Craigslist scam

[onionpuzzle]

Not 100% sure this is a scam, but totally has the smell of it.
I put a speaker cabinet up for sale in Bay Area Craigslist, and listed a phone number to call. Still, I check my e-mail in case anyone goes that route. Got one reply, innocent enough, that says.." still available ? " type thing. I answered "yes, are you interested ?"

got THIS reply back....to which I replied "sorry, cash only"

Hi there, Thank you for getting back to me.Can you assure me that it'sin good state and that i will not be disappointed with it. I'm readyto pay your asking price and to be honest, i wanted to buythis for my son, but the issue is i am an oceanographer and i do havea contract to go for which starts tomorrow and am leaving any momentfrom now. The contract is strictly no call due to the lack of receptionon the sea area. But I'm able to access email anytime as we will makeuse of laptop so my only quickest payment option is PayPal as i cansend money via PayPal anytime.Since I'm requesting this transaction tobe done via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the PayPalfee/charges on this transaction and if you don't have an account withPayPal, its pretty easy, safe and secured to open one. Just log on towww.paypal.com. I hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible? Ihave a mover that will come for it once payment clears and they willget it to my son's location safely. So i look forward to hear from you soon

[gjbassist]

SCAM! You can tell it's fake by the poor grammar and strange word choices that normal people wouldn't use in an email.

[samc2527]

yes thats a scam I get those all the time posting on CL thats why f you read a lot of postings they will say " all e-mails asking if available will be ignored" makes sense now? haha