Is this a scam?

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

Background story: My roommate was engaged to a guy and they broke up 2 months before the wedding. She has now tried selling the wedding rings online on Craigslist. I've told her to be really carefull because something of that value and on a site like craigslist there would be a ton of scammers.

Well we've had 1 obvious scammer, 1 possible scammer (he wouldn't reply back when we started questioning him) and 1 I'm not sure of.

This is for a mens diamond wedding ring for $2000 and was posted on the Baltimore MD craigslist.

here's the email that she has received.

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From: FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
To: sale-123456789@craigslist.org
Sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:11 pm
Subject: men's wedding band - $2000


** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

Hello,
How you doing..i was on this site to check on the item am going to buy,then
i saw your item on advert ..Well i would like to make purchase of it ..cox
it really look good and adorable.....Pls Let me know the total cost of
shiping to ill ,this is the code and the state{fl ,33778}.Thanks and i would
be making paymnet Via paypal ..so you email me your paypal id and your reall
name ..so i can make paymnet as soon as possible.cox the item is really
needed ungenlty.
ThanksÂ
FIRSTNAME

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He is shipping domestically, however the ton of mispelled words and bad grammer tell me it could be a scam.

Whacha think? Since it's domestic, if the address he provides is a confirmed address wouldn't we be safe through Paypal?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: eLiTeGoodGuy
Background story: My roommate was engaged to a guy and they broke up 2 months before the wedding. She has now tried selling the wedding rings online on Craigslist. I've told her to be really carefull because something of that value and on a site like craigslist there would be a ton of scammers.

Well we've had 1 obvious scammer, 1 possible scammer (he wouldn't reply back when we started questioning him) and 1 I'm not sure of.

This is for a mens diamond wedding ring for $2000 and was posted on the Baltimore MD craigslist.

here's the email that she has received.

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From: FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
To: sale-123456789@craigslist.org
Sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:11 pm
Subject: men's wedding band - $2000


** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

Hello,
How you doing..i was on this site to check on the item am going to buy,then
i saw your item on advert ..Well i would like to make purchase of it ..cox
it really look good and adorable.....Pls Let me know the total cost of
shiping to ill ,this is the code and the state{fl ,33778}.Thanks and i would
be making paymnet Via paypal ..so you email me your paypal id and your reall
name ..so i can make paymnet as soon as possible.cox the item is really
needed ungenlty.
ThanksÂ
FIRSTNAME

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He is shipping domestically, however the ton of mispelled words and bad grammer tell me it could be a scam.

Whacha think? Since it's domestic, if the address he provides is a confirmed address wouldn't we be safe through Paypal?

I wouldn't trust it, but you have a couple of misspellings in your post too.

Why doesn't she try and sell it on eBay?

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

I know but email has a spell check, anandtech doesn't lol I generally hit spellcheck before I send an email

 

[Uppsala9496]

SCAM

 

[ric1287]

haha, give the ring back to the guy who paid for it?

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

Originally posted by: ric1287
haha, give the ring back to the guy who paid for it?

She paid for it. and hers too.

 

[tw1164]

Just have the buyer pay via certified check or wire the funds.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: ric1287
haha, give the ring back to the guy who paid for it?

it was a men's diamond wedding ring. reading > you.

 

[Dualist]

I'm betting that's a scam to me.

 

[mooglekit]

The general tone, poor grammar and complete inability to spell contained in that email would just scream scam to me...I wouldn't sell to this person unless I could do it in person with cash and a 9mm on my hip

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: eLiTeGoodGuy
I know but email has a spell check, anandtech doesn't lol I generally hit spellcheck before I send an email

Firefox has spell check built in.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: ric1287
haha, give the ring back to the guy who paid for it?

it was a men's diamond wedding ring. reading > you.

first line says selling weding rings and the guy usually pays for those.


oo oo, do i get to use stupid forum slang now to feel smarter now?

 

[nonameo]

I would suspect a scam.

edit: a ring is something you'd really want to sell locally anyways, you want to make SURE they're satisfied before closing an AS-IS deal.