Typical Example
1st Email
Subject: Reply To Your Ad at the Bikelinks
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:20:18 +1000
From: goodies_ventures@yahoo.com
To: jd.notme@sympaticom.ca
I 'm interested in purchasing your advertised Bike, get back to me with
the last offering price Please let me know if you ship to cotonou
Benin Republic in Africa and if I can pay with a cashier's check drawn
in an America bank.If this is okay by you do get back to me
immediately for me to arrange the payment.I await your timely response.
Best regards.
Isaac.
2nd Email
Subject: Terms ofpayment
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: gody isaac <goodies_ventures@yahoo.com>
To: jd.notme@sympaticom.ca
Thanks for your mail.As regards the shipping I contact a friend in states
so he said he can organize an international agent who would be on
ground to pick up the bike as soon as we seal this transaction.As regards
the payment,there is a customer of mine in the Us that is owing
me for the African foods i supplied him. I would instruct him
to make out a check to you for $5,300.00 although the money is more than
the
value of the bike but i am willing to trust you with the money.As soon
as the cheque clears you can send my balance to my shipping agent via
MoneyGram for immediate shipping arrangment.The reason why i am doing
this is because it would take atleast 45 days for a check sent from over
here to clear whereas it would only take between 1-2 days for a check sent
within the Us to clear.And this is the fastest way to send money to you
now. If my terms is acceptable to you,do furnish me with the full name
of the recipient, contact address and your phone number and get back to
me immediately so that i can instruct my client to send the money to you
as soon as possible.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Best Regards,
Isaac.
Africa Scam Bikelinks Classifieds
Typical
example:
I ''m interested in purchasing your advertised [insert
product] and the price $1000 is ok by me. Please let me know if you
ship to Republic of congo in Africa and if I can pay with a cashier''s
check blah blah
Best regardsce.
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Another Example
tiggertoo@iwont.com
another bike scam alert
hello i dont know who is running the ring but every body should be
on alert for out of country buyers we had 2 buyers from youre site well
they jacked us around sense april 2003 then we finally got a cashier check
guess what thanks to you posting the african scam alert we talked to the
bank before cashing sure enough it was counterfeit the lady at the bank
said if we had just took it to a cashier she would have cashed it our bike
would have been sent we would have had to pay 14,650.00 plus lose our motorcycle
the secret service our hot on the case but there is alot that lost there
bikes so be aware of those from africa or scotland we thought it was leget
because they kept calling us at home and at work but funny sometimes they
used a reley operator and sometimes they talked that was our first redlight,then
they said it would be sent western union then fed x an d finally it arrive
regular mail with no return address the usss is taking over please tell
youre readers be aware i!
will never sell on the internet again.
And Another
danada@nzomemi.org
Faud suspected
It would be a good idea to have some type of information about faud
on your website.
Because I have received suspicious email in response from an ad placed
with bikelinks. These types of emails have been used to pass counterfeit
checks. The con has you deposit a check much larger that your asking price.
Then you give the difference to the person posing as the shipping agent.
The check turns out to be no good and your out thousands of dollars.
[the email I received is from > pjohnson2030@yahoo.com and the body
reads >
I'm interested in purchasing your advertised Bike get back
to me with the last offering price and Please let me know if you ship to
SINGAPORE and if I can pay with a cashier''s check drawn in an America
bank.If this is okay by you do get back to me immediately for me to arrange
the payment. I await your timely response. Best regards. Perry.
Western Union Scam
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:36:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: alfred tommy <alfredtommy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: PAYMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT............................
blah blah
Hi,
Thanks for your correspondence and for the briefing on your Hercules
175 GS .Am very much interested in purchasing the Hercules 175 GS
.I will take it for $750 .I'm okay at that price.Consider the
Hercules 175 GS already sold to me.I would have love to come down
and inspect her but am presently away to UK on a seminar.As soon
as i saw your advert for sale,i have to get across to one of my
business associates in USA telling him i've gotten the Hercules 175
GS i'm searching for and that he should make my funds { $4000 }available
in payment of some fuel equipments i supplied to him.He assured me
he would make the payments (check} available I will instruct
him to get the check across to you (ASAP) and as soon as you cleares
the check you would need to deduct your amount of ( $750 ) from the
total of ( $4000 ) and send the remaining balance to my reputable
shipper via western union money transfer who would be coming over
for the pickup of the Hercules 175 GS and also handle the necessary
transfer titles on my behalf. So i have to forward all the necessary details
for payment to him,so i will want you to notify me by emailing when the
check arrived at your destination.My shipper (Today's Shipping) would be
responsible for the pickup.Hoping to hear from you.Thanks.
Regards,
ALFRED.
A 2008 Scam:
Hello
Greetings to you,I am Richard Manu from London United Kingdom i saw
your mail that you are in need of the above subject stated,i just want
to used this little words of mine to let you know that i have it for sale,and
still in a good condition, if you need some pics of the item i can send
them to you once i heard from you so we can bargain price, please i only
need a serious buyer and i do accept check payment ,international money
order and western union money transfer ,please no paypal..where i will
have my money in my possession before i will ship the item to you so get
back to me with your address were you want to ship it to........i used
scarlet delivery courier, for shipping abroad so i shipping cost to your
doorstep,so i can give you my least price +shipping cost to your doorstep
this is my number you feel free to contact me +447024057349 i will be expecting
your call or write me back so we can discuss thanks
If you get an email like this, one avenue of
approach would be to phone the number using VOIP. Please note that it would
be very rude to phone and hang up when they answer. Imagine if 200 recipients
did that - it would be pure torture for the poor fellow. Don't do it! Don't.
I implore you.
More information:
scamwatch.gov.au
Fraudwatchers
URGENT "Nigeria-419"
Scam from South Africa
http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html
(very long - but the punchline is well worth the wait!)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/nigerian-scam-shock/2008/
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