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***Pierced*** · November 23rd, 11:16 PM

alright im sure some of yall have seen my thread about me selling the blazer well i got an email back from the guy last night and this whole thing just feels like some sorta scam so im gonna post up what he said and you guys lmk what you think

first email

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Hello,

I am interested in purchasing your blazer.Please confirm asking price if its still available.

Regards,
Justin

i tell him yes and that i would like to get 4000 for it.

second email

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Hello,

Thanks for your immediate response.Asking price is okay.Presently I am off the shores of Angola with my family where I work as a Drilling Engineer on the coastal explorations with Exxon Mobil Oilfields.So I will need to ask a colleague from my home town in Texas to send you a Cashier's Check.Please send me your address,full name and telephone number so that I can instruct my colleague to send you the Check.Since that is the only means of payment I can offer now due to my present location.Do not bother about the shipping to Angola I have a shipping agent who will come over to the USA to ship some of my items from my home in Texas so he would also come over to your house for pick up of the Blazer.Please reply asap.

Regards,
Justin

P.S:Please send some pictures

i give him my addy forgot to include my ph number and i also include some pics

3rd email

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Dear Allen,

Thanks for your reply.Then I will have to instruct my colleague to send the Cashier's Check to you immediately.I have just spoken with my shipper and he adviced that I send his shipping charges together with your payment in the Check I send to you.Because if I send him a seperate Check it would take about 14 working days to cash an Cashier's Check in Africa while it takes only 24 hours to cash in the US.So I would have to instruct my colleague to send you a Check amounting to $11,000.Then,when you have collected $4000 for the payment of the Blazer,please send the balance back through Westernunion Money Transfer to my shipper in other for him to come over to the US for pick up of the Blazer from your house and other items which he is suppose to ship from my house in US.

Please Allen,I would need you to do me this favour to avoid any further delay.Thanks for your understanding.Mail me asap so I can instruct me colleague to send you the Check.

Regards,
Justin

P.S:Please indicate your phone number.

***jwbehm*** · November 23rd, 11:36 PM

Definately scam. . .

***MedicDVG*** · November 23rd, 11:36 PM

this is a big time scam. Keep all the e-mails, send them the the attorney general's office of your state.

Basically what happens is that the check that they send you is fake. You deposit it and "it clears" which most banks do in 3-4 days. Well to completely clear a check, especially one that is out of state or overseas in origin, takes about 21 days. So you look in your account, see that the bank has put the money in your account, you withdraw the amount, send it on, and then in 21 days the check bounces... the worst part is that you are still liable for the money.

So, don't sell to this guy. This is a huge scam..

More info -- google "nigerian scam"

***Pierced*** · November 23rd, 11:38 PM

alright thanks medic

**Dudeus** · November 23rd, 11:38 PM

sounds extremely extremely extremely shady to me. then again, if you cash the check before you give the car to that shipping guy, why would it matter?

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. 5 responses when i was typing.

**PizzaMiLiTiA** · November 23rd, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudeus

sounds extremely extremely extremely shady to me. then again, if you cash the check before you give the car to that shipping guy, why would it matter?

EDIT:

. 5 responses when i was typing.

If the check is found to be a fake, then the bank takes the money out of your account. Hence why banks always ask you if you have an account with them before they cash your check. But if there's no money in your account, and they have to withdraw money anyway, well... You're ****ed.

***Dooms*** · November 23rd, 11:44 PM

Yup, big scam. A farely common one at that.

Torch · November 23rd, 11:46 PM

String him along?

***Pierced*** · November 23rd, 11:49 PM

nah i emailed him back and said that i didnt have a bank account (which i dont) and couldnt cash the check so i could only do cash only

***Pierced*** · November 24th, 12:07 AM

ah **** i havebeen reading up on this stuff and turns out he already scammed me to an extent. he got my addy which these people can use to ship things to the U.S. like stolen goods and things like that and they will contact you and be like were sending some out to pick up this package or oops we made a mistake can you ship this to bum ****ed egept for us

another thing they can do is use my addy to ship something and them change the deliver addy when its in transit and my addy is the only one on the paper work

so yeah im gonna freak out if i start gettin strange packages and **** and i will prolly end up shooting someone if i get some strange person coming up to my house cause i live way out in the country i dont get too many strangers wondering up and i know everyone in my town

im a little worried now

**mavsfan31** · November 24th, 12:08 AM

Yea, my dad got 2 things similar to this within the first day he put his Cadillac up for sale.

**D FO** · November 24th, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Pierced

ah **** i havebeen reading up on this stuff and turns out he already scammed me to an extent. he got my addy which these people can use to ship things to the U.S. like stolen goods and things like that and they will contact you and be like were sending some out to pick up this package or oops we made a mistake can you ship this to bum ****ed egept for us

another thing they can do is use my addy to ship something and them change the deliver addy when its in transit and my addy is the only one on the paper work

so yeah im gonna freak out if i start gettin strange packages and **** and i will prolly end up shooting someone if i get some strange person coming up to my house cause i live way out in the country i dont get too many strangers wondering up and i know everyone in my town

im a little worried now

ah dont worry about it. first of all its the biggest scam in the book. second they have bigger things to do than ship things to your house...

**TonyD** · November 24th, 12:52 AM

Yeah while my mom was watching Dr. Phil earlier she was telling me about all the people she sees through her work that get worked over by these scams (she works at a credit union). I was suprised to hear how many people fall for ****.

***Pierced*** · November 24th, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by D FO

ah dont worry about it. first of all its the biggest scam in the book. second they have bigger things to do than ship things to your house...

normally i wouldn't but i have been reading about this happening quite abit on different scam forums

**Ellis** · November 24th, 01:25 AM

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Africa

Not to be racist, but yeah, scam.

**mavsfan31** · November 24th, 02:19 PM

Ellis, you're retarded.

What about him claiming to live in Africa makes it a scam? The ones my dad got were from Brussels and the UK. I don't understand how since it's from Africa, it's a scam.

**kenny_1491** · November 24th, 02:25 PM

sounds liek a big scam, as every on has said, just pray nothing shows up no your doorstep.

**tippmann666** · November 24th, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by kenny_1491

sounds liek a big scam, as every on has said, just pray nothing shows up no your doorstep.

and if it does, take it and keep it.