So far got 4 messages and 2 of them already asked me to send them the code to prove I’m real. My responses to them
How does the code prove I’m real?
Name a state. I will tell you its capital and that will prove I’m real.
So far one has actually texted me to start the scam conversation.
Hey, is that car still available??
The code is -1
I will buy the car but I’m overseas right now. I will send a FedAx postal carrier to your location with a check. Kindly to pay the delivery fee of the check of $300 USD United state Dollar.
Kindly contact me on whatsapp. +234 XXX-XXX-XXXX
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/n00o17/rscams_common_scam_master_post/
Summaries of the different scams.
Phone code scam
Someone will ask you to receive a verification text and then tell you to give them the code. Usually the code will come from Google Voice, or from Craigslist. In the Google version of the scam, your phone number will be used to verify a Google Voice account that the scammer will use to scam people with. In the Craigslist version of the scam, your phone number will be used to verify a Craigslist posting that the scammer will use to scam people. There is also an account takeover version of this scam that will involve the scammer sending a password reset token to your phone number and asking you for it.
Fake check scam
The fake check scam arises from many different situations (for instance, you applied for a job, or you are selling something on a place like Craigslist, or someone wants to purchase goods or services from your business, or you were offered a job as a mystery shopper, you were asked to wrap your car with an advertisement, or you received a check in the mail for no reason), but the bottom line is always something like this:
The scammer sends you a very real looking, but fake, check. Sometimes they'll call it a "cashier's check", a "certified check", or a "verified check". You deposit the check into your bank account, and within a couple of days your bank makes some or all of the funds available to you. This makes you think that the check is real and the funds have cleared. However, the money appearing in your account is not the same as the check actually clearing. The bank must make the funds available to you before they have cleared the check because that is the law. For various and often complicated reasons, depending on the specific story line of the scam, the scammer will ask you to send someone some of the money, using services like MoneyGram, Western Union, and Walmart-2-Walmart. Sometimes the scammer will ask for you to purchase gift cards (iTunes, Amazon, Steam, etc) and give them the codes to redeem the gift cards. Some scammers may also give you instructions on how to buy and send them bitcoins. Within a couple of weeks, though it can take as long as a month, your bank will realize that the check you deposited was fake, and your bank will remove the funds that you deposited into your account and charge you a bounced check fee. If you withdrew any of the money from the fake check, that money will be gone and you will owe that money to the bank. Some posters have even had their bank accounts closed and have been blocked from having another account for 5 years using ChexSystems.
Montpelier
Is it safe?
Plasma
The capital is Platelet.
You’re surreal!
I love it when sellers put at the end of the ad, “No Scammers!”
I just picture some guy sitting behind his computer ready to bilk somebody, then reads and that and says, “Oh, I guess I better move on to the next one!”
You blew it.
“Is this item still available” is much more common among reputable (?) scammers.
IS IT SAFE?!
It is safe.
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Someone should put some generic thing up on Ebay or Craigslist (pic is a unlabeled black box), call it the “item”, and wait for the emails to roll in.
Are you really selling a car, or is that just a scam?
You won’t know until I send you the code.