If you are selling or buying stuff on Craigslist or Kijiji, you might be approached by a potential buyer/seller who says is interested in closing the deal but he is an oceanographer, working at sea at the moment.

This is why, he says, he can’t have a phone conversation, but is glad to go through the whole process through the Internet.

This is a scam with a fake unusual job that crooks use just to avoid talking on the phone; they are trying to get access to your details through your computer.

How to avoid: just ignore the guy. The crook is just using scripts by copying and pasting, in order to victimize the clients.