Scam on a pool table!
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PoolSleuth
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Holy Crap I think they did try and SCAM you.
I have been sent that email before and I was selling a Gokart. I hat scammers
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Johnny95610 said:
This is really prevalent on Craigslist also. I posted a bunch of stuff on there for sale, and 99% of the responses I received were scams.
In some of those scams, they won't even ask you to forward any money to any account (as all they want is the merchandise). So when you mail the merchandise and try to cash the forged money order, you're SOL.
The way this scam works is that they send you a counterfeit money order/cashiers check. Your bank will accept the deposit and even credit your account with available funds. Then when the cashiers check is later rejected by the "issuing" bank, your bank will come after you. If you have already sent 1/3 of it off via western union, you will be on the hook plus the bank will send the police to question you about the counterfeit check. Your in a world of trouble, out money, out a pool table and some scammer in Latvia is laughing his ass off.
CaptiveBred said:
LOL it was fun reading this. I was wondering if there is any chance to trace and catch those scammers. Perhaps through their IP or something, I don't know. Something should be done. If I'd be a milionaire I'd get an airplain ticket and fly to that adress in Nigeria and kill them all mother****ers!
English is in ....
I have received 3 times recently an email saying I have won
a UK lotto, with all kinds of proper english in the email, and
instructions for their financiers of the lottery to contact me.
Then, another email comes from the financier saying I had
won over 1,500,000 Euros, bada bada bada, BUT I have to
pay $3,150 to get the funds processed and released saying
I would be reimbursed for it when the total funds were
released. The financier was in a little English town outside
of a larger town. I looked the town up and it looked to be
about 15,000 in the town.
I don't know why, but it struck me it might be some European
scam artist trying to finance a new cue ..... lol
After I wrote them back, and told them what their mistakes
were and that I had their machine numbers and had turned
them into the Federal authorities, never heard from them
again.
was,
I have received 3 times recently an email saying I have won
a UK lotto, with all kinds of proper english in the email, and
instructions for their financiers of the lottery to contact me.
Then, another email comes from the financier saying I had
won over 1,500,000 Euros, bada bada bada, BUT I have to
pay $3,150 to get the funds processed and released saying
I would be reimbursed for it when the total funds were
released. The financier was in a little English town outside
of a larger town. I looked the town up and it looked to be
about 15,000 in the town.
I don't know why, but it struck me it might be some European
scam artist trying to finance a new cue ..... lol
After I wrote them back, and told them what their mistakes
were and that I had their machine numbers and had turned
them into the Federal authorities, never heard from them
again.
was,
I got a very similiar one last year and i played along until i told him that he did not have to mail/send me anything because i was going to be in europe and we could meet and take care of it in person and we could use cash instead. got a reply that that way was not acceptable because of security reasons. so i just told them that i was an american cop and that i was going to be in Scotland Yard for a week training and that it would be safe there to transact our business, then insisted it be done there. got a quick reply..."no longer interested".............just love to give them the run around and spoof and lead them on like that...................................mike
As with all Internet scames, please do yourself a favor and do not reply. Replying simply allows the sender to say "hey, a valid email address!" You'll simply get more spam if you reply to spam.Snapshot9 said:
The only spam I'll ever "reply to" is valid spam - i.e. a mailing list a well-known company has put me on. For example, I used to fish a lot when I lived in South Florida. As such, I signed up for and received Bass Pro emails with coupons, etc. When I moved back to PA, I clicked on an "unsubscribe" button in one of the emails to unsubscribe.
But clicking "unsubscribe" in true spam (i.e. "penis enlarging pills!" or some company you've never heard of, etc.) is the same as "replying" - it marks your email address as being "active" or "valid." If you ever see a URL like http://url.com/unsubscribe.php?id=ualkj34623clkj3 then that "ualkj34623clkj3" may be a key for your email address.
FWIW, all of these ploys (the "we'll send you a lot of money, you send us a little) are similar to the Nigerian scam. They'll send you a check, you'll immediately send them a check for a tiny portion of the amount, and then their check will bounce 15 days later and you'll either be arrested, out the few grand you sent them, hit with penalties, or all three.
Read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_money_scam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
The Lottery Scam is a derivative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam
This is a common scam usually from Nigeria, there was a local story of a guy who got burned selling snow tires. You'd think that a stranger trusting someone with an extra few thousand in change whould be suspicious, besides the fact that you've just shipped a set of winter tires to Africa.