Comments on: FLVDirect.us craigslist scam

By: AK

AK — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:48:51 +0000

YEP! Got the same thing today (March 16, 2011!

First email from “her” was for another item I was selling and did NOT go to SPAM. Then got another email that DID go to SPAM and was for a different item I was selling.

I thought it was odd that someone wanted me to go look at someone else’s stuff first, plus the link looked odd. Had youtube in the URL, but the initial domain was something entirely different.

THANKFULLY I ran across this posting and several others!!!!

By: J Hill

J Hill — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:49:12 +0000

Same here, word for word. IT IS A SCAM !! DO NOT DOWNLOAD !!!

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:05:41 +0000

Yes. I got one too and it is March 2011. Funny this thing is still going on. I am located on the Orange County CraigsList.

By: angela

angela — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:28:39 +0000

Same here. Thought it was super fishy. I’m on my phone so I wasn’t about to download anything on my driod.

By: Jamesongrrl

Jamesongrrl — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:11:55 +0000

Yeppers – got one too. I always double check anything I’m not familiar with before downloading so I saw all the post targeting this as a scam.

By: New Scam on Craigslist – “Is It the Same One?”

New Scam on Craigslist – “Is It the Same One?” — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:23:44 +0000

[...] was sent to me via Craigslist, one would wind up on a page where a video would be. According to Computer Scientist Darren McCall: “If you click the play button it says, “To watch this video please install FLVDirect”. [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:39:40 +0000

Try Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

By: yep

yep — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:17:56 +0000

really no need for me to confirm the same thing already said 61 times lol, but yea I f*ed up and didnt think it thru which usually im so good at spotting these things, but i was selling a cell phone, so it kinda made sense at the time a person mightve bought a cell before and it wasnt the exact one they wanted or whatever…by the time i noticed the 7:53 timeframe for video, and thought it through lol, I had already downloaded it and waited and nothing happened…Somebody please let me know if I need to delete anything or do something…I ran my Norton Internet Security Full Scan and nothing came up, and I checked to see if the program downloaded anywhere but it was nowere to be found…..??? thanks again

By: A person

A person — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:53:06 +0000

I am chiming in, I received an e-mail identical to yours. Thankfully I did a bit of research and you folks did too. Thanks.

By: zdub

zdub — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:40:37 +0000

Yep same here, Im glad you guys all confirmed for me.The website was all sketchy looking anyways. Thanks!!