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Possible spoofed, faked, forged, counterfeit, and/or fraudulent payment methods.

Always proceed with caution with any payment method:

• Personal Safety Tips from craig.
• 10 Tips to Avoid Online Escrow Fraud.
• 419.
• Advance Fee Fraud.
• AlertPay Money Order service (Alert Pay).
• Allianz Service Escrow Account.
• American Express Gift Cheques (Amex).
• Auto-Sell-Web (Auto Sell Web or AutoSellWeb).
• Bank information phishing.
• BB&T CashManager OnLine.
• Bidpay (Bid Pay).
• BuySafe (Buy Safe).
• California Department of Corporations
• Cameroon puppy fraud.
• Cash.
• Cashier's Check (Cashiers Check).
• Certapay (Certa Pay).
• Cheques, checks, czechs.
• Chronopost (Chrono Post).
• Counterfeit.
• craigslist Buyer Protection Plan (Buyerprotection Plan).
• craigslist Protection Program.
• craiglistsafe.com (craigslistsafe.com)
• craigslist Trusted Seller.
• Credit cards.
• Credit card security codes.
• DHL.
• DHL payment service.
• Direct deposit.
• eBay Business Purchase Protection Program.
• eBay Phishing.
• eBay's Safe Purchase Program.
• Escrow.
• Escrow.com
• Fake check.
• FakeChecks.org
• FedEx (Fed Ex).
• Federal Express.
• Forged checks.
• Fortis Escrow agent account.
• Gift cards.
• Gift certificates.
• Global Payment Company (GlobalPayment Co.).
• Google Checkout (Google Check Out).
• Guardmeet.com
• Identity theft. More on Identity Theft.
• Instant Cash Transfer.
• i-soldit (isoldit, i sold it). iSOIDit.com
• KoPay (Ko Pay) Postal Money Order.
• Landlord scam (phony).
• Marriage scam (phony marriage offers).
• moneybookers.com
• MoneyBookers Ltd. ( support@moneybookers-financial.com )
• Money Bookers Ltd.
• Moneygram (Money Gram).
• MONEYGRAM®EXPRESS PAYMENT (MONEY GRAM ® EXPRESS PAYMENT).
• Money Order (Moneyorder).
• Nigerian 419 scams.
• Nigerian Scam Victims Compensation Fund.
• Online U.S.P.S Money Order.
• OrionPay (Orion Pay).
• PayAlert (Pay Alert).
• Paypal (Pay Pal).
• PayPal Account Review Department.
• PayKo (Pay Ko).
• PaySafe (Pay Safe).
• Pay-craigslist.org (Pay craigslist)
• Personal check.
• Phishing.
• Postal Service Money Order.
• protectioncl.com
• Qchex.
• Qchecks (Q Checks).
• OrionPay (Orion Pay).
• SafeBuy (Safe Buy).
• safe-emanagement.com (Safe Emanagement). 
• SafePay (Safe Pay).
• Safepaysolutions (Safe Pay Solutions).
• Secret shopper scam.
• Shopping Agency Group.
• SAMSKIP TRANSPORT.
• SECUREFINANCIER.COM
• Speedpay (Speed Pay).
• SquareTrade.
• Storm-Pay Online Money Order (StormPay or Storm Pay).
• Telex Company.
• TNT Agent (TNTAgent).
• www.trade-auto-expert.com  (totally spoofed site-- fake site)
• TradeSquare (Trade Square).
• Travelex (Travel Ex).
• UPS purchase protection account.
• us-car-trade.com.
• US Air Military Cargo.
• US Postal Money Order.
• Uttering a check.
• Wal-Mart MoneyGram (Walmart Money Gram, Wal Mart Money-Gram).
• WalMart Money Orders or Money Transfers.
• Western Union.
• Wire Transfer.
• WorldPay (World Pay).
• Work at home scams.

Confirmed phony escrow sites shut down by California:

2004

• 3rdpartyonline.com
• 3rdpartyus.com
• advanced-escrow-corp.com
• advescrow.com
• allworld-escrow.com
• auction-safe-escrow.com
• auctionstrader.net
• automototrades.com
• betterbusinesssupport.com
• california-deal.net
• california-deals.com
• california-safetrade.com
• californiatrade.net
• california-trade.com
• ca-trading.net
• central-escrow.com
• complete-trading.com
• dealinsurance.com
• escrowcalifornia.com
• escrowguardian.net
• escrow-partners.com
• far-trade.com
• for-traders.com
• inteligentservice.com
• intelligent-service.com
• international-safe.com
• online-deal-insurance.com
• online-ebs.com
• royanstone.com
• secure-bargain.net
• securebuyonline.com
• traderonlineescrow.com
• worldwide-escrow.com

2005

Cease and desist orders.