Day Two: Craigslist Scammers Try To Scam Me

Freedom Haters once again heard back from the fictional Mary Loveth.

(Alias of Craigslist Scammer who is trying to scam Freedom Haters in a wire transfer scam involving the apartment for sublet.)

My request for a Myspace or Facebook page was totally avoided. Instead. I got back the exact same email that was sent yesterday, but with a slightly larger picture with some strange Photoshop cropping. Mary Loveth completely avoided my request to take a photo while holding up a copy of today’s newspaper.

She even changed her (his) email address again from maryloveth28@gmail.com to mary_loveth28@yahoo.com.

Here’s the photo that was that fictional Mary Loveth included:

Random Photo claiming to Be Mary Loveth

A quick call to Calgary Canada and fictional Mary Loveth’s place of employment, Arc Resources, provided the true answers. The company has been so pestered by reports of this scam they have set up a recorded message to tell callers that Mary Loveth is part of an Advanced Fee Scam. The Arc Resource receptionist told me that there has been a big rash of Mary Loveth scammer ads lately

Here’s what Wikipedia says about the Advanced Fee Scam:

The use of checks in a scam hinges on a US law (and common practice in other countries) concerning checks: when an account holder presents a check for deposit or to cash, the bank must (or in other countries, usually) make the funds available to the account holder within 1-5 business days, regardless of how long it actually takes for the check to clear and funds to be transferred from the issuing bank.The check clearing process normally takes 7-10 days and can in fact take up to a month when dealing with foreign banks. The time between the funds appearing as available to the account holder and the check clearing is known as the “float”, during which time the bank could technically be said to have floated a loan to the account holder to be covered with the funds from the bank clearing the check.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what should be the next step on trying to scam the scammers?