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I'd be shocked if It wasn't. The picture is old or out of state with the flowers. That's always suspicious. Price has the $ sign after the number indicating that it's likely foreign. Gmail is the third flag.

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Why is gmail a flag? I've used it for years trouble free

I use GMail also. But remember how easy it was to setup? Scammers find it easy too. Anonymous, free email accounts (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc) are always a flag. Doesn't mean it's a scam, but if it seems fishy probably is. With an email like that, it's damn near impossible to track them down.

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What these guys said....

I have an account too. It's part of a bigger picture. Not the scam itself, but a flag that something may not be right.

Yeah but didn't we just suggest to someone else in another thread to

use a temporary disposable email account when listing on CL to avoid the

bullshit email replies.

Sound like double-standards guys :p Make up our minds ;)

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Yeah but didn't we just suggest to someone else in another thread to

use a temporary disposable email account when listing on CL to avoid the

bullshit email replies.

Sound like double-standards guys :p Make up our minds ;)

I like turtles.

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yep i bet its a scam, use search tempest and plug in the title and see how many ads over the country it has.

Personally I find that hotmail addresses are 99% of the time the fake/scam deals. I've yet to encounter a gmail for a scam

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I'd be shocked if It wasn't. The picture is old or out of state with the flowers. That's always suspicious. Price has the $ sign after the number indicating that it's likely foreign. Gmail is the third flag.

I agree the pictures are out of date but it's an Ohio tag on the car in the background.

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My vote is scam too. Notice how he refers to it as "the" bike so many times. Just sounds odd. On a positive note, I did end up selling my 03 Shadow and it was from Craigslist, so it isn't a bad thing once you sort through the bullshit.

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scam...that format is used for tons of scams

enjoy being added to their forever-spam list

Ah,but that's what multiple email accounts are for ;)

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I've used CL many many times in the past but always use a secondary web-mail for correspondence.

Only been tagged by spam once.

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