So, I found a craigslist post for some Innovative Marine stuff - skimmer, reactor, fuge light, etc. The pics all look legit, showing shipping boxes and all equipment. It seems the story of a tank purchase which was never set up.
The original ad reads:
Interested, I send a mail:
And I get this odd response not 2 minutes later:
So, I'm thinking this is a scam, but there is the potential of picking it up at a neutral meeting spot, so it may be legit but a bit weird.
So, I reply:
I get this a minute later:
So, now that the 'I don't want to be scammed' has been used a number of times, and 'cuz' in in abundance, I figure this is most likely a scam. I send a final mail just in case this is a legit and confused person.
I reply:
Now here's the weird part. The last mail I get is this:
Keep in mind this entire conversation took place over about 6 minutes.
This confused the ^&%^ out of me for 2 reasons:
1) Why would a scammer look to sell such specific equipment. Its not got wide appeal nor is there tremendous profit from the scam, if it is a scam.
2) Go back and look at the initial ad, then read the first reply from the seller, then look at the last reply from the seller. Any sane person would bet its two different people, yet the tone, spelling, punctuation, etc all changes, on the fly, within minutes.
Obviously not making any purchase, just thought the whole tone of this odd and sharable for anyone bored enough to read it.
The original ad reads:
Interested, I send a mail:
And I get this odd response not 2 minutes later:
So, I'm thinking this is a scam, but there is the potential of picking it up at a neutral meeting spot, so it may be legit but a bit weird.
So, I reply:
I get this a minute later:
So, now that the 'I don't want to be scammed' has been used a number of times, and 'cuz' in in abundance, I figure this is most likely a scam. I send a final mail just in case this is a legit and confused person.
I reply:
Now here's the weird part. The last mail I get is this:
Keep in mind this entire conversation took place over about 6 minutes.
This confused the ^&%^ out of me for 2 reasons:
1) Why would a scammer look to sell such specific equipment. Its not got wide appeal nor is there tremendous profit from the scam, if it is a scam.
2) Go back and look at the initial ad, then read the first reply from the seller, then look at the last reply from the seller. Any sane person would bet its two different people, yet the tone, spelling, punctuation, etc all changes, on the fly, within minutes.
Obviously not making any purchase, just thought the whole tone of this odd and sharable for anyone bored enough to read it.
