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Duuuuhhh, Is this a SCAM??

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bcliff

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OK, so I put my Traveller up for sale on a couple of sites as well as ebay. I get this nice note asking what I'll sell it for. I respond and get this email back (see below). My question is... When he sends me bogus funds, where do I get a bogus money order to "forward to the shipper"? I have been a law abiding citizen all my life, and I'm not very clever about figuring out how to cheat people.
Any Help?
Bruce

"Hello,

Thanks for your positive response and am happy to inform you that I have concluded with my client MAJ. Schneider Adams and he has instructed me to proceed with the transaction.

He also went further to tell me that this transaction is being sponsored by the church committee members of the Church Of God Mission inc. Canada on behalf of him and his wife.

Already, a cashier's check of ($16,000) has been mapped by the church committee members which now covers the whole expenses of the purchase of your vehicle, tax, pickup of the vehicle from it location and shipping charges or any shipping arrangements.

Therefore i have been mandated by my client to forward your payment information to the church for them to make out this payment in your name.

My client told me the reason you are to receive the payment in this amount and that is because the money being used for the payment was a donation made to the church by a Christian organization in support of his celebration on his golden jubilee.

He also told me that he will be traveling to GERMANY in few days because of the death of his daughter.

So when you receive check payment, you are expected to deduct the cost of your vehicle which is (7,200) and send down the remaining balance of ($8,800) to the agent ( shipper) for him to be able to offset shipping & tax charges.

After payment has reached you and balance sent to shipper, the shipper's agent will come for inspection, pick up (of vehicle & signing of title papers) and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my client and also conclude other necessary shipping arrangements. so you don’t have to bother yourself about the pick up and shipping arrangements.

Please confirm the above and provide your payment information for your payment to be delivered to you via courier service.
Please provide the following:
1. LEGAL NAME IN FULL 2.CONTACT ADDRESS 3.PHONE NUMBER

I will be expecting your mail with full payment information so that we can proceed.
Thanks And God Bless,

Marcus Jones.
+44-702-406-6052


Below is my client's information
MAJ .Schneider Adams
454 2nd RD E ,
Stoney Creek,
Ontario L8J 2X9 ."
 
SCAM SCAM

Stay away
 
It's a scam... They want a legitimate $8800 for a bad check. They are more than likely not even interested in the car. Sell it to someone who will come sign the papers in person. Preferably someone who's already in the hobby.
 
I knew it is was scam. I posted it here for entertainment value, as that is all this offer is worth. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pukeface.gif Are the scammers trying to seem smarter by making the "forwarded" amount smaller?
Still not too smart..
The car is currently listed on ebay, for legitimate buyers to buy. It won't leave my driveway until cash is in hand.
Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
Go ahead and have them send the check...

Go on, waste some of their time and give them a little aggravation....

If even 5% of their "targets" responded with even a couple of e-mails these idiots would soon be swamped by wasting their time....

I regularly do this with scammers, but I have dummy hotmail account I use to these decoy wasters and not get my real home address involved. I even had one fool send me a dummied up photo of their purported passport to establish their boma fides. They claimed to be a senior VP in a bank, and cut and pasted that official's picture (copied from an annual report) over a real passport. I hope someone got into a little trouble over that- reported it to the local computer fraud unit who could resumably track the passport holder down and have them, as the British say, "...help them with their enquiries..."
 
I get these type of offers all the time. I respond and tell them that it is much easier to pay the shipping company then have them pay me CASH when they retreive the car. I also ask them where they live and tell them that I used to live in Africa too.
Have a nice day
Steve
 
I've gotten a couple, uh, suspicious /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif e-mails lately regarding parts ads that I have on my local Triumph club's web site. I wouldn't be at all suspicious...except that, in poor English, the would-be buyer goes to the trouble of telling me he is more or less from my area but currently is out of the country. Then he goes on to ask about prices and shipping. (Oh, I should note that the ad clearly states a price...and that the items are for pickup ONLY.)

Geesh.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
 
that client's adress is thirty min from my house. I checked on map quest and it is out in the country.Maybe if i am out this weeken i will see were it is maybe i should drop in and ask where thet want it sent
 
This is an old post,but I just read it. I get those scams also.Try this, ask him if he would also be interested in your 1969 Anthrax twin turbo recluse spider, just to sweeten the deal.
 
I do love messing with these fools. It's so prevalent now that I can't imagine anyone falling for this con. Here's a photo of the fake postal money orders that one of these jerks sent. They were insistent about talking with me, but were using a teletype relay service for the deaf. No direct phone conversation. I had fun with that, telling them that I couldn't in good conscience sell them the Sterns-Knight Runabout because it had voice activated controls that a hearing impaired person couldn't use. The fool was protesting that he wasn't deaf...you get the drift.
 
I often wonder who would fall for this scam. It must happen occasionally, or the scammers wouldn't try it. I guess it costs the scammers little or nothing, so they try it.

A case on People's Court involved a stepmom suing stepson. He fell for the scam and stepmom, who should have known better, cashed the bad check for the stepson and was suing him for the money she was out. Stepson's defense was that it wasn't his fault that the check was bad, it was the scammer's fault. Stepmom won the case.

I got several scam e-mails when I sold a truck. On this forum, I can't repeat my answer to one of them, but it was funny.
 
Send them Monopoly money...these are known as "419" scams in Nigeria after the # of the law that makes them illegal in Nigeria.
 
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