Never give your direct email but ask for replies to ads only through replies to craigslist and have them forwarded to you. Scammers are abundant but won't give YOU information - they just want any personal information they can get for you. They will not be direct - they will ask you to remove your ad - they will use spelling and language that make no sense such as
" please get back to me with the following informations so that the payment can be endorsed:"
Name to be on the check. Address to mail the payment to. Phone number both land and mobile.
Give them only your mobile # only and a P O Box to mail a check to and see how fast they either back off OR become insistent on other info including a real address.
payments aren't endorsed - counterfeit "certified bank checks, money orders of any kind, even travelers checks" and possibly other scamming vehicles I never heard of, are in abundant supply. And, avoid Western Union like the plague.
They will have your name, address, phone #'s and armed with that they can access all kinds of other info, especially if you use the internet a lot.
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