Avoid Scammers on Craigslist and Facebook

Avoid Scammers on Craigslist and Facebook

Lets face it, scammers are rampant on the internet. I often use Craigslist to sell spare parts or equipment around the shop as the need for whatever it is declines from public demand. For every legitimate inquiry I get, I get 2 or 3 scam inquiries. So, here are some tips to avoid getting scammed!

1) Never accept money orders! 99% of all money order traffic on Craigslist seems to be fraudulent, and they will send you a money order that seems good, or clears initially, but then backfires on you, and you wind up with a bank coming after you for fraud instead of the actual scammer. This has happened to an acquaintance of mine, and it could happen to anyone else. The same thing goes for eBay, although that is slightly safer. If I am doing business on eBay, the only method of payment that I will accept is paypal, and I am wary of people who say they cannot pay via paypal, because you do not even need a credit card to have paypal deduct funds from a checking account... That is highly fishy.

2) On Craigslist, pay attention to the email that you get inquiring about whatever you are selling. A lot of scammers will word emails to be about "your item" or I am still interested in "it" sometimes they will copy the listing title letter for letter, and as a result you wind up getting something that reads "Hello, I was wondering if your item, XXXXXXXXXXXX, was still available. Also, I need to know if there is anything wrong with it." I guess the bottom line is that if it looks like it was written by a robot, it probably was.

3) If a friend contacts you on facebook, and says they are trapped overseas and need money, ask lots of personal questions, because their account has probably been hacked. Scammers will break into an account, and then solicit all of the friends possible to send money overseas until the person figures out they were hacked, at which point the account is closed, and the scammmer takes whatever they have made and vanishes. When it comes from keeping your account from being hacked... The best and most reliable solution is to check the address bar before logging in to any service. Many scammmers will try to get your personal information using lookalike sites, but they will not have the same address.

So, if you are trying to log in to facebook, and the page looks like facebook, but the address bar reads something like "http://www.myfacebook.info" or "http://www.facebook.com@fr.eex.us." Don't enter your password, whatever you do!

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