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I have an ad on AudiogoN and got a response that was suspicious. They asked for name, address, email, and phone. I gave that but not phone. They said they were sending a "check" but no word since. I think that since I did not accept "bank transfer" they gave up.
So the question is how vulnerable am I having given out email and address? It seems like that information is readily available these days. No problem?
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Obviously these guys are scammers and are either trying to perpetrate identity fraud or kick your house in.... here's an example of a response from a recent craigslist ad I had:
Hey are you even getting my messages at all? Just let me know if it is available this is only contact for now so reply back if you can - Fsumq1@live.com
Can contain before it becomes saturated and forms into a cloud depends on it is temperature Warmer air can contain. PSB's top speaker line a few years ago, the Platinum series are the last PSB speakers to be built in Canada.
Note that only the last sentence was copied from my ad and mixed in with jibberish or often broken English or just really poor grammar.
Dead give-aways are asking you to reply to a different e-mail , calling your item "the item" , etc. They always say they are out of town or in the military and want to send you a check and have a "representative? pick it up after you receive the check...sounds fishy to me.
I had this happen when I purchased an entire whole house system and then some. I had several ada multichannel amps that were about six grand each new. I had so many requests for my info and address that my lack of trust in general told me not to give any info. My fear was that in asking for my address they would kick my house in , easy hit when you know there's high $$$ gear in the house. After many weirdo contacts I finally sold everything to a couple decent guys. The key thing is that if they won't talk via phone it is most likely a scam.
I recently read an article about what's ok to just toss in the garbage and what should be shredded before tossing. The main point of the article was exactly as you expected, if the information is readily available (name, address, etc.) then it's ok to toss without shredding.Gerry
Edits: 02/13/12
Beware of a similar scam through Craigslist where a "buyer" says they are out of state or often pose as someone in the military. They say they will paypal you the funds and have a "representative" pick the goods up locally at your house. I have never given them my paypal info because this is what I suspect will happen. They send you $1 through a bogus paypal/email account first. Then paypal sends them a receipt with guess what? Your name, address, and phone number. Their "representative" then pays you a visit. The only problem with that is that you are at work and they kick in your house and take the item in question along with everything else....... Poor Englis and sentence structure are the dead givaways, as are e-mails from world time zones.
Always a good idea
I get these all the time on craigslist they never mention the item by name and they say they will send me a certified check the catch is later they say they made it out for too much so when you cash it send back the differance what I have heard is that the bank will cash the check but later you will be liable because it is fake. I always reply to these ads and ask to talk to someone on the phone, never hear back.
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