Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] There's a Scam for everything

[Jason Youngquist <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yah...this has been going around for awhile...Had a friend who was selling 
a old car, and someone from Africa (or somewhere outside the U.S.) was 
quite interested in his POS car and even willing to have it shipped to a 
different country.  Needless to say, it sounded too good to be true, and 
it was....a scam....

--Jason

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I read about this scam somewhere.  What happens is that when the bank says 
> that the check has cleared, all it means is that you can now draw cash on it. 
> Months later they come back and so, no it was counterfeit, and then they take 
> the money away from you again.
>
>
> Spurling, Shannon wrote:
>> But, you can't write a cashiers check with out securing it with money.
>> Wait for the check, cash it, and then let him get in trouble for it when
>> it bounces. Or report him to the FBI for fraud.
>> 
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of F Vernon
>> Green
>> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:41 AM
>> To: 'MLUG Off-Topic Discussion'
>> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] There's a Scam for everything
>> 
>> Well I had an interesting situation this weekend.
>> 
>> I have a boat I am trying to sell. I listed it on an Internet site that
>> also
>> prints a paper copy of the ad. I received a number of e-mails from
>> people
>> all wanting to buy it.
>> 
>> Upon closer examination all these people were from Belgium, Scotland and
>> West Africa.
>> 
>> Immediately my mind raced for reasons why these people would be
>> interested
>> in my boat. There were some plausible reasons, especially for someone
>> who is
>> a motivated seller, why they might want the boat. None of these reasons
>> really worked for me though.
>> 
>> I was in contact with one particular person and he promised he would be
>> sending a cashiers check in the next few days for payment. I then
>> decided to
>> do a search on the Internet for this seemed too easy to me.
>> 
>> Entering a search for "boat buying scams" I found that this is a common
>> scam. Apparently, what they do is send you a cashier's check that is for
>> more than the value of the boat with the explicit directions that you
>> are to
>> send the remainder of the value of the cashiers check to them
>> immediately
>> upon receipt, along with the title. Of course then the check bounces and
>> you
>> no longer have the title of the boat. 
>> Now this is a pretty hard scam to pull on someone that has no money as
>> is
>> the case with me. It would be hard for me to send them a couple of
>> thousand
>> dollars without the check first clearing the bank. 
>> This is just another one of those messed up things on the Internet that
>> I
>> guess we have to put up with. Annoying.
>> 
>> Vern
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