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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:57 am

Another ad from craiglist, I gave them a fake physical address, and they sent me the "email" from eBay, that there is an ebay protection program, covering purchases from craigslist. Yeah, sounds stupid that anyone would believe it, but I am not going to tell them how stupid it sounds. There are a couple contradictions in the email, it says to pay buy western union, then also to ebay safe harbor. It says this covers fraud transaction, then that it does not if seller is in Europe. I typically do not tell laddies when they are screwing up. What would be slavic for laddie? Ladic?

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1. Make the payment using CASH ONLY (ONLINE CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED) at your nearest Western Union location, on our eBay Transaction Agent`s details, assigned for your transaction (Item: 2003 Nissan Murano SL ) as follows:

First name: David Last name: Hoffman

Address: 92 Oslobodjenja Blvd. City: Novi Sad, 21121
Country: Serbia-Montenegro

2. Once the payment was sent, E-MAIL US (by replying to this e-mail) the following information:

a) 10 digit MTCN Number (Western Union Money Transfer Control Number);
b) Exact Sender's name on file with Western Union;
c) Your exact address on file with Western Union;
d) City and country where you sent the money from;
e) Total amount transferred (including fees)
f) Fax us the Western Union receipt at the following fax number: 1 (888) 883 6289

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Sellers from Europe are not yet eligible for the PayPal Buyer Protection, which means you are not protected against fraud if you pay this seller by PayPal.

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Total Price Sales tax. Shipping Fee Down Payment 7,000.00 USD
0,00 USD

0,00 USD 6,500.00 USD

Item: 2003 Nissan Murano SL
Buyer: Issac Hunt

Delivery Information:

First name: Issac
Last name: Hunt
Street: xxx
City: xxxxxxxx
Country: Serbia-Montenegro

eBay Customer Representative Agent assigned for your transaction:

First name: David
Last name: Hoffman

Address: 92 Oslobodjenja Blvd.
City: Novi Sad, 21121
Country: Serbia-Montenegro

Seller Details:

First name: Andrew
Last name: Connor
Street: 36-37 Dunavska Street
City: Belgrade, 24000
Country: Serbia-Montenegro

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:59 am

Header info. If you go to that website, its an unfinished geocities site.

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1. Make the payment using CASH ONLY (ONLINE CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED) at your nearest Western Union location, on our eBay Transaction Agent`s details, assigned for your transaction (Item: 2003 Nissan Murano SL ) as follows:

Burned by perhaps?

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:28 am

The email address they gave in their scam posting is [email protected], if anyone else wants to take part.

There has been a Honda Accord also posted for sale, in addition to the nissan murano. Just reference one of them in the ad and mention you saw it on craigslist.

419Eater is my life Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 482

Well that IP points AOL, so that's not of much use. It's probably been hijacked from its original user.

There's a funny comment in <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anti-ebay/browse_frm/thread/8682f348b9a49ab9/e00a5f31a260fb11?lnk=st&q=ebay%40purchasevehicleprogram.com&rnum=1&hl=en#e00a5f31a260fb11">this Usenet thread</a> that comes up when you Google Groups on the e-mail addy:

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This is a retarded loser scammer from Belotesti in Ilfov county in
Romania. I spoke to him in email a while ago.

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