I feel so left out I havent received a scam email yet ....

Doug

I can change that for you if you like...

I had the same thing happen to me about my boat. Apparently, it's almost a verbatim email they send to get you to reply. I wrote an elaborate reply about how I was working for the FBI and how I traced his IP address (even though that's impossible with free email servers) etc. I've had no reply since.

Go to www.ebolamonkeyman.com so see somebody f*ck with the scammers. It's pretty funny.

Personally, I save all my scam emails then forward them to other scammers. It drives them crazy

That is too funny!!! I've got to spend some more time reading all the stories, I assume those guy's holding up the stupid sign's are the scammer's?? Do people actually fall for those scams?
Bryan

It wouldn't be such a prolific scam if someone didn't fall for it at some point.

Hey bros.... I can't believe this scam is surfacing again. This has been used to buy everything up to and including vehicles. I am a cop in the town that I live in and one day I get a call to a fraud at the local (coincidentally) Ford dealer. This salesman has about a months worth of BS emails from a guy "overseas". Same kind of deal ......he wants to send a check for way more than the amount of the car. He wants the dealer to write a check for the overage and give the car and and the money to his "son" who will pick up the car. Fortunatly the salesman thinks "something is up". We had the salesman string the guy along and actually set up a delivery time. The mope actually came in and our UC detectives nailed him for the fraud......too sweet actually catching him........ I say never sell anything unless it goes through a pay service....and even then you gotta hope the other guy actually has the item to send, of course thats easier to trace.

I work at a beamership and they have had the same problem with these POS scammers ! also with a certified check.

so.... i wasnt aware of this scam.....(flame away) and went with it.....i havent got the check in the mail....and am kinda skeptic about credit fraud. I do have an account thru experian....is there anything else i can do?

This guy just contacted me again. Same story,some one here owes him $2500 and they will send me the check for my $500. tonneau cover and I am to send him the change.[BS]

Thanks for the headsup.

I told him Paypal only. Lets see how bad he wants the cover.

Glad to see its not just us Brits gettin them too. On the site i use there must be 2 or 3 members a week who ask if its a scam or not,

I cant believe they think that someone will actually fall for it

yeah that is the same email i received, scam

Thats the same letter the a--hole sent me.

Strange I've been reading about this scam on this board the last couple of days and now I have first hand proof it's a scam. I work for the postal service and today and a lady comes in trying to cash a $950 postal money order she received for an item she sold on ebay. Our POS ONE unit (computer system the post office uses) rejected the money order and wouldn't cash it. Upon taking a closer look at this money order, it has no watermarks and a few other flaws you wouldn't notice at first glance. We start talking to the girl and she tells the story of this guy from Nigeria who bought it and said his wife was in the states and she had some money orders for more than the amount of the item he bought but instructed her to take the overage and Western Union his wife the rest. The postmark of this letter and money order he sent her is from Houston Tx but the guy said his wife is in Los Angeles. We turned the letter and money order over to the Postal Inspectors and see what they can do with it.
These scammers are something else I tell ya. I hope they bust these people!

Solutions:

1. Accept only PayPal. If they don't have PayPal, they can get it or forget it.
2. Require immediate payment for auctions and payment in full before removing fixed-price classifieds (first PayPal in my account takes it).
3. Ship only to the U.S. or Canada.
4. Demand a verified phone number before completing a transaction.
5. If it sounds at all fishy or like a hassle, walk away.

Bottom line: There is always another buyer waiting.