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| | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | I am selling this car and posted it on our local Craigslist which is free. Less than 30 minutes later I received this email. Notice the title in brackets is exactly what is in my title. So, this tells me this is automatically created and just fills in the detail in the brackets. Greetings,My name is JECK, I saw your ad for {1988 Acura Integra 4 door LS - $1850 } and its fits
what i have been searching for.let me have the final asking PRICE you
are willing to sell .i reside in UK,I will handle shipment withouts
to My base in UK.Do you accept cashier checks as a method of
payment.Sorry if i may ask,is this your personal property cos' i dont
want to involve myself with stolen properties for sale.what is the
condition like? Well reply with your full name,contact address,phone
number and fax,prove of ownership,so that i can commence payment
immediately if it is still available....
Name in Full ...
Adderess...
City....
Country......
State..
Zipcode...
Phone# both cell and Home. If he lives in the UK, why can't he spell English? His name is Jeck Jones. 
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | and I live in Tx and still have problem with spelling,,,
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | I will handle shipment withouts
to My base in UK ? Hey, even that high school kid the other night didn't write this bad. 
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | | | | | | Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 523 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 523 | YUP there's some real dumb people on both sides of this scam
OR What do you expect from Craigslist
Please when you get one of these report them to the sites webmaster....if it really bothers you there are several 'Fraud Web Sites' the keep a list of these guy for people to check
Con men live off greed.....any deal that sounds too good is | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | I got something like that when I had posted an ad wanting parts. I never replied. Somewhere along the line I figure he'll need my banking information.
I agree with Proffit, Beware.
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | Thanks Tony. my english teacher took my essay outline as a good example today. I write bad on the computer because i am used to writing in MSN messenger form suck as. LOL, BRB, g2g, ttyl, rofl cuz, sup, etc. you get the point. you just make more use of your time writing short and unproperly | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | You should write proper everywhere. It doesn't take any extra time to put in capitals and make the sentences make sense. It will be good practice for when proper writing is really necessary like when you go for a job. I don't want to be unproperly pointing it out.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | I know ( I almost put no there) Tony. It's really just a teen thing. There was probably some "secret code or Language" you used when you were a teen. Its sort of like us using H.P instead of Horsepower etc. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 | Originally posted by Tony M:
You should write proper everywhere Proper, proper, proper, proper, proper. . . Or maybe you meant "write properly" :p :p
Jeff Nelson
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
| | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 1,159 | Interesting points (all of them). JHP -- when you gonna stick your mug shot in your profile? Did you get my email? It's up there for you to connect. Apache -- you should add one, too. This way when we think we are talking to a youngster and it turns out to be an old geezer ... aaaaaaaaaa ... no comment! Peg
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Ban them if they dont put their pix in profile, some folks can have a lot of fun with them
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | Jeff, I didn't say I write perfect English myself, I make numerous mistakes. Ofcourse English is my second language and I didn't speak it much the first 17 years of my life.
Not putting in capitals or writing in a "lazy" style might be ok to some. But realize that whatever you write here will be read by dozens of people. Don't you owe it to them to make your written word easy to read?
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 | Sorry, Tony, just jerking your chain a little (hence the :p :p ).
Jeff Nelson
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | Jeff, I was half kidding myself. It is actually quite common for people to not put in punctuation and capitals in emails and online communication. It might be easier and faster to write that way but it sure doesn't make posts easier and faster to read.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 85 Member | | Member Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 85 | My opinion has always been that online communications are like spoken communications. listen carefully to what you actually say and you will find you often use shortcuts in your spoken language. message boards and IM work much more like this, because the conversation happens in real time. getting the message across quickly is important in online communications, where in a letter it can mulled over until it is correct. that does not excuse bad punctuation and no capitalization though...  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | I agree with that. In a chatroom or ICQ or whatever the message is there for a moment, one person reads it and it is gone forever.
Posts on a forum however will be there forever. If you do a google search on your name or screen name you will find every post you ever made on the internet.
One time in like 1996 I posted on a bulletin board about building sturdy stands for aquariums. To this day I get people emailing me for details about my stands. That is over 8 years now.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | I am making a statement. From now on I am going to try my hardest to write properly in the forums. It will be good practice for me to write in proper english. If I don't im sorry. Im in the habbit of short writing and I should get out of it. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | Wow, you know. Most high school students would have told me where to go. You are a stand up guy. 
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | For what it's worth, you can edit your post by clicking on the paper/pencil icon in the header. I do that when I need to because I hate looking illiterate.
Years ago I used to serve on the board in my little church in a small town, and they were terrible about spelling, grammer and punctuation. I tried to help with the proofreading and found that it just made them angry. It was almost like there was an "anti-intellectualism" or a feeling that I thought I was too smart for them. I finally learned to keep my mouth shut and let them publish whatever came out. The next year I got the bright idea of volunteering to be the board secretary. More work, less hassle. When I moved, I had the opportunity to change churches. I go to one now where people don't get mad about silly things like that.
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | Why did I not know of that. Thanks BradB | | | | | Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 384 | Hey, I kinda like the dialectizer: Fo' whut it's wo'th, yo' kin editcher post by clickin' on th' paper/pencil icon in th' haider. ah do thet when ah need t'on account o' ah hate lookin' illiterate. Years ago ah used t'sarve on th' board in mah li'l church in a small town, an' they were terrible about spellin', grammer an' punckuashun. ah tried t'he'p wif th' proofreadin' an' foun' thet it jest made them angry. It was almost like thar was an "anti-intelleckualism" o' a feelin' thet ah thunk ah was too smart fo' them, dawgone it. ah finally larned t'keep mah mouth shet an' let them publish whutevah came out. Th' next year ah got th' bright idea of volunteerin' t'be th' board secretary. Mo'e wawk, less hassle. When ah moved, ah had th' oppo'tunity t'change churches. ah go t'one now whar varmints doesn't git mad as a weasel in a blender about silly thin's like thet.
Buzz'n Half Dozen
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | bzn,
Did you do that yourself or is there another translator out there that I don't know about?
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
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