Trouble with Online Classifieds | A Scam Story #1

Have you ever tried selling something online and had to deal with scammers? I’m trying to sell my couches and I’ve got someone texting who seems pretty suspicious. I’ve decided to document my interactions with him. What do you think? Is this guy for real?

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35 thoughts on “Trouble with Online Classifieds | A Scam Story #1

  1. I have a garden toy for kids for sale. A person contacted me asking if it was still available I said yes and they then said the DHP wanted me to pay part delivery. They sent an email that was so a scam it was unbelievable. I forwarded to DHP and then told them a lie that I tried to pay it wouldn't go through. Dhp have let me know they never ask the seller to pay delivery. I guess this person didn't know I used to work for a fraud prevention agency.

  2. I live in Ohio and I bought something online where the seller was also in Ohio, I thought, perfect, all they have to do is go from his local post office to my local post office…
    Well instead they decided to send the package all the way to Illinois then back to Ohio. Took 2 weeks to get the item.

    I was pissed!

    So yes, the post office is garbo and a joke.

  3. 2:19 dude I have a ups facility like 15 mns from me they routinely ship it from wherever it originates from to that facility by my house, to another facility past my house and on to the hub I used to work at in Vernon California. And then they ship it back to me in Pomona.

  4. Actually regarding your tracking comment, in europe it's normal for a package from US or China to go through 3-4 countries, each one geting further from your location for no reason before it reaches you so going through few states sounds reasonable xDD

  5. Hi, please drop me your gmail so that I can chat you I have a serious story to tell you or drop your whatsapp number I think 🤔 that will be a nice idea

  6. I just watched your videos and I haven’t laughed for months. Thanku..I just went through this whole ordeal for the romantic scammer on an oil rig. No I didn’t send any money..but I had fun along the way with this guy..anyway freakin awesome

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  8. Earlier this year I ordered a DVD of Mel Gibson's Payback (because all you can find on sub/online is that remade trash) I watched tracking as it travelled from Georgia to Iowa to California, back to Iowa then to me in Florida… I told wife that someone had opened it, saw it was Payback (a movie erased from history as if by INGSOC) and shipped it around to all their buddies.. I imagined them all watching it in their breakroom and repackaging it to send elsewhere… it finally arrived in good condition.

  9. I doubt you’ll see this. But when he said the check went from Texas to California, that actually does happen a lot in delivering, especially low priority shipping. Now I’m not saying he is honest which he’s 100% not.

    But when stuff is shipped around it will go to hubs that deliver to certain areas, and sometimes the hub in Texas may not deliver to your area, so they send it to one that will. You see this when your package bounces around. That or the Texas hub may not be making a trip to there until, say 3 weeks later? But then the California hub is conveniently going in 3 days so it’s going to California.

    It’s weird but it does happen. This dude is total bs though

  10. I normally watch your vids… but this style sucks. By video 3 2/3rds of the video is spent covering the last ones….boooooorrrriiinnnnnng

  11. We breed dogs and a scammer got in touch with my mom from ksl classifieds and they were $1,000 and he/she sent a check for about $2,000, thankfully my mom felt like something was wrong so when the check came my mom called the police station and explained what happened and she confirmed that it was a scam!

  12. Dude I live in Kentucky and I’ve ordered things from Amazon that get shipped from Tennessee then go to Michigan then come to Kentucky. Yes this is why the postal service loses money.

  13. I can't believe these people are targeting KSL. Does KSL know this? I think most people would figure out this was a scam, but not many elderly people would.

  14. I received a similar message, he wanted to pay me 800.00 more than I was asking for the TV, and he would have a moving truck arriving, he would send a check. funny how same type of story.

  15. I've used USPS a lot for time sensitive parcels, and anytime a tracking number is generated, the origin facility is always listed because that is where it enters the system as paid postage. sure, scans often get missed in transit, but the origin facility will always be in the tracking history as soon as the shipping label is created, before it even goes on a vehicle for shipment, so that's a definitely red flag and a lie – it couldn't have had postage paid in Texas. there's no way an envelope can be mailed from Texas with registered tracking and say it is being shipped from California – there is always an entry for the physical acceptance of the parcel into the system, even if that's the only entry… I've had packages end up in the wrong state, or go 3000 miles across the country from its origin post office to my door and only ever get scanned the once the whole way, but the origin facility is basically the single aspect of tracking that can't be screwed up, because the very act of creating the tracking number happens in the origin zip code, it's literally the first piece of information tracked besides the destination address. 99% certain, sure as I can be without actually having worked for them. just for the benefit of others watching, regarding sketchy mail claims.

  16. I live in Alaska and I've seen a package leave California, go to Texas, Then Tennessee, then back to California then 3 cities in Washington, then Alaska.
    In fact a lot of packages come from Asia and I am thinking, "Anchorage Alaska is a Major hub, yet I pay huge fees for packages that actually land here via plane then fly to California to do this….wth."
    Most the time I make orders I see packages go in every wrong direction until they get here.

  17. I got this exact scam once! I deposited the check and told them I'd only pay them once it cleared.. needles to say, it never cleared. I did however continue to communicate with them and waste as much of their time as I possibly could. It was all I could do.

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