And now he has your email address. And to him it's worth money. That's why these guys post these "Too-good-to-be-true" ads, it's all to collect email addresses. Once they have them, they sell them to spammers. If you're stupid enough to send them money, that's icing on the cake. Either way they are making money.

There are usually 3 tell-tale signs to spot these scam ads. 1. The price is too good to be true. 2. Their email address is prominently displayed in the ad. 3. They are vague about their location.

Harrisonburg is not an easy example, but I live in Philadelphia and the scam ads always list their location as simply "Philadelphia" rather than, for example, South Philly, Northeast Philly, Center City, or one of the neighboring suburban towns.

87Raider_TSI said:


Actually I use a yahoo account for these sort of things. If I start getting a lot of spam, I let the spam filter take care of it. I never use my home E-mail address and I have been fortunate using craigslist in the past and gotten several good deals on there. I pretty much figured it was a scam and they use those for phishing also, so I was careful. I already get a good bit of spam in my yahoo account, so a little bit more won't hurt. I wonder if he is ready for it though?

Let the games begin!

This is useful...

Ten Minute E-Mail

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Check this out; simple google:

http://www.dasautoshippers.com/i-found-this-great-used-car-online.html

mailinator.com is something i use too. messages stay longer. but gets deleted automatically a day or so...

5 bucks says those kinds of sites are monitored by Big Brother. lol I'm getting paranoid, I know.