Scamers at it again

[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!

[budnate]

they are a little fun...I was bored over the winter and played a guy and had him send it to my work overnight by his personal courier...well he hand delivered the letter the head of the fraud dept at the Seattle branch of the FBI...

[Pantera]

I love to hear that someone else thinks that is a good idea. May not cost them $30 but perhaps even more than that, since it is overseas? I hope they have to go hungry because of it. Just thinking of how pissed they are when it doesn't go their way sure makes me feel good. Wish I could be a fly on the wall when they have to tell their wife that he spent the rent money, to send this stuff and got no return.

Pantera