Damn me Scam me

Kadizzle has one too many motorcycles.  The Kawasaki, better known as the Kawadizzle needs to go.  It is a great motorcycle, but has more potential to get Kadizzle killed, and there is not enough room on the plantation to store it.  Kadizzle put a couple of adds on the internet to let the Kawadizzle be someone else's storage problem.

Soon Kadizzle got some messages on his phone from a guy who asked a few silly questions.  It seemed like someone might be interested.  A little strange the interested guy was from West Virginia.  Without seeing the cycle the man said he would buy it for his grandson.  The purchaser kept asking if Kadizzle had a pay pal account.  Kadizzle suggested the man just wire him the money.  The smell of a rat began to emerge.  Kadizzle asked the man where in West Virginia he lived. Since Kadizzle had a brother and two sisters there maybe the guy could just give the cash to them.  That was the end of the game. The scammer said he would send some company to come pick up the cycle. Checking the internet Kadizzle found the pick up company was also a fraud.

The more Kadizzle looked into it the more evident it became a scam.  Who makes a living scamming people on Craigslist?  Hard to imagine someone somewhere searching Craigslist adds and communicating by text messaging to gyp people.  It would have been fun to play along farther with the scammer and see exactly how the plan would play out.  Part of what they do is create a false web page that looks like Pay Pal. More than likely they would pay me too much, and then ask me to send some of the money back from a real Pay Pal account.  Checking the internet it seems they also might have picked up the motorcycle and refused to return it unless I paid a ransom.  The sad thing is no one makes any real attempt to catch these people.