Does this SCAM sound familiar?!?

[herpcharmer]

Now mind you this is for a albino het granite I have listed on KS for $400.00 Below are the two emails I received from this Rebecca King person from this email address [email protected]

From : <[email protected]>
Sent : Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:13 AM
To : [email protected]
Subject : Message about: Clark cb02 Albino Burmese 100% het Granite

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hello,
i am interested in buying your and i will want you to tell me the
condition of it,and if you will accept a cashiers check hope to hear from you
soonest...
thanks


and then she writes....

From : rebecca king <[email protected]>
Sent : Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:13 AM
To : "Rodney" <[email protected]>
Subject : payment and shipping

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Ok! the price is ok by me.i have just contacted my client
there in the state and he promise to send you the check, so you
should be expecting a cashier check of $5000.00.the excess funds is
for my shipper to handle the shipping of the Granite as well as
for the shippment of some other goods i bought in some other
location. without givng you any stress.so immediately you get the
check,go cash same day and send the balance to my shipper same day to
enable him come for pick up of the Granite and some goods in his
care. I hope i can count on you sending the balance to my shipper
same day to fasten the transaction.if you are ok with this email asap
to enable my client send you the check. Regards, meanwhle let me
know ur cantact, i.e ur full name add, and phone# so as to fax it to
my client to issue u the check imidiately.

i will compensate you with 70$ for you to remove the advert from the
net and consider it sold to me, as iam interested in buying it for
real.

Rebecca.



Has anyone come across this lately?

Rodney Pray

 

[Neil Gubitz]

Rodney.... I got the same email from the same girl yesterday about my Granite Burms I have for sale.... my answer was simple....

"Do you think I was born yesterday??.... Yes I will sell them to you, but I will ONLY accept US DOLLARS, I will NOT accept a cashier's check"....

I haven't heard from her since.... duh....

Neil

 

[Wilomn]

If that's NOT a scam it's the first of that "persuasion" that isn't.

It's a common attempt. They send you a bogus cashiers check, you cash it send the excess to someone else and then when your bank finds out the cashiers check is no good, they take the money from YOU to make up for it.

Can you post the header of the email, showing place of origin or anything else that might help identify where it's really from?

Wes Pollock

 

[napavalleysnakes]

Me Too !

Rodney - Here's what I received !

payment and shipping
Date: 4/28/2004 4:07:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: "rebecca king" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent from the Internet (Details)

Hello,

Ok! the price is ok by me.i have just contacted my client there in the state and he promise to send you the check, so you should be expecting a cashier check of $5000.00.the excess funds is for my shipper to handle the shipping of the womas as well as for the shippment of some other goods i bought in some other location. without givng you any stress.so immediately you get the check,go cash same day and send the balance to my shipper same day to enable him come for pick up of the womas and some goods in his care. I hope i can count on you sending the balance to my shipper same day to fasten the transaction.if you are ok with this email asap to enable my client send you the check. Regards, meanwhle let me know ur cantact, i.e ur full name add, and phone# so as to fax it to my client to issue u the check imidiately.

i will compensate you with 70$ for you to remove the advert from the net and consider it sold to me, as iam interested in buying it for real.

Rebecca.



Now this didn't seem too odd to me as I had 2 pairs of subadult Womas that she answered the ad to. They were already spoken for, so that's the message she got back.

Now though ?

Thanks, Stephen

 

[ms_terese]

Yes, it's back.

Play along. Get the check and a shipping address, then turn it all in to the police.

 

[E2MacPets]

This seems so much more desperate than the others. Notice the emphasis on same day.

 

[sputnik]

OH YEAH

That is a well known scam!!!!!

Has been around for while now..... end result is they/she/whoever empties your account!

 

[dumje]

I have had similiar emails in the past and I played along with it fo awhile. It just sounds fishy ... I do not see how anyone could fall for that. Besides, even if you turned it in to the police nothing would be done. Not enough money involved. It would also have to be the Secret Service that would deal with it since it is over seas.

 

[reticlvr]

I got the same email.

I received an email from thesame person for one of my albino bloods. she wanted to give me $5000 when I"m asking for $4000 I was then supposed to cash the "cashiers check" and then send her shipper $1000 right away. I emailed her back that I would pass on the transaction. I remembered other posts about this type of scam in the past.
Thanks,
Augie Mohaupt

 

[ms_terese]

E2, i think the emphasis is on same day so that it's done before you're notified that the cashier's check is no good.

Also, the shipping address is typically in the U.S., so it's not an overseas issue.

 

[napavalleysnakes]

Here's Another One to Watch !

Just received this today: Of course, the animals I had listed were for $550, so really nice that he wants to pay me only $350 for them !

PAYMEN FOR YOUR Pituophis Fans - Adult proven Pair of Black Pines- Ready to Breed ! *Pics*
Date: 4/29/2004 1:00:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: "williams ford" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent from the Internet (Details)




Hello,

I will like to pay the $350 for the Pituophis Fans - Adult proven Pair of Black Pines - Ready to Breed ! *Pics* 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 $3000 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 ($3000)to
you,as soon as u receive the check u will cash it then deduct the cost of your Pituophis Fans - Adult proven Pair of Black Pines - Ready to Breed ! *Pics* and wire the remaining balance of
$2600 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 Royal Diam Ratsnake PIC.u will make use of the extra $50 for the running around. my shipperwill be coming over to your location as soon as funds is being sent to him
and to make sure that your Pituophis Fans - Adult proven Pair of Black Pines - Ready to Breed ! *Pics* 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...


Geez, this years seems to be the worst I can remember as far as scams appearing !

Stephen Emerick

 

[sputnik]

Crime

Electronic crime is growing at an incredible rate.... other crimes rates may be down.... probably because they are switching to the interent as vehicle for their crimes because it is harder to find these people.

Also, the shipping address is typically in the U.S., so it's not an overseas issue.

Yes, the representative or client, associate or whatever they choose to term it is in the US or at least their address is.... but a lot these come from good ol Nigeria!

You know, the same people who email you saying they have millions to give you if they can just use your account to transfer their incredible wealth from their dead relative?

They play on the greed of some and it's the greedy who fall for it!

 

[sputnik]

FORGOT TO MENTION

I did get one of these scam emails once from a woman who was oh so nice!!! Nigerian scams is what it was.

She had money to give because her husband had been murdered and all she needed was my account number!!!

So first I got the sob story... I was supposed to feel pitty and then I got the lure of a few million dollars, but sadly for her I wasn't born yesterday.

I was tired of her emailing me with the same repeat message so I sent her over 200 emails and filled her yahoo inbox!

Her response was not as nice as before, funny that and I have never received an email from her since.

I guess she got the message!

 

[SERPENTOR]

Easy way to end the emails =

ask for the cashier's check to be made out for the exact amount only. I've been hit up three different times on this one. Their English is always SO horrible. Always a tip off. A request to send the remaining balance wasn't even made on the last two attempts. I'm sure it would have came up if I hadn't asked for the payment to be made in the exact amount. Everyone should know about the BOI. I was hit up by Kenn Todd, Theory Ramy, & a Dr. Irvin Cole. Sellers beware.....

 

[Monte]

You should be a member of the clergy . . .

. . . holy cow, I get enough of these scam emails to fill up a trash can - almost every single day.

I think God has a special place for people who scam like that - playing on a person's sympathies . . . .

 

[herpcharmer]

Yeah,
I thought I remembered seeing this a year or so back on the BOI. I was curious as to whether I was the only one receiving this or not. I sent a reply very much the likes of Neil's response and I doubt I will hear bach from "her".
Thanks all for your responses and stay scam free!

Rodney Pray

 

[KathyLove]

I got one recently from a guy supposedly in England (but he later wanted the money sent to Nigeria). I told him I take only exact amounts, and he seemed to accept that. Only after several more emails did he come on with the $6,000 cashier's check. Since I was irritated to have wasted time with emails, I told him to mail it to me, and he did.

Next, he told me about his wife dying in childbirth that very day, so he really needed the money for the double funeral. POOR GUY!!

So I called the bank in Tx where the check was written on and talked to the fraud investigator there. He said to email him a copy and he would put it in a drawer with all of the other fraudulent checks, which I did.

Since the check was sent to me by US mail, I turned it in (along with all of the emails back and forth) to the postmaster. I don't expect anything to be done, but I hope I irritated him as much as he did me.

 

[Earl H. Turner]

Scammers--------Nigerian

I recently received an E-mail concerning a pair of Black Headed Bushmasters . One , J. H. Malt contacted me concerning method of payment---- the individual was purchasing both snakes and paying via cashiers check for an amount three times the asking price---- here it comes----deposit, then send the remainder to him in a bank cashier's check as he was having to pay for his mother in law's bond !!!! she was allegedely jailed in Nigeria for being accussed of practicing medicine without a license !!?? I advised this individual to send only U.S. Postal Money Orders that would be checked by postal authorities and then cashed pending their approval----guess what---he vanished...NADA !!!! Be careful ,do not accept a cashier's check or any form of M.O. until it has been thoroughly checked and approval has been made by the proper authorities----Money talks and BS walks !!!! Regards Earl H. Turner