Stitchit123

Thank you-I sent this info to my son, he does a lot of on line buying. Hearing things like this just reaffirms my decision not to shop on line, or put my personal info on the computer.

IBQUILTIN

I have some high dollar items listed on Craig's list right now, and am getting all kinds of scammers. Really be careful when you are listing or buying from there anymore

kuntryquilter

You can report these people back to Ebay. I had a similar situation when I was trying to sell my sit down quilter. My husband reported them to Ebay & they took care of it.

Dodie

Not sure if I am telling this in the right place but Sun. while in church our neighbor had her car window broken and her purse, car registration and garage door opener stolen and yesterday when she came home there was a strange guy in her house no one was hurt he ran away but still under investigation but does sounds like there is getting to be quite a bit of stealing garage door openers and addesses so one cannot be careful enough

Flowergurl

Thanks for the heads up. I use craigslist quite often to buy things.

nwm50

It happened right here in Fla...I was selling a Featherweight and was contacted thru CL just like u described but I got curious as to why he really didn't ask question about the machine but preferred to send me a money order with no mention of how/where to send machine. Then I played it out some more with inquiries...few days later I get a text (I supidtly had ph # listed) that his assistant sent too much and could he trust me to send the differences back? I then contacted the postal service and they informed me it was indeed a scam called Nigerian Scam! That money order was for more than triple what I selling machine for! I edited my CL to read cash and carry only w/o my phone # and to be contacted only thru that listing. Talk about a close call !!

pflum1

Sounds like the same thing they were trying to pull on ebay last year. But, they wanted you to go to Walmart and buy some kind of debit card, forward it to an out of country address and they would mail the machine to you. So long money.

madamekelly

Never ever give any information about yourself online!

mojo11

Thank you for letting us know.

mkc

The ad is on Craigslist in Dallas as well as a number of other cities like Salina, OKC, Stillwater, Tulsa, etc.

Michelle