Another Scam or real???

[Danaus29]

Received in response to my craigslist posting for the Black Spanish turkey hen:
Interested................... ddzdwzc

What's your input?

Thanks

[nehimama]

You know, I got a response like that just last week when I posted a buckling for sale. Trying to get an email conversation going on the buckling was like pulling teeth! One-word responses. I was leery and thought it might be some sort of scam.

On the phone, however, the feller was a talk-aholic. Very interesting and he did buy the buckling and made plans to buy some other goats I'll have for sale later.

All I can advise is to proceed with caution.

[goto10]

It's funny cause talkaholics want to talk not email so emails will be barren then you'll call and they talk your ear off for a half hour.

To the OP that is definitely spam. Don't reply. If you are using CL and people don't mention what you are selling by name, it's spam.

[Patt]

Have you had any other interest? Some people just don't communicate well via email.

[Patt]

Originally Posted by goto10

If you are using CL and people don't mention what you are selling by name, it's spam.

Good to know!

[Danaus29]

And sometimes when they do mention what you are selling it can still be a scam. I had an email about a car I'm trying to sell which really sounded phishy.

I do have another interested party. Waiting to see how that works out.

[tinknal]

I get a response like that every time I post on cl. It's spam/scam. Pretty clear when they don't name the thing being sold. The message is always something like "Do you still have the item?"

[airmont]

Be careful. My son had a few ads on craigslist. Each one was responded to in a similar way. Two of them had videos that "needed" to be clicked on that were supposed to be of similar merchandise that they wanted you to view to make sure yours is the same, and that if so they were interested. He clicked on one, and that computer was infected with the "security" adware that was the subject of another post in the homestead computer section.

We now have a separate cellphone(pay as you go) just for craigslist and require people to leave a message, and we will get back to them. We no longer open email responses to our ads and include that info in them.This has stopped all of our problems related to scammers.

[hillbillygal]

When I reply to an ad from Craigslist, I always manually put what I'm interested in in the subject line. That way the folks know I'm real and not scamming.

[airmont]

Originally Posted by hillbillygal

When I reply to an ad from Craigslist, I always manually put what I'm interested in in the subject line. That way the folks know I'm real and not scamming.

I hadn't thought of that. If everybody did so, it might make it alot better.
I wish craigslist required some sort of authentication in order for people to respond by e-mail, but of course, it is a free service.

[willow_girl]

"Interested" followed by a text string most likely is an email harvester. They want you to reply so they can harvest your email address. I have gotten this response many times. I just delete them.

I've added some standard verbiage to all my ads: "In your reply, please specify a time when you would like to come look at it -- that will help me sort the legitimate replies from the spammers etc. Thanks for looking at my ad! "

Also, make sure you use a junk email account, like Hotmail or Yahoo, and not your server mail for Craigslist transactions. Cuts down on the spam!

[MaineFarmMom]

Dear ddzdwzc,

I'm so glad you're interested in my turkeys. Please send a check via FedEx in the amount of $5,000 US Dollars as a good faith deposit. I will cash your check and give you the balance when you pick up your birds.

[Danaus29]

Love your answer MaineFarmMom!

I won't be responding, I think it's an email phishing reply.

Besides, Lurkey might have a home waiting. We'll see. I hope, I hope, I hope.

[jlrbhjmnc]

I got this response to my CL ad:

"Hello is your marx dinosaur figures still available for sale"

with a yahoo.com return address. I did answer it (on June 3) and nothing has happened. Nothing at all.

[haypoint]

I had a bow flex for sale on CL. All I got was scam. Had the item and price in the heading. The body of the email was, " Where are you located?' I had my city in the heading.

[jmtinmi]

I usually state very clearly in my CL ad that responses without a local phone number will be deleted as spam. A response like the OP's would get deleted.

That being said, I like the idea of a 'throw away' phone just for ads. We'll have to look into one.

[farmgal]

ha ha ha I recieved the very same email...lol They are trying to get you to trip up and hit reply then they have your email and sell it to scam hogs...

[Rick]

Thanks for helping me be sure I had spam. G mail put it in spam for me, but I was not sure.

The party said they really wanted to come look at the car ( a 1966 nova ll I posted for a friend), but they couldn't get the LINKED auto insurance quote to work - would I please try. HA HA

Unfortunately I replied before this thread (told her to make an old fashioned phone call) made me certain it was SPAM, so they have my email address!