I posted a mas supernova for sale in craiglist for 250shipped, then i got this email: Hello, My name is Billy Shelton, I saw your advert and am highly interested in buying the {Mas Supernova with 1 stick -} which you offer for sale. Kindly get back to me as soon as possible with the present condition and your final asking price and if its still available for sale...I Await your Urgent response.. Regards, Billy Shelton.. after that i replyed saying it was ok , but i need a money order, got this: Hello Augusto Andrade, Thanks for the response, the final price $250 is ok by me.I will like you to remove the advert from the website. You'll be recieving your payment as soon as possible through my associate who's in US. I'll instruct him to Issue out a Certified Cashier Check in your name the total amount he his oweing me on our last transaction which is closed at $3250, you'll receive it as soon as possible, Immediately you get this check i want you to take it to a cashing centre nearest to you, cash it and deduct your $250 and also deduct $100 for your runing around, the excess is for my shipper for shippment of {Mas Supernova with 1 stick }alongside with some other things I placed order for in care of my shipper and you'll wire the remaining balance to the shipping agent through Western Union Money Transfer for them to come for the Pick Up at your place 48hours after recieving the payment from you,without giving you any stress. They will use the funds to settle some customs problem and transport their selves down to your place with immediately effect.So i do hope i can have your trust about the excess which is meant for my shipper.Note that you are not going to give the shipper anything, i am going to responsible for that. Let me know if this is ok with you....So if its okay with you try to send me the following information for the process of the payment . NAME........ ADDRESS............ CITY...... STATE..... ZIP CODE........ PHONE # BOTH HOME AND CELL..... COUNTRY........ I Await your Info so that i can fax it down to my client that will send u the payment. Regards, Billy Shelton.... scam? hell yeah!
Scam Scam Scam Scam Scam Scam. Someone tried the same thing on my dad, but on eBay...twice...on the same auction...both from Nigeria... Ask him what a "MAS Supernova" is. I bet he can't tell you.
I am extremely familiar with this scam. The idea behind it is to get you to "deposit" a fraudulent check and before you let it clear you send him the item and the extra cash. So in the end he not only gets your stuff, he gets paid for it. My boss and I played most of the way through a scenario like this. We knew it was fake, but we wanted to eff with him. In the end we got a counterfeit check FedExed to us next day air from Nigeria. So atleast it cost the guy a few bucks. -ServiceGames-
Look in the April Fool's thread. There's a link to a very long-winded story where the guy totally fucks the scammer. Makes him pay like $2k in shipping and customs.
i told him to fuck off, and then got this email: david john <davis_john007@yahoo.com> to anon-66939562 More options 12:33 am (46 minutes ago) Greetings,i am highly interested in buying your{Mas Supernova} from you ,i will like you to give me the ASKING price and also scan the pics for me for proper verifycation . as for the shipping,i have a liable shipper that takes goods care of all my shipping .so about payment i have prepare a MONEY ORDER for you in usa fund ,so pls email me back so that we can conclude about it. and i will like you to feed me out of this i.e ur personell phone num and ur adress and ur email so that i can fax it to my client ,coz he is willing to send you the check email ASAP....... pls reply back. REGARDS still suspicious huh?
It's a total scam. The check is fake, and what's worse is that you end up getting busted for cashing a fake check, and in some places are responsible for covering the difference. Avoid this guy. Plus you notice all that personal information he's asking you for, and that he also asked you to do a Western Union money transfer? All desgined to get at your bank account. Tell this guy to pay by Paypal, then to go fuck himself.
Man tell him you want pure cash or you want the cash sent via western union! If you are recieving cash via western union the normal way you cannot be scammed! The normal way i mean is the one where you go to your local store and pick up cash from there. A western union money transfer. Once you got the cash in hand your ok.
get him to send the cheque to a PO BOX. Then mail him an empty box with a customs declaration value of $20,000 so he gets taxed an assload (don't provide return address either), and forwards the cheque and relevant emails to the local police to deal with it. People like this are usually too dumb to hide their fingerprints so they should remain on the cheque and he should not only get thoroughly raped financially by the customs fees, but if they get caught they would also get thoroughly raped by a big guy called bubba in prison That would teach them not to give you any shit I also received a scam mail last week from an eBay member trying to sell me a 3DO M2 on second chance offer for $1500 - I noticed now though that the dude who sent the 2nd chance offer shouldn't really have done so - as they wern't the original seller! So I got his ass banned, fucking leech trying to take my hard earned cash =/ "Dear 01100111011001010110010101101011, **PLEASE READ CAREFULY** You expressed interest in an item titled: "NEW 3DO Panasonic Development Box FZ-DR21 & M2 Dev Card" Item #8177598851 by bidding, however the auction has ended with another member as the high bidder. In compliance with eBay policy, the seller is making this Second Chance Offer to you at your bid price. The seller has issued this Second Chance Offer because either the winning bidder was unable to complete the transaction or the seller has duplicate items for sale. If you accept this offer, you will be able to exchange Feedback with the seller and will be eligible for eBay services associated with a transaction, such as fraud protection. TO PURCHASE THIS ITEM CONTACT THE SELLER IN THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: micu@gawab.com To see this item, click on the following page: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=49221&item=8177598851&rd=1 Thank you, eBay Inc. Thank you, john9083"
http://www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk/temp/scammers.html Would work, except he probably lives in Nigeria.
I wasn't sure if those e-mails were real, but then I saw the scans of cheques further down! :smt082 I hope he does get one of them to say "i love the cock" some day...
