Craigslist Scammer: Merry Jack

Well, I get to go through the whole scammer thing on Craigslist because I have a few items to sell. One item I think attracted the scammers because it is a kiln for $500. Scammer like those big numbers because they can rip their victims off for more money.

Fortunately for me, I saw it was a scam immediately, even though his first didn't say much. And I knew I wanted to blog about the whole back and forth and put him on the Internet so here goes... I'll keep adding to this until he realizes I know and moves on to greener scam pastures.

Notice how he put this weird thing at the bottom of his email to make it look like it was contacting me from his DROID, but then the phone number wasn't even properly falsified. Gads. Scammers are dumb. And they STILL make so much money. Baffles the mind.

First Email from my scammer:

Reply-To: roberyfourty@gmail.com

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:42:02 -0400
From: wallinsino02@gmail.com
To: wzdwx-3332982329@sale.craigslist.org
Subject: Evenheat GT-14-6 120volt Kiln - $500 (marina / cow hollow)

Hello

is the above item still for sale?


Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

(267) 607-924

I noticed the FROM and the REPLY-TO were different emails. Also a sign of a scammer. Just for grins, because I like to mess with them, I replied to both email addresses and in the body of the email (and the subject line), I removed all references to what the item was and will see what the scammer does with that.

Oh, they reply to *thousands* of sellers on Craigslist so they may just move on, but I had to see.

Second Reply (of course he ignored that he had no idea which item I am selling):

Subject: Re: Craigslist posting 

From: Merry Jack [roberyfourty@gmail.com]

Hello,
Thanks you for the response, I'm  okay with condition  on the Craigslist.
 I am ready to make instant purchase. My mode of payment would be in
 Certified Check  and i will arrange for a local pick up as soon as you
 get the payment, . I really wish to be there to check out the item but
due to my work frame i can not be able to get there , am very busy
 woman (Nurse) and i don't mind adding an extra $50 dollars for you to
take the advert down from Craigslist, so that i can be rest assured
that am in hand of  it. More so  my husband  will process your  payment
as soon as you provide your infor,and i promise everything  will go smoothly,
Concerning the pick up, i will arrange for it after you  receive the payment
and it clears... Pls get back to me with below info  so that i can proceed with
 the payment  immediately if you are selling to me.

 Name:
 Physical Address:
 City:
State:
 Postal Code:
 Phone Number:

And as soon as this is provided, the payment will be process
tomorrow  and i will let you know when its mailed out. Thanks and i
hope we handle this in good faith.Additional $50 will be added for
remove the item from the list.I will happy if you can sell the item for me.
although this is first time in Craigslist, So please be honest with  me, thanks
for understanding, looking forward to hear back from you ..God Bless you

Regards.....
Merry Jack

So I wrote back and told him he would need to overnight the check (I want him to lose a little money at least) but then I didn't provide him my address. I want to waste more of his time first.

To be continued....