BEWARE of a scammer that's posting all over CL

So one of my buddy said he just encountered some dude that's posting all over Craigslist. Curious on what he's up to so he emailed him. And that guy be posting in almost every single cities, but claims is from New York. He said he doesn't do credit account, requires everyone to post up a deposit (huge red flag). Calls himself "Alex", which we all know is a fake name. He wants my buddy to send him money through Zelle and my buddy laughed at him on the phone and that guy got mad and hung up. The email he used for Zelle deposit is Acaple35@gmail.com . Hopefully law enforcer lock him up for scamming people by pretending to be a local book. LOL.