Scamers at it again

[P.J.]

-----Original Message-----
From: Audri Lanford [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:08 AM
To: Peter
Subject: Payment Details/Pickup Arrangement

Hello Peter,
I am pleased to inform you that after deliberating with my client who just contacted me now based on the state of the car in the description you gave me with pics, he has finally accepted your price,hopes the engine is serviced and oil changed as he cant wait to see the car parked in his garage.
However,My client made out a certified cashiers check of($27,000) before he travelled to london on a business trip,for a previous car and its shipment charges etc,but it was unfortunately sold.The amount on the check he deposited for the car is bigger than what should be paid to you now, so the check is now meant for the total expenses which includes the purchase of your car,the pick up of the car from its present location and the
shipping charges/other necessary shipping arrangements.
However he has instructed us to carry on with this transaction; but due to company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you because company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier check. So you're required to deduct the cost of your car ($18,000)and send the balance of($9,000) to my client via western union money transfer or money gram tranfer to enable him offsett shipping charges/arrangements.
After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, our agent will come for the pick up on an open vehicle and then drive to a pre paid shipper for shipment,and also conclude other necessary shipping arrangement so you dont have to bother yourself about the pick up and shipping arrangements,while title papers and other necessary documets will be sent by you via Express Mail Delivery to my customer.
Please Confirm this and provide FULL NAME,ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBER for check payment to be delivered to you via Express Mail Delivery.
Thanks for your time and co-operation and God bless,
Audri.
suprss70

[Rick H]

We got one of those the other day as well. Must a Yahoo thing. See below.


----- Original Message -----
From: steve rastelli <[email protected]>

Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:46 AM
Subject: Await your soonest reply

Thanks for your urgent reply,My client has finally accepted your price,he hopes the engine is serviced and oil changed too .he cant wait to see the car parked in his garage.
However,My client made out a certified cashiers check of($9,500)for the car,as for the shipping,i will have a shipping company that will come for the pickup as soon as the cash clear the bank and you do me a favour of sending the remainingof te funds to my shipper agent who will come for the pickup.i hope you understand this.The payment is already on the way,just want to inform you about it and pls mail me back as soon as you get my mail....


We just ignore the losers.

Rick H.

[firstgenaddict]

A fool and his money are soon parted!

[Pantera]

You know if each of us on here that receives something like that would let them send us the check. It will cost them a few dollars in time and money and if enough of us do this then they will finally give it up as it is costing them money.

Not to imagine the pissed off feeling of failure. In some little way it would make up for all the poor dumb bunnys that have actually fell for something like this.

What are they going to do come to your door and call you out. (Be still my heart) Man would I love it if one of the dirty bastards was stupid enough to do so. We need to play their little game with them. What do you think goat?



Pantera

[kenham]

I know none of you fellows are stupid enough to go for something like this. However, I had a client who did go for a similar con and cashed a large check, sent most of it back to the sender keeping several thousand for himself. When the check came back a countefeit the police arrested him for bank fraud.

[Keith Tedford]

I liked the scammer who used Peterborough, Ontario as his address. That's only about 12 miles away. When I emailed to make arrangements to see the car in the next couple of days, the car suddenly was in Spain. I e-mailed the Florida company pictured in the background. Apparently they have no end of problems with people using pictures of their cars in various scams. They claimed that many of the scams actually are coming out of South Africa. With the population of the world, these characters probably do find the odd sucker. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many at it. Some people just can't resist a deal.

[Chevy454]

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With the population of the world, these characters probably do find the odd sucker. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many at it. Some people just can't resist a deal.

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That's EXACTLY right, Keith. Case in point: ATVs had started turning up missing for the last year or so here in south central Missouri, from dealerships, private owners, etc...well, about a month ago, a couple of individuals from here in town had some ATVs for sale, CHEAP...most of them were '03-'05 models, but they were all dirt cheap. Well, of course some of the folks around here caught on to the fact that there HAD to be a catch, but others saw an opportunity to get in on one of those "too good to be true" type deals. Naturally, the crime ring got snagged, and ALL of the ATVs got confiscated and given back to their rightful owners...the folks that had recently bought them at bargain prices were now out the thousands(s) they'd paid for them. The funny thing is that it not only happened to some poor old hillbilly farmer looking for a good deal (he bought 2!) but also the owner of our local bank who MORE than knew better bought one and then got it confiscated as well!

If it's too good to be true, well, you know the rest...

[Belair62]

Damn Mr Drysdale and Miss Hathaway just had to have an ATV huh !!

[TXSS]

I personally have over 100,000.00 in bogus BankOne cashiers checks sent to me mostly from Nigeria. I've started collecting them as a hobby. In fact I'm expecting another next week in the amount of 60,000.00 for my L78 Nova. It's got to cost them 30 bucks or so to send a next day letter from Nigeria or some other backwater piece of crap country. It only cost me a few minutes to respond to their BS emails. It kind of empowers me and makes me feel like I'm doing my small part to get in their pockets. I agree with Pantera. I play these fools all the way down the line, until I get my trophy check and then tell them to F&%K off. My goal is to collect 1,000,000.00 in bogus checks. Man, I need to get a life.

[Xplantdad]

I play these fools all the way down the line, until I get my trophy check and then tell them to F&%K off. My goal is to collect 1,000,000.00 in bogus checks. Man, I need to get a life.

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You go Rick!