First, my irritated rant of the day... then an actual scam attempt in "real" life.
Today i got a bunch of mail from "suitors" on here... If I had to guess from the typing style of them all, they were all the same person on multiple accounts. All of them were loaded with this stupid shorthand: How r u? u r gr8!
Ewwwww STOP WRITING LIKE THAT YOU IDIOTS!!! It makes you look like a moron, not hip, not cool... moronic!!! Adults don't need to use one letter instead of a 3 letter word!! Even my children don't do that when texting and they think it's extremely tacky!!!
Also, for everyone's sanity.... stop opening letters with dear pretty, dear beautiful, OMG you're gorgeous.
Can you SEEEEEE???? That's my actual picture for goodness sake... do you think I'm stupid or deluded?? I can see trying to pull that if I was like... oh I don't know... 100 lbs slimmer? Not 48 perhaps? Even slightly above average? (NO I'm not fishing for compliments... I'm a normal average looking fat chick... period.) Jimminy Cricket!!! If you're going to try and scam me, at least give me a LITTLE credit for having some self awareness even if I AM on the cheap dating site.
Start out with something like... wow.. you're kind of fat and old but not too bad considering. I'd fall for that in a heart beat. At least I would know you actually LOOKED at the picture! LOL
Ok, whew... got that out of my system.
Recently my son listed his pc on the Craigs List site for $500. He got it sold immediately but oddly, a person, not the person he sold it to as we'd already sent it out to them and got paid, sent him a check for $3700 asking him to take the money out for the computer, postage and return the rest to them with a money order.
We have no idea how the person got hold of his address since Craigs List is supposed to keep that info private. We took the check to the cops. Naturally it's a fake, the return address is a PO box. They are trying to track it down.
Just keep an eye open for this stuff folks!
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kywonder
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Nov 30 @ 3:37PM
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What will people come up with next Wolf. I remember the day when the store I used to run got stuck with a fake traveler's check. I had never see a counterfeit traveler's check until that day, but one look at it and you could tell that it was fake. Seems the guys had hit several stores within a few minutes and passed off $1500 worth of these checks. They finally caught them, let them set in jail for a little while and then paid their way back to California with a bus ticket. I guess it was cheaper in the long run to buy them the tickets.
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cOuNtRyGiRl816
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Nov 30 @ 3:59PM
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Oh I know exactly where you are coming from! About a year ago I received a check in the mail in the amount of 3700 dollars from a company that was supposed to be a legit "Mystery Shopper Company." I even checked the name with the Better Business Bureau. They said it was a legitimate company. ANyways, the instructions with the check, were to cash it, spend X amount at Wally World, X amount at Target, X amount here, X amount there, and to send an X amount in Western Union Money Grams. The remainder was my "payment", which would have equalled over 2000 dollars.
After I had checked with the BBB, and they told me it was safe and not a scam, I went to my bank to cash it. And They told me that it was a scam. Turns out, the check didn't even have a bank routing number on it, and an account number. Yes, I know. Stupid of me to not even notice.
Anyways, it happens to the best of us. Thankfully there are others out there who are willing to let us know what is for real, and what isn't.
Best of Luck!
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Loinlee_Sole
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Nov 30 @ 11:39PM
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I just sold my grandma for 500$ on craigslist........some guy sent me a cashiers check for 40,000$..........see if I send him him the remainder 
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KnittinKitten
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Dec 1 @ 1:42AM
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You COULD look at it the other way....  As long as they continue to use Hi pretty...how r u...and the rest of that "typical" scammer lingo, WE and ADMIN can more easily spot them and remove them. If we teach them how to write a better letter, it will take us longer to realize just who they are.
I have to keep repeating that to myself as I read their Love Letters...and, THEN I flag em.
KK 
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