From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 04:52:00 PDT
Yes....My banker told me its pretty serious and plenty of people fall for
it. She told me usually, the person deposits the check and follows
instructions, of course they think the check is legit. Then about 3 or 4
days later the bank debits the account for the bad check and the bank
customer comes running to get the bad news.
I didn't like the look of the check, nor did I like the terms of the deal so
I got the check and ran it right to the bank president and the rest is
history.
Its pretty funny as the order for product was obviously cut and pasted from
my ad, first tip. Also on all of the e-mails I returned I only gave one word
answers like OK, Sure, Fine, Yep.......another tip.
And the deal went through...go figure.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ehle" <markehle@hotmail.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Anybody know this man?
> Anybody ever heard of someone actually falling for one of these schemes?
>
>
> >From: "Nigel Hay MILWEB" <Nigel@milweb.net>
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Subject: Re: [MV] Anybody know this man?
> >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:27:28 +0200
> >
> >It looks like the Nigerian scam
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:20 AM
> >Subject: [MV] Anybody know this man?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Today I received this rather strange email. The writer wants to buy
> >"power
> > > steering units" but does not indicate any other info. I explained that
> > > wherever he got the price quote of $950, he was mistaken, as that is
our
> > > price (regulated by the feds) for a government entity.
> > >
> > >
> > > HELLO,
> > > Am a dealer in ireland who buy's cars and car engine for sale. Am
> >interested
> > > in your Power Steering units . and the price quotation is o.k by me
> >which
> >is
> > > the price of $950. In respect of shipping, i have a reputable
> >international
> > > shipper who takes care of my shipping. Pls mail me asap to arrange
> > > payment.Thanks.
> > > GEORGE.........................
> > >
> > >
> > > His email is georgemason_inc @yahoo.com
> > >
> > > He does not say that someone in the US owes him a lot of money, and
> >would
> >I
> > > simply reimburse his friend, etc, like so many other "419" type scams.
> >but
> > > I'm still wary of people who just want to buy, without discussing the
> > > product, etc.
> > >
> > > I told him via email to send payment to my company, and I would
arrange
> >to
> > > have his shipping agent pick up the unit from our business.
> > >
> > > Anybody else heard from this man?
> > >
> > > Arthur P. Bloom
> > >
> > >
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