Hey, Ladies First!!! LMAO!!! Such a quick learner!!!
Come to the lovely America. The good doc will show you the color of money and what a true Greek hero is. LOL!!!
So The Scammer Sent 40900 British Pounds...
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Come to the lovely America. The good doc will show you the color of money and what a true Greek hero is. LOL!!!The really terrible thing about these scams is that for every 1 that you hear about, there was likely some other victim out there that fell prey to these assholes.
You know what they say "If it sounds to good to be true then it probably is."
A girl I know got 2 "Safeway" money orders for something she was selling via CL. They totalled $400 more than her selling price, but she was asked to forward $300 to another address in Canada and keep $100 for her trouble. When she took the money orders to the bank (she suspected it was a scam from the start) they quickly confirmed that the money orders were counterfeit - and when she contacted the police they told her they had so many similar cases that they weren't even going to take a report!
You know what they say "If it sounds to good to be true then it probably is."
A girl I know got 2 "Safeway" money orders for something she was selling via CL. They totalled $400 more than her selling price, but she was asked to forward $300 to another address in Canada and keep $100 for her trouble. When she took the money orders to the bank (she suspected it was a scam from the start) they quickly confirmed that the money orders were counterfeit - and when she contacted the police they told her they had so many similar cases that they weren't even going to take a report!
Good for you for trying to fight back. Unfortunately it's unlikely that you're going to be able to get law enforcement officials in this guy's country to help you.
This sort of scam is a numbers game. The scammers sit in internet cafes responding to Craigslist ads all day, waiting for one fool out of the thousands they contact to take the bait. The way to fight back is to waste as much of this guy's time as possible. (Make sure your real identity isn't traceable, while it's unlikely sometimes these guys have local accomplices and they are usually not nice people.) If the scammer has to spend 20 hours dealing with you with no financial gain you you have literally taken money out of his pocket. Give him multi-page forms that he has to fill out before the transaction goes through. Make him send you dozens of emails explaining how Western Union works. Keep offering payment in some other form- (These guys generally only want Western Union because it's impossible to track funds after they are sent.) Tell him you're wiring the money to a specific Western Union office in Togo and make him go there to pick it up. Better yet, tell him you're going to wire $20,000 somewhere and then wire $2.00, and swear up and down it was a mistake on the part of his local office. (For extra credit Photoshop your sending receipt to say $20,000) Take a huge jpeg file and rename its extension, say it's banking details and make him download it over and over again.
Wasting scammer's time is a noble undertaking. More info can be found here:
http://www.419eater.com/index.php
This sort of scam is a numbers game. The scammers sit in internet cafes responding to Craigslist ads all day, waiting for one fool out of the thousands they contact to take the bait. The way to fight back is to waste as much of this guy's time as possible. (Make sure your real identity isn't traceable, while it's unlikely sometimes these guys have local accomplices and they are usually not nice people.) If the scammer has to spend 20 hours dealing with you with no financial gain you you have literally taken money out of his pocket. Give him multi-page forms that he has to fill out before the transaction goes through. Make him send you dozens of emails explaining how Western Union works. Keep offering payment in some other form- (These guys generally only want Western Union because it's impossible to track funds after they are sent.) Tell him you're wiring the money to a specific Western Union office in Togo and make him go there to pick it up. Better yet, tell him you're going to wire $20,000 somewhere and then wire $2.00, and swear up and down it was a mistake on the part of his local office. (For extra credit Photoshop your sending receipt to say $20,000) Take a huge jpeg file and rename its extension, say it's banking details and make him download it over and over again.
Wasting scammer's time is a noble undertaking. More info can be found here:
http://www.419eater.com/index.php
Actually this scammer is very smart in not providing any of his personal information. But the sword has two edges, why would any legitimate buyer not give his legal name and address for property title??? That is another tell tale sign of a scam.
The good doc sent a request to the scammer for $400 for to be wired via Western Union, presmably as a fee for the scammer's check to be cashed quicker. That was what the scammer wanted but when real money is involved, he has been silent so far. Guess he does not have $400 to scam $18k.
LMAO!!!Ok, Lisa, the good doc can stay in NYC if you want to come. Since you are so cute, you can have the "brawn new BMW Car" from the e-Lottery the good doc won and let the good doc keep the 850,000.00 British Pounds. Or would you rather have the 850K BP and let the good doc keep the BMW??? LOL!!!
Here it goes from the email the good doc received:
"This is to inform you that you have won a prize of ?850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand Great British Pounds) and a brawn new BMW Car from the BMW e-LOTTERY BONANZA International programes for the month of NOVEMBER 2009 Lottery promotions.
We congratulate you for being one of the ten person selected from the web search draw.
You are to contact our fiduciary claims department with your
identification numbers:
Batch number.....................XXXXXXXXXXX
Reff number.......................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
CONTACT FIDUCIARY AGENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
SIR. Sir-His-ASS (ficticious name)
Email: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotional programe.
MR.Just-Another-Scammer (ficticious name)
THE PROMOTIONAL DIRECTOR
BMW PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT"
One would think BMW will send out the email from its official website address instead of some anybody can have one email address.
So There Is The Scammer's "Developer" Address In UK....
in which the scammer requested money to be sent to someone. This person is probably an accomplice or even the scammer himself. So if this address and person's name is reported to the British police, one wonders will someone be caught and persecuted. Or once the good doc's check is sent to someone's name in UK, it will somehow be transferred to somewhere in Togo or Nigeria? Anyone has any ideas or suggestons???
in which the scammer requested money to be sent to someone. This person is probably an accomplice or even the scammer himself. So if this address and person's name is reported to the British police, one wonders will someone be caught and persecuted. Or once the good doc's check is sent to someone's name in UK, it will somehow be transferred to somewhere in Togo or Nigeria? Anyone has any ideas or suggestons???
It's highly unlikely that you'll be able to get British law enforcement to help you, they're a bit tied up with all the cheap heroin flowing from Afghanistan these days.
Getting a bank to close down an account that's being used for fraudulent purposes is feasible though. See if you can persuade this asshole that the only way you can get the money to him in the next day or two is to wire it directly into his bank account. Then send all the information you have to that bank, and CC the local bank regulators.
Getting a bank to close down an account that's being used for fraudulent purposes is feasible though. See if you can persuade this asshole that the only way you can get the money to him in the next day or two is to wire it directly into his bank account. Then send all the information you have to that bank, and CC the local bank regulators.
The British imported opium to China and messed up that country big time. Now it is Afghanistan feeding heroin to the British eh??? Interesting!!! Incidentally, why would the British let these African scammers set up headquarters in UK??? Anytime you see a phone number starting with 4470 is not a real British number but an international forwarding service routing all incoming calls to the scammers, probably somewhere in Africa.
That sounds a good idea if the scammer is willing to go for it. Usually the bank requires personal information to open a bank account, unless if the scammer can fake that as well. Perhaps the British police will be more willing to act if the scammer's personal info is readily available.RogerMelon said:
