Saw ad in craigslist in my hometown about a motorcycle and responded.  Got a sob story about his grandson dying and wanting to get rid of the cycle.  It was picked up by Motorcycle Shipping Company from my hometown and delivered to their office at 393 Palisade Ave Jersey City NJ 07307, which when researched is a private residence owned by individuals not named in our emails.  Gave me the phone number posted here as their business number.  His story is that I could pay the company to reship the cycle back to my hometown and he would transfer the title to me for free.  Emails include pics of the bike, a 2004 Yamaha Yzf-R6.  Names involved are James Kamanda (grandfather/owner of bike) who supposedly lives in New Jersey even though there is no one listed by that name in New Jersey and Brandi Boyle, supposed representative of Motorcycle Shipping Inc (email address of motorcycleshipping.co@gmail.com).  

Here is the first email I received from James Kamanda:
Hi ,

Thanks for your interest, The bike is still available .

I am currently located at my new house in New Jersey (NJ), I have already asked movers to bring the Bike down here to New Jersey (NJ) from my grand-son's house in the city where the AD was posted and was going to put up a new AD here in New Jersey (NJ) when the mover arrive, because my wife advised me to put up the ad on Craigslist as she doesn't want to see the bike anymore cos of the memory of our Grandson.

I bought the Motorcycle for my grandson as his birthday gift. Its 2004 Yamaha Yzf-R6 Sportbike,Mileage: 3,853,Engine Size: 600 cc  and it has a good title.It is some months now since he died and i would like to give it out and seeing the bike will bring back it memory and it makes us sad, as the house will be emptied soon and I myself will be relocating to Anchorage, Alaska where we shall stay with other family members for care.

If you are able to afford the delivery charges, so that I can coordinate the movers to return the bike to you where-ever you are located within the state as I only gave them the instruction yesterday evening, and I'm sure they will request for delivery fee from you.

Please let me know your position, you can reach the movers on: motorcycleshipping.co@gmail.com . I have attached some photo of it. This was taken two weeks ago.

Best Regards
James Kamanda


Did lots of internet research and see that this scam has been going on since 2009 at least with different names, phone numbers, and locations.  Do your research before ever sending money.  I'm glad I did.

Forgot to add that when researched, the above phone number is a voip number out of New York City with a zip code of 10009

I recieved a similar email from the same person. See below:

Hi ,
Thanks for your interest, The bike is still available .
I am currently located at my new house in New Jersey (NJ), I have already asked movers to bring the Bike down here to New Jersey (NJ) from my grand-son's house in the city where the AD was posted and was going to put up a new AD here in New Jersey (NJ) when the mover arrive, because my wife advised me to put up the ad on Craigslist as she doesn't want to see the bike anymore cos of the memory of our Grandson.

I bought the Motorcycle for my grandson as his birthday gift. Its 2004 Yamaha Yzf-R6 Sportbike,Mileage: 3,853,Engine Size: 600 cc  and it has a good title.It is some months now since he died and i would like to give it out and seeing the bike will bring back it memory and it makes us sad, as the house will be emptied soon and I myself will be relocating to Anchorage, Alaska where we shall stay with other family members for care.

If you are able to afford the delivery charges, so that I can coordinate the movers to return the bike to you where-ever you are located within the state as I only gave them the instruction yesterday evening, and I'm sure they will request for delivery fee from you.

Please let me know your position, you can reach the movers on: motorcycleshipping.co@gmail.com . I have attached some photo of it. This was taken two weeks ago.

Best Regards

I was really excited when I saw the bike on Craigslist for free. However my wife stopped me from buying the bike. I had even checked out the website of the shipping company, everything was legit. However, it was all just to good to be true. Don't let James Kamanda and his motorcycle on Craigslist fool you. It got my hopes up but then they were dashed.

[***] were putting adds in small local newspapers! I got the same exact scam, thanks to your guys' posts I saved my self a lot of time and trouble.

Wow,I am in the middle of "negotiating" with him right now.Is this for sure a scam? The email I received back is pretty close to the one you've posted for us.
is there any way of catching him? I'm supposed to get back with him and I was feeling all like a sap,lol,over his grandson.what a horrible thing to use.Has anyone tried asking him if they could come pick it up? Or if its drivable,?
Please email me if you have anymore info on this at meyowzza@gmail.com
thanks