Another Typical Scam- Seller Beware!

Below is an email I received I recieved on Friday:

From: williamspets_sale@fastermail.com
Date: 2004/05/21 Fri PM 09:37:45 EDT
To: **************
Subject: Message about: AWESOME Proven Cal-King Male (Striped yellow/chocolate) PIC


Hello Seller,
i just mailed u to let u know that i saw the advert u palced over
the web and couldn't help but be interested in it.
pls mail me back with the last price and pictures for
verification.
Williams..

My Reply:

----- Original Message -----
From:*************
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 9:38:46 -0400
To: <williamspets_sale@fastermail.com>
Subject: Re: Message about: AWESOME Proven Cal-King Male (Striped
yellow/chocolate) PIC

> This king has been in my personal care since October of last year. He's a
flawless f/t feeder on adult mice, and is a proven breeder bred a banded
yellow/chocolate female. He's ready to breed, tame, and flawless! I am asking
125 shipped (90 + 35 s&h). Let me know if you would like him, I've had lots of
inquiries but no one has claimed him yet (everyone wants to trade and I'm
really not interested, at the moment I prefer cash sales). I accept postal MO's
or cashier's checks, and have several BOI references available if you have any
concerns about the way we do business. I do have a camera if you're interested
in seeing more pics of the same king. -Eric Lago


His Reply:
From: "williams ford" <williamspets_sale@fastermail.com>
Date: 2004/05/24 Mon PM 01:54:56 EDT
To: ***********
Subject: PAYMENT FOR YR AWESOME Proven Cal-King Male (Striped yellow/chocolate) PIC


Hello.
Thanks for the mail back,I will like to pay the $125 for the AWESOME Proven
Cal-King Male but it is quite unfortunate that i am not going to be in town
as from tomorrow cause i received a call yesternight that i will be going on
a business trip, so i will like to make everything fast as possible cause i am
buying it for my son as a birthday present. and i want everything to be in
place when i come back. the discription u gave me it is okay. concerning
payment i will instruct my business representative whom we did business
together and is owing me $2000 and he said he will be paying me via cashiers
check. i will instruct him to issue u the certified cashiers check of the
above amount ($2000)to you,as soon as u receive the check u will cash it then
deduct the cost of
yourAWESOME Proven Cal-King Male and wire the remaining balance of $1800 to my
shipper via western union money transfer in inorder to make arrangement in
coming over to your location for the pick up of the AWESOME Proven Cal-King
Male . u will make use of the extra $75 for the running around. my shipper
will be coming over to your location as soon as funds is being sent to him and
to make sure that AWESOME Proven Cal-King Male is in good condition.all
receipt paper will be handled my shipper if
this okay by u pls i will need ur full name, address and phone number
as it should be on the check.
thanks.
awaits your soonest reply.
williams...



CAN YOU SAY SCAM ? Just a heads up for anyone contacted by this guy. Frankly, I told him to send the check so I can have it framed . Keep in mind that he told me his "shipper" would come to look at the king BEFORE I EVEN TOLD HIM WHERE I WAS LOCATED. I may not be an "old school businessman", but I wasn't born yesterday either. -Eric Lago *MS Reptilian Hobbyists*
http://msreptilianhobbyists.fabpage.com

Thanks for the warning!!!

And to think, these STUPID people really think they are fooling people!

blah, blah......"i will instruct him to issue u the certified cashiers check of the
above amount ($2000)to you,as soon as u receive the check u will cash it " (OH I WILL? :0)..... wire the rest of the funds, blah blah

In the US, we don't much take kindly to people telling us what to do. The audacity! You'd think they'd come up with a new angle sooner or later. -Eric Lago *MS Reptilian Hobbyists
http://msreptilianhobbyists.fabpage.com

Still, it's interesting that these scams KEEP on going. Wouldn't you think that if it had the built in flaw of not working on people smart enough to know better, which would have to be MOST people, that it would die out?

And yet, just here on the BOI, we see a new version of it every couple of weeks. One would think that if it is SOOOOOOOOO prolific as that then it would BE working a fair amount of the time.

Looks like Barnum's addage about one being born every minute is still holding true.

Much like hiar on frogs, if it doesn't work it ceases to exist. Since this type of scam is continuing without any noticible abbatement it must be working pretty well. That really is a shame.

I guess it's a numbers game. If you send this to 10,000 people it only takes a very few to make it very profitible.

Makes you wonder about who's getting taken, well, me wonder anyway.

Wes Pollock

that the majority (if not all) of the emails I've received of this nature have come through posting ads on Kingsnake.com, I never receive any emails like this through Fauna or the Reptilian Classifieds, ect. but only through KS. I suppose it only takes one or two out of 10,000 to make it profitable! I'll gladly post a pic of the check if it arrives, as well as the subsequent "details" of the rest of this supposed "arrangement" . I'd like to have it framed on my wall! -Eric Lago *MS Reptilian Hobbyists*
http://msreptilianhobbyists.fabpage.com

I say string them along....at least they incur the expense making a fake cashier's check and sending it to you overnight.

I was wondering about that email i have gotten like 3 from this guy some have been under different names but said the exact same thing..... Im gonna go to my emails and try to find it and post it here.... Now that i think about it this same email as come to me on like 5 of my ad's......... Definitly a scammer........ to the one who posted this..Good looking out......... Mike clark......



"KARMAS GOT A WAY OF COMING BACK AND RETURNING"

Hello Seller,
i just mailed u to let u know that i saw the advert u palced over
the web and couldn't help but be interested in it.
pls mail me back with the last price and pictures for
verification.
Williams..

this is one of the 4 or 5 i got from this moron.........lol MIKE CLARK...

That same a-hole tried that on me for an albino boa I was selling. When I told him I thought he was a crook, he told me I was a coward. He's a loon. Thanks for the BOI!