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Curiouser and Curiouser

December 4th, 2015 · 1 Comment · rural life

I did my civic duty yesterday. I reported the Craigslist scam to our local sheriff’s office and destroyed the phony $2,200 check that had been sent to me by the perpetrators. But after I ran the check through the shredder, I wondered if there was anything more to learn about this scheme. I went back […]

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Craigslist Goat Scam

December 3rd, 2015 · 3 Comments · Blog, farming

I recently advertised some of our young goats for sale on Craigslist here in Upstate New York. Call me crazy, but it never occurred to me that trying to sell a $150 goat would expose me to internet fraud. I must have gotten a couple of the email responses confused because one of them apologized […]

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