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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 11:59 AM
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Hi Guys,

A friend is selling her old BMW on the net. She has received this correspondence. It looks WELL dodgy to me. The person has not seen the car and immediatly wants to get their 'shipper' to pick it up.

erm....

e-mail below.

Opinions welcomed!

CHeers

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Hello,
Well, the asking price is okay by me for £800 ,i will instuct my associate to issue a certified bank draft worth £3700 for the payment and the shipping schedule .When you do receive the payment ,you can deduct the money of your (bike) and send the remaining balance of £2900 to my local shippers inorder for them to come to your location for the pickup .If you are okay with this arrangement i will like you to get back to me with the following details :
Name :...........
Contact Address :..........
Mobile or Day phone # :.......
When you send me the following information,i will instruct my associate to issue the payment immediately.Also,as soon as you do receive the draft kindly get back to me immediately inorder for further information on how to reach the shipper.Hope to hear from you soonest .
Regards.


Miriam****@aol.com wrote:

Hi there
i am looking for somthing around £800 ono. My main concern is to find a
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:00 PM
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Scam!
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:01 PM
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Scam, seen it before tell em to get fooked
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:02 PM
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theres something about miriam ......always worried about you watty LOL
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:02 PM
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Fuck it in the bin mate, its a big scam, think its the one where you even get the money only to find a week latter it gets taken out of your bank again, proper dodgy! Dont get involved!!!
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:05 PM
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Yep, as said it's deffo a scam............it's EXACTLY the same template of the one a mate got sent with just prices etc changed.

Cheers,
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:05 PM
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scam
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:06 PM
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Steven,

That's a scam, and has been doing the rounds for a while.

Don't even entertain any more correspondence..........
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:06 PM
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Scam...
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:08 PM
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scam!!!!!!! mate had the same one but for a yam R6.
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:13 PM
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Put the full email address up, iam sure there are a few people who would be up for a bit of scamer caining!!!! lol
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:20 PM
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Scam, I had the same when trying to sell the pug
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:38 PM
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Scam, auto trader sent out warnings about it and it was on the news warning of it.

Tell them to fook off
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:41 PM
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Why tell them to fook off when you can have some fun

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:44 PM
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What was the address of the those pikey twats that Done Fusion over? We could send the scammers their details and send em to pick up cars from them. 2 groups of pikey twats inconvienienced in one hit.
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by dumped
theres something about miriam ......always worried about you watty LOL
AMPSL
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 01:19 PM
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Purchaser not seller is responsible for collection, shipping arrangements and all payments, thats fact, so to sum up, one payment ( purchase of car ) then payment for collection and shipping agent, thats it.
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 01:29 PM
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This crops up on scoobyney quite a lot.

Do a search on there for more info has been going round for god knows how long though.

One bloke on there went along with it on a wind up through e-mai i havent laughed so much as he took the piss out of this nigerian bloke asking him if he could call him rodders, that he had a dog called scam and the money for the car he was setting up some kind of church

He still kept getting mail back thinking that they could shiip the car
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 01:39 PM
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Deffo Scam! M8 had the same thing when he was sellin a Subaru.
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RS2300 4x4
Why tell them to fook off when you can have some fun

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

Mark


Mate hary had the same prob, south african punk wanted to send him £2500 for a £50 mobile fone he was gonna do it too, nonce.
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 01:54 PM
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Thanks guys,

expected so



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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 03:19 PM
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i've explained the whole miriam reference by mail
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