Caution: SCAM

[vifferman]

A friend of mine in Mrka did the same thing. He was selling a bike, and someone offered to buy it. He picked staright away it was a scammer, but decided to see how far he could push it. Along the way, he stopped having bike details in his communications, and changed it to a pickup truck, without any apparent sign from the 'buyer' that they noticed. He got the cheque from them, forwarded it to the Western Union Fraud section, who stamped it "Fraudulent" (nice souvenir for him). He found the whole thing a great source of cheap entertainment (for him and us), even arranged to meet the buyer at the airport or somewhere, and only pulled out when it looked like the bank was going to charge him for transactions and he'd have a bad record.

[Oakie]

Blatant it may be, but remember, it only has to work 1 time in 1000 for them to make a profit.

[crazyhorse]

I would imagine it has been successful on more than one occassion.

When I was looking after some boutique apartments, we had the same kind of thing - wanting to organise accommodation and paying for more than that - and could we deposit the extra funds into another account to pay a bill ................. yeah right! I forwarded the information as (stolen) credit card details were forwarded to me, but I had a bit of fun making them think I was going ahead with it

[imac]

I had them contact me last weekend so clearly they are still working. Dorks

[Grasshopperus]

There's a website dedicated (surprise, surprise) to baiting these scammers. Take a look at this stort of how some guy scammed the scammers into entering a warzone to collect his money and ended up getting their couriers killed.

http://www.419eater.com/html/RoadToC...ackground.html

Anyway, never trust PayPal. Never part with your goods until you have cash-in-hand (or have cashed the western union money order). Assume everyone is out to scam you.

[Old Steve]

I think I will scam bait this one for a couple of weeks then pass her over to my hubby to play with. He can then use her phone number for his Nigerian 419 scam artists that he baits. Must be a helluva thing being so stupid.

Used to be a member of 419eater.com - done a bit of scambaiting myself.

I once got a scammer to ride his motorbike from Cotonou, Benin, to Lagos, Nigeria to meet me - I was returning from South Africa to London and could stop off at Lagos and give him some money. He had to bribe border officials and arrived in Lagos with no money, and I (unfortunately) had been mugged in Johannesburg on the way to the airport and missed the flight to Lagos because I was in hospital with a broken arm and concussion.

Mind, the fake cheque the scammer sends (which will be for far more than the bike is worth) would make a great souvenir, get it framed and hang it on the wall.

"Nelsons Battle"

[Old Steve]

I'd be interested to see how they're gonna work this. The eBay scams have all been using paypal or a fake paypal email to run the scam. If they want to send money via Western Union, go for it

This is the old "excess cheque scam". They send you a fake cheque made out for a much greater amount than the agreed price of the bike and what it costs to freight it. They ask you to send the excess back to them via Western Union. So they get the bike freighted to them and receive cash from Western Union - kind of a double whammy. And you can get into a discussion with the Police as to why you have deposited a fake cheque, the bank reverses the cheque and you're out by the amount you sent them by Western Union, you've now got no bike, and you've paid to freight the bike to them.

[rabidnz]

so whats the scam?
they get youre address then come uplift the bike at nite?

[Blossom]

just got a txt about my vl250 but 'she' is calling herself lathamlisa now.. silly idiot didn't even have the brains to include her whole email address.

[Dodo]

Theres a scammer targeting people selling bikes on trademe. Just thought i would give you guys a heads up of the timewaster and let you know how my interaction with them went.


I'm selling a bike one trademe at the moment and got a txt within 3 hours of listing it saying "I want to know if your bike on TRADEME is still for sale as i am intending to buy it right away. email me on jnbleeker@aol.com plz email only". The number was +1361265880 which in itself was a bit wierd. Anyhow after i sent the e-mail i googled the email address t find out it was a scam as suspected. I decided to play along for interests sake and here is how it panned out if anyone else is interested.


Hey,
i'm responding it regard to a txt i got about the 2008 Yamaha Scorpio Z i have for sale on trademe. It is still for sale, it was only listed today, would you like to come and view it?
Cheers,
Joseph

it was at this point that i found this article http://www.3news.co.nz/New-scam-targ...4/Default.aspx

Hello,
Thanks for the swift reply, What is your asking price and i want you
to get back to me with more pictures because i am not available at the
moment, i am in Malaysia and i will be using the bike here in Malaysia
I will be handling the pick up of this merchandise through a
legitimate shipping agent that has their headquarter situated in
Malaysia. Please note that i will not be needing the bike
registration because it will be invalid over here so please remove the
registration. The bike will be picked up after you receive the full
payment, so i really need to know the mode of payment because i need
this bike urgently. Hope to read from you asap.

Thanks for the reply Jenny, i hope for this to be a quick sale. The bike
is $3000 and I have de-registered it for you. I am more than happy to get
those additional photos. However first i need you to go and eat a donkeys
penis fried in poop-sauce. If you could e-mail me photos of this that
would be great thanks, if you can do this i will send you more photos as
well as my bank account details.
Kind regards,
Joseph

Thanks a lot. I have read everything about the bike on the website and everything is okay by me.
I have actually tried to get this bike here earlier from here but most of the ones I got either have one huge mechanical fault or the other
and some have even had accidents in the past while some are extremely exorbitant. As to the price, Price is Ok. So if you deem
the offer good enough, I will be very glad to make the payment asap but i can only conclude this transaction only via
paypal(www.paypal.com/nz)
as I am currently offshore and I won't
definitely be able to make it to my bank to make bank wires across to you. As to shipping, you need not worry yourself about how the bike will get to me here in the Malaysia as I will contact a shipping company here who will handle that.
Do get back to me asap with your PayPal Email address and Full name so that I can remit the payment asap.

Hello Jenny,
lovely to hear from you and thanks for the reply. Please re-read my last
e-mail as i still need to get those pictures from you. Please let me know
if you are unable to supply them, unfortunately it is a make or break part
of this transaction. No pictures no deal sorry.
Look forward to hearing back from you,
Joseph.

I haven’t heard back from “Jenny“ since and i imagine that it was just an automated reply i was getting.

[willytheekid]

Great Job Dodo
and bloody good emails lol ...fried in poop sauce...bet that made them think twice

[Gibbo89]

mate, fuckin awesome reply reagrding the donkey schlong dipped in poop sauce

[fergie]

I think Jenny is straight up . last week i got an email from a lawyer in malawi telling me of the death of my grandfather and how he left me $100000! funny thing is grandad is still pushing the zimmerframe around and pissing his pants.

[YellowDog]

This could just be a simple missunderstanding!

I'm sure I've seen requested picture of your buyer eating a donkeys
penis fried in poop-sauce' floating around the internet.

Well if that's how you treat genuine interested parties for your bike, no wonder you haven't sold it

[one fast tl1ooo]