I've already gotten 2 scam offers in the last week over 2 of my classifieds here and just wanted to warn everyone. I know most of you know about these, but some naive people actually will fall for this...here's the transcript.
Message:
Hello !!My name is (Mr. Desmond Elliot) .i work with the united nation's.The reason I sent you this email is to inform you that i saw your Item and i intrested in it,payment will be make by certified Money Order. In view of this I need your Full Name, ddress,contact information ur phone# and Email address to send the Money Order,you don't have to be worry about the shipping my shipping conpany will handle it.i will be sending Enough money on the Money Order and after you deduct all the money you need the remaining money will be send back to my shipping company that will picking up the item ... get back to me As soon as possible to send you the Money Order!!. for any question you cam mail me back lastly How much are you selling this Item to me $ ? i wait your Reply.
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to which i repsonded
//---------------// Yes please! The item is $1423.45 and you can remite your check at any time! Please to send it to me at your next convienence! I shall ship the item using your usual carrier!//---------------//
Thanks for the scammers email address.I just emailed him and told him to get off his lazy ars and get a job,and stop trying to scam others out of their hard earned $$$.
BTW I just bought some wheels and tires from the classifieds.I was a bit nervous because it was my first purchase from the classifieds.They should be here tomorrow.
Thanks for the scammers email address.I just emailed him and told him to get off his lazy ars and get a job,and stop trying to scam others out of their hard earned $$$
Someone mailed a Nigerian scammer a box of dog poo. He boxed it really well so he'd have to dig into it with his hands, I think he used those styrophome peanuts as well.
"After receiving a few fraudulent confirmation sale emails from amazon.com, and to hopefully expose this scam-artist, I decided I was going to play along with the next fraudulent attempt at purchasing my Canon GL2. Along comes Mr Henry Roop, who claims to live in the USA but would like to purchase the GL2 as a new year gift for his cousin in Nigeria. Everything went as I outlined above, except this time I let the buyer, Mr Roop, believe that I thought the sale of the Canon GL2 was legitimate. Mr Roop was very anxious to get the GL2 shipped. I didn't want to expend any money exposing him so I told him that I wasn't going to be able to get out for a couple of days because I was sick and that if he needed the Canon GL2 quickly that he may want to have Fedex pick it up at my house. He took the bait and called Fedex to request a pickup at my house on his Fedex account.
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My dilemma was, what was I going to put in the box that I shipped to Mr Roop? It didn't take me long to come up with a rather insulting item to put in the box… I would fill it with the excrement from my 2 large Rottweilers."
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