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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:09 AM
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Default WTF, who is this guy? (Scammer?)

The weird shady email he sent me about buying a 50 dollar head, then i did a search under his email and it bought this up http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=249158


sounds weird to me, anyone else get anything like this?



Hello

I am interested in buying the d16y7 head 50 bucks that you have laced for sell now, and I would want to enquire about the resent condition of the above mentioned, as well as some detail about you. I expect this timely enough.

As for the ayment, I would need you to get back in touch with the last asking rice as I will be paying with a c/e/r/t/i/f/i/e/d c/h/e/q/u/e.

Lastly, lease forward to me your full comany's (or mailing address, telephone and fax) details as I will subsequently refer reaching you through these
facilities.

Yours interestingly,
Ismail Osman
Email me back your consideration at: mx_0003@yahoo.com for confidential purposes.
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:11 AM
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it's a scam.
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:12 AM
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the name and all the spelling errors would red flag me....
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:23 AM
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As a genenral rule of thumb, if there are that many typos don't bother, the person may be an idiot that can't spell or something more.
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by marcusgnf
c/e/r/t/i/f/i/e/d c/h/e/q/u/e.
Someone that knows that those words could be flags and writes them that way is a scammer.
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 06:31 AM
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I guess scammers are getting more desperate. I can't believe someone would try and scam for something that is only $50.00 and probably useless to him. Pretty funny.

When I was selling an aquarium I had someone send me an email like that saying they wanted it immediately and that they were going to pay me via an escrow service and that I should ship the entire item to them. The aquarium with rocks, sand and other materials was close to 1000 pounds...
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Originally Posted by Paul
I guess scammers are getting more desperate. I can't believe someone would try and scam for something that is only $50.00 and probably useless to him. Pretty funny.
yeah thats what got me, i could understand if i was selling some super rare thousand dollar jdm part or somethin, but its a 50 dollar nonvtec head, do they honestly think im gonna take a check or attempt to ship it?
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 07:39 AM
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the ones with typos like that are usually foreign
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 07:56 AM
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OOOOOOOOOMGGG!!!!!!!


who cares. just delete these scam emails and continue your life as normal and quit making posts about it.
Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:33 AM
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Yeah i get emails from craigslist posts all the time, talking about giving me a job as a representative making thousands of dollars for 2 to 3 hours a day. quite annoying I would say.....



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