Dear Evan,
Thanks for the mail , the price is okay by me and i am ready to purchase from you immediately, i am ok with $600 for the s ( Dagger G-Ride 6.5) and i want you to delete the ad from the website,i have a reputable shipper that will take care of shipping from your end i want to let you know i have a client in the state that is oweing me a sum of $4,500 , i will instruct him to issue you a certified cashier'scheque on my behalf and as soon as cheque arrives, you hold out your amount and send the difference to my shipper for the pick up in your place, i hope i can trust you for my balance and also you will be contacting my shipper with all neccesary information needed for pick up in your place i.e the actual weightand exact dimensionof the ( Dagger G-Ride 6.5) if this terms are okay by you, do get back to do get back to me with the following details wicth payment be made out to you like this
Home Address...
Full Name on cheque...
State... Zip code...
Country...
Telephone Number...
Mobilephone number... Fax Number...
Do get back to me asap with this details for payment to be made out to you immediately. Waiting to hearing from you. Thanks and God bless you Good day.
Steven..
Colorado unfortuneately does not even possess the funding to convict Identity frauders!! Something needs to be done about this, they get away all the time!
Tiggy
Couldn't Colorado just pay for it with a fraudulent check?
I worked with a that hired a lawyer to help him with a check fraud case agniast him. He payed the lawyer with a fraudulent check after his dismisal. F'd up, but pretty dam ironic.
The choppy english in all these notes from the scammers sounds very familier. Reminds me of the Nigerian 419 scammers. Check this site out if you want to learn more: http://419eater.com/
There's some pretty funny stuff on that site and if you have lots of free time you too can participate in some scambaiting and own your own pet. Just recently I had a friend scambait some Nigerians and they sent him a brand new digital camara from the Home Shopping Network. He was suppose to send it to someone else (fence for them) and just kept it. -trev
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I didn't fall for the scam due to the fact that I read about it a few months ago on boatertalk. I just wanted to make sure everyone got the heads-up that it is happening here. The guy that emailed me said he lived in England, so I emailed him back, stated that I was going to be in England in Feb., and that I'd drop it off to him...he didnt reply.
I hope I have the names right: I remember selling a creek boat on eBay, getting a cashier's check from the buyer. I called the bank that emitted it, took it to my local bank, and basically it's still just a check -- the fact that it was certified, or whatever, only meant that the account on which the money was drawn had enough funds at the time. And that there was no guarantee that the check would necessarily clear... so I waited until it cleared before sending the boat. I was told that postal money orders, which you have to buy with cash, and like instant money, and that's what I've been asking for in other transactions.
Anywho, just wanted to share my lesson -- I always thought that "money order" and "cashier's check" were basically the same thing, just emitted by different entities. They're not...
Legitimate cashiers checks are bank checks and are considered "official checks". They can only be purchased with cash or available funds in an account at the bank purchased. Cashiers checks have next day availability. That's how much of a guaranty they are, or banks would not be forced to give such fast availability. It is rare that a legitimate cashiers check does not get paid, or in other words, though not "guaranteed", they pretty much are.
I refer you to my above post. Cashiers checks are safe to transact with, just don't send any merchandise until your bank has verified the check is not fraudulent and by all means never deposit checks written with the intention of sending change back. It is always a scam.
Now, I kinda like that idea of free merchandise and screwing the scammer. What are they gonna do, call the cops?
Next time you get one of those, tell him it sounds GREAT. Tell him you're PSYCHED to have a buyer, and that sending that check after you get the cashier's check is no problem.
BUT, tell him to show his good faith, have him send you just $25 via Western Union so you can be sure he's someone that can be trusted.
If he sends you the money- go buy yourself $25 worth of beer and chicken wings, 'cause you just scammed the scammer!
Chances are he'll never get back to you....
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HELLO....
ITS NICE TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOOKING TO BUY THIS Wavesport ZG 54. , SO IF YOU ARE READY TO BUY IT NOW JUST GET BACK TO ME FOR THE COST OF IT AND THE SENDING COST BUT I WILL LIKE TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE FROM AND YOUR PHONE NUMBER SO WE CAN BE ABLE TO TALK ON PHONE OK....NOTE-- PAYMENT ACCEPTED IS VIA WESTERN UNION.
WAITING YOUR FEEDBACK..
SMITH
Would love to kick this dootches ass. talks like he's foreign or something. told him I already bought one. don't ever deal with someone who talk s like this......wierd
I got the same e-mail. I can't match him/her/it up to any of the boats I have looked at or am interested in, though I have posted that I'm looking for a certain boat.
Knowing that you got the same, exact, (except for the boat type), e-mail that I did, it's definitely suspicious. Thinking of trying the "you send money to me first" thing. (NOT). I'm curious though, was it just the language that made you suspect a scam?
I told him/her/it that I would get back to him/her/it, as soon as I could figure out who he/she/it was, but now I won't worry about it. Thanks for your alerting post.
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