New online Craigslist scam.

[arcadian]

Here is the response:

Christopher May to me
show details Apr 15 (18 hours ago)

Hello,

Thanks for your response and i am glad to read from you as regards the driving job. My Wife and I are coming to this area for a honeymoon vacation soon and will be needing the services of a good driver for a period of 3 weeks. You will make all necessary preparations concerning our pick up from the Airport and for other purposes which we might need you for during the period of our vacation. Let me know if you are fit and available for this position. We will be arriving in the month of May. As for the vehicle we will be using, we have make all necessary arrangement for the car you will be driving, through a travel Agency.They will contact you with all the necessary details of our arrival, hotel, car etc as soon as i inform them about you. I am offering you $800 weekly. We will be staying for 3 weeks. You will make yourself available 5 times a week,for 3 hours each day and that should be after sunset around 3:00 pm to 6:00pm each working day, you will be working on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. You will be picking us up from the airport to the hotel on our first arrival and we will be arriving in the morning around 9:00 am -10:00am and after our arrival you will be picking us up from the hotel to anywhere we want to go. My father-in-law will be the one responsible for all our hotel, feeding ,traveling and all other necessary expenses (as a gift) throughout our stay in the United States .He is in the United States and has promised to send you the payment for the first week as soon as you have agreed to drive us during our stay. The Travel Agency in charge of our traveling down there will also contact you to make all necessary arrangement concerning our arrival as soon as everything is set, since you will be our driver, you must know which airport we will arrive and the time of arrival and which Hotel we are going to use. I hope you understand all these and we can depend on you...that is why we need a reliable driver to handle this for us. All your driving will be within this locality and its environs. Please send me the below information as soon as you can and i will get back to you with other details.

(1) Full Name
(2)Address (No P.O.Box):
(3)City & State:
(4)Zip:
(5)Home Phone:
(6)Cell Phone:
(7)Email address:
(8)Age:

As soon as i have the above information, arrangement will be made on how the payment will be sent to you and further information regarding our travel will be passed across to you within a short period.

Waiting to read from you.


Chris

If anybody wants to mess around with these people here is there email: [email protected]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Pardon me for sounding dense, but how does this become a scam?

I have to admit, it does sound kind of weird, but how do they end up scamming the person they "hire"?

[Enrique]

2. selling the info people send

:mad:

[arcadian]

5. They aren't looking to hire anybody

They are phishing for personal information. What they do with that info, I have no idea.

[Enrique]

3. fuckers

:mad:

[sarcasmo]

4. It has been around for a couple years now.

[No More Bushbots]

6. If you reply to these e-mails, you get what you deserve

[arcadian]

7. What do you mean by that exactly?

[MADem]

8. Gee, Haywood Yablowme or Ophelia Thigh oughta apply for that job!

Or Jack Mihoff!!! Or Fannie Bigg!!!! Or Dick Burns!!! Or Hugh G. Reccion!


:rofl:

[safeinOhio]

9. It CAN be lots of fun

http://www.419eater.com/index.htm

good luck and let know what happens.