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what do we do with these scammmers?

MAISKESO

MAISKESO

May 23, 2006
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i had a guy emailed me for my nordy and nordstrand he said he wanted both my price was $4000 for both and he ask me for the address and i gave him an office address and told him that if i get a cashiers check i will need to clear everything first before sending the basses and he said fine, after a week check came and its a company check for 4000 its looks like a good check from edmund optics inc. and its funded by wachovia bank but the return address from the envelope was different name and different city the company is located in new jersey and the return address is virginia anyways he emailed me and letting me know that the payment has been sent and want me to take out my own money and wire him the balance (what balance? )through westen union and gave me the name and so i knew this is a scam. this is first time for me so i emailed him and told him that i sold the basses and will return his check. any opinion?:help:
 
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I've had ads in craigslist and other online classified, multiple times, since 1998. a classic characteristic of scammers is (1) cashier's checks - though they can be valid, and I've used them as a BUYER, (2) questionable and contradictory addresses and names. A third characteristic, textbook, is that they ask you, often with their first response, for a detailed breakdown of all (all) your personal particulars (addresss, name, etc.). I agree - you've answered your own question. And to quote Robert DiNiro from "Ronin," if there is a doubt, there is no doubt. Otherwise, have fun with this one, but perhaps not "funds." I give my scammers a regular beating, and they don't respond, after I prove, with one response, that they are pathetically without imagination...
 
#11
MAISKESO said:
i had a guy emailed me for my nordy and nordstrand he said he wanted both my price was $4000 for both and he ask me for the address and i gave him an office address and told him that if i get a cashiers check i will need to clear everything first before sending the basses and he said fine, after a week check came and its a company check for 4000 its looks like a good check from edmund optics inc. and its funded by wachovia bank but the return address from the envelope was different name and different city the company is located in new jersey and the return address is virginia anyways he emailed me and letting me know that the payment has been sent and want me to take out my own money and wire him the balance (what balance? )through westen union and gave me the name and so i knew this is a scam....
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wow, a sentence 7 lines long without any punctuation marks. that one is tough to read!
 
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gillento said:
wow, a sentence 7 lines long without any punctuation marks. that one is tough to read!
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what's even tougher to read than a sentence with seven lines and no punctuation is a sentence that just seems to ramble for no apparent reason and at the same time still missing the necessary punctuation to make it even conceivably legible to the average person who may even be remotely interested in reading something as ridiculous as a run on and on and on sentence such as this nevertheless it may be possible to decode such utter nonsense but then you may require a rest in the bahamas for a week or two sipping marguaritas and listing to reggae music which some claim can be quite soothing and relaxing which is in sharp contrast to this rather annoying and definitely ridiculous post that i've just managed to create for the sheer purpose of i have no unearthly idea
 
#16
someone tried that trick on me when I was selling my boat... wanted me to return the surplus from a cashiers check that was way over the selling price... I told him to get lost and set the police onto him

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Do not think that because someone at your bank has examined the cashier's check and assured you that it is valid, you will be safe later when the check turns out to be fake. You are responsible for all checks deposited into your account. Also, under federal law, banks have to make funds you deposit available, usually within 5 days. Just because you can withdraw the money does not mean that the check was good. Weeks later, when the bank is notified that the cashier=s check is fake, the amount will be deducted from your account. The bank has the right to do so and you will not have any recourse.
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Apparently reporting scam emails does result in arrests. Some people were arrested recently in Holland for lottery email scams and it appears one of them was related to an email I reported to the Dutch police via their online reporting site.
 
#18
driver800 said:
We should write long letters to them without using any punctuation. That'll get them.
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Also, you can reply to them initially using all caps too. When I get a "live one" in one of my email accounts, I play along like I totally believe they are legit.. however I'll tell them I'm already "quite wealthy" but wouldn't mind another $15 million or so in "mad money" to donate to charities and private hospitals... then I start asking them to wire me "processing fees" so I can run their papers, fingerprints and of course background checks on them and their bank. It is alot of fun to waste their time and run them around in circles.. when I get tired of a particular individual, I'll promply block their domain and be done with them. :smug:
 

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