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OT...Fraud allert

Thought you guys might be interested in this attempted Internet fraud situation...

Our local woodturners club post a monthly newsletter on the net, where I had listed a couple of old tools for sale. Yesterday, I received the following email:

"Hello, i am interested ion buying your Delta Sharpening Center...like new, seldom used, so i want you to send me the last price and the pics, and also present the condition of it. Awaiting for your reply, Thanks, Roland.."

I responded, thinking that this was a legitimate inquiry. This morning, the following email was waiting for me:

"Ed Davidson, Thanks you for your mail,really i will like to explain this situation to you before any transaction with you.my client his in USA and he was owning me the sum of $7,000 and he promise to pay me by cheque and now i will like to instruct him to send you the cheque and you will deduct your $100 out of it and send the remaining balance of $6,900 to my shipping agent for the pick-up and some arrangement in your place. Here are the Neccessary information needed for the payment to be issue and to be send down to your place. Full Name: Address: Telephone Number: Mobile Number: So,i will instruct him to send you the cheque and immediatly you receive it.i will want you to bank it immediatly. Awaiting for your reply soonest. Best Regard, Roland."

Notice all the misspellings and poor diction? This kind of scam has been on the news recently. The scammer sends you a bogus check that you deposit in your bank account. Then the Scammer asks you to mail him the difference...before the check he gave you bounces. So, beware of crap like this...there are some very mean people out there.

Best regards, Ed D.

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EdD
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forward that to your local police department.

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js

"EdD" wrote:

Don't forward this to your local police department, they don't have the manpower or jurisdiction to deal with it. There a some very dumb people out there. Dave in fairfax

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dave

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A better choice would be to forward to your state attorney general's office. Part of their job is fraudulent operators. Of course the scammer may be outside their jurisdiction, or outside the US.

Ken Moon Webberville, TX

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Ken Moon

"Ken Moon" wrote in news:oi3Eb.8694$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net:

This scam is executed by having a live human pick up the money at your door. Which means in your jurisdiction and at the very least traceable back to the scammer.

May want to talk with the local cops and see if they want to do a sting.

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Lobby Dosser

Thanks for sharing -- If I had received this I would be surprised that the perpetrator was so bold and offended in his assumption that his target would be so gullible, but sometimes it's hard not to fall for these scams. My last company instructed us in this type of scam which is money laundering - even if the cheque is good - it probably contravenes some regulations somewhere along the way -- otherwise why would he send you a check and ask for change back?

I suggest you report this fraud.

Leo

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LeoLiondog

In message , EdD writes

Dear All the scam is known here in UK as a 419 fraud, this is the penal code in Nigeria that refers to this type of scam as these scams originate from Nigeria. There has been a few people that have attempted to get some of this money only to be swindled out of loads of money that these people say you must put `up front` to grease the hands of officials. We have cases of people losing more than £30k ($50k), in one instance of someone being awkward with the paying, they ended up dead, a lot have been beaten up. My advice is contact your federal office and see if they have a department dealing with this type of scam, most countries have such a department as the hunting of these people is being carried out world-wide with some success. You will probably find that you will get this sort of thing from a number of people with roughly the same amount of money on offer, they sell you e-mail addresses to each other.

DO NOT REPLY OR ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF THIS SCAM, if you do they will NEVER leave you alone.

There are quite a few of these scams around, one is that you have won some money on a lottery you did not know you had entered, they ask for money up front to cover admin. charges and tell you to be at a certain airport/rail station but once they have your money they do not turn up.

Be on your guard and do not reply to anything like this, I know I may be trying to covert the converted but some people do actually reply to these things, if they did not, there would not be any need for these people to contact you.

Stay safe, you getting nothing in this world for nothing, there is always a catch.

Have a very Merry Christmas and peaceful New year and may you chisels remain sharp!

Bob `S`

p.'s. By sending this e-mail, I will now be swamped with spam..........

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robert strudwick

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