Craigslist scam–Sarah Wilkins
I hate to admit it but I got scammed on Craigslist Seattle when trying to buy concert tickets and the only benefit was that the person has three emails which hopefully will get indexed so if people search, they will know that there was a scam.
I posted a Craigslist post asking for two tickets for a concert. A woman named Sarah Wilkins responded via text but with her email of: sarahraewilkins@mail.com (should have known) saying that she had four tickets but wouldn’t be home in time to use them. She immediately asked for my email to “transfer them” to me even before telling me how much they cost (I didn’t put my asking price in the posting). She then asked if I knew people who wanted the other two (to try and get me to spend more).
She sent me a link to my gmail account for Google Pay requests. I took about 10 minutes to respond but before I did, she followed up saying that she had another person that was interested in buying 3 (I should have known that she was putting artificial pressure on me). She sent me a request from Google Pay from this email: wilkins.sarah234uahlaw.edu@gmail.com
I didn’t have Google Pay setup so I then asked her if she accepted Paypal. She said yes and gave me this address – Wilkins1Backup.Sarah@Gmail.com I sent her the money as “friends and family” (it isn’t secured) and she said she would send me the TicketExchange. She didn’t send anything for an hour and so I checked back. At the same time, I got a text from Paypal saying that they suspected a fraud transaction. I then emailed her asking about it and she said: “If you snatch the payment I won’t send them that’s like you scamming me”. I then tried to calm her down but she finally said “Hey I’ll just refund you and sell the 3”. She never did though. I rejected the money on Paypal (no guarantee of getting it back) and she said that she couldn’t refund me the money.
If you are dealing with someone on Cragislist that has any of these email addresses, I would caution you away from doing business with her.