Scammery at Craigslist? Say it Isn’t So!

Tales like this warm my frozen heart. Not enough to thaw it out, mind you, but it will keep me from stealing your Christmas tree and bringing it back to my cave.

Here’s the tale of a gent who was selling video games on Craigslist and received a phony money order as payment. After depositing the phony money order, his bank notified him to say they were closing his account. He was also to learn his credit cards and ATM card was getting canceled and his funds were being held. Yeah. I’d be pissed off too. Dude didn’t receive too much cooperation from the bank though it clearly wasn’t his fault. So Dude did a little detective work, found out our money order fraud had an AIM account and confrontation ensued. Our hero didn’t stop there, however. He kept back up of all emails and AIM messages and filed a police report. It was enough to get the bad guy arrested.

Read all about it at The Consumerist and also this article in the Butler Eagle.

It’s a good lesson. Don’t take crap from anyone. Keep copies of all records and don’t let anyone get away with scamming you. I’m a firm believer that justice prevails in the end. I don’t care if it’s $5 or $5 million, nobody deserves to be ripped off.

By the way, the fake money order guy? He was also a sexual offender out on parole. Now he’s in jail. Good work, Dude.