| Author | Message | ||
     Reepicheep |
Just a heads up... I got what looks like the beginning of attempt to scam me regarding purchase of my motorcycle (which I never even actually posted for sale  ). There are a couple places where the information they are sending me could have come from. I have my suspicions, and DO NOT think it was from badweb, but it could have been. I will keep everyone up to date, I will try and have some fun with them in the meantime. Anyway, if somebody wants to buy a your bike, don't take a check then refund part of their money before hand for any reason. They are trying to take advantage of the "bank float" problem, they will send you a big check, ask for you to wire them back some portion of it for some reason. Three days later, you find out their check was bogus, it comes back out of your account, and you are screwed because you wired money to them. So anyway, just a heads up. I will post the email and my reply shortly. I doubt they will get back to me. Bill | ||
| Reepicheep |
Here is the email they sent. I am stripping email addresses to protect the likely guilty party:
Here is my reply:
I have sent even stranger messages to nigera scammers, and had them going back and forth for months. At one point, I told them my entire family had been killed by genetically engineered hamsters (Hamster <-> Piranna cross breed). They STILL kept trying to scam me  | ||
| Xb9er |
genetically engineered hamsters --how funny! Here's more about the Nigerian scams and also links to a ton of related sites: http://www.scam419.com/index.html Why didn't you post the guy's e-mail so I can put him on my SPAM blocker list? Mike. | ||
| Dullorb |
Because it takes more effort than it is worth to enter the e-mail address to be blocked. It takes them all of 10 seconds to get a new address and if 100 people spend 1 second blocking the old one that's a 90 second deficit. You have two options, ignore it or have fun with it, my friend is going back and forth about his thriving prophalactic refit/retread business with a scammer right now. | ||
| Ben_k |
One of my good friends were scammed out out 1500 bucks when he made a deal with a guy who "just moved to the Netherlands" and this bike was still at his house and he needed cash so he wanted to sell it. Well the arrangement was that he would wire him half and then when the guy would ship it to him he would wire him the other half but the guy just took off with the 1500. What a sad sad world this is. It is people like that I just wish I could pay a visit to and hopefully change their mindset with my 6'2 250 lb. figure.  | ||
| Josh_ |
I've been keeping up with 419eaters.com which is pretty entertaining. I'm waiting for this to happen with me. I (sort of) work at a bank and will just walk the check over to the wire/fraud room. | ||
| Xb9er |
I like www.419eaters.com too. Dullorb, I know. My point was why not post the e-mail address and anything else he has on the guy so we can have fun. |
