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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:11 PM
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Just got this email from some guy whos intrested in my s2 and its deffo got the old alarm bells rining.

Thanks for your response, It's appreciated. Am satisfied with what i saw about the car so I want you to calculate all the related charges as am willing to proceed with the payment. since i have decided to accept the price you gave. I will send you a payment of £5,500 and you will deduct £2,995 which is the cost of your car and also deduct the cost of sending via western union money transfer from the money and send the remaining balance to my shipping agent that will come and pick up the car and arrange for the shipment. Please calculate all the charges and tell me how much it costs.
The remaining balance of the money will be sent to Shipping agent in Australia through western union money transfer for the shipping so that i could pay my shipping agency cos i also have some goods to be shipped along with the car and they can book me for their next available cargo.
I want to let you know that this payment will not take time for clearance if taken to your bank and funds will be released immediately to you .So i want to know if i can trust you on sending the remaining balance to Shipping agent through Western union Money Transfer.
To start with the procurement of the car, i will need the following info from you
Name to be written on the bankers draft:
Your full address:
Street,city/town:
State/Country:
Post code:
Your phone number:
Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:13 PM
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Play along with it and make it funny
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:14 PM
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might as well just have written SCAM in big letters across the page mate

defo fishy!
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:16 PM
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tell im to go swim with the manta`s
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:16 PM
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yep thought so lets use the email address to sign up to dodgy porn sites lol
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:24 PM
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Reply and tell him thats fine, give your address as the address of the local police station and use a comedy name to go with it.

That way he will waste him time and money posting them a cheque.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:25 PM
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nice one chip
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by chip-3door
Reply and tell him thats fine, give your address as the address of the local police station and use a comedy name to go with it.

That way he will waste him time and money posting them a cheque.
lmao
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 05:20 PM
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yeah the cheque will bounce, just do it to waste his time tho.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 05:35 PM
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i can garuantee that its a scam.... saw something exactly the same on watch dog but they wre buying jet skis. watch out
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 05:37 PM
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yeah pretty sure i read something on here about it before tbh even if it wernt a scam its far to much hard work for me to do in the 1st place
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by chip-3door
Reply and tell him thats fine, give your address as the address of the local police station and use a comedy name to go with it.

That way he will waste him time and money posting them a cheque.
top idea
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