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11-16-2012, 12:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Elk River, MN. | | | Strangest response to a CL ad I have ever received
So, I have a couple of basses listed on CL. I have bought and sold a lot of things on CL over the years and have received a lot of off the wall responses and thought I had read every scam out there.
I do not know what to think of the one I received this morning.
Here is the e mail Quote: |
I'm fascinated about you and the bass in your ad. I want to know more and was curious as to if you could call/text me with your location? My cell phone # is 612-671-xxxx . I have money set to go. I just need to ask you something over the phone and then check you out, this is not a scam. Thank you!
| Okay, nothing to weird there.
But then I noticed that there was two photos attached so I opened them.
What am I missing here? I don't see a scam unless she want to trade favors for the bass.  
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11-16-2012, 12:47 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | Not uncommon at all. I have received several responses such as this and have friends who have received them as well. Its a scam to get your information. Sometimes they use the info to try to steal your identity. Some use it to start communicating with you over the internet and when they feel that they have earned your trust, they ask you to start sending them money. Other scammers use this method to get you to go to a porn site.
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11-16-2012, 12:47 PM
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USAF Band of Flight, Dayton, Ohio | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Dayton, OH | | | A trade might be ok, but make sure there is some cash going to you as well. |
11-16-2012, 12:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Tell her you need more detailed pics before you can be sure you're getting a good deal.
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11-16-2012, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by two fingers Tell her you need more detailed pics before you can be sure you're getting a good deal. | End of thread lol |
11-16-2012, 12:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Elk River, MN. | | | Anybody notice the similarity of the girl and Chuck Norriss's girlfriend?????
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11-16-2012, 02:17 PM
|  | Don't take any guff from these swine! | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pomona, SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer  Anybody notice the similarity of the girl and Chuck Norriss's girlfriend????? | Where did you see Chuck Norriss's girlfriend?
I get responses like this from time to time... always the same pictures but different names & email addys.
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11-16-2012, 02:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Elk River, MN. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania Where did you see Chuck Norriss's girlfriend?
I get responses like this from time to time... always the same pictures but different names & email addys. | She's in his avatar and he has used her to sell basses.
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11-16-2012, 02:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Minneapolis | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer Anybody notice the similarity of the girl and Chuck Norriss's girlfriend????? | LOL!
Rule #1 - if they say it's not a scam, it is.
But thanks for posting the pictures anyway!
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11-16-2012, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SoAZ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by paparoof But thanks for posting the pictures anyway! | MOAR!!!!!
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11-16-2012, 03:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Like old Hampshire, but New | |  Maybe this thread is a scam...
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Originally Posted by pacojas because of your post, i have just quit my band!  the truth is liberating!  infact,... i think i'm about to leave my wife!!!  and move to Canada!!!! and buy a boat!!!!! | |
11-16-2012, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: St. Germain Wisconsin | | | Nobody ever offers to buy my gear with "favors" *** Maybe I should get a tatoo.
On a side note, she looks really young to have such lumpy legs. I do really like her shirt though. I would let her scam me a little.
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11-16-2012, 05:01 PM
| | | | I get the same things from the same girl or scammer or whatever it is. |
11-16-2012, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Elk River, MN. | | | But what is the scam?
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11-16-2012, 06:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | if those are lumpy legs then i give up. 
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11-16-2012, 06:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: fort worth, texas | | | danm, why can't i get this response? i always get the generic "do you still have the item for sale?" (scam) what item?!?!? if you can't tell me, you don't want it that bad!!!
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11-16-2012, 06:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer So, I have a couple of basses listed on CL. I have bought and sold a lot of things on CL over the years and have received a lot of off the wall responses and thought I had read every scam out there.
I do not know what to think of the one I received this morning.
Here is the e mail
Okay, nothing to weird there.
But then I noticed that there was two photos attached so I opened them.
What am I missing here? I don't see a scam unless she want to trade favors for the bass. | You know I just might have an extra bass laying around. |
11-16-2012, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Elk River, MN. | | | The funny thing is she replied to my MTD CRB5 that I have listed fairly cheap.
If it was a scam I would think they would try for the Spector I have listed.
Must be a 5 string girl.
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11-16-2012, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: ca | | | THAT'S MY DAUGHTER!! SHE'S ONLY 16!! |
11-16-2012, 07:04 PM
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Records of Existence/PyrE owner | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: wes virginny | | | I got the same response from a listing for a 1940s 2N tractor and brushhog.. except "she" said she was "very intriqued" by me and wanted to get coffee. guess she has a thing for guys with tractors. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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