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Is This A Scam! Please Help?

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I have read threads about this. Here is the email that I got:

Greetings,i am highly interested in buying your{ Shar-pei}from you ,i will like you to give me the ASKING price
and also scan the pics for me for proper verifycation . as for the
shipping,i have a liable shipper that takes goods care of all my
shipping .so about payment i have prepare a CASHIERS CHECK for you
in usa fund ,so pls email me back so that we can
conclude about it. and i will like you to feed me out
of this i.e ur personell phone num and ur adress and ur
email so that i can fax it to my client ,coz he is
willing to send you the check email ASAP....... pls
reply back.
REGARDS COLE


Is this a scam?
 
It is yet another scam

That answer your question. Look at the way it is written, like a form letter where the fill in the item you have for sale.

Now you could do like I do and write back stating how you intend to mutilate them or just junk it.
 
Yes, and there are a few other threads below yours you can read; the emails they received are probably identical to yours...
 
BCFOS** Thanks for the fast reply

Here is the reply that I sent back to them:

I only take cash, I DO NOT ship! These pups mean alot to me and I would
rather match the owner with the pup that best suits the owners personality.

Thanks Anyway


Hopefully they don't keep harassing me.

Thanks for the fast reply.
 
Re: BCFOS** Thanks for the fast reply

GuentK01 said:
Here is the reply that I sent back to them:

I only take cash, I DO NOT ship! These pups mean alot to me and I would
rather match the owner with the pup that best suits the owners personality.

Thanks Anyway


Hopefully they don't keep harassing me.

Thanks for the fast reply.
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Anytime, just be sure to always check the way such emails are written. If they seem to be in a form letter chances are it is a scam.
 
Another one it seems

It seems the BOI is rapidly developing into a "Nigerian scam email notice board."

Everyone is posting about these emails.

Hopefully no one is falling for these emails.
 
IT IS A SCAM!!

I had someone offer to buy one of my snakes for sale. Almost the same arrangement. They sent me a forged cashier's check for $7000 asking me to take my $2300 and send the rest to a friend so they can pay the shipper in the states as they were out of state.

Trust me. I knew it was bogus. I did not send an animal and the authorities have the original email trail, the forged check, the address the remaining money was to be wired to.

If it sounds strange or too good to be true...it is.

Keith Hamlin
 
It won't be long.....

It won't be long before newspaper ads are targets for these scams if they aren't already.
 
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