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iphone 4s scam, found add on craigslist, company director is calling himself koresh david
anybody know anything about this?
iphone 4s scam, found add on craigslist, company director is calling himself koresh david
anybody know anything about this?
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There are scam busting sites with online lists of the names scammers use, their email addresses, stock copy/paste emails, paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers, stolen pictures and fake websites they use. You you could start your search at one of those sites.
If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
A company director would not be using a free Gmail address. There is NO company by that name listed as an official retailer on the Apple site
99% of iPhones you find listed on sites like Craigslist are either Chinese knockoffs or scams
Never agree to buy anything on Craigslist that you cannot see in person before handing over a penny. Tell him you will meet him at the Apple store to verify the phone is legit before paying for it. If he won't agree then you know the phone is not real or there is no phone and he just wants your money
And how sick that he calls himself Koresh David - that's just so sick and wrong
Yes, big scam