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Very smart...it is better to be the "gray man".
That's a scammer, no ifs, ands or buts. Ask for specific close up pictures of the gun that people normally wouldn't think to take.
Just for entertainment, you can ask the spammer for a photograph with the gun and a current newspaper or magazine in the same shot. Unless real good with Photoshop, tough to fake. Nothing wrong with stringing them along for a while.
Amazing how the addition of just one letter can change (and possibly improve) a post.
Paypal is charging my account some $200 - $300 for a purchase I did not make, from an art supply co. I used to deal with perhaps 3 or more years ago.
Advance fee fraud.A number of years ago, I had a vehicle listed on Craigs list and Thrifty nickel. So I get an email that this dude is going to send me a cashiers check for this vehicle site unseen(red flag)! So after a couple of days I get this certified CHASE cashiers check for the full amount + $1000. Buyer said to cash it and just send the $1000 to his friend so he can come and get the vehicle for transportation(red flag). So I'm looking over this check real careful. Every check from a bank has serrated edges or totally smooth, this one looked like it was paper torn, but torn very well so that if you didn't look real close, you'd never notice it. Got on the phone to Chase and had them run the check number. They switched me to the Chase Fraud Dept. Gentleman there said there was no such number, it was a fake check, and would I send him a pic of the check, and the envelope and emails, which I did. He told me to turn it over to the sheriff's Office also. Anyway, turns out some fool, spent over $70.00 to send this thing Fedex to me from, we found out later, Uganda.
HIS BAD
That is really funny. Your first and only mistake was informing a federal agency that was already part of a criminal element!Advance fee fraud.
A few years ago I was selling some industrial surplus on CL and got those all the time. I jerked a fe wof them around a bit to waste their time, and decided to see how far I could take it. I got one idiot to send me a fake check, which I sent to the postal inspectors office along with all of the information I had. All communication was by text messasge, with him using some web service called Textmail. I trolled this idiot for well over a month, and even got him to send a second check when I claimed that I never got the first one. I told him that I had to drive to another city to cash the check and get the money wired, and then didn't talk to him for three days. All the while I got a bunch of panicked emails from him. After a few days I responded claiming to by my niece. "Oh, Glen had a bad accident and he's in a coma. He was driving to the city to handle some financial matters and got in a bad wreck on the way. I'm his niece and I'm handling his affairs for now."
Acting as the "niece", I told him that I was handling all of his on line sales and asked what it was he bought. "Uh, I think it was a boat." It was actually a 3 phase power convertor that I had already sold to someone local for cash. After berating him, I suggested just giving him a full refund. He asked about a direct deposit to a bank account. "Yeah, please give me a way to trace you!" I agreed and he gave me a name, address and bank account number to make the deposit.
The address was in New Jersey, so I called the FBI office there with the information. This was in 2016, and apparently they were too busy investigating a particular presidential candidate to be interested in actual crimes, so they blew me off. I tried calling the FBI office in LA and they told me to file a report with the local police. After going back and forth with these idiots, I called Wells Fargo with the information and they weren't interested either. I guess they didn't care about a possible case of identity theft or a criminal gang using their services. After telling the guy at the local post office about it, he suggested getting the postal inspectors involved, and the guy I talked to there sounded excited at being able to investigate something like this. I led the guy on a few more days before blocking his number.
The name I gave him was Glen Milstead, and I really hope he tried to look me up on line. Go ahead, look him up IF YOU DARE...
