More Craig's List Scamming

Ugh. Selling something else, and, yet another scam. Here's the details on this one:

My post: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sys/135483890.html

The first email:

Hello i have intrest in buying your Mac which am pok with your fixed price get back to me with more dettails and how and where we can meet for pick up. Thankz

I responded by suggesting a place to meet. Of course, now comes the revelation that they aren't near by:

Hello i am in florida i wont be able to come down but i can send you a bank of america money order which will be deliverd at your home address and i will wait till you confirm the money order before you ship it out just get back to me with your full name and valid addrress so i can send out the money order today and dont worry about the shipping i will be paying for that myself with fedex private shipping account. am waiting to read from you soon

The dead give away is the florida/fedex combo. And within a few minutes I receive the following. You can clearly see that they are using "boa.com" for bank of america, yet a quick check of http://boa.com/ makes it pretty clear that this isn't a bank. Interestingly, looks like the user sending stuff is darec@islamabad.net. I removed my email and address from this, but I don't think it's really needed to see what's going on here.

Here are the headers from the email I received:

Return-Path:

Received: from 127.0.0.1 by freemail (envelope-from , uid 1020) with qmail-scanner-1.24
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Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):.
Processed in 0.220363 secs); 21 Feb 2006 00:17:58 -0000
Received: from localhost (HELO wapda.com) (127.0.0.1)
by 0 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2006 00:17:58 -0000
X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (wapda.com)
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Received: from 192.116.71.104 (proxying for 192.168.0.5, 192.116.71.104)
(SquirrelMail authenticated user darec@islamabad.net)
by webmail.islamabad.net with HTTP;
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <34790.192.116.71.104.1140481078.squirrel@webmail.islamabad.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: ******Your Money Order #$500 Has Been Approved*******
From: "Bank Of America"
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Normal
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at eggplantmedia.com

Here's the html version of the email:

Bank of America Higher Standards Home

Dear
Arthur,

Bank Of America hereby congratulate you and at the same time informing you that the Money Order sent to you from Beckham Zizo has been Approved, Money
Order SM:$500.00.

 
Auction Item: Mini Mac
Auction Site: Craigslist.org

Order Number:
845645794

 Payment status is listed below:-

Billed from:

Buyer's Billing
Informations:-


Name:
 Beckham Zizo 
Address: 2829 Forestbrook Dr  North

City: Lakeland
State: FL

Zip Code: 33811.
Country: USA

Card Type: Visa
Name On
Card: 
Beckham M. Zizo 
Amount Charged:
$9.34.00
Card Number: 427**********739

Expiry Date: 06/07
CCV2:
564

Please verify that the
following address (as entered by the buyer) is correct:- Country:
USA

If there is a mistake in your address, please contact the buyer
to correct the error. This order has been Confirmed and approved and will
be sent out for delivery as a Money Cash to your address
on  Wednesday 22nd Febuary, 2006.You can now send the item(s) to the
buyer.Moreover the above Order number and the valid shipment tracking
number will be asked before delivering the Money to the above
address.

Purchase Protection and Refund Information:

Currently, this buyer has $15,435.23 deposit with Boa managed
purchase protection account. Transactions with this buyer are covered 90%
in case of fraud and description errors. Your Money gets to your home
address 48hrs after you have shipped the item to the buyer.
For your
safety:- This account has been blocked today,The buyer is unable to
withdraw the money within this period.
 

IMPORTANT: You are to send the package 48 hrs you
received this confirmation message for fast delivering your money to the
above address

Thank you for using Boa payment. We
look forward serving your online auction payments needs in the future.

 
Sincerely,

Bank Of America

Bank of America Higher Standards Home

© 2005
Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved

Hallo, I had become the

Hallo,

I had become the same e-mail for 4 days please got to you´re police office !!

With the Header and call me under the number : 00497724/917978

Please call me it is a fake do not dispatch the computer

I live in Germany and i was today at the police office to call them.

Yes, it definitely is a

Yes, it definitely is a fake, no question about it. Don't worry, I'm not sending the computer!

I'm glad you posted this. I

I'm glad you posted this. I too got one of these scammers on my list, with the same EXCAT message, except for minor differances with the $amount. I knew right away it looked suspicious, and googled some of the content and up came your page.

Another dead givaway for me that it was a scammer was that the buyer had zero feedback and registered the same day.

I just got a similar scam

I just got a similar scam with the exact same physical address. I was trying to get a phone number or names of the people who live at that house and I got your page. Hmm.. looks like they've been doing this for a while.

I got one of these also

I got one of these also just the other day. The alias was "James Mike" I searched everywhere to verify and was glad to find this site. It turns out my guy and yours have the same credit card number, deposit and everything (except name). I sent him my address to send the money order to but I can now guarantee that no item will be sent. If a money order arrives I will be sure to report it as a fake. I'm glad I found this, now I know I am not alone and that it truly is fraud. Thanks guys.

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