• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Craigslist scammers

Motosportz

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Wow, it is rampant right now. I advertised my Boxvan and tent trailer as I bought a used RV. I got two responses so far...



lasyuri@gmail.com

Thanks so much for getting back to me, My wife and I had earlier
agreed to buy this vehicle before this weekend,but unfortunately her
father is down with cancer and since she's the only daughter that was
given birth to she had to go and stay with his father and won't be
back till after two weeks. She just contacted me to contact you about
the vehicle that we will be making the purchase as soon as she comes back
because am also short of time here too. How i wish to come and view
what am buying from you.but am currently out of state......Due to the
distance as I'm out of state presently..

I am doing that because i am on sea now (I am a marine Engineer
(Heerema Marine Contractors) so i can not come for the pick up myself.

So i decided to make this as a surprise for her, so now I will be
arranging with a shipping agency which will be handling the shipping
for me with a shipping company that I've found reliable, And i will be
Pay with my paypal paypal account, as i have my bank a/c attached to
it, i will need you to give me your paypal email address and the price
so i can make the payments asap for it and pls if you don't have
paypal account yet, it is very easy to set up, go to www.paypal.com
and get it set up, after you have set it up i will only need the
e-mail address you use for registration with paypal so as to put the
money through. i hope we can make the purchase as fast as possible?

So if you are alright with this kindly get back to me with the final
price any additional information you will like to tell me about the
Vehicle. I would be honored to get this vehicle bought before my wife comes
back, so get back to me so i could do something as soon as possible...

You can email me to tell me your opinion concerning my message....

Hope to hear back from you soon.

Yeah right buddy, I'm all over it

_______________________________

Tom Wallace

beamlea@gmail.com

Hello,

Thanks for your writing me back. I would be glad to pay for the
Boxvan as soon as possible though I will not be available to come for
an inspection and pay cash but via Paypal because I'm currently out of
town for abusiness purpose and won't be back till the end of next
month. Kindly get back to me with the following questions below:

1) What is the condition?
2) Are you the Owner?
3) Your Pick up Location?
4) Your full name and your PayPal email id for the instant payment
5) Your phone number for text or call

I would be glad to make the payment immediately through PayPal so
kindly get back to me with your PayPal ID and you can easily log on to
www.paypal.com to set up an account with them if you don't have one, I
can assure you that Paypal is very fast, secure and reliable to
transfer money and protects both buyer and seller. You need not to
worry yourself about the pick up I will instruct the shipping agent to
handle that. Hope to read from you soon.

Uh... NO!
 
Basically with the level of honesty and integrity of some people these days simply DO NOT DO ANYTHING unless they want to come over in person and pay in cash. Sucks people have sunk to this low and we can no longer take each other for face value nor expect people to be honest and decent. It is sad the level of respect and honesty people seem to lack these days. I am only 47 but have seen a lot of change in how people respect each other in the last 20 years. Makes me sad.

BTW I got scammed and ripped of for $6500 a few month ago and am still recovering from it. This crap is upsetting. What level of people are out there these days? Where are we headed? Seems if I deal with people whom are older I have no issues. Most of them fought in wars, made sacrifices, were raised with real parents that cared, know family values, can do business with a a handshake that is stronger than a contract. I miss those days.

I have tried real hard to raise my kids right and have very good kids but i still see a ton of this crap in them as it is everywhere. Gimmy mentality and lack of respect is rampant. I have long interesting conversations about politics and people with my machinist whom is 10 years older than me. He is a smart dude and comes from a strong family. All this crap going on today in politics and with people in general has us both upset. I thin, he absolutely nailed it on the head the other day and managed to boil it down to one specific thing. Respect. Seems a lost art. When you are respectful you can do handshake deals, you can do business without scams, the can deal honestly with others.

My parents met in 3rd grade in a small town. They are now 77 years old and still happy as a clam. Raise us three kids to be very respectful, I always did exactly as my dad said and never talked back or I would have to pick myself up off the floor. Never had to hear racism in my house so I am not. Never saw my dad scam anyone so this was not my thought process. I am super thankful that they raised me like they did and need to tell them more.

Sorry about the rant, just saddened by the society we live in where it is common and almost fun for people to crap on others instead of support and make everyone better. I know there are great people out there still, i deal with some of them every day. I would be lying though to say the current generation coming up does not scare me.

OK, sorry. Watch for scammers. thanks.
 
There was a hillarious thread on avdrider where some guy kept leading the scammers on and on and on. He basically acted like he was falling for thier scam but at the last minute would change it on them and ask them more info and how to login to his bank account as he forgot etc. You should do the same-lol
 
firecrotch said:
There was a hillarious thread on avdrider where some guy kept leading the scammers on and on and on. He basically acted like he was falling for thier scam but at the last minute would change it on them and ask them more info and how to login to his bank account as he forgot etc. You should do the same-lol
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I think I saw some of that. I don't have time to waist on these low forms of life but find that very funny.
 
It is a sad state. I recently tried to sell a CRF on craigslist and got 3-4 scam replies to every 1 legit reply. One guy was in the navy and on a ship currently and even offered to pay more than what I was asking. Just a bunch of lowlifes.
 
Kelly,
I'll take whatever you got. Please PM me your full SS#, bank account # and major CC#. Once I receive these items and can verify they are correct I will purchase in cash.

Your welcome in advance.
Sincerely,
Scam artist #1
 
I used to get letters from some Nigerians asking for me the "El Presidente'" to open a joint bank account with the sender so they could transfer $1,000,000.00 in to the US and would give me 10% for my trouble.

I wonder if anyone has thought to set up an item for sale and then run a check for outstanding warrants on the guy who comes to pick up the vehicle. If he works for the scammers chances are he has a record and might be wanted.
 
Yes it is getting like that. Hec Iv'e seen special cats that are supposed to be free, but they are in another state and the pics show them in 3 different houses!! If you can not talk to someone and can not view it in person or as the saying goes if it looks to good to be true, it probably is! Losers praying on people. Hate it. Charma comes back and I hear Hell is a pretty warm place!
 
One of sneakiest things i ever saw was someone embedded thier own software on ebay on a phony storefont link to a product i clicked on. It asked me to re log on to ebay and once i did the website address i noticed resembled ebay but wasnt. So of course they had my login at that point. Be carefull out there.
 
we got scammed a cpl years ago when i bought one of the chineese 4wheelers over the phone from texas from a internet buisness, im not the only one quite a few got scammed aswell. beware of people not wanting to take a credit card over the phone if they claim to be a buisness. i never seen any of the money but enough people got screw that the texas attourney generals shut them down and seized all assets.
 
I've seen a few of those personally and ignored them. But I'm confused, why the demand for PayPal info? Can they hijack your PayPal account that way? I've paid people before via PayPal cash transfer (so far always legit), but this kinda worries me.
 
I got scammed out of a $2700.00 Gibson guitar on Ebay 2 years ago. Funny thing was, Paypal and UPS (I insured the shipping) sided with the scammer. It was an expensive lesson, but I'm better for it.
 
krieg said:
I got scammed out of a $2700.00 Gibson guitar on Ebay 2 years ago. Funny thing was, Paypal and UPS (I insured the shipping) sided with the scammer. It was an expensive lesson, but I'm better for it.
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I tried to sell an expensive Gibson a couple of years ago on E-bay. I had so many wackos respond to the ad, and no bids so I withdrew the ad early.:thumbsdown:
 
I've had scammers try the iffy cashier check on Friday after the banks are closed routine when I was selling vehicles. When I buy used I only buy in person and I only take green cash when I sell.
 
I deal with that crap all the time. Their getting smarter and smarter and making it harder to tell who's lagit and who's not. Damn craigslist. Gota love it, gota hate it.
 
At the end of the day. It's all about common sense. If it's too good to be true, then it's a scam. Come on, people don't over pay for products and most people don't buy stuff sight unseen. My first rule when buying or selling is to get a phone number and talk to a live person. If a guy won't call on the phone then it's a scam. Just my 2 cents.
 
WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
while talking to someone helps its not 100%, some people are just scumbags out of the gate
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that was the point of this thread. I long for the day when people treated people honestly and this crap would not fly. Now it seems the norm. Lots of good people left but also a pile of A-holes.
 
This is 100%

1. Meet the person in your town on a business day while the banks are open

2. Go to the bank together and have buyer deposit green cash in your bank account

3. Have bank employee notarize title and go your separate ways.

Cashiers checks can be bogus, counterfeit green cash is possible and it digresses from there in to all kinds of possible ways to get robbed. It's kind of sad and makes you wish for the old west days when at least robbers had to have the courage to hold you at gun point face to face.
 
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