First, Mark posted a radial saw for sale on Craigslist for $500. What's Mark's modus operandi? Here’s a transcript of an actual email exchange. This will never stop Mark, however, who loves to regale dinner companions with colorful stories about his adventures. To be clear, I don’t recommend this practice - there's real risk attached to making scammers mad. The spammers go to great lengths to verify “real” buyers and often end up canceling real sales. Brian Krebs’ best-selling " Spam Nation" reveals that some antispam groups routinely respond to spammers with fake inquiries to burn fraudsters' time and money.
He figures if they're going to eat up his time and possibly bilk people successfully, anything he can do to slow down or frustrate them has to be good. Even if they aren’t first, they're always the most aggressive.īut instead of ignoring or reporting their inquiries, he wastes as much of their time as he can. When he offers an item for sale, almost always the first people to reply are scammers.
I paid $1,000 for my used kayak he bought three great-looking kayaks for $200. Mark is a deal-maker, a buyer and seller of many objects, quite often on Craigslist. Like cult hero Captain Ron, he has few enemies and is loved by nearly everyone - except for Craigslist scammers. Mark, one of my good friends, is best described as a fun-loving, good-natured, South African pirate.
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