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Scam emails from Classified Ads Message #1 Posted by Charles Perry on 30 June 2004, 10:27 a.m. I posted an ad in the Classified section of this website recently. I received 3 legitimate responses (or they seem so) and about a dozen obvious scam messages. You know the ones: poor english, offer to pay with cashier's check that just happens to be more than the purchase price, just send along the extra cash in the package, etc. What a pain. Has anyone else experienced this?

Re: Scam emails from Classified Ads Message #2 Posted by thebullcabinet on 30 June 2004, 10:32 a.m., in response to message #1 by Charles Perry Not on this site, but on others.

Re: Scam emails from Classified Ads Message #3 Posted by Dave on 30 June 2004, 11:44 a.m., in response to message #2 by thebullcabinet Yes it does occur. They are pretty obvious though...

Re: Scam emails from Classified Ads Message #4 Posted by pascal on 30 June 2004, 3:31 p.m., in response to message #3 by Dave I had the same problem too, I had 3 offers, one who offered me $1500 for my windows 1.03 !! He only had a check of $5000 and wanted me to arrange to pay the difference ... I just wonder if they really try to abuse someone (it's too obvious to abuse anyone) or just collect valid e-mail addresses of people who answer in order to sell them to spammers.

Re: Scam emails from Classified Ads Message #5 Posted by Dave on 30 June 2004, 3:57 p.m., in response to message #4 by pascal I know it is hard to believe, but there are actually people who bite on these scams...

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