Heads up! Scammers have discovered whistling/piping sites

Whistle
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I recently placed an item for sale on a website. I received a reply from overseas (suprisingly, not even close to Nigeria) which after agreeing to the sale, stated the following…

“I will need a little assistance from you. A customer of mine who is indebted to me will send you a cheque of the total amount of money he owes me,which is $5000. All you need to do when you get the cheque is deduct your money and forward the remainder to my company via Western Union money transfer. As soon as they get the funds, they shall send you an address for shipment of the item.”

The trick of this is that the check is almost always bogus. You send out a wad of money via Western Union after depositing it, and 2 weeks later your account is debited $5000 when the check bounces…you lose big time and the scammer has already withdrawn the Western Union funds.

Caveat Emptor, young whistlers… Caveat Emptor
Dave

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Yeah a while ago I tryed stuff on some Pipe forms and got a few scamers but I know better.

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Dave, can you help me out here? What is your avatar, please?

I keep seeing an adorable, fuzzy pet which has suffered an unspeakably horrible, disfiguring, gruesomely bloody accident, and it is making me ill. I have to hold my hand over it every time it appears. Examining it closely is out of the question, as I can’t bear to look at it long enough. I can’t even figure out what kind of animal it is.

Surely it’s nothing that gruesome, so would you be kind enough to please tell me what it really is? So I can sleep in peace? It gave me nightmares last night.

Thank you.

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On Dave’s avatar, I took a look at it magnified.

My guess is a stuffed toy animal, probably a bird, with the red thing being its beak.

–James

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It’s not red because that’s where its beak was . . . before the tragic accident?

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OH, mercy, you know I never looked at it real closely, just sort of saw it was a bit blurry and I thought it was mashed potatoes with two peas and a carrot to make a sort of face. I see now that isn’t right. There are two eyes…

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It may be a Sith Chicken, after the transformation :smiley:

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Calm down everyone. It is

and nothing more. An out-of-focus picture of a little toy duckling.

THAT is what I see.

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I think they are on to us all!

I get about 5 emails a day from people I don’t know pleading with me for help, investments, lotowinnings,etc…

I delete them all…good buy!!!

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It’s a picture of something once listed on eBay. It was listed as a “Pooduck”. The owner couldn’t figure out if it was a mutated poodle or a four legged fuzzy duck. It was so bizarre looking that I had to save the photo. Nowdays when I get frustrated, instead of cursing, I just say “oooh, Pooducks!”. I also have a photo of possibly the creepiest thing ever sold on eBay, an ashtray made from a stuffed ram’s head, decorated with hand carved silver and it has ROLLERS underneath it…shudder
TMI?
Dave

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Ir must be an amazing sample of craftmanship :wink:
With an ashtray like that I’m glad I don’t smoke!

I really want to see that, but I’m very afraid at the same time… :astonished:

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You’re absolutely correct about it being bizarre. A poodle with a giant hemangioma for a nose? Oh, gee, that helped a lot . . . urk!

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If you get one of those scams, send it to the secret service at
419.fcd at usss.treas.gov

Substitute that word at with the @ sign.