Re: Craigslist Crime Becoming Common
Those were some very interesting articles as I have tried to use Craigslist myself to sell things and to ask questions relating to business.
For whatever reason they shut down my account with them and although I would like to get my account with them reinstated it is not at the moment my primary concern.
My primary concern is with Paypal and in doing what I can to prevent myself from getting caught up in another online romance scam and to prevent myself from being conned in person as well by professional con artists.
Because of my interest in the dating, mating and relating game I inadvertantly got caught up with some of the online romance scams in 2006 and 2007.
Initially it started with a dating website called love-town.com in 2006, but after losing a lot of money to those scams in which women that I met on there would tell me that they were originally from the United States and that they had gone to Nigeria on business and gotten stuck there I decided that I would try Myspace instead.
I met a couple of women on Myspace. One was supposedly from Albuquerque while the other one claimed to be initially from Ireland then had moved to Albuquerque. The first one was a doozey to say the least. At first I thought that she was okay and I gave her my phone number. After that things went down hill fast as the first time that I talked to her she told me that she had genital herpes and that she wanted to come over to my house and have sex with me.
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally found that very offensive. After that she would constantly call me and more often than not when I would answer the phone and start talking with her it would go silent halfway through the call and then someone else would pick up the phone and start accusing me of calling them.
To say the least that was nothing but a big nightmare and that is why I am studying abnormal psychology and psychology as I am hoping to be able to pick up on stuff like that sooner and to prevent it from happening again.
The other girl that I met seemed ok, but because of my interaction with her and some of her friends Paypal is now trying to get me for over $812.36 and I personally think that is a nothing more than a crock on their part because from what I have read they had a duty to protect me under federal law.
When I first met her I did not believe her at all and as a result I tried to use things that I could find around Albuquerque that only someone from Albuquerque would know and that was not available on the internet at all.
She gave me some information and I did what I could to follow up on it to try to verify her claims and because of what I found and due to the fact that at that time I had not been in Albuquerque for more than about a year I believed that she was telling me the truth. As a result I helped her out with her hotel bill that she said she needed help with and after that things started to go down hill from there.
She told me that she had a client that was going to reimburse me what I had spent to help her out, but after months of her friend telling me that the money was being delayed by his attorney I started to get suspicious of things.
In Janurary of 2008 he came back and told me that he had a friend that owed him money and that they wanted to send me $7,000.00 dollars. Out of that I was supposed to recover what I had spent and the rest was supposed to go towards helping this girl out and in helping me to start some businesses that I have been trying to start for a long time.
Things however got ugly as initially the guy tried to deposit a check at Bank of America in person and it was accepted by the teller, but after about 2 weeks the check bounced because supposedly there was not enough funds in the guys account to cover the check.
After that they tried to do it via wire transfer and that failed as well. After that I simply told them that if they wanted to send me any money then they would have to use Paypal as I was not about to take the risk of them playing with my bank account at all.
Things were quiet for a few months until this guy's friend popped up and said that he would help me to start my businesses and that he would help me with my friend, but only on the condition that I helped him with a girl that he supposedly met in person and that he knew. He was supposedly married and had kids and because of the jealousy factor that often occurs between women I agreed to help him because he was afraid that his wife would find out and leave him.
He had money sent to me through Paypal and Paypal cleared the funds thereby leading me to think that the funds were legitimate and real. It was not until a few weeks later after I had completed my end of the bargain that I found out that the money that was sent to me was stolen money.
Prior to that I had no idea at all because Paypal lead me to believe that the money was real and legitimate and it is because of that incident that I am currently having problems with Paypal and at the moment I am trying to find ways of fighting that legally so that I can get my account reactivated.
I have tried to tell Paypal that it was a scam, but at the moment they are not believing me and are trying to get me for the whole thing and that is something that I don't agree with as I believe that they had a legal obligation to protect me.
Those were some very interesting articles as I have tried to use Craigslist myself to sell things and to ask questions relating to business.
For whatever reason they shut down my account with them and although I would like to get my account with them reinstated it is not at the moment my primary concern.
My primary concern is with Paypal and in doing what I can to prevent myself from getting caught up in another online romance scam and to prevent myself from being conned in person as well by professional con artists.
Because of my interest in the dating, mating and relating game I inadvertantly got caught up with some of the online romance scams in 2006 and 2007.
Initially it started with a dating website called love-town.com in 2006, but after losing a lot of money to those scams in which women that I met on there would tell me that they were originally from the United States and that they had gone to Nigeria on business and gotten stuck there I decided that I would try Myspace instead.
I met a couple of women on Myspace. One was supposedly from Albuquerque while the other one claimed to be initially from Ireland then had moved to Albuquerque. The first one was a doozey to say the least. At first I thought that she was okay and I gave her my phone number. After that things went down hill fast as the first time that I talked to her she told me that she had genital herpes and that she wanted to come over to my house and have sex with me.
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally found that very offensive. After that she would constantly call me and more often than not when I would answer the phone and start talking with her it would go silent halfway through the call and then someone else would pick up the phone and start accusing me of calling them.
To say the least that was nothing but a big nightmare and that is why I am studying abnormal psychology and psychology as I am hoping to be able to pick up on stuff like that sooner and to prevent it from happening again.
The other girl that I met seemed ok, but because of my interaction with her and some of her friends Paypal is now trying to get me for over $812.36 and I personally think that is a nothing more than a crock on their part because from what I have read they had a duty to protect me under federal law.
When I first met her I did not believe her at all and as a result I tried to use things that I could find around Albuquerque that only someone from Albuquerque would know and that was not available on the internet at all.
She gave me some information and I did what I could to follow up on it to try to verify her claims and because of what I found and due to the fact that at that time I had not been in Albuquerque for more than about a year I believed that she was telling me the truth. As a result I helped her out with her hotel bill that she said she needed help with and after that things started to go down hill from there.
She told me that she had a client that was going to reimburse me what I had spent to help her out, but after months of her friend telling me that the money was being delayed by his attorney I started to get suspicious of things.
In Janurary of 2008 he came back and told me that he had a friend that owed him money and that they wanted to send me $7,000.00 dollars. Out of that I was supposed to recover what I had spent and the rest was supposed to go towards helping this girl out and in helping me to start some businesses that I have been trying to start for a long time.
Things however got ugly as initially the guy tried to deposit a check at Bank of America in person and it was accepted by the teller, but after about 2 weeks the check bounced because supposedly there was not enough funds in the guys account to cover the check.
After that they tried to do it via wire transfer and that failed as well. After that I simply told them that if they wanted to send me any money then they would have to use Paypal as I was not about to take the risk of them playing with my bank account at all.
Things were quiet for a few months until this guy's friend popped up and said that he would help me to start my businesses and that he would help me with my friend, but only on the condition that I helped him with a girl that he supposedly met in person and that he knew. He was supposedly married and had kids and because of the jealousy factor that often occurs between women I agreed to help him because he was afraid that his wife would find out and leave him.
He had money sent to me through Paypal and Paypal cleared the funds thereby leading me to think that the funds were legitimate and real. It was not until a few weeks later after I had completed my end of the bargain that I found out that the money that was sent to me was stolen money.
Prior to that I had no idea at all because Paypal lead me to believe that the money was real and legitimate and it is because of that incident that I am currently having problems with Paypal and at the moment I am trying to find ways of fighting that legally so that I can get my account reactivated.
I have tried to tell Paypal that it was a scam, but at the moment they are not believing me and are trying to get me for the whole thing and that is something that I don't agree with as I believe that they had a legal obligation to protect me.