Internet Scams

2003eclipse · 02-14-2005

I read the message on the bottem of an email from DSMTRADER, saying beware of overseas buyers offering cashiers checks. Well here is the email I got.

Thanks for your e-mail,So glad to hear that the said items are still
for sale,i want you to know one thing that the Modeof payment is going to
be Certified Cashier's Checks that will be drawn from an American.So
there will be no problem in Cashing the Checks.Also i want you to know
that you will be recieving a Cashier's Check of
$5,500 that will sent to you one of my Client over there inthe USA who
is owing me thisamount. So all i want you to do now is to recieve the
Check , After then i will expect you to Cash it Immdiatelyat the Cashing
Store. After the Check has been cashed i want you to Transfer the
remaining excess funds to my Personal Assistant who willnow Pay the Shipping
Company to come over for the Pick up (I will handle the Shipping so
Shipping Should not any Problem)

Also after the Funds has been cashed and you have transfered to my
Personal Assitant the excess funds,All you need to do is to wait for the
Shipping Company to come over for the Pick up, You will be notify on the
Day they will arrive so that you will around for them to Pickup the
Item. Also funds should be Transfered to my Personal Assistant via Western
Union. The Western Union and the Cashing Store
Chargesshould be deducted from the excess funds you are sending my
Personal Assistant.

I am Compesating you with the Sun of $100 for the little stress you
will be going through in the transaction, his now make your totalincome to
be $800. pls i need only the box So If this is Okay by you i want you
to provide me with the Following Informations Which of course i will
forward to myClient so that Payment will be
Issued :

NAME: ......................
ADDRESS:.....................
CITY: .............................
STATE:............................
COUNTRY:............................
ZIP CODE:............................
PHONE NUMBER:...................(HOME,CELL AND WORK)

With this i will expect to hear from you soonest today.

john · 02-14-2005

I have gotten a ton of those responses from trader. I will never buy on there unless it is local and I will not sell until I have the money in my hands.

Matt D. · 02-14-2005

Any of you that believe that without already knowing about it are dumbasses.

TheBlizzard · 02-14-2005

There are tons of scams like that for everything. This guy from work got this email from this fucker in Africa saying that he had a huge inheritance that he was going to get but he needed to be in the USA to get it and he needed some financial assistance for lawyers fees and other legal fees to get the money. The person even talked to these people on the phone from here to fucking Africa. He sent them 1000 dollars "western union" (fucking stupid). They picked up the money, and he never heard from them again. It was some big fucking sob story too, his dad died and all this shit. Them fuckers really played it to be real, they actually talked on the phone numerous times setting everything up.

When it came right down to it. There was nothing the person could do about it from over here. If you send the money, its your ass pretty much. There has even been stories of people giving there address out and having people come to their houses and rob them and even kill them. There are some crazy fuckers out there and theres a new scam everyday.

CRAIG

Jacek · 02-14-2005

I emailed back one of those fuckers just going along with it and annoying him by telling him to just send me the money and shit. My email scams stopped.

TheBlizzard · 02-14-2005

I was hoping one would email me, I was going to go along with it and set them up to get caught. See if you can catch them when they are retrieving the money then they can get prosecuted. But if they can get the money and get away. Well then its all over. There is a certain part of Africa that is notorious for trying these sorts of scams, I can't remember where it is though.

CRAIG

TheBlizzard · 02-14-2005

I changed the title of the thread to generalize internet scams. Go ahead and post up the best ones you know of. This might be informitive for people in the future. Also if there are any new ones they can be put here.

Come on Jakey (internet sale police) I know you know of some good ones.

CRAIG

Jakey · 02-14-2005

I get e-mails quite freqently from Princes & Queens over on Africa basically about the same shit mentioned above. What is really odd though is that these e-mails come to my school e-mail address in which I never get spam except for these. On the other hand with my hotmail account I get shit like this on a bi-hourly basis. It's good to see the Trader has a public announcement about this shit (I believe they've had it posted since last Spring). I just wish they would put up warnings about the frequent US scammers like Manny Alveraz (sp?).

Matt D. · 02-14-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRAIG

There is a certain part of Africa that is notorious for trying these sorts of scams, I can't remember where it is though.

Nigeria

Alpine TSi · 02-14-2005

I had two of these scams attepted on me while I was trying to sell some pistons, I played along with both, but never got the checks. I was hoping to refer them to someone that could possibly do something.