Time to chunk your solar cells! This is amazing! Just imagine what we will be able to do with the ability of expanding water.

Check it out here:

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=hYUa5U_cpH0

I am very excited about this one!

I have been contacted by a scammer on craigs list about one of my items for sale there. For those interested I’ll outline here what I did to handle these.

First, what happens is somebody will respond to your ad via email with the following:

Is this item still available for pick up?

No other information is exchanged.

What the scammer is doing is trying to get your e-mail address. If the item is still available it is natural to reply to the e-mail with an affirmative. They now have your e-mail address.

What comes next is a message something like this:

From: Teresa Garcia [email protected]

Thank you for your quick response, i am Teresa Garcia, from Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colorado. I would have wish to come over and inspect this at your place but I am presently off-shore. I am interested in buying this for my son in FL as a surprise gift and please just make sure it is in great condition as described. I will appreciate more pictures if available and will be sending your money asap. My shipper will be available to pick this up as soon as payment is made. Do you have PayPal account? because, I have a PayPal account that I can easily send money through because, its good for business payments. Kindly get back to me with your PayPal email address and name in order for me to transfer your money asap. Confirm sale to me by deleting the advert from Craigslist.

Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station
Colorado, Denver.
Regards

Unless you prefer to do else wise, you should be putting in your Craigslist ad that you would like a Cash and Carry deal and no shipping is available. Also you should be asking responders to be replying via phone call so you can take this out of the virtual world and putting it into the real world ASAP. These people will wear you out with e-mail chatter for sure! It’s best to get them on the phone.

I suspected I was dealing with a scammer when I got the first e-mail but really didn’t know for sure. This might have been somebody that truly couldn’t comprehend what I wrote. After I got the second e-mail I knew right there I was dealing with a scammer.

Here are the steps I did to deal with the individual:

Did a quick Internet search of the person’s e-mail address. I did find quite a few places where there were people complaining about this person. You might consider doing a search on the first sentence of the e-mail as well. This usually reveals some results likewise.

I replied to the e-mail with the following:

Please do not contact me anymore with your scams. Any future contact will result in my giving your e-mail to the proper authorities. Namely, local police, the GBI, the FBI, and your e-mail ISP. Misrepresenting yourself to scam and steal from the less knowledgeable is a serious offense.

Others have reported you on several web sites as a scammer. In the future I will not let you off that easy. Be Careful who you contact in the future with a scam. You might be being setup for a sting!

BTW, I will be contacting Gmail and Craigslist about your activities.

I then dug out the original e-mail sent via the Craigslist anonymous reply system and clicked the flag link to flag the original contact as a scam.

After doing that I went to SpamCop dot net (Setup an account if needed) and reported the second e-mail. SpamCop recognized that it was sent through the G-mail server so, all is good. Careful, you don’t want to report the first e-mail contact from Craigslist, as that will report the Craigslist server for sending Spam.

There is a space provided by SpamCop for you to input some text. I copied the same text in this space that I sent to the person doing the scam. I do this because G-mail needs to know why I am using SpamCop to report the individual.

The last step in the process is posting the e-mail address of the person that is doing the scam in this forum. This is sure to generate a few more e-mails for the scammer – LOL!

If more people would take a proactive approach to reporting these scammers we can take back Craigslist from the scammers. But it will take everybody getting involved to report them otherwise these people will continue to rip people off.

Enjoy!

Phil

I was cleaning out a locker at a facility that is close to an airforce base. The fighter in the picture was doing laps or something. It did what seemed like 10 or so touch and goes. Was it loud?

Oh hell yes! Man, the first time it made a pass it made me jump so high I think I left the floor three feet - LOL! I didn't even hear it coming! I had to change my drawers when I got home 

Dang, why don't we fly a squadren of these things at supersonic speed and 100 feet above the ground over Afganistan... I'm sure that would freak out a few people!

Phil

I have come accross something interesting today and I was wondering if anybody knows anthing about this.

Go to the American Auctioneers (Dan and Laura Dotson - Storage Wars) website at:
americanauctioneers.com/auction2.php

Look for the following date and listing:

US Storage Centers-Carson Street
735 W Carson Street
Torrance, CA 90502
(310) 782-8185
 Sep 20, 2012
12:00 PM   

Here is where it gets interesting...

Go To the Sealed Online Bids website at:
sealedonlinebids.com/detail.asp?id=3971

You will notice both are having an auction at the same place. Hmmmm! I can't confirm the same locker is being sold but i do know both auctions end on the same day!

It seems strange to me that the Dotsons would pass on such a great (looking - maybe) locker to auction off. Or maybe the locker at sealed online bids is a contribution (Multiple lockers put together - Hmmmmm) locker they are passing off as a lien locker...

However, could there be some sort of connection between Sealed Online Bids and the Dotsons? Hmmmmm...

Only reason why i am bringing it up is it seems strange that the Dotsons would not have an exclusive auction contract with this facility...

i wonder which is the scammer? The Dotsons, The Facility, or Sealed Online Bids - LOL!

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Hey all!

Just a short note to let you in on some drama going on with Spikes Auction Hunters. So I don't have duplicate content floating around the Internet (Bad For SEO) you can get the details Here:
http://msiit.net/2012/04/26/howz-yo-clickin-finger/

The link above is my web site. I didn't see any reason for a cut and paste...

There are some details there and a contest link as well - ;o)

But, I'll say one thing, it looks like the Auction Hunters are far from being cool guys if the stories are true. Hard to believe that they are not more humble when it comes to meeting people that watch their show or want to get more involved.

I know I am going to reconsider watching it. I'll maybe watch the reruns on Sunday morning if I'm not doing anything but that is 'bout all.

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