Thanks i got your mail. i am ready to pay 800Euros i will want you to keep the smallpipes for me. i will instruct my client in the US to send you payment of 4,500Euros as soon as you receive it you will deduct your money for the smallpipes which is 800Euros as i have pay you, and you will wire the balance of 3,700Euros via Western union to my shipper so that he can come pickup the smallpipes ar your house.
i will like you to mail me with your full name and contact address so that my client can send the payment to you aas soon as possible.
do you have a western union around you where you can wire the balance back to my shipper.
get back to me as oon as possible with your details.
the 4500 would be taken back out of the account after you have sent the 800 even if the bank say it is cleared. It is a flaw in the Western union System.
It is a scam don’t fall for it.
Les.
The ‘buyer’ does not send cash. In order to guarantee that you will send back the 800 euro cash that you are asked to ‘refund’, they ask you to send the 800 euros to a 3rd party after showing or even sending you a ‘money order’ that looks good.
Hey, wait…I’m a 3rd party - you could send the money to me.
This is becoming too common. I had this problem when I was selling my Kiernan half set. Run away. or if you want to do some real damage to this person, check out…
I don’t get it, but that’s okay, don’t explain it because I wouldn’t get that either. If I have any dealings of this sort (very unlikely) I’ll just come here and ask questions. I thought I was too smart to get fooled, but I can see that I am not!
Here’s another angle on it (pls, ignore this, Cynth):
Scammers will insist on Money Gram or Western Union as payment.
They’ll request that you send payment to a third person’s name to “prove” that you will send funds.
They’ll request that you send them the Control Number and the name you have sent it to so that they can verify that the money is on the way.
Here’s the fact, Western Union only requires the control number and amount wired to release the money. They do not even have to have ID stating that they’re the person the money is to be sent to in order to retrieve the money.
Western Union is well aware of it but has failed to implement any checks to avoid this. Your money is gone and no one can retrieve it for you.
one would think these scammers would feel like they’re just beating a dead horse by now. i’ve seen so many of the same format letters. my wife occasionally lists horses for sale on various websites and gets flooded with form letters that read like telemarketers that just don’t care speak… if that sentence makes any sense at all, I’m a little bit amazed. maybe there should be a comma somewhere… I don’t know.
Most notably when the bits they add in to make it personal (her name, whatever) are in caps.
Hello t oyou JENNIFER. I anm be interested in your QUARTERHORSE. Please etc etc etc…
