Kijiji Scam: Spammers get you to do their dirty work

A Tiffany (jewelry, not 1980s teen singer) fan who blogs at Design Muse House writes about a scam I haven't heard about before: a web site that tempts you with gifts to spam Kijiji with ads they know would get *them* in trouble if they did it themselves. You become the Kijiji equivalent of a drug mule.

Hi… so here is the thing… I found this web site online that had an “special offer” it said that I could get a free gift if I posted ads in the kijiji.com classifieds for them. I naively thought it was just an special offer since the web site looks pretty nice and I didn’t notice anything suspicious about it. I asked their costumer service and they even gave me the text to write int he ads! well I did post the ads and everything was fine until I checked my e-mail and noticed that someone sent me an e-mail yesterday saying that he would report me for selling fake items!! I explained this person about this offer and then I noticed that i had 4 emails from the “Tiffany & Co.” company (apparently the real one) telling me that my ads were being investigated for “Trademark Violation and Copyright Infringement ” under some law number and all that. They also gave me a telephone number to call if I had “any questions” so …this scared the hell outta me… I mean I don’t have money to pay whatever fee or any legal Aid and it’s frustrating since it is not even my fault and i wasn’t selling anything. a friend of mine says I live under a rock and that might be true since I didn’t know much about Tiffany & Co. Anyways… what do you think I should do? Should I call them and explain? or should I wait? …Am I even going to get sued? Thank you guys :)

This post was written by: Gord McCord

Gord McCord, webmaster at You Suck at Kijiji, makes fun of funny things on Kijiji. Do not take him too seriously. Also do not take yourself too seriously. Follow him on Twitter