CraigsList Scam Warning

[InvisibleTouch]

For those of you selling on CraigsList, be careful of the following scam:

I put up a few listings a couple of days ago, and have by now received two different replies in the same vein - someone will e-mail and say "You don't have to sell your stuff to survive, I was in the same boat until I found out about this surefire money-maker," or something along those lines, and then procede to tell you about a technique for making thousands of dollars a month in partnership with Google. If you follow the links, you'll find the super-simple "starter kit" costs 99 cents, and you might think, Gee, for 99 cents, I can give it a try.... What they don't tell you, buried in the fine print, is that when you give your credit card number for those initial 99 cents, you're agreeing to the "terms" which include automatic deductions from your card for future membership costs, to the tune of a periodic $70 or so.

A quick search on Google (ironically) turned up all of this info - but if you first get the e-mail, which sounds like it comes from a regular person, you might be tempted to give it a shot. Don't be.

[Dulcinea]

1. I got a couple of those.

I deleted them. I've been unemployed since February, & one thing I have learned is: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Delete them if you get them!