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Old 07-03-2004, 12:36 AM   #1
serpentboy78
Stop! Their @ it again.. buyer beware.

Greetings,My name is PAUL, I saw your ad for { Nice albino 04 speckled kings } and its fits
what i have been searching for.let me have the final asking PRICE you
are willing to sell .i reside in POLLAND,I will handle shipment withouts
to My base in POLLAND.Do you accept cashier checks as a method of
payment.Sorry if i may ask,is this your personal property cos' i dont
want to involve myself with stolen properties for sale.what is the
condition like? Well reply with your full name,contact address,phone
number and fax,prove of ownership,so that i can commence payment
immediately if it is still available....

Name in Full ...

Adderess...

City....

Country......

State..

Zipcode...

Phone# both cell and Home.

Get back to me with information as soon as possible.
PAUL
this is 1 of 2 emails I got from these morons... I wish they would actually send the check.... Buyers beware... Someone's had to of fallen for this or they would not keep running this scam.... Im curious to see how many other ppl get this email... Mike Clark..aka Serpentboy78....


"Karma's got a way of coming back and returning"
 
Old 07-03-2004, 12:56 AM   #2
geckokreeper
Same thing

I got almost the same email a few weeks ago.He wanted me to go to a check cashing and cash it the same day it came.He kept telling me keep an extra $200 for all of your running around and troubles.He wanted me to western union the extra money to him.The total for the items i was selling were $1800 and he sent $7000 in a cashiers check.I decided to go to the check cashing and see if possibly it was real.Next thing i know in walk the police.After questioning me for about 3 hours and me telling them what was going on and showing them all of the email he had sent they let me go.The guy kept emailing me saying his wife has breast cancer and he needed the rest of the money quick.He said just keep the $1800 for free and sent the rest as my wife needs the money.Then a few days later he started saying you better send me my money or else.He asked me for my phone number.I never told him the cops took the check,but i gave him the number to the police station and said it was my phone number.I havent heard from him sence then.He also couldnt spell very well.They want you to deposit it in to your bank account and sent them the remaining balance.The thing is that it registers in your account until about a week later when it turns out to be a fraud and your out the money and somtimes even the product.I also gathered all the names i have read that this guy or guys have been using that i got from other threads on this site and emailed him with all the names and email adressess and even some actual address.I told him were watching you.Anyways see what he says if you ask him to western union the money to you.I still have all the emails from him.So if anyone want to see just ask.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 09:35 AM   #3
gmherps
He even spelled his own countries name wrong: Poland, not POLLAND.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 09:43 AM   #4
Rob @ RK Reptiles
I received the same this morning.

Greetings,My name is PAUL, I saw your ad for { 04 Ball Pythons } and its fits
what i have been searching for.let me have the final asking PRICE you
are willing to sell .i reside in UK,I will handle shipment withouts
to My base in UK.Do you accept cashier checks as a method of
payment.Sorry if i may ask,is this your personal property cos' i dont
want to involve myself with stolen properties for sale.what is the
condition like? Well reply with your full name,contact address,phone
number and fax,prove of ownership,so that i can commence payment
immediately if it is still available....

Name in Full ...

Adderess...

City....

Country......

State..

Zipcode...

Phone# both cell and Home.

Get back to me with information as soon as possible.
PAUL

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Sent 11:26 PM, Jul 02nd, 2004 from I.P. Address 66.178.81.66
 
Old 07-03-2004, 11:48 AM   #5
HerpVenue
Quote:
wow gee form mail
the kind where you insert the item that you find.
the kind where you send the same mail to everyone.
How do I know it is form mail? It is all in caps except for the part that
you copied and pasted (Granite Looking Ball Python).
Tell you what.
Go ahead and send me your so called "casheirs check".
I will wait a month for it to PROPERLY and LEGALLY clear my bank.
When it does..... Your AGENT can come over to my house and collect the
money and pythons or whatever you want.
If it does not clear........ Your AGENT can come over to my house and use
his head as my target practice.
Then I can come over to your house and use you and your family as target
practice.
Does that sound good?

Also if you feel I have threatened you. You have legal recourse. Because I
am threatening you.
So please call your local police and complain about me. Make sure to give
them your name, address, phone number and e-mail. Then give them my e-mail
too. That way we can make sure someone gets arrested.

p.s. When YOU get arrested. Make sure to say hi to your new boyfriend bubba
for me.
=======================
Ritchie Luna
www.RitchieReptiles.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "terry krown" <t_krown@keromail.com>
To: <Ritchie@RitchieReptiles.com>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 7:33 PM
Subject: Granite Looking Ball Python


> HELLO
> MY NAME IS TERRY KROWN AM FROM CANADA AM HIGHLY INTERESTED IN BUYING
YOUR{Granite Looking Ball Python} BUT BEFORE I GO FURTHER, I WILL LIKE TO
ASK, IF YOU ACCEPT CASHIER CHEQUE AS A MODE OF PAYMENT CAUSE ONE OF MY
CLIENT IN USA IS OWNING ME SOME AMOUNT OF MONEYAND SHE AS PROMISE ME TO PAY
ME BACK WITH CASHIER CHEQUE, FOR YOU TO KNOW. MY SHIPPING AGENT WILL BE
COMING FOR THE PICK UP AT YOUR LOCATION AND MAKE SURE YOU FORWARD ME THE
EARLY CONDITION THAT THE{Granite Looking Ball Python} IS AND TELL ME THE
FINAL ASKING PRICE.HOPE THIS IS UNDERSTAND BY YOU. I WILL LIKE YOU TO GIVE
YOUR CONTACT INFO ALSO.
> NAMEINFULL.....
> ADDRESS......
> CITY......
> STATE.....
> COUNTRY......
> ZIPCODE......
> PHONE#
>
> MR TERRY KROWN
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> Get your free email from http://mymail.keromail.com
>
> Powered by Outblaze
unfortunately it bounced because my ISP has been blocked because it did not like my mail server for some reason
 
Old 07-03-2004, 11:53 AM   #6
HerpVenue
ps
its all good I just contacted his e-mail provider.
hopefully they shut him down
 
Old 07-03-2004, 12:40 PM   #7
Randy T.
Regarding this issue, wouldn't it be fairly easy to catch this guy? He repeatedly has asked to have the funds sent to him through Western Union, all it should take is to inform the police in the town where he is to pick up the funds then "confirm shipping" through Western Union to this shmuck, and have the police waiting for him to show up to pick up the money. If it is more difficult then this please explain to me why, as I do not see the main problem.

Later
 
Old 07-03-2004, 04:15 PM   #8
JasonBrennan
I get several of these emails every week. My goal is to collect as many of the fake checks as I can, and put them up on a wall in my office.....I am shooting for $100,000 in checks. It may not stop them, but at least I can cost these scammers a little bit of money (they always send the checks thru UPS).

By the way, you can't trace them thru UPS, since they send the checks from a "UPS store" or similar type of business in Largos (not sure if they are called The UPS Store over there).

If you call UPS with the info on the package and the account number shipped under, it simply comes back to that store (where the person shipping it paid cash and used a fake name)
 
Old 07-03-2004, 04:53 PM   #9
SERPENTS DEN
dennis_pets@graffiti.net

I get the same BS just about every week. Here is the latest one.



From: dennis_pets@graffiti.net [mailto:dennis_pets@graffiti.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 12:22 PM
To: reptiles@serpentsden.com
Subject: Message about: Cherry-Picked Ball Pythons

GREETINGS SELLER,
HOW ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE, AM DENNIS PETS FROM PERU, AM IN THE MODE OF PURCASHING YOUR ITEM PRICE $300 WHICH I SAW ON YOUR NET ADVERT, WHICH I WILL LIKE YOU TO MAIL ME ASAP BACK IF YOU ARE STILL INTRESTED IN SELLING IT THANKS DENNIS PETS..........

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This person may or may not be who they say they are.
The return address they provide may or may not be their correct address.

Sent 11:21 AM, Jul 03rd, 2004 from I.P. Address 80.179.102.61
 
Old 07-03-2004, 05:04 PM   #10
serpentboy78
Red face CASHED THE CHECK.....

WOW.... I Was just emailed buy a guy who got one of these checks... it was for $4000.. and he actually cashed it!!!!! and has the $$$ so he says... He is asking me what I think he should do????? I told him what I thought he should do.... I also told him he should post to this thread... He seems very weary to do so... So we'll see if he does... This is how the scam works... It pays off I guess out the 100's of emails they send out if they can find just one what I call a sucker.... to actually cash the check..This guy has now cashed a check for 4 grand... He thinks he should maybe send the guy the $$$ and just call it a loss... If he does that ..Man what a fuc*ing moron... Call the cops buddy tell them what has transpired.. Tell them to look at this site all the info...etc.. Save urself while you can....

Hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th... Mike Clark..aka Serpentboy78...










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