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Good day,
i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com |
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flo girbache wrote:
Good day, i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com I think this must be an example of a scammer email. Thanks for the head's up! My wife got one just like this when posting a bike for sale recently. He went on to ask if he could use a different payment method than specified in the ad (I think he wanted to use his own home-made cashier's check). When we said he could buy the bike, but had to use the specified method of payment, he suddenly stopped emailing us. Crazy, eh? Matt |
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MattB wrote:
flo girbache wrote: Good day, i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com I think this must be an example of a scammer email. Thanks for the head's up! My wife got one just like this when posting a bike for sale recently. He went on to ask if he could use a different payment method than specified in the ad (I think he wanted to use his own home-made cashier's check). When we said he could buy the bike, but had to use the specified method of payment, he suddenly stopped emailing us. Crazy, eh? Crazy like a weasel! :-D |
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This idiot replied to the group instead of the individual. This is a scam
and it has happened to me countless times. It is so lame that it is easy to recgonize. They pay you with a cashiers cheque for double to triple the asking amount and as soon as you cash the cheque you western union the excess cash back to the individual. Of course no one ever comes to pick up you bike and the cheque bounces. It is fun to play along and collect the cashiers cheques that they send you! Jim "flo girbache" wrote in message ... Good day, i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com |
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:12:24 -0600, MattB
wrote: flo girbache wrote: Good day, i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com I think this must be an example of a scammer email. Thanks for the head's up! My wife got one just like this when posting a bike for sale recently. He went on to ask if he could use a different payment method than specified in the ad (I think he wanted to use his own home-made cashier's check). When we said he could buy the bike, but had to use the specified method of payment, he suddenly stopped emailing us. Crazy, eh? I get about three or four fraud-intent whoesale inquiries a month for the stuff on my website, and it's easy enough to spot them. My suppliers get even more of these than I do, by at least two orders of magnitude. In fact, my primary shirt supplier gets so many that he often has one while I'm there picking up an order. International fraud is at an all-time high. Cheap communications have made it possible; gullibility, stupidity and ignorance make it profitable, lack of enforcement in the originating nations makes it quite safe for the perps, and greed drives *both* ends of the scam in many cases. (Bogus international cashier's checks have become enough of a problem here in Houston that most banks will refuse to credit a deposit of one until they have verified that the check has not only been confirmed by the issuing bank, but that the issuing institution has physically received it and the funds have been irrevocably transferred. Domestic cashier's checks are met with nearly as much caution.) -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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Sure buddy, you send me cash and then I'll send you an address
"flo girbache" wrote in message ... Good day, i found this bike advert. I need to know if really it's still for sale,the last asking price for it and the current condition..Please let me know your method of payment.I preffer paying via a cashier's check. Is this your personal property? In terms of shipping i have an international shipping agent that takes good care of my goods, he will be coming for the pickup in your location.Let me know whats on your mind concerning this enquiry.. Thanks. Sam. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com |
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On a related but OT thread.....
Probably 75% of the 100 or so emails I get per day are ads for various off shore pharmacies, software, knock-off watches and the like. Lots are now trying to peddle me goods in Russian text, so I don't even know what they're trying to sell me. I have set up dozens of email filter rules via Outlook, so most get routed to the bit bucket on the way in. Interesting that the spammers will go to the effort of trying to mask the text in their mails (i.e. substituting "1" for "i" and similar pattern matching) to try to fool the email filters. As if someone (or company) who deliberately filters the original trash will actually change their minds when the doctored email gets through the filter? I'll be one happy guy when the big hand starts to slap these guys. What a waste of oxygen. "MattB" wrote in message ... I think this must be an example of a scammer email. Thanks for the head's up! |
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GWood wrote:
On a related but OT thread..... Probably 75% of the 100 or so emails I get per day are ads for various off shore pharmacies, software, knock-off watches and the like. Lots are now trying to peddle me goods in Russian text, so I don't even know what they're trying to sell me. I have set up dozens of email filter rules via Outlook, so most get routed to the bit bucket on the way in. Interesting that the spammers will go to the effort of trying to mask the text in their mails (i.e. substituting "1" for "i" and similar pattern matching) to try to fool the email filters. As if someone (or company) who deliberately filters the original trash will actually change their minds when the doctored email gets through the filter? It must work on someone or they would just dry up for lack of business. I'm amazed when I think about that. Even if it was something I really wanted, I would not respond to spam (in a serious way) for anything. I'd try to buy from a non-spamming competitor. I'll be one happy guy when the big hand starts to slap these guys. What a waste of oxygen. I'm not holding my breath. Most of these come from places where the authorities have much bigger fish to fry. Matt |
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I had an ad up on The Hostel Shoppe's classifieds last month, and must
have recieved thirty emails like that, and not one legit response. I started playing along, then when I would ask them if the rest of the "sale" would progress like: (insert balance of scam text needed for continuity), and then watch them disappear. I had one try and tell me that he was a religious man, etc., and when I started to explain about how claiming to be "religous" was one of the world's oldest rationalizations to do harm to your fellow man, he actually responded back as if hurt by this accusation. When I explained that I forwarded all scam attempts to the FBI, he oddly enough, disappeared as well. The Hostel Shoppe actually closed down their classified section on the website for now, as so much of this email scamming has been attempted. If it sounds to good to be true, it isn't. John |
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:55:38 -0600, MattB wrote:
It must work on someone or they would just dry up for lack of business. I'm amazed when I think about that. Even if it was something I really wanted, I would not respond to spam (in a serious way) for anything. I'd try to buy from a non-spamming competitor. They only have to have a response rate of one in a million to be profitable -- a bit more than that for the ones that hire professional spammers, cause those tend to cost a buck per 1000-10000 spams. Jasper |
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