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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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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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Question?
I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? |
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I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? They get the goods and they pay with someone else's credit card. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Second Teleute, July. |
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"David Damerell" wrote in message ... Quoting : I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are these people fishing for? They get the goods and they pay with someone else's credit card. -- David Damerell Distortion Field! Today is Second Teleute, July. There was a big scam going around a few months ago. I had a frame for sale on the craigslist and was contacted by a person many times by email that they would send me a check for $5,000, and I was to extract from that, the cost of the frame and send the remaining balance back by Western Union. I knew it was a scam and tried to get the person to send the check so I could get a good look at it and hopes to turn this person in, but the check never came. -tom |
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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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