Possible craigslist scam? Need advice
 

Hello.

My roommate found this ad on craigslist.

Apparently, this guy is a "loaded businessman" currently in Belgium, and he was looking for someone to buy things from him and deliver it to him. He told my roommate that if he thinks its sketchy, he is free to open up the parcels to check if the things he will be handling / delivering are illegal or not. He told him that he will give the money first and then buy things with the money.

After about a month, he got two $900 MoneyGram international money order.

Does anyone know what this is about or heard about it?

The craigslist ad is not available anymore and the person did not give any personal information or any sort out.
Just wanted to see if this is another popular international scam scheme or whatnot. Thanks

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So you are paid to buy things from him and deliver it to him? makes zero sense at all

If it doesn't make sense it's probably not true.
-Judge Judy

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck
-Judge Judy

Baloney!
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What is this?

-12 years old
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op's a phaggot
-misc

srsly tho op, how does this NOT look like a scam?

:facepalm:

why would some "rich" business man contact you all the way across the sea to buy your crappy trinkets when he can get his admin assistant to go to a store or order it off the internet?

Well, if I had contacts in the UK, I would be getting them to buy me stuff too.
Not sure about how legit it is, but I know that lots of places in Europe will not ship to North America. So maybe the reverse is true and they don't have anybody to send them things in North America.

I don't think one becomes a "loaded businessman" without making enough connections to get something so simple as shipping items done.

only one way to find out :troll:

Congratulations... your roommate helped traffic goods purchased with stolen credit cards.

Scammers trick users to ship stolen goods - ZDNet

I'd like to just comment by saying.. if this guy is from Belgium, shouldn't he be able to use proper fucking English? =| Nigerians... :fuckthatshit:

There's an idiot born every second
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How do people fall for these things? Honestly, as soon as I see that the person is from half way around the world, I tell them to f*ck off. Americans looking at Vancouver ads makes sense...Europeans looking at our ads? Really?

I'd hate to have you on my Facebook. It would be annoying seeing you try to get free iPads, Tim Hortons and Olive Garden gift cards.

Deposit the money orders, and wait to see what happens! :p

^^ Either fake or NSF!

please dont invite me to your farmville or your mob wars

Basically u cash the cheque
U get money
Check bounces in a couple of weeks
U owe the bank the money they just gave u
The dude scamming u gets the stuff ur suppose to send him for free
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^ that's exactly what happens. anything that sounds too good to be true...

if you have to ask us if this is a scam or not you deserve to be scammed, its called freaken UPS/ FEDEX/ INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING use your head idiot

This is the fucking oldest scam in the book, and people STILL fall for it :facepalm: