Just giving everyone a HEADS UP.

[thebiggestb]

A gentlemen by the name of Ward contacted me about some hypos I have for sell. To make a long story short, he was going to send me 3400.00 for the snakes(snakes were only 700) and then I was supposed to mail the remainder to his shipper.

I of course told him I would not do that. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up and let them know what is going on.

Thanks,
Brett

 

[Snakebyt]

and let me guess.. he wanted to send it in check form.. that has been going around for a while, at least a couple years

 

[diablohogs]

another example:

a friend of mine was advertising a bronco for sale...to make a long story short... the man offered him more than its worth continued to explain the money was on its way and attempted to preasure him to ship the car right away using money out of pocket to pay for shipping. he eventually got the check for the car and for shipping the car. needless to say...it was bad check.

the real mesed up part...this all took place over the phone using a translater because apparently the guy didnt speak english.

moral to that story: if it seems to good to be true... it is.

 

[gmherps]

A gentlemen by the name of Ward contacted me about some hypos I have for sell.

Was his last name Cleaver????!!!!! haha.
Just a joke!

 

[odatria]

Was his last name Cleaver????!!!!! haha.
Just a joke!

No, Ward is his Last name. His first name is Montgomery.

 

[James W. Arnold]

He e mailed me as well

His name is Jolly Ward, he says he's from Canada, He tried to send me a money order for a few snakes. Funny thing is, he replied to many different adds I had up, and they where all the same. I replied with telling him to call me and gave him my number. He never called and re e mailed me and said he under stood my concerns. Well, in my e mail all I said was to contact me, I expressed no concerns at all. It looks like this guy just cuts and past his e mail replies. I would stay away from him!

James W. Arnold

 

[SERPENTOR]

More on this old scam

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37859

 

[Chris's herps]

Someone with thename William West also tried to do the same to me. He wanted to buy a 600 dollar trio of kings from me, but long story short he sent me a 3300 check and asked me to cash it and to send it back to his his shipper via western union. I denyied his request because to me it sounds like some money laundering thing. Any ideas on what I should do?
Thanks Chris Clark

 

[JMelissaMc]

Total Scam

Don't do anything. This is a total scam. The check or money order that he sent you is NO GOOD! So the idea is that you send him the product plus the amount he overpaid and you are out of your animals PLUS the cash that you sent him. The common name of this scam is the Nigerian Scam.

 

[Da_Ru]

I just got this e mail.

gary banks [[email protected]]

RE: Message about: 2004 Albino BOAS

Dear Drew,

I willlike to buy one of the abinos for $1150,Iwill also add $1800 that youwillhelpme send tomy shipper when the check clears.If this is okby you dosend the name an address where the checkwillbe sent to.Thank you for your help.

Gary




Drew McHenry

 

[AQUATI]

I got a similar one from all 3 LOL

Dear Floyd,
I have made out a cheque of $2800 dollars you will haveto send $200 dollars to my shipper to enable him ship all the pets that i bought.This you will do when the check clears.Thank youfor help.
Gary
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Hello,
pls i dont know the maening of this if you know you are not selling pls let me knoe pls.I said i want to buy all the ones you have for now.
{1}the two baby.
{2}one write king.
{3}two sub adult.That is all i will want to buy so try and get back to me as soon as you can.
thanks.
williams.......
----- Original Message -----
From: "floyd" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:41:04 -0700
To: "williams west" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Message about: BLACK AND WHITE KINGSNAKES

> on 5/7/04 10:47 AM, williams west at [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Thanks for your mail back,I will like to buy all the ones you have now,the 2
> > baby/white king/2 sub adult.so pls get back to me with your last price of
> > them.
> > thanks.
> > williams...
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "floyd russell" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:18:12 -0700
> > To: "williams west" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: Message about: BLACK AND WHITE KINGSNAKES
> >
> >> HI I would ship her for 150.00 shipped -- I also have 2 baby balck and
> >> white kings for 100.00 and 2 sub adults for 150.00 let me know Floyd
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "williams west" <[email protected]>
> >> To: "floyd russell" <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:27 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Message about: BLACK AND WHITE KINGSNAKES
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> Thanks for your mail back,i saw the pic,it looks lovely i will like you to
> >> pls get back to me as soon as you can with your last price.
> >>> thanks.
> >>> williams..
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "floyd russell" <[email protected]>
> >>> Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 18:19:24 -0700
> >>> To: <[email protected]>
> >>> Subject: Re: Message about: BLACK AND WHITE KINGSNAKES
> >>>
> >>>> here is the lg female let me know what you want pics of -- Floyd
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: <[email protected]>
> >>>> To: <[email protected]>
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 9:21 AM
> >>>> Subject: Message about: BLACK AND WHITE KINGSNAKES
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello seller,
> >>>>> I saw the advert you placed on the net,and i am intrested in buying
> >> it so
> >>>> pls get back to me with your last price,and some picture for
> >> verification.
> >>>>> thanks.
> >>>>> williams.......
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------
> >>>>> Click on (or cut and paste into you browser's
> >>>>> location window) the URL below to view the ad that
> >>>>> this message is in response to.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?de=211557&cat=6
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------
> >>>>> This message was sent by an unregistered or non logged in user.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent 11:21 AM, May 02nd, 2004 from I.P. Address 80.179.102.61
> >>>>>
> >>> << Imgp0018.jpg >>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>
> Hi I can do all of them shipped for 425.00 also I have 5 corn snakes 2
> motley's and 3 albino's -- I could do those also for another 250.00
> for all 5 and they are 6 months old and are eating great !! so I
> could do the kingsnakes and the cornsnakes for a total of -- 675.00
> shipped -- let me know Floyd -- I do accept payments on paypal at this
> email address --- [email protected] --
>

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damn I had a couple more but I deleted them LOL

 

[ZX11]

Re: Total Scam

Don't do anything. This is a total scam. The check or money order that he sent you is NO GOOD! So the idea is that you send him the product plus the amount he overpaid and you are out of your animals PLUS the cash that you sent him. The common name of this scam is the Nigerian Scam.

I thought the Nigerian scam was where they contact me and say they have $25M that they want to send to me and I deposit in my bank and give them the account number so they can with take portion of it and I keep the rest !!!!!!
I really like that they have contacted my bank and say that the banking officials speak highly of me and that I am the most honest customer they have.
My bank would never say that. If anything, they would just say," yes, please send the guy the money, he is flat out broke!!!!!!!!", LOL

Anyway, the excess money scam has hit the motorcycle market, too. And watch ebay, as they are making bids and wanting to pay too much, there, too.