I put an ad on Craigslist to sell my leather sofas and an arm chair for $1500. Right away I got an email from '[email protected]' asking for more pictures which I did. And then same person contacted me with different email '[email protected]', I guess he had too many different emails and forgot to send me with a same email.

He said:
Hello,
>
> I so much appreciate your response to my earlier mail. I wish to let
> you know that I'm satisfied with the condition.Like I said there's no
> doubt I'm going to purchase it if you are ready to sale it for me.
> Therefore I want you to consider it sold by withdrawing the advert
> from craigslist. Note that you will not be responsible for shipping
> and handling. My shipping company will come to your location for pick
> up. Kindly provide me your name and full address, so i can forward it
> to the shipping company to calculate the cost of pick up for me.I
> would like you to know that the payment will be made via PayPal
> because is fast and secured to send and received money online, All you
> have to send me now is your full address where the item we be pick-up
> and your PayPal email address so that i can proceed with the payment
> immediately.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon

As soon as he brought up PayPal (no Cash) suggestion, I was a little suspicious. I only gave him my pick up address and didn't give him the account number. Not much after, I received an email from a shipping company called 'world wide speed post' by Lisa Xavier '[email protected]', saying they want to arrange a pick up. But the funny thing is only few minutes later this guy sent me another message saying:

> Thank you so much. I have forwarded the address to the shipping company so
> they can calculate the pick up and delivery cost for me to make the payment.
> I'm sure they will contact you soon. I would like you to know that the
> payment will be made via PayPal because is fast and secured to send and
> received money online, All you have to send me is your paypal email address
> so I can make the payment immediately.

I checked the company name on Google and there was a similar company name called 'speed post in Singapore' which looks like a real company. Still it didn't make sense. I live in Canada, why would someone buy furniture offshore? And I found out the complaints on this website. Thanks to you!!!

I believe he is only looking for things that are expensive and heavy so that he can make excuses of the weight and money security to scam people.

THE IMPORTANT THING IS WHENEVER PEOPLE ASK YOU TO SEND THEM ANY MONEY ONLINE (DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND OF BRILLIANT REASONS THEY GIVE YOU), YOU GOTTA SUSPECT IT AS SCAM.

This company is totally fake! I had posted my car for sale on Craigslist and received an email from a buyer that wanted to purchase the vehicle with only viewing a couple pictures of the exterior. He said he was camped at a remote location and was unable to speak with me personally regarding this sale. He wanted to pay for the vehicle through Paypal because it is so secure. His English writing was very poor and he kept saying how much he appreciated my understanding of the situation. I told him about needing his signature on the appropriate documents but he never responded to any of that but just wanted my Paypal email account name so he could transfer the money. He did give me an address that looks like a military address but when googled, points to a London location. So watch out for this type of scam. It doesn't seem to be well known about yet but it definitely seems like this scammer was trying to hack into my paypal account. Whats wrong with people?!?!?