HEAR THIS, I FOND THIS GUY ON THIS FORUM AND HE WANTED TO BUY MY 400EX. NOTE HE IS IN THE UK AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID AFTER AN E-MAIL OR TWO


HELLO JAKE ,
MANY THANKS FOR THE MAIL AND ALSO FOR THE GREATE RESPONSE
TOWARDS MY ENQUIRY AND AM .LIKE I HAVE SAID EARLIER THAT I AM HIGHLY GREATE
WITH A POSITIVE INTERESTED IN BUYING YOUR SAID BIKE AND ALSO WITH A GREATE
SATIFY WITH THE PICS AND DO LIKE TO PAY YOU WITH A CERTIFIED BANK CHEQUE
AND WILL LIKE TO USE THIS MEDIUM AND ALSO TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE
CONTACTED MY ASSOCIATE WHO IS OWNING ME SOME AMOUNT OF $10,400 TO
SEND THE CERTIFIED BANK CHEQUE TO YOU DIRECT WHICH DRAWN IN AN
AMERICAN BANK WHY YOU DEDUCT YOUR OWN SALES PRICE WHICH IS $5000 AND
HELP ME SEND THE REMANING FUNDS TO THE SHIPPING COMPANY WHO WILL COME
FOR PICK-UP OF THE BIKE FROM YOUR LOCATION TO MY DESTINATION HERE IN IRELAND
JUST LET ME HAVE THIS INFO BELOW
NAME ON CHEQUE
HOME AND OFFICE...#TEL
HOME ADDRESS
ZIP-CODE AND THE COUNTRY
JUST LET ME HAVE THE INFO
SO THAT THE CHECK CAN BE
MAKE PAYABLE TO YOU DIRECT HOPE TO HEEAR FROM YOU ASAP
RGDS
IYKE.

NOTE THAT WAS HIS SPELLING AND NOT MINE

 

I don't know about that it sounds a little iffy...could be a scammer but i don't know not something i'd give out over the net.

 

i smell scam.

they are scamming americans for cash. thats why alot of times they quote you the US Dollar amount. you pay them money to get more money; you essentially put a deposit on all this money but they never pay you anything. similar email scams come out of south africa and asia and all over europe. some claim to owe you millions but you have to send them money first. you never get the money promised to you but they suck your account dry. look at his spelling and grammer... not typical of one fluent in english (british or american english).


tell him to send you a check and you'll hold it in storage for him and help arrange shipping, with insurance. if he doesnt go for that, back away.

 

it smells like a scam to me to i am just going to tell him no i have alredy sent the e-mail to the government so hopfuly thay will cach them

p.s. my nabor got hit with a simyilar scam and had to pay the money back to the bank!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Lets just say I work for one of the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies first off. Secondly it is a scam. They are going to try and beat their so called check from coming back as no account or more than likely a counterfeit. During that time they will try to have you wire transfer money to them. You send mony, check comes back bogus and guess who's out the money, cuz the bank ain't gonna care. Play with him if you want, but don't send him a dime. Lastly anyone who read this and gets one of those checks saying you won some money from any one of a number of forgien countries and you need to deposit the check and forward the money as a handling fee, because their so nice that they are paying this fee for you. See above, same scam different spin. If it sounds to good to be true than it is. If you do get one of these offers and you fail to take any of the above information as fact, do yourself a favor and take the check to the bank personally and have them verify the account the check is drawn on can cover it and wait until it clears before you do anything. If you don't you'll get burned and their ain't a damn thing the Government can do for you because these guys operate out of countries without extradition treaties. From the text of the letter I would bet somewhere in Africa on this guy. Just one question, did you put this bike up on E-bay ?

Best of luck,

Marc

 

450rking, You said he is a user on this forum? If you could PM myself or another moderator with his username I'd appreciate it.

 

thats a damn scam-- i have 50,000 in fake checks --for my 3000gt ,,you have to look at the broken english/grammer ,the fact that he is so damn happy, he is about to buy a 400ex , that he could easily get where he is ,,,and if they say they need you to contact the person to give back a balance to because of over payment ,,,,lots of cluster f-cks outthere ,,tell him to send the money and when it comes dont open the mail and give the envelope strait to the cops so not to compromise there prints and hopefully our government can get them good // good luck to you but its a scam

 

That is a scam....just like the others have said. I had an 87 Honda 125 for sale on another site and I received an email similar to that one. When I contacted the person that sent it, they would NOT tell me where they were located.
The web sites had info on scams like this and stated that if you receive an email like that, report it to them and they would handle it. That's what I did.

 

I work for a bank and have saved a couple people from screwing themselves. Just a note if your bank were to release the funds and the check comes back as a fraud item YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FUNDS. Meaning if you withdrew the money to send to them your bank will want it back. Please just walk away.

 

Hey 450rKING dude do not do it!!!!!!!!!! One of my buddies who chats on another forum said he knew a guy who got this same e-mail just a differant scenario and this guy got arrested by the FBI for bouncing a check over 10,000 $'s. Its called the nigerian money scam.

Here i attached this link my supervisor was talking about ,check it out before you do anything!! be sure to keep us informed that way we can let as many people as we can know about it. Sorry you'll have to copy and paste it to your internet!






http://www.cars-on-line.com/nigerianscam.html