Called me on an ad I had about a vehicle I had for sale on craigslist, said he wanted to buy it and pay by Paypal cause he was an engineer or something. Which doesn't make sense anyway but I texted him back and told him to F#$K OFF after I did a yahoo search for his phone numbere. BTW, It was a Chicago area number and I live in Chicago but I checked it out anyway just incase. I found pages and pages of complaints about this guy and his phone number. . Haven't heard from him since. I guess some people don't have anything better to do but to try to mess with people. Why do these jerks try this crap. Do they think we are stupid?  I know I'm not. Ignore this phone number on your phone. He's some F%^&KING J***OFF. and he WILL GET CAUGHT EVEBNTUALLY, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME.

I also received a text from this person claiming to be a petroleum engineer wanting to buy my car that I had on craigslist and he wanted to pay through paypal, after googling the number I found this and a few more links like this. Scammers, criminals always finding ways to hurt honest good people, Im pretty protective and do research on these things but many people including me would think a paypal account transaction would be ok, but criminals find ways into every one elses pocket to avoid working a real honest living. Beware of these people at this number they are scammers.

he tried to buy my car too. he is a scammer

Got a text from "Eric" wanting to buy an item I listed on CL. Wanted to pay via paypal. Seemed fishy as item is worth over 10K. "Eric" claims to be a petroleum engineer. Searched his number and found various posts like this one. SCAMMER ALERT!

I just got a text from this number saying they want to buy my car.  He says his name is Eric

Receiving text messages from this number to purchase a puppy from me.  Always the same type of response. A U.S. military officer wanting a dog for his daughter, etc.  I live in Canada...