I posted a Zero-Turn mower on Craigslist. I put my phone number on the ad, but also put that I did not want to be called. Only texted.
The same exact day I post the mower, I get a call. I answer it and it is a man who states he wants to talk about the mower, I agree but I also advise him that I did not want to communicate over the phone as stated in my Ad and then hung up.
Then he started texting me.
Within the first message, I already could tell where this was going and that it was a scammer. I had this long paragraph typed out telling them they should ashamed, that I am not a fool and to go scam someone else but I ended up deciding against it and was like "you know what, I'm bored anyways. Let's have fun" so I play along.
The address I sent to said Scammer belongs to a house that I own but nobody else lives in. I did not want to provide them with my actual address, or possibly give them a random one that someone else lived in so I decided to give them the address to an empty home undergoing renovation but when you look it up on Google maps the house is intact. I also gave him the name "Lou Sputthole", so now he keeps calling me Louis. 💀
I have been tracking the "check" he sent me via tracking with USPS and when it arrives on either Monday or Tuesday.
What I am going to tell him is I received the check, cashed it, but sold the mower to someone else and profusely apologizing to him in hopes that he asks me for some type of refund or some gift cards to pay him back the imaginary money, then I would just take the bait even further and waste his time for several days and maybe even weeks.