993Maineiac

It seems that the English usage, while still abismal, is getting better then it used to be.

Al

cabrio993

Funny that I read this post today.

I just received a check for $24,500 for my Alfa Romeo that was listed on autotrader.com for $10,500 and that was sold already a couple of weeks ago.

This is the seventh check that I have received already for the same car. I knew it was a scam on the first e-mails I got, and I inmediately dismissed them. Then I decided to play along, and received my first check for $19,000. then another for $17,500, and another..and another...

This last one..when the guy asked me for my last asking price, I just told him that I wanted $15,000 instead of the $10,500 I was asking and he agreed and sent me $24,000.

The math is always the same, the overage you are supposed to send back is never over $10,000 so the FBI won't get involved as it is under 10K fraud - state jurisdiction only.

All the checks have been sent by different people and are from the CAMPUS USA Credit Union in Florida. They even have a warning about this scam on their web site.

http://www.campuscu.com/ASP/Services/service_1_2.asp

All the envelopes come from either U.K and I received one from France. No return address on any of the envelopes, and stupid enough, they were all hand written with the exception of one tht used an old typewriter.

I now have around $100,000 in bad checks...maybe I can just afford to buy that TT after all!

Bags

Rich;
Here is the link to the web page. If this does not go through, let me know and I can send everything to you.
Thanks
Mike
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-forum/200778-gotta-see-993-a.html

Chuck W.

Perhaps I am a little too conservative, but I would have no trouble instituting the death penalty for these MF's. I am sure it would deter others. And if it didn't, oh well.

rcwelch

Bags...alittle OT, but I thought I saw where you were from Lafayette. Any chance you go to Purdue?

Midnight C4S

I will agree the English is getting better all of the time from these scam artists. I would imagine that they are getting someone to fall for it or there wouldn't be so many of these scams going around.

About the Death penalty, some of the people doing this could already be on death row for all we know, keeps em busy and hey as was said their English is getting better, perhaps in some small way us car people are just doing our part to help educate those less fortunate.

You see I always try to find a silver...ah forget it.

allill

you see that stuff on craig's all the time. scams on everything... cars, watches, anything worth some loot. if it smells bad, run.

Ray Calvo

Tell him to blow it out his main body waste discharge chute.

cabrio993

This is what they send you if you don't send them the "overage" money via Money Gram after you get their Bogus check...

..."I don't know the status of this transaction at this point.Mind you that what you are having is somebody's money and mind you that my client is not happy with you at all.
Most of all,my clieint is paying extra cost of what he budgeted in this transaction.
First of all,He booked and prepaid for a space in the ship that'll convey this car to his destination .presently the space has accrued more dumourage which my client can't afford to pay right now now.He was thinking of buying this car locally but i was the person that convinced him to buy it from you,right now all the blames is on me because of the money he's spending on this transaction.
Secondly,the agent that is meant to come for the pick up is being paid each day because this delay.
Thirdly,The shipping papers and pick up papers has not yet been ready,the agent needs the balance to conclude this too.
Also i don't want this delay to make me to loose the commission i'll get from my client
If the funds is not sent today,it'll affect this transaction in way or the other.
Kindly send this funds today to the agent so that we'll wrap this transaction up.
Thanks for your understanding.
Have a great day."

MonkeyBoy

I think my former personal attorney drafted that letter.