There are a few things that make any scam work... They rely on greed overcoming common sense, and on moving quickly (at key points in a long con) or pressuring the victim so that they don't think things through.

 

[jks9199]

I'm going to try to explain this better to you so that you will understand better as to where I am coming from.

The only question is will the idiots and pinheads in my neighborhood leave me alone long enough so that I can explain it properly and as stress free as I possibly can without one of these idiots trying to pull something on me.

I don't know when they are going to get it through their thick skulls that I am not a cigarette shop, a taxi service, the phone company, or the grocery store and that they need to get off their lazy asses and go out and get a damn job.

They'll stop when you stop letting them take advantage of you.

I don't mind helping people out when I can, but at some point I need to draw the line and stand up for myself by saying no and by sticking to it.

My gawd! Maybe, just maybe the light is beginning to dawn!

Print this post. Cut the last line out. Or use a marker... But put it lots of places that you can see and be reminded.

STOP BEING A FREAKING VICTIM AND STOP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE. Stop looking for a solution and start creating one.

 

[rdonovan1]

They'll stop when you stop letting them take advantage of you.

My gawd! Maybe, just maybe the light is beginning to dawn!

Print this post. Cut the last line out. Or use a marker... But put it lots of places that you can see and be reminded.

STOP BEING A FREAKING VICTIM AND STOP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE. Stop looking for a solution and start creating one.

I don't know if this will make sense to anyone, but what I am doing is focusing more on my own behavior while at the same time calling people on their crap.

 

[rdonovan1]

Actually, really "new" scams are rare. Most turn out to be a slight variant on old scams... The Nigerian Scam is just a different take on the Spanish Prisoner... Pigeon Drops are rampant.

There are a few things that make any scam work... They rely on greed overcoming common sense, and on moving quickly (at key points in a long con) or pressuring the victim so that they don't think things through.

Common sense and being able to read people's minds are two seperate things.

I don't know about you or anyone else, but I have no way of knowing what another person is going to say or do. All that I can do is make my best guess and hope that I am right. The rest is up to the other person as to whether they can and will be honest with me upfront by doing what they say they are going to do.