| Author | Message | ||
| starefeldt
Junior Username: starefeldt Post Number: 11 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hi everyone! I thought I was getting lucky, a person from Switzerland contacted me and wanted to buy my Fretless Orion 5 string. This is the reply where he states how he would the payment to be done. Please take the time and go through the text... "Thanks for your mail, well i am okay with the price, also waiting to see pics too and will want payment to be asap, i will go about payment by instructing my client in the states to issue you a certified bank check of $6500 and this should take care of all expences in this transaction, what you will do once you have recieved it is to cash it, deduct your own money($2570.00) and the wiring charges and wire the balance to my international shipping agent through money gramm transfer, once he recieves the balance will come over to your location the very next day for pick up, now the money wired to the shipper is his fees for his services, transportation to your location and back to me, also for all charges that may arise along this transaction cos i will want it to be delivered to me safe and sound without problems, i shall send you my shipper address as soon as i contact him, all i need of you now is to mail me your ful name and contact address as well as phone number sothat i can forward it to my client who will issue you the check, let me know asap if you are still intrested so that we could seal this on time. Regards corey.........." I checked up on his name and found this website: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=253 Watch out for these type of classified scams! if anyone feels sorry about me it's alright to buy my bass... ;-) /Peter Starefeldt | ||
| davehouck
Senior Member Username: davehouck Post Number: 748 Registered: 5-2002 |
Wow! Word for word like one of the scam emails shown on the site you linked. I'm glad you were not taken by the scam. And thanks for letting us know about it. | ||
| son_of_magni
Member Username: son_of_magni Post Number: 78 Registered: 1-2004 |
Yeah, my brother advertised his truck and received almost the exact email. We didn't know about thesamba site but it looked so fishy that he never responded. |
