Thanks very much for your email,you have to bear with me as I have hearing
problems.I am sending you this email is to make final reconfirmation of one of the female puppies(black and tan with spots) for my granddaughter's,and also to let you know that payment will be,certified USPS (United States Postal Service)or check and also want to alert you on the fact that you will be receiving the (check/money order) this week or next.
Regarding the shipping,I have a company that takes care of the pickup of my
consignments for me and ship to my destination in anywhere in the U.S.A, you do not worry about shipping,the company will send down a representative to
arrange the sales documentation and the pick up from your end for onward transfer to my destination. you will be receiving an overdraft check, which will cover the money for the pickup (pickup and shipping to the final destination) as well as the money to be paid to the company that will take care of the pickup and the documentation with you. So please, as soon as you receive the payment,go and cash it immediately,deduct the money that accrues to you,and send the balance to the Head Office of the company that handles the shipment via Western union.The check will be in your name to make it easier for you to receive payment, please reconfirm your details one more time.I will give you the details of the company that will be shipping it as soon as we seal this deal.Once the money is received by the agent,the shipping agent will contact you immediately to arrange the documentation as well as the pick up immediately. So in view of the above, here are some of the details I will need for final issuance of the check or money order to you.
N.B
I will pay you an extra $80 if you reserve this for me.
So in view of the above, here are some of the details I will need for final
issuance of the (check/money order) to you.
(1) Full Name
(2) Mailing address, no p.o.box please
(3) your direct telephone number
(4) acceptance of my offer
(5) Final price
After which i will give you the details of my
shipper.
once the above information is given you will be issue.
Hope to hear from you immediately
regardsI am selling a puppy and the lady sent me this email?
100% scam.
There is no buyer.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
He is not interested in your identity or bank account, only your cash.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "shipping company". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement officer can be extremely funny.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
If you google "fake check buyer scam", "Western Union buyer fraud" or something similar and you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.
What's difficult to understand? She will send you the money with check ! :] If you don't understand something then clearly ask her before any misunderstandings!I am selling a puppy and the lady sent me this email?
Scam, typical one, too.
Ignore this person completely.
It's a typical Nigerian scam
They send you a fake check for WAY more than the amount needed. Then send you an email after you receive it to say that they made a mistake and sent you the wrong amount but they have had to go out of town for an emergency and can't send you a new check. So they tell you to deposit the check, keep the original amount for yourself, then send the balance to their "shipping agent" through Western Union. You do this then 3 weeks later your bank calls to tell you that the check was counterfeit. You not only owe the bank the ENTIRE amount of the check you deposited in addition to $45 NSF fees. Your account will also be closed, you will be put into CHEX preventing you from opening any new bank account for 5 years, and you will be investigated by the police for bank frand. OH, and you also sent your own money to the scammer through Western Union with NO way to get it back
DO NOT even respond to this person or you will end up on a spam list and DO NOT give them your home address for any reason. Most of these fake check scams are run by criminal gangs and you do not want them to know where you live
Read this guy's story so you understand what will happen to you
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg鈥?/a>
Read Craigslist own scam warnings, especially the first 3 bullet points http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams
# DEAL LOCALLY WITH FOLKS YOU CAN MEET IN PERSON - follow this one rule and avoid 99% of scam attempts on craigslist.
# NEVER WIRE FUNDS VIA WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM or any other wire service - anyone who asks you to do so is a scammer.
# FAKE CASHIER CHECKS %26amp; MONEY ORDERS ARE COMMON, and BANKS WILL CASH THEM AND THEN HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE when the fake is discovered weeks later.I am selling a puppy and the lady sent me this email?
You all ready know this is a scam, since you are double checking by asking here.
Never do business with some one who will not abide by the usual standard payments and arrangements. No checks, you can not always rely on the first check of them, and when the bank finds out it is a bad check, they want their money back, from you! May even press charges. Where live animals are concerned, only do business with people in the surrounding area, so pick ups are easy and uncomplicated. Never, ever agree to take more money then agreed on, then "send" the remainder somewhere else. That is a huge tip-off! As is them offering you extra or more money then you asked for.
There have been times when my brother who lives overseas has asked me to get and send him something, and he will send me a check, and I KNOW from experience that he is good for it.
For total strangers, DON'T. It is ALWAYS a scam when they offer a check for an overpayment and ask you to send your own real money to a third party "shipper". The check will not clear, and you will have to repay the bank.
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