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Well, for those who followed this story before, just wanted to let you know how this all ended. As you know, I led the scammer to believe that I would ship the laptop on Monday, and I was wisely advised by forum members to end the dialogue with him by Monday, before things could get potenially dangerous. In the meantime, Saturday and Sunday he sent me emails reminding me to hurry up on sending the package as soon as possible on Monday, so I can get the money credited to my Paypal account. The “paypal” email has a link that they want you to click on to input the tracking number of your shipment, but Paypal always says to never click on those links, because they can be used to steal your private information, and/or to give you a computer virus. So on Monday, June 15th, here was his email to me:
hello michele…please i have mail paypal today they told me that you have not get in touch with them..what it going on…please let me know..and do get back to paypal..as soon as you shipping the item…ok
My answer back to him is on the next post–
Here is my answer back to him:
Hello Smith–
Ok, I will tell answer your questions:
1) I seriously doubt you mailed paypal today and they told you that I did not get in touch with them. Perhaps you mailed your “partner” that sent my room-mate the “paypal payment” and he said she had not clicked on one of the links in any of the emails sent to her as of yet to input the tracking information.
2) If you had contacted the Real Paypal website, they may have told you that I HAVE contacted them, when I forwarded all your emails, as well as my room-mates “paypal emails” to their security team.
3) Go back and read my original Craigslist ad–it stated very clearly that my terms for selling this item was that I required a PHONE CALL, I would only deal with somebody LOCALLY, and CASH ONLY. That meant I would not be shipping this out of the country to scammers, yet you still emailed me anyway. So I played along with this to get enough proof to send to Paypal Security and other appropriate law enforcement agencies.
4) I don’t know how you live with yourself, obviously I can’t make you have any morals or decency, I know you think you are so smart, but you chose the wrong person to mess with in this case. So I guess all I can say is I look forward to seeing you go to prison some day, but most of all, you qualified to be featured in a book of “World’s Dumbest Criminals” when you got so greedy, that when I instructed you to send your paypal payment to my “room-mate Frawda Lurt”, you failed to notice that her name is pronounced FRAUD ALERT!
MicheleI would have posted this update sooner, but I did not know I could copy and paste my emails before, LOL!
Also, good news, I sold my laptop on Ebay last Sunday and it was paid immediately to the REAL Paypal, and I shipped it to a recipient in the United States–it was recieved today, so I should not have to deal with scammers related to this laptop any more on Craiglist. Yay! XD XDGlad to hear the scammer got told off, and that you were able to sell the laptop to someone honest. Thanks for the update! 🙂
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