You're going to laugh!

[Tim F]

Get this mail I just received....

haha

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Hello,
I'm highly interested in your advert,and i hope its condition is still great,as expected.
I'll make payment with a UK cashier's check,
I'm from Norway,I'm a Building contractor and right now i'm in USA for a Business trip for just 3 weeks.
Really,I just contacted my partner in the Europe who's owing me £4,750,I told him about my purchase in your advert and he's agreed to send the cheque to you in your name,on my behalf.
You'll clear the cheque into your account (usually 3 days),and deduct £450 as your payment,I've added an extra funds for your efforts in selling it to me.
You'll now send the balance to my shipper in West Africa,via western union,and my shipper shall quickly arrange for the shipping at your location,and then he'll ship it to me.
I'll surely send you my shiper's address,for you to send him the balance via western union.

Pls,send your datas......for recieving the cheque.

NAME...ADDRESS....PHONE NUMBERS....
I'll want you to recieve the cheque next week via fedex.

Pls reply today,
Paul Nottingham.

 

[MikeD]

LMAO


the scary thing is that there are people out there dumb enough to fall for this kind of scam...

 

[Saab]

I built by own spam filter with the words "Western Union" "cashiers cheque" and "Nigeria" after getting several of these things

on one occasion i just replied with four letter words and unbelievably the halfwit at the other end took that as an invitation to have a conversation,trying in vain to turn me around

 

[wadia-miester]

I've had a few of these lately seems to be a growing problem

 

[michaelab]

Some people have decided to get their own back:

see here

I nearly wet myself with laughter :lol:

Michael.

 

[alanbeeb]

I have just received exactly the same email - except his friend now owes him £7700!

 

[mudan]

Looks like this scam is back again. I first heard about this quite a while back - a few years ago I think.

 

[Ya-Boo]

I,ve had the same offer from Norway today
This guy has taste, he was so pleased with my pic's he offered me an extra £300 for my trouble

what a guy......!!!!!!

I,ve mailed him so say if he collects in person I,ll knock off
the delivery cost AND give him a £100 discount

 

[greg]

Along similar lines I get quite a few blags from AFAICT Romanians, claiming to be Italian, but with names like Larry Stevens (always Larry for some reason ) always claiming that this item or that item is for sale but due to a divorce he needs to make a quick sale, etc, etc.

I strung one guy along for two weeks on the premise I was going to buy the Sonus Fabers he had, he was so excited, but I (Susan) kept encountering various problems which meant I couldnt quite make the Western Union Transfer. Then all of a sudden I was actually Carlos Valderama, Chief Investigating Officer in the European Fraud Division of Interpol and "my team had located Larry and were closing in as we speak". Oddly I didnt hear from him again.

 

[penance]

Hi Susan
what you doin later?