I have to laugh at the names these scammers use.  Maybe someone should tell him to take the "road not taken" and stop scamming people!

Same exact message as everyone else, except the name is now Robert Frost frostmail0@gmail.com

This was my tongue in cheek response:

"Sure I will go ahead and send you the info. First would you mind talking to my friend though? He's a police officer. I just want to make sure this isn't a scam. I will need your phone number. Thanks!

I look forward to hearing back from you!"

Let's keep up the work of posting this stuff so that no one falls for it.

Grant Edwards <Elijahhoto132@gmail.com>
Im interested in the posted item, I hope it is in good condition?

Grant Edwards <verdell.inez335a@gmail.com>
Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards.

same email as you've all been getting from Grant Edwards.  I was a little thrown by the request for personal information but then I got the email about accidentally writing the check for $2000 instead of $80, plus $50 for my trouble, and I knew he was fake.

REPORT OF SCAMER:
- Grant Edwards kathryn87654@gmail.com
Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards

I received the same e-mail as everyone else, but was immediately alarmed when they asked for person information. There were many minor red flags in the e-mail, but that was the biggest. I feel an obligation to report what I experienced, and hope others learn how to avoid this scam artist. This is all in relation to a $30 dollar item I had posted on Craigslist. Date of e-mail's are 8/29/12
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" - Grant Edwards robincrystal521@gmail.com
Im interested in the posted item, I hope it is in good condition?
    
- To Grant
Used, but in perfect working condition. I'll even double check one more time if we decide to make the sale final.

- Grant Edwards kathryn87654@gmail.com
Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards

- To Grant
I am not comfortable giving this information. Either you have someone meet me in Downtown and bring CASH or MONEY ORDER, or no deal.
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Of course, there was never a response.

Just got an email from him...I usually google peoples names with craigslist together in a google search to see who I am dealing with, or if it's someone local I put them into facebook to see who I might be dealing with since I am young and female and weary of meeting strangers.
The email address this idiot used for me is ruthrobinson890@gmail.com which is part of the reason I was suspicious since the name Seth Grant didn't match the email of Ruth Robinson. I replied because I thought it was a general interest in what I am selling since they asked if it was in good condition, but I have yet to get a reply. If I do I am telling them cash and local pick up only.

Clara, after you gave him your info what happened?  He got me recently too but have not gotten a check yet.  Even if I do I am taking it to the police.  Not sure what they will do with it, but I am running away from this d****ad now.

Below is the email I got from Seth today about my item on Craigslist.
So I "googled" a little too late as he has my home address now.
I just received the confirmation from my Secretary that the payment has been issued and mailed out to you using USPS priority mail, hopefully will be delivered to your address within 3-5days, but to my greatest surprise the check was issued out in the sum of $2500 instead of the actual cost of my purchase. She claimed that I requested for that amount to be issued out to you but am very sure I only made a request for just the cost of my purchase. I know this a terrible mistake and I was just informed about this few moment ago.

Please once the check is delivered, kindly take it to your Bank and have it deposited into your account for 24hours to clear, when it clears the next day you can have the remaining balance sent to my mover via Western Union after deducting the cost of the purchase as I've already planned in using the excess funds to offset his previous bills so that he can come over for the pick up ASAP. I will need your response assuring me that I can trust you to handle this appropriately as requested. I'm very sorry for the inconveniences and I have decided to add $50 to cover the cost of your running around to the Bank and Western Union, thank you for the understanding and hope to read from you shortly. Seth.

I swear good thing I googled his name lol. he was doin the same s*** to me.. seth green hes using a different email though pamela57675@gmail.com. telling me about his movers and made a mistake that his secretary f****d up and send me a check for 2990 instead of the price of 300 (xbox). Be careful sellers!

I had an almost identical experience with a sara wilson. She responded to a craiglist ad I posted. I also thought it was odd. I would never send personal information to someone over the Internet!

I received an email from Seth Grant to buy something from me on Craigslist. It struck me as odd so I did a search online.   Thank you all for posting these warnings.

The first from Seth grant <RobinCrystal521@gmail.com>
Im interested in the posted item, I hope it is in good condition?

The second from Seth grant theresabeverly4981@gmail.com
Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I rec'd this 2nd response today on my listing

Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards

I thought that it was sort of strange that there was no inquiry on the title; so I did a little investigating and found all of these compliants.  While reviewing I was suprised how long he has been at it - Hope he gets caught!!!!!!!!!!

I got the same E-mail messages too. Thanks to the internet and active users like you that I read about this and didn't get fooled by him.

Cheers...

Posted some items on Craigslist today and received e-mails from these addresses:
ariannef744@gmail.com
diegonere107@gmail.com
Both names appear to be Seth Grant, in exact same words he asks:
Im interested in the posted item, I hope it is in good condition?

Got scam written all over em.

Just got this as well.  The email looked suspicious so did my research first before e-mailing said person back.  Knew it was a scam as soon as google finished Seth's last name for me.

Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards.

Seth is a bad boy, he was interested in buying my DJ Equip. He said he was going to send me a check to cash for the amount, and then have movers pick it up. Seth is biz z!!! This time he used trisha25641@gmail.

Sellers b ware

Got this same "I am deaf" email. Different name though.

Copy:

Hello,

This is Jennifer  thanks for getting back to me I want to buy this but the only way i can pay you is via a Bank Certified Check that i would mail to you using the FedEx overnight delivery,

To make sure that everything goes smoothly i would wait for the check to clear before the pickup is done, I would be responsible for the pickup and it would be done by the movers and their payment would be included in the check i mail to you and this is all due to my disability (am deaf) and it makes it hard for me deal with this and it makes the transaction better and quicker.

I know you were not expecting this and I would have loved to come for the viewing but i cant I really want it and am offering an extra $50 for you to delete the posting to show i want it as i am just settling into my new house i want good deals to furnish the apartment i stay in.

if you are okay with this please send me extra pictures and get back to me with the following

Your Full name
Your Physical address (as FedEx does not deliver to P.oboxes)


I await your response . thank you and stay blessed

Jennifer Thompson

Hope this helps keep anyone from being scammed....

I, too, had an item on craigslist for sale and he has contacted me twice.  Here is the last email he sent.

Sorry for the late response. Please I don't have time to come have a look cause of my Job transfer, I'll take care of that by engaging the services of a mover hence I'll be sending a check to cover the cost and it'll be delivered via United Parcel Service, so I'll need you to provide me with the following information below to facilitate the mailing of the check, be aware that UPS does not deliver to P.O box addresses..

1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential or office
3.Your cellphone number.
4.Final Price

I'll have my mover come over for the pick up as soon as you have cashed the check. I'll appreciate it if you take down the ad from CL so as to be rest assured that I'm in hold of the item, I hope to read from you shortly. Best Regards.

I then responded that he could pay me thru paypal and then once money cleared, I would ship it to him.  Have not heard back from him since.  

IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL IN RESPONSE TO AN AD YOU HAVE POSTED ON CRAIG'S LIST THE PERSON SENDING YOU THE INQUIRY THE EMAIL ADDRESS SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS

response@anon.oodle.com

IF ANYONE EMAILS YOU AND THE EMAIL ADDRESS IS FROM ANY OTHER EMAIL SERVICE SUCH AS GMAIL, YAHOO, HOTMAIL, ETC...THEY ARE SCAMMERS.  CRAIGSLIST FILTERS RESPONSES TO ADS POSTED THROUGH OODLE.COM.

Patty,

If the check is for more than the amount you asked, and I am 99.9% certain it will be, then no one will come to pick up the merchandise.  Instead, they will have an explanation for the delay in the pickup, and the mistake in the amount of the check.  They will ask you to deposit the check and send them the difference.  After you send them the difference, the check will eventually bounce.  The reason for the "someone will pick it up right after you get the payment" part is to make you feel like you have to deposit the check right away.  Scammers know that they should never let a mark have time to think about things.

If you feel worried, speak with the police.  I am sure they would love the chance to speak with this guy in person if he shows up.

If you want to refuse the delivery, that is fine, but I can't see any particular need to do so.  Just turn the check over to the police.  I imagine they have a collection of them by now.

I also fell for it too. Refuse delivery from whichever company they delivered it through, FED EX/UPS. As long as you dont sign for it they wont know where you live, they would think the address you gave was fake.

I got the Seth Grant thing in response to my Craig Lists post to sell a display board.  same story as the others.  I am worried now because I fell for it and sent him my address. Am I in danger?

I've recently posted some items on craigslist.org and received a text message from this (972) 360-9054 as well as an email. from this address below:

8v792-2915358816@sale.craigslist.org  

The email is from Seth Grant.
Original address coming from this email address: elaine.castillo4@gmail.com
This is a copy of the message I received from this person.

Im interested in the posted item, I hope it is in good condition?
 
The text message said "hey I'm interested in your jewerly (with jewelry being misspelled, 1st reg flag) on craigslist. Can u post it on hipswap.net? They have shipping.

Thank you so much to everyone that has put something on this on this website, so that other people don't fall victims to this scam.

omg i feel stupid i feel for it too Seth Grany is such a fool. do not cash the checks cause he can get all your banking info.. im gonna get him in some serious trouble im military so i will take it to legal...

I just received the same e-mail. I have seen this name on numerous other scams as well, this alerted me and I told mr grant to @#%* off and get a life as well as sent a scam alert to Craigslist and the police department.

Just so everyone knows - this guy is still at it, and he's changed his email address to e.grant1001@gmail.com

I got the email asking for address, I sent it to him; then a few days later I got the one saying that his "assistant" had sent too much money... and I told him no thanks.

Luckily I do regular credit checks, so if this creeper tries anything, I'll know about it.

I'm headed to the local Internet crimes office tomorrow to give them everything I have from this guy.

...guess I won't be selling my item after all...

I got the same thing but from a Parker Johnson, however the letter came form Seth Grant in Texarkana,TX.

I got these two emails verbatim from Paul Jones at jennylaura871@gmail.com

Suffice it to say, I won't be sensing any personal info. By the way, this was in response to a Craigslist ad in Arkansas.

I got the same message as show able...definitely looks like a scammer.


Thank you for the response, I will be sending a Certified Draft which is generally acceptable to cover the cost  as am completely interested. I will need the details below of whom & where to mail the payment;

1.Name to be on the check
2.Home or office address
3.Cellphone number

Please note FedEx do not deliver to P.O Box. However, my mover will pick up the item right after the payment as been delivered. Kindly delete the posting as am committed to buying it. I recently move here on a job transfer and it's a great buy. Here is my relay # (832)390-0679  am hearing  impaired and will receive your phone messages via email. Hope to read from you shortly.



Best regards

Who is using this number?