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Initially Posted - 07/09/2004 :  17:48:40  Show Profile
After reading the thread on the Sailnet fraud attmept, I thought I would mention an attempted scam when my boat was for sale last month on several web sites. I received an email (very poor grammar and spelling), stating the writer was a broker and had a party lined up to buy my boat. No, he did not even want to look at it. The broker was to send me a check for $14,000, $5,000 more than the asking price. In turn, I was to send the shipper $5,000 to pay to have it moved. The broker sent a registered letter with a very good looking check for $14,000. It was written on the River Hills Bank with branches in Vicksburg and Port Gibson, Mississippi. When I called the bank, naturally, they had no account with the number or the name as listed on the check. The lady asked if I had sent them any money (apparently some people had) and where the letter originated. When I told her "Nigeria" she said they had received several similar complaints. I faxed her copies of the check and the envelope and she said the FDIC and FBI had been notified.

As my Dad always said..."If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true!"

Bert
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Response Posted - 07/09/2004 :  23:38:04  Show Profile
I received a bunch of similar bogus e-mails from Nigeria and other places last spring when I was trying to sell my old boat (#1205). All very similar wording and obviously the same scam being run by every one of the senders. If it weren't for the fact that innocent postal and bank workers would be harmed, it would be fun to go along with the scammer's game and actually send them a check - one liberally laced with Cobalt-60.
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Buzz Maring
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  10:44:59  Show Profile
Hi everyone,

There are so many internet-based scams going on these days it's hard to keep up with them all. As Bert and Larry mentioned, many of these scams originate in Nigeria ... these scams are referred to as "419" scams.

If you want to know more about them, AND get a big laugh, check out this website: [url="http://www.419eater.com/index.htm"]419 Eater[/url]

The website is dedicated to "scamming the scammers," and it'll make you smile to see how people have made goats out of these con artists. The idea is to bait the cons, and make them think you're going to fall prey to their scheme. The baiters use pseudonyms like "Ima Ballsack, Hugh G'rection, D'arth Vader, and Klench Mychiques" ... be sure to click on the "audio files" so you can here these Nigerians making phone calls and asking to talk to these people ... I laughed so hard I cried!

I love it when the scammers get the short end of the stick ... 'wish it happened more often!
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