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Anyone know how this scam works?
Alert posted to Canada Wide Buy and Sell by Ron Mills: AD WARNING: Beware of this type of response I advertised a mount yesterday and got this response from someone in Europe (this crap always comes from Europe): John Daniels 10/29/03 08:15AM We are interested in buying your above mentioned products at advertised rate. Goods to be shipped to London. Cost and modalities of shipping to be born by us. Payment for the purchase is by check through a debtor in US. The debtor owes us higher than our purchase. He will therefore be sending you a check for $5,000 to cover the cost of our order, as well as the Shipping costs. On receipt of the check, you will cash and deduct the cost of our order .The balance you will send as we would instruct you to the Agency that will ship the Goods to us. If this arrangement suites you fine, please send us your address where to send the check, as well as the name to be on it. Also send us your phone number for easy communication. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Best Regards MR. JOHN DANIELS. I don't know if this is a laundering scheme or what but the alarm bells started ringing pretty quick. It has to be a form letter. I like the line: "your above mentioned products at advertised rate"...the morons don't even put in the time to check what the ad is for or how much it costs. |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
In effect, they're asking you to cash a check for a third party that you've
never heard of, and which is probably bogus. I would say that since it's a third party, it must be a certified check for the amount actually owed for me -- I am not a bank and am not in the business of doing financial transactions for other people. |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
Here is a simple test:
Is it found on the WWW or did it come via e-mail and does it involve money? It does? Trash it. -- ---- Joe S. "Nagas Larc" wrote in message ... Alert posted to Canada Wide Buy and Sell by Ron Mills: AD WARNING: Beware of this type of response I advertised a mount yesterday and got this response from someone in Europe (this crap always comes from Europe): John Daniels 10/29/03 08:15AM We are interested in buying your above mentioned products at advertised rate. Goods to be shipped to London. Cost and modalities of shipping to be born by us. Payment for the purchase is by check through a debtor in US. The debtor owes us higher than our purchase. He will therefore be sending you a check for $5,000 to cover the cost of our order, as well as the Shipping costs. On receipt of the check, you will cash and deduct the cost of our order .The balance you will send as we would instruct you to the Agency that will ship the Goods to us. If this arrangement suites you fine, please send us your address where to send the check, as well as the name to be on it. Also send us your phone number for easy communication. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Best Regards MR. JOHN DANIELS. I don't know if this is a laundering scheme or what but the alarm bells started ringing pretty quick. It has to be a form letter. I like the line: "your above mentioned products at advertised rate"...the morons don't even put in the time to check what the ad is for or how much it costs. |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
I would say that since it's a third party, it must be a certified check for
the amount actually owed for me -- I am not a bank and am not in the business of doing financial transactions for other people I would tell 'em to forget it. Have them send a check, perferably certified, from _themselves_, not a third party. If they send a personal check of some kind, tell them you'll be waiting for it to clear. This could be legit...but it stinks to high, high heaven if you ask me. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_ Like SCTs and MCTs? Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers! Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
This could be legit...but it stinks to high, high heaven if you ask me.
Just tell em you have a friend in Nigeria that needs some help with banking and you think maybe they could help him. jon isaacs |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
Further to previous, this may be a variant of a scam Clark Howard was
talking about on the radio today, often done when buying a car from the owner. In this case they seem to be using the great distance to facilitate it. They give you a check that is bogus, in a way that takes several weeks to detect. (Counterfeit bank cashier's checks are what Clark Howard was describing.) They take the money and run. You're quite right to be suspicious of anything that involves money and people not directly involved in the transaction. |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
This is a well known and documented scam.
The scammer is hoping that you will deposit the check into your account and then sent him the requested balance before the check bounces. Most banks will then request YOU to make good on the check. |
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Anyone know how this scam works?
On 2003-10-30, Nagas Larc wrote:
I don't know if this is a laundering scheme or what but the alarm bells started ringing pretty quick. It has to be a form letter. I like the line: "your above mentioned products at advertised rate"...the morons don't even put in the time to check what the ad is for or how much it costs. The check is a forgery. By the time the bank tells you the check is no good you've already sent your money to the thieves. Any screwy sounding scheme like this is just a scheme to screw you. -- When the fog came in on little cat feet last night, it left these little muddy paw prints on the hood of my car. |
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