What Do You Make Of This

Slugman · Aug 13, 2004

Scam....

Bad grammer, and not on the cool internet way. :rolleyes:

Has a shipping agent to pick it up, and certified cashiers check from what country?

String him along and mess with him... waste his time.

binary visions · Aug 13, 2004

Definitly a scam. I will never deal with someone who I don't have an address to ship the product to. All it means is you never even have a piece of contact information from them.

LOOnatic · Aug 13, 2004

DsDhBxracer13 said:
Just was wondering what everyone thought of this. Seems like a scam to me but I am a little unsure. Thanks for any thoughts.e

Hello,
My name is Chase Walter
I'm highly intersted in your ads
Pls,what is your last price ??
Tell me the present condition.
Don't include the shipping charge my shipping agent will come for the pick
up, As soon as the transaction is deal
He'll arranges for the shipping to Bronbry,
My method of payment is a certified cashier's check.
. I'll be expecting your mail soonest.if really you are very interested.
Send pics if really avilable.Give me the last price,
Pls reply today,

The language sounds fishy.
It may be legit as long as the so called certified check is not from another country.
I still have a problem with his repeated "give me the last price" bit.

I would insist upon cashing the check and then handing the goods to his "shipping agent".

ssaddict · Aug 13, 2004

Can you say vague mass mailing?

Slugman · Aug 13, 2004

LOOnatic said:
I would insist upon cashing the check and then handing the goods to his "shipping agent".

The only problem with that is that your bank might clear it in a week, but then it doesn't clear another bank, and gets kicked back to your bank 2 weeks later. Then your bank removes the funds from your account... and you just got F'ed.

Another :monkey:

had this happen to him, I think it's posted in the bad seller / scam forum.

binary visions · Aug 13, 2004

Slugman said:
The only problem with that is that your bank might clear it in a week, but then it doesn't clear another bank, and gets kicked back to your bank 2 weeks later. Then your bank removes the funds from your account... and you just got F'ed.

Another had this happen to him, I think it's posted in the bad seller / scam forum.

Yep. "Certified Checks" don't mean anything. If you can't get an electronic funds transfer, cash or a postal money order in your hands, you've got no guarantees.

spoke80 · Aug 13, 2004

DsDhBxracer13 said:
Just was wondering what everyone thought of this. Seems like a scam to me but I am a little unsure. Thanks for any thoughts.e

Hello,
My name is Chase Walter
I'm highly intersted in your ads
Pls,what is your last price ??
Tell me the present condition.
Don't include the shipping charge my shipping agent will come for the pick
up, As soon as the transaction is deal
He'll arranges for the shipping to Bronbry,
My method of payment is a certified cashier's check.
. I'll be expecting your mail soonest.if really you are very interested.
Send pics if really avilable.Give me the last price,
Pls reply today,

#1 Name: chase_walter@graffiti.net
Subject: $400 IS OKAY BY ME
Date: 08/11/2004
Message: Hello , Thanks for the info you gave me,its really my chioce.Really is what i have been seraching for for the last 6 months.Thanks for everything inshort i cant wait to see it.Pls help me take good proper care of it cos i belive by now its mine.But right now is new year and i can see that i finanaly got one. Really i want you to pls send more pics if available and if not not to worry. Also i will offer u $400 for that and all i needed is ur assurance that is mine as from now cos am higly eager in seeint it pls dont respond to anybody again on this bike cos i am really ok with all the condition. Pls as for the shipping i will handle that myself i shall contact my shipping agent to handle it.As for the payment am paying with a certified cashiers check which i belive is the best way and its really conviniet for me and if u are ok with that get back to me today so that we could conclude on the payment. I'm from Bronbry,I live by the sea side in The Republic of Denmark. I work as a Minner(people that extract mineral resoruces).I always come my home in The Bronbry,every 4 Months and travel back to my place of Work in Porto. I am really glad that you want me to get the Bike and i will be happy also when i get it really i am really eager to see it . Thank wait to your email today RegarPlease respond to chase_walter@graffiti.net

#2 Top of the day and thanks for the mail and inrespect of payment.I have a
business partner in the USA who is oweing me($1500)all i will do is to instruct
him to issue you a 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 shipping company ,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 my shipping company said that you should make all
arrangement of change of ownershipment of the goods in order ok, to avoid
shipping delay.My shipper's will email you as soon as you recieve the payment
so that they can give you their contact address where 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 tr
ust you to send my balance. Am doing this to make the payment easier and
faster. Furnish me with your full contact that are below, FULL
NAME.................( so that
the cheque should be issued to you
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS.........
STATE...............
COUNTRY............
ZIP CODE.........................
PHONE NUMBER...................
So get back to me with the information so that payment can be
made to you
Thanks

Regards.

WILLIAM.P.

A "miner" that is rad! I hope he gets hit by a truck!

CBJ · Aug 13, 2004

The Republic of Denmark - there is no such thing.

James | Go-Ride · Aug 13, 2004

Sounds like a scam to me. Kris got a cashier's cheque from a bank in Ohio last year for $5000 that was fraudulent, basically cash, USPS Money Order, or wire transfer are the only safe ways to guarantee a purchase. More importantly though, this guy never actually mentions the specific product he wants to buy. I'd give him a big "no dice."

Jeremy R · Aug 13, 2004

I have said this before and I will say it again.
Anytime, you get a poorly written e-mail from some douche in a foreign land, and he mentions the phrase "Shipping agent," is it for sure a scam.
Always.

Matt D · Aug 13, 2004

LOOnatic said:
The language sounds fishy.
It may be legit as long as the so called certified check is not from another country.
I still have a problem with his repeated "give me the last price" bit.

I would insist upon cashing the check and then handing the goods to his "shipping agent".

You'd be naive to even do that. I received a valid certified check from a US bank that cleared in my bank, and I got my money in the account. Only to get a call 3 weeks later saying that after further investigation, the check was fradulent.

Don't ever take a certified check, tell them to F-off. This is an obvious scam (broken english, certified check, and "shipping agent" give it away). What's the guys email address?

buildyourown · Aug 13, 2004

Shipping agent + cert check for more than selling price (send me the change in cash) = SCAM

might I suggest reading

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/dumbmrblah/Scamming the Scammer.htm

it is entertaining and educational.

James | Go-Ride · Aug 13, 2004

#2 Top of the day and thanks for the mail and inrespect of payment.I have a
business partner in the USA who is oweing me($1500)all i will do is to instruct
him to issue you a 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 shipping company ,So that they will come for the pick up
at your location as soon as payment is received by them.

I must have glanced over this the first time I read your post, this scam's been going on for a while. Not only does this guy get your bike, he gets $1100 transferred to him as well because the bank will put the money into your account for about two weeks before they realize the cheque is fraudulent. Why would anybody want to send you a cheque for $1100 over the purchase price and have the balance transferred back? You lose about $50 in a wire transfer between fees and processing.

DRB · Aug 13, 2004

James | Go-Ride said:
Sounds like a scam to me. Kris got a cashier's cheque from a bank in Ohio last year for $5000 that was fraudulent, basically cash, USPS Money Order, or wire transfer are the only safe ways to guarantee a purchase. More importantly though, this guy never actually mentions the specific product he wants to buy. I'd give him a big "no dice."

Bet it was drawn on Fifth/Third Bank. There were a huge number of these checks floating around last year. They looked real as hell.

dante · Aug 13, 2004

A hat, a boat, a terradactyl... :cool:

vitox · Aug 13, 2004

LOOnatic said:
The language sounds fishy.
It may be legit as long as the so called certified check is not from another country.
I still have a problem with his repeated "give me the last price" bit.

I would insist upon cashing the check and then handing the goods to his "shipping agent".

what i make of this?
its a scam

but more importantly the "give me your last price" bit is a bit worrying because one of the tell-tale signs of these scams used to be that the scammer never really bothered to look at the price, it was always "yes" so maybe theyve gotten smarter, or look at boards like these

and yes denmark has a queen and a semi-hot asian princess last i checked.

manhattanprjkt83 · Aug 13, 2004

im so sick of seeing these things i just laugh, why dont these people just get jobs...this takes alot of time for them...

eastcoastzigzag · Aug 13, 2004

Scam!!!

Curiouscaptian01 · Aug 13, 2004

Jeremy R said:
I have said this before and I will say it again.
Anytime, you get a poorly written e-mail from some douche in a foreign land, and he mentions the phrase "Shipping agent," is it for sure a scam.
Always.

watch them damn foreign people, no outsourcing of american bikes anymore. Boycott!

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