3.25.2012

from: Mata Elisa granmakids@gmail.com - greta555us3@gmail.com
Wanted asap.Please kindly contact me.I'd like to buy it from you. Thanks,Elisa!
me:
The item you are inquiring about has recently been sitting in a pile of fresh dog turds. Are you still interested?
scammer:
Hi! I am a single mom who works as a teacher's assistant in church atNevada City. I want to give your item to our pastor as a gift.Do you
have a PayPal account? Invoice me using the same e-mail.
If you do not have a PayPal account, Kindly provide me with your Full
name and Address to enable me send you a cash delivery money order.
i will be adding an extra funds during payment for shipment cost
because you will be required to ship the item. I prefer USPS Shipping
Method. Please hold it for me.
Have a Bless Day.
Elisa
me:
Oh perfect! Pastors love fresh turds! This will be an excellent gift choice.
scammer:
Please send me your information i requested for the payment.
me:
Here is your information. You are a bastard.

20 comments:

Sean said...

Thanks for this. I just googled this person's name and boy, I'm glad I did.

Fucking scamming piece of shit.

Loic Maestracci said...

Same here

Hi! I am a single mom who works as a teacher's assistant in church at
Nevada City. I want to give your item to our pastor as a gift.Do you
have a PayPal account? Invoice me using the same e-mail.

If you do not have a PayPal account, Kindly provide me with your Full
name and Address to enable me send you a cash delivery money order.

i will be adding an extra funds during payment for shipment cost
because you will be required to ship the item. I prefer USPS Shipping
Method.

Have a Bless Day.

Matt Randsome said...

I got this one too as well as the same thing from a Ketty Booker at kettybooker2001@gmail.com. Saying she had to send it to west Africa as a gift for her brother. I think they should all eat shit together for wasting our time.

Unknown said...

this blog brings me a little bit of joy after having to deal with these fools.

Evan said...

I just got this in response to my camera ad. Same addresses as other posts.

Tracy said...

I just got this too and invoiced her using paypal....am I going to get hacked? UGH

Wildcat Girl said...

This girl contacted me, too. I even offered the camera for free after hearing "single mom, TA at a church, for my pastor". Then she accidentally sent me the same thing again and I got suspicious and googled her email and found this. Thank you so much, I saw all of this before I gave her any of my info and STILL have my camera. Yay!

Wildcat Girl said...

She also just sent me this


Hi Dear ,

I want to let you know that i have sent the payment inclusive with the
shipping fee .Please have the package shipped immediately to my Pastor
when you hear from PayPal regarding my payment.
I'm sending this item to our pastor who is getting married with a
California Woman that is working in US Embassy in West Africa.

Our pastor notify me two days ago that the wedding will be taking
place in West Africa where her wife works. please you will be helping
me to ship the item to them.I added sufficient funds during payment Of
your item for the shipping fee.

Send the package through (USPS Express Mail) of course they are the
cheapest courier for shipping over sea. Note you can also schedule a
pick up from USPS website via WWW.USPS.COM. for them to come and pick
up the item from your house. www.usps.com Please note this,the
tracking number MUST start with (EG, EH) Express Mail.

Please check your e-mail very well both in box and bulk e-mail to see
if PayPal has contacted over your item i paid for.


My Pastor Shipping info Is As Stated Below:

Full Name: Tipsy Onodu

Address:20 Etiudo Street Uwani

City Enugu,

Enugu State

Postal Code 23442,

Nigeria

Remain Bless

Clearly copied and pasted. I offered it for free and she's still talking about paying it and the shipping fee. I am so damn gullible

U - Blog said...

Thanks for posting. I just got a response from that e-mail looking to purchase something from me and I decided to google it first.

Thanks for saving me time!

Unknown said...

happy to be of help to you.

Temperance Evans said...

Decided to do a little background check - a habit of mine when dealing with anyone I don't know, generally.

Anyway, I recently refurbished a laptop and put it up on craigslist. I got all the same e-mails listed above. Talk about a bad day for the idiot on the other end. I'm a criminal justice student and I work with computers.

HMM....

Scammer: "Please send me your information i requested for the payment of your item asap."

Here was my final response: "I'm a Criminal Justice Student.

....Now, you were saying? Or would you prefer I track you down, gift wrap you, and hand you over to police?"

Needless to say, I'm enjoying my virtual manhunt, just for the sport of it.

SandLConsulting said...

I posted a camera on CL, and sure enough within a few minutes this Elisa Mata contacted me with this

Hi! I am a single mom who works as a teacher's assistant in church at
Nevada City. I want to give your item to our pastor as a gift.Do you
have a PayPal account? Invoice me using the same e-mail.

If you do not have a PayPal account, Kindly provide me with your
Full name and Address to enable me send you a cash delivery money
order.

i will be adding an extra funds during payment for shipment cost
because you will be required to ship the item. I prefer USPS Shipping
Method.

Have a Bless Day.

Elisa

Kept insisting that I send her my paypal info to send me the payment, after reading all the posts, this is for sure a scam. They have you send the item and then they claim that they never authorized the purchase. And then your out the item and its cost.

Jada said...

Well this scammer is still at it. Got the identical message at 2 am this morning.

tx twister said...

So glad I found this blog. This scammer is still at it. Got same message from Elisa Greta, greta555us3@gmail.com, yesterday for an iPad I'm selling on craigslist.

Unknown said...

Oh No! This breaks my heart. I just put a laptop on Craig's List and got the same basic response. I thought PayPal invoicing protected you. No???
I will send another email and request that she give me a phone call before I do any invoicing, shipping, etc. Glad I googled her name!!! Thanks,
"Bear" Rosson
San Angelo, TX 12/24/12

Unknown said...

Oh No! This breaks my heart. I just put a laptop on Craig's List and got the same basic response. I thought PayPal invoicing protected you. No???
I will send another email and request that she give me a phone call before I do any invoicing, shipping, etc. Glad I googled her name!!! Thanks,
"Bear" Rosson
San Angelo, TX 12/24/12

Unknown said...

Oh no! Glad I found this. I posted an cl ad for a camera I am selling...
I went as far as giving her my address for her to ship her cashiers check. I hope I am safe.
Glad I googled her email and found this..
Ruby ( California )

Unknown said...

Oh no! Glad I found this. I posted an cl ad for a camera I am selling...
I went as far as giving her my address for her to ship her cashiers check. I hope I am safe.
Glad I googled her email and found this..
Ruby ( California )

Robin said...

Glad I found this blog! I just received the exact same email in response to an ad for a camera I posted on Craigs List. She asked for my PayPal account number and said it was a gift for her pastor.

I told her the camera still needed a cleaning and she just said she needed it ASAP and I'd have to ship it, and she could send me a money order if I gave her my full name and address.

told "her" I would only do local transactions since someone else tried to scam me online recently. I am never going to ship anything. Cash only!

Unknown said...

Great, just had her respond to me the same way, just the initial response at 2 am. using the email granmakids3@gmail.com