Scam?

[Magua]

I think someone is trying to scam, which is a fucking shame becuase I was very happy at the thought of selling the GN125. I recieved an email from someone interested in buying my bike, I sent him off some pictures and the details and I got this in reply. I talked it over at school and most people seem to think it's a scam of sorts.

It's a bit long I know but check it out and the link below, just not worth the risk
http://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpeak/Ni...k_fraud-01.htm

HELLO "Duncan Munro,
Top of the day and thanks for the mail.Your word is great,so kindly take your
time and i need you to know that am well prepared in buying the (Perfect
learners bike, new chain, new throttle cable, current wof and reg.) from you,so
please keep other buyers off. Do not forget to send me the pictures if
available,i will want you to try and get back to me with the present condition
at state now and Inrespect of payment. I have contacted my Client in the States
who owes me a sum of $5,500 all i will do is to instruct him to issue you a
cashiers cheque on my behalf and when you have gotten the cheque you will deduct
your said amount and wire the remaining balance via western union money transfer
to my international shipper's,So that they will come for the pick up at your
location as soon as payment is received by them.My shipper's who i have talked
things over with about the pick up says they will want you to make thing's
snappy and to make sure that you make all the important papp
ers are in place to avoid shipping delay.My shipper's will email you as soon as
you recieve the payment so that they can give you thier contact address were you
will be wiring my remaining balance to,So that they can come for the pick up at
your location as soon possible.I will like to know if i can trust you to send my
balance. Am doing this to make the payment easier and faster. Furnish me with
your full contact that are bellow, FULL NAME.................(that the cheque
should be issued to)
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS.........
STATE...............
COUNTERY............
ZIP CODE.........................
PHONE NUMBER...................
CELL PHONE.......................
So get back to me with the information so that payment can be made
which should get to you by next week.
Scott.............

[aff-man]

Definate scam. But this is the first time i've seen it done the other way round. Usually they have a bike to sell.

[Mongoose]

That screams scam!!! Look at the language used and all the info reguired from you. Ask yourself, "Is this normal?"

[Magua]

Damn this cruel world. Sale number three down the drain.

[StoneChucker]

Sounds a hellava lot like someone I get mail from every so often, a Mr Henry Obujuba, from Nigeria First Bank, who by the way wants to deposit $25,000,000.00 USD in my account, and I get 25% YAY He must of had a son, who's looking to learn to ride.

Hey, can you ask him to tell his dad to hurry up and deposit my $25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million US Dollars) into my account?

It is with thanks that I bid to you, and may your night be glorious and gracious, and hopefully not too precipitous...

(heheheh, btw, if you're wondering, I'm having you on, it's a definite scam)

[Motu]

Wow,US$5500 for a GN125....go for it mate,this sort of thing doesn't happen every day,who cares if he comes across a bit strange on a keyboard,it's accepted practice these days to make up your own language as you go,he's probably got a degree in IT,that could explain it.I've just had $6,000,000 deposited into my bank account by a guy who sounds very much like him,they must of gone to the same computer school,anyway,with my 6mill I'm gunna go down and buy some 6 pot calipers for my XS1.

[loosebruce]

Damn this cruel world. Sale number three down the drain.

This guy's full of it Magua, cash up front mate thats the only way to deal in my books, unless it's someone you trust.
It's a tough time to be selling a bike hang in there, you sell it sooner or later.

[Mongoose]

Sounds a hellava lot like someone I get mail from every so often, a Mr Henry Obujuba, from Nigeria First Bank, who by the way wants to deposit $25,000,000.00 USD in my account, and I get 25% YAY He must of had a son, who's looking to learn to ride.

Hey, I had quite a long e-mail swopping session with this very same man, by crickey I am not sure if he had a language problem or not but by the end the e-mails were getting quite abusive(me to him) but he still wanted to do business.
I even got as far as suggesting as a mark of good faith he give me his bank details.

[scumdog]

Jeez Magua, when have you ever heard of a Kiwi talking like that?
It's a scam and a piss-poor one at that, if you were crafty you might be able to scam them!!
I have had "communications" with shit-suckers like that, the stuff I wrote would have put even Winston Peters in the defamation courts but hey, these maggot turds are too busy trying scams to worry about THAT.

Rest assured it's a scam, the only item of interest is how they found you even had a bike, where did you advertise it??

[KATWYN]

.I will like to know if i can trust you to send my
balance. .

Theres the warning bells. Means, he can't be. Complete stranger -Financial transaction saying thst sort of thing....& rambling on

[moko]

There`s a U.k. site I use and people advertising their bikes on there regularly get e-mails like this,if you used Brit sites you`d probably have been used to this style long ago.One scam is they send a draft to your bank account but it`s way too much,always some long-winded explanation for this and you agree to send them the "change".A few weeks down the line your bank has paid the money but the draft turns out to be stolen or fraudulent and guess who your bank come after for their money?Clue,the scam artists have already got their cut and buried their tracks,the transaction has been done by you.A couple of guys have been caught by undercover investigators and there`s even some guy on the web somewhere who claims to have ripped off these guys himself.Usually they`re Nigerian and the giveaway is the language,apart from the crappy English they`ll refer to your bike without actually saying anything about it,asking any questions or seeming to know anything about it other than the name you put in the ad,try advertising a Honda Wonderwank and you`ll probably get a similar response,they seem to send out the same mails with just the bike name changed.It`s not your bike they want it`s your money,or at least the use of your bank account to launder their money.

[Hooks]

try advertising a Honda Wonderwank and you`ll probably get a similar response,they seem to send out the same mails with just the bike name changed..

Does that mean that no one will buy the one I have for sale then ????? And for those interested I also have Yamaha Nimbus 2000 for sale .... The blurb says they are great for cleaning up the opposition Just the thing for WT I was thinking !!!

[vifferman]

Definate scam. But this is the first time i've seen it done the other way round. Usually they have a bike to sell.

I've a friend in the US who had the very same thing happen with his bike. Of course he knew immediately it was a scam, so he went along with it to get himself a genuine fake cashier's cheque as a souvenir. He played the guy along, changed the bike for sale to a truck, and all sorts of things without throwing the guy off. At one stage he was going to see if he could get one scammer to pay another one off! But in the end he got bored with it, and shopped the scammer to the postal authorities for fraudulent use of FedEx or UPS bills of lading or summat. He was going to try to cash the cheque, not because he thought he'd succeed, but because he wanted the official bank stamp to say it was bogus. However, he decided it wasn't worth the $US20 fee and the possibility of getting a bad reputation with the bank.
It was very entertaining for a while, as he kept us up with the latest developments, and found out just how far he could scam the scammer.

[Rainbow Wizard]

Here's the latest scam attempt person. BE WARNED OFF FROM geary@doramail.com

[crashe]

Yep its a scam alright.......
so just delete the email...... and dont contact them back....
as that is how they then sell off your email addy by you replying back to them and confirming your email addy.....
so maybe install mail washer and watch out for lots of scam emails heading your way....