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Possibly more scamming >>>

alvaro said:


My e-mail:


David,

Sorry, but I have lost interest in this transaction. The reasons are that first I get an e-mail from your shipper (supposedly in Italy) and he uses your username and e-mail account (and you are in New Zealand, right?). Then you provide me with a contact and a zip code for Mantova, Italy (41600), but you then send another contact person with a completely different zip code. There is too much money involved and a lot of inconsistencies in the information provided.

Thanks anyways.

Dan
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Not really a good idea to send them a response like that. You just taught them how not to make the same mistakes next time, making it harder for the next ill informed individual to spot the scam. It would be better to just break communication rather then point out all of their mistakes.

You also posted earlier that you would send a link to this thread to them. Why would you do this? It serves no purpose but to warn them that we are on to them. It will not deter them. But it will give them a place to go and see what others are posting about their scams so they can learn what not to do. It will do more harm than good teaching these scammers what not to do.
 
You also posted earlier that you would send a link to this thread to them. Why would you do this? It serves no purpose but to warn them that we are on to them. It will not deter them. But it will give them a place to go and see what others are posting about their scams so they can learn what not to do. It will do more harm than good teaching these scammers what not to do.
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Dennis,

You are right. The last thing they need to know it how to "polish-up" their scheme. With regards to sending them the link to this thread, although I had thought about it, I never did. The reasons being exactly what you are stating.

Thanks!
 
Someone just emailed me something exactly like that.... He started out saying this:


Hello Jennifer,
I'm interested in buying your 0.3 CB '03 BALL PYTHONS that goes for $100....But right now i am in spain to buy some goods for my company in holland.

I will like to know the present condition and also like to know if you will accept banks cashier cheque.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards..
jeff

Then, I told him:

Thank you for your inquire, but I have sold the Ball pythons. All I have available right now are a pair of corn snakes.

Thank you,
Jennifer
[email protected]

Those two were written on 11/8/2003

Then he asked me how much my corn snakes are. I didn't respond to him until this morning when he emailed me (I told him I sold the pair) because he seemed fishy to begin with. Now this morning he wrote me what sounds like the same thing that they call the "nigerian Scam"? (Is that it?) Any way, here it is:

Hello emroul,

Yes i reside in the U.S ohio, but i am not in town as i already told you in my last mail but if we can still continue with the transaction all i will need to is to call my business associates to make out a check $4000 when you get the payment you will remove $400 the $300 is for the little stress you are going to go through for me,then after that you will now send the balance of 3600 to my shipper's beneficiary who would be i chrage of the shipping aspect of the transaction.

Regards,

Jeff. ([email protected]

Jeff Potter is his full name (or so he says).....

My question is, what transaction are we continuing? Oh well, just htought I'd share.

Jennifer
 
just like someone said... sounds to be computer generated email/responses, since they don't make much sense....
 
Possible Scam (more)

Below is the second e-mail of this type I have received. This one came from a different e-mail address and looks to be a very similar scam; it looks much the same as the last I posted. The e-mail address it was sent from is [email protected]

I figured I would post this to perhaps save someone from being ripped off.

Sincerely,
Chris DeLay
Stellar Constrictors




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From the Desk of;
Mr. Jubril Ahmed Sadiq
Zenith International Bank
Lagos - Nigeria.

Dear Sir,


I am interested in the reticulated pythons you have for sale.

I am the manager of bill and exchange of the Foreign Operations Department of Zenith International Bank of Nigeria. I am writing following the impressive information about you through one of my friend who run a consultancy firm. He assured of your capability and reliability, although I did not tell him the details of the business I want to do with you.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $25.5million dollars (Twenty Five million five hundred United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along side with his entire family in November 1996 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relation to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately we learn that all his supposed next of kin or relations died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in the department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for safety keeping and subsequene disbursement since nobody is coming for it and
we don't want this money to go back into Federal Government account as unclaimed bill.


The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 30% (negotiable) of this money will be for you as foreign partner.

Therefore me and my two colleagues will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Please be honest to me. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased.

Upon receipt of your response I will send to you a text of the application with the name of the deceased and his country and other information about him. Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. You can also reach me through my Alternative Email Box ([email protected]).


Best Regards

Mr. Jubril Ahmed Sadiq
 
Pretty Funny

I received that exact e-mail yesterday, 11/10. I believe that more people are catching on.
 
The Latest

Well, I thought I would share the latest nigeria scam with all of you folks, even though it doesn't have anything to do with selling or buying snakes. They'll try anything! now they are saying that my dear relative Jim has passed on in nigeria, and they have been trying to find me for two years to give me the 15.5 million... blah blah blah...

These people are funny, but I'm sure the few people they actually do SCAM do NOT laugh. Sad that such things are allowed to exist, but hey, whattaya do? censor? nope!
 
what i don't get is why this thread has been run a dozen times, and every time it is labeled as a "possible" scam. as if it just "might" be true, or is hard to tell...

if you fall for this one, i think that just might be natural selection weeding you out...
 
i think the best bet is

not to respond to them, but INFORM YOUR LOCAL FEDS, copy and print the info and send it to them, they willl data base it, remember who we are dealing with here, they are alot darker than they are given credit.
not to be cheesy, but i have a sneaking suspision terrorist , or the supporters of , may be involved in this type of play, its just to obvious of a scam, that is what they do best, wether it be internal, or external, it seems to me that having this info in our system may connect these people to other things eventually, look at all the news as of this last couple of years on all of the scams here, its ironic as nigerias local isnt exactly friendly with us and our ideals, this new system our government has may work? its a bit creepy, i may be utterly wrong , but a hunch none the less
 
I will explain it the best that i can. I was selling my s-10 blazer on a classifieds page early last year. I wanted 3500.00 for it I got a reply saying they had a contact in the U.S. that owed them 8500.00 and they would send me a cashiers check and i was to send them the balance to pay for shipping. I was like ok this seems fishy they were from africa. So I agreed and sure enough 2-3 weeks went by and a cashiers check from florida came. I deposited it in my bank account. I waited a week and still nothing bad on the check yet. A really good deal came along I couldnt refuse. A close friend of mine was selling an extra 100% het albino ball python male for 190.00 so i withdrew 200.00 and used it to buy the snake. The next week I went to deposit some money when they told me account was frozen I had to talk to the manager of the bank. The check came back counterfeit after 2 1/2 weeks the caught it. Slow bank system I guess. Well I had to pay back the 200.00 i withdrew no big deal.

The way it works is they give you a bad check, you cash it not knowing its counterfeit, keep your piece and send theirs back. You exchange the fake check for real U.S. currency.i think they target th United States cuz our money is worth more than others money is.. Then you get stuck paying the bank for the check you cashed. I found out the hard way dont even try it sounds fishy to me. Tyson Edwards
 
What amazes me is all the money banks probably lose when someone cashes a check at a place like a check cashing store, etc....
Banks must lose TONS of money like that.
 
m n r

thats a brilliant point, crap maybe i will start taking these deals, i will cash them out at check cashing places, as they suck and deserve every loss they get, and the banks are protected by the fdic"not us" if you read the fine print.
 
M n R-Reptile said:
What amazes me is all the money banks probably lose when someone cashes a check at a place like a check cashing store, etc....
Banks must lose TONS of money like that.
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No, the checking cashing store loses the money. Banks do not take a loss on those transactions.
 
Rather than depositing these checks

place them into collection, they will pass through the federal reserve much faster than a deposit, and the monies, although will never arrive wont effect your checking account. Some banks may even charge you for that check being returned as insufficient.
 
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