Scam Warning!

[jessef]

A recent email from a scammer. He called me later and I led him on.

I sent him a western union money transfer.

Of course it was a fake one. I'll keep sending them until he stops. This makes it fun because it's a pain for him to go and check/deposit it then get a call stating that the #'s are wrong and to check them again.

You can do that too.

Reply



Thanks for the mail , and thanks for the price given, still at the range, i will offer you $12500. if you accept my offer cos am buying the car for Birthday Gift for dad and i am at sea at the moment as i am a marine engineer and i really want the car to be a surprise for dad so i wont let him know anything about the car until it gets delivered to him , i am sure he will be more than happy with the car.I insisted on paypal because i dont have access to my bank account online as i dont have internet banking, but i can pay from my paypal account, as i have my bank a/c attached to it, i will need you to give me your paypal email address so i can make the payments asap for the car and pls if you dont have paypal account yet, it is very easy to set up, go to http://www.paypal.com and get it setup , i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with paypal so as to put the money through.I have a pick up agent that will come and pick the car up after i have made the payments.PS:you can end the auction on the site yourself,you will see a place where u can end the auction and my pick up agent will come around to do the pick up as soon as i have made the payments for the car.

thanks

[Aztec Nomad]

do two wrongs make a right

Hey,
No, but three lefts do.
It would be interesting to find out if the authorities have heard or even caught scammers like this. Unfortunately there are many people in this world that these "people" can take advantage of. It would be cool to have a feature on cell phones that not only display the telephone number but also the location of the call. This would help in the "catch the bad guy" category.
Adam

[Green1]

while many scams are perpetrated from overseas, and hence very difficult to do anything about, it sounds like the original scam this thread was about it likely local, it might have been worth getting the police involved... (scamming anyone is a crime, scamming the police gets you time...)

[jessef]

while many scams are perpetrated from overseas, and hence very difficult to do anything about, it sounds like the original scam this thread was about it likely local, it might have been worth getting the police involved... (scamming anyone is a crime, scamming the police gets you time...)

My scammer had a gmail email address, a canadian phone number on the display and an average accent.

He is from Romania.

The phone number is a fake generated one via software and his ip address points overseas.

There are many sites that acknowledge overseas nigerian/romanian scammers that have gone from conventional email to local area phone calling. This has been going over for a few years already. Most people just chalk it up as a local scam artist, but 99% of the time, they are the same overseas goons.

[Green1]

I'd love to see how he explains the need to transfer the money to another country... or do the scamers accept visa now?

[jessef]

He told me he's stationed in Romania as a marine engineer.

Wait... a 'marine' engineer ?

[Green1]

and a marine engineer is approving people for car loans why?

I think we're talking 2 different scams... I'm talking the first one by the original poster in this thread, that's the one I said sounded local...

[Aztec Nomad]

Hey,
The original scam like this that I had sounded like a very well spoken Canadian. He seemed younger by the sound of his voice, probably around mid 20's. Didn't have an accent at all.
Adam

[jessef]

Hey,
The original scam like this that I had sounded like a very well spoken Canadian. He seemed younger by the sound of his voice, probably around mid 20's. Didn't have an accent at all.
Adam

and a marine engineer is approving people for car loans why?

I think we're talking 2 different scams... I'm talking the first one by the original poster in this thread, that's the one I said sounded local...

Maybe, maybe not.

My point was very clear.

I got an email from someone overseas.

I got a phone call from that someone claiming to be local to Vancouver.

He sound mid 20, no accent and could just have been anyone walking down the street beside you.

I dug deeper and found out this person placed the call overseas.

There you go.

Whatever you guys take out of this thread should be one thing : don't send money and don't take money from someone you don't see in person.

Even still, be certain that you only get either cash or a bank draft.

Once you have the cash/bank draft, go to the bank and have them verify the cash/draft before you give away the vehicle.

There are many scams even locally where people make up fake drafts, etc... and steal cars that way.

[Green1]

And my point is that ignoring the scam isn't enough, if you have any reason to suspect there might be a connection in a first world country that can be tracked down, you really should do the world a favour and get the police involved.

[jessef]

I get the police involved no matter who the scammer is or where they are from.

Don't limit yourself to local scammers.

[JMK]

In Kijiji, etc., there are hundreds of ads for various items of electronics, vehicles, appliances, the sky is the limit. Some of the fav's are HD TV's, iPhones, Quad's, and high end mountain bikes.

When you find one advertised that is too good to be true, take a unique part of the description, and copy it into Google. Presto, lo and behold there is the same mountain bike for sale at 3X the price in California, or Denver where ever.... Even the picture is the same of course, that unique rumpus room wall or plant in the back garden.

When you send a note to the seller he has had to travel and actually isn't in Vancouver, or Calgary anymore...

As many of the more crafty non-native English speaking scammers realize, it is better to steal the words from the mouth of native English speaker, in the form of the entire ad complete with authentic pictures, than try to write your own.

Here's an entertaining thread that describes one person's enhanced efforts to get even...