Is this a scam?

[Will H]

It probably is a scam, but to be sure, negotiate a simpler transaction. If you do end up with a single transaction, good for you. Don't drop the buyer straight away, you may regret it if he turns out to be legitimate. If he doesn't do it on your terms, drop him.

[Flamecaller]

Yes, if you did this, you would be out a Wii and $1200.

 

 

 

Nigerians.

 

 

 

Go to http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com (inapproperiate for kids) to laugh at Nigerians. It's funny what they get those guys to do in promise of money.

[das1330]

no, this is how the scam works- first, he sends you the check, because of a banking law, banks are REQUIRED to cash checks and deposit the money into your account the day you deposit it. You get the money, withdraw the 700$ you are to send back to him, and send it. Later, when the check bounces, your bank contacts you saying that the check bounced and you are required to pay the bank back 1100 dollars, so you are out the money.

[yomom1919]

i has a question paperclips offer me a good deals on hat in me personal mesage box

 

 

 

 

I have A HAT

 

 

 

I will give it to you for 2 dollars american currency only!!!

 

 

 

If you accept please mail 5000 dollars personal check to me I will subtract 2 dollars and refund the rest to you Please hurry my boat is leaving

 

 

 

 

buy or no? only 2 amerikane doler. the 4800 is a down payment i think?

 

is this scam?

[Master_Smither]

Cell number? why?

 

 

 

I'd think this is a scam demand the $400 via paypal.

[R_I_O_T]

Just thinking about this thread, I came across a scam email.

 

Pretty stupid this one considering it involves a ridiculous amount of money but hey.

 

 

 

Here

 

 

 

[hide]{URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL}

 

(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 126,000.000.00 USD}

 

{ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)

 

 

 

 

 

Dear sir,

 

 

 

 

 

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 126,000.000.00 USD)

 

One hundred and Twenty six million United States Dollars) from a Bank

 

in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest

 

person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank

 

account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,

 

even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will

 

remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you

 

and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in

 

future.

 

I am Mr.Edward Lewis, the Auditor General of a bank in

 

Africa, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund

 

in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated

 

on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I

 

discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the

 

money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be

 

forfeited for nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

the owner of this account is Mr. Phillip Morris, a foreigner, and a sailor,

 

and he died, since 1993. and no other person knows about this account or

 

any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my

 

investigation proved to me as well that Phillip Morris until his death was

 

the manager Morris & Morris Coy.(pty). SA.

 

 

 

 

 

We will start the first transfer with Twenty six

 

million [$26,000.000]upon successful transaction without any disappoint

 

from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest

 

amount to your account, The amount involved is (USD 126M) One hundred and

 

Twenty Six million United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer

 

$26,000.000 [Twenty Six million United States Dollar from this money into a

 

safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any

 

foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can

 

not be approved to a local person here, without valid nternational foreign

 

passport, but can only be approved to any

 

foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign

 

a/c because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the a/c

 

Mr. Phillip Morris is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved

 

into a foreign a/c.

 

 

 

 

 

However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got

 

your contact address from the Girl who operates computer,

 

I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me

 

down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I

 

am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will

 

inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private

 

telephone and fax number including the full details of the account

 

to be used for the deposit.I want us to meet face to face to build

 

confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together

 

before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the

 

fund will be safe. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing

 

and investments.

 

 

 

 

 

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.

 

because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who

 

has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your

 

positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will

 

meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with

 

me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never

 

let me down.With my influence and the position of the bank official we can

 

transfer this

 

money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can

 

provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending

 

our physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will

 

destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money

 

leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence you can come

 

immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this

 

remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at

 

least two days ahead of the money going into the account.

 

 

 

 

 

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you

 

that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your

 

account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals

 

for onward transfer of this money to your account with ppropriate clearance

 

from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the

 

conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60%

 

will be for me, while 5% will be for

 

expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of

 

transferring.

 

 

 

 

 

You should try to call me on my satelite phone no.871-762727947. if

 

you are calling my No. dial the way you use to call other countries, do not

 

put South African area code, because it is a satellite phone.

 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Lewis.[/hide]

[Hydraides]

So If I could just have you sort code and your security questions we'll be right.. \ quality program

[tomdavies90]

My Dad had something like this when he tried to sell his old car on auto trader, they say they live a long way away and that you meet with them halfway and they give you a check when you meet, basically they get the car you go to cash in the check, oh dear it's bounced, bye bye ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã3,000.

[Flamecaller]

The sad thing is this works on a lot of (stupid) people. Usually the people are elderly so they don't really know any better. They'll get an e-mail saying they won some lottery and they've won 100 million dollars or something, and as a tax/transaction/whatever fee, they need to send the lottery agency $100,000 or whatever.

 

 

 

...And they do it.

 

 

 

Some people are just beyond words. I can't imagine being one of those scammers...I'd know it was never going to work, and then I get a check for $100,000? I'd [cabbage] my pants.

[Thrallster]

Saw something like this earlier on *StumbleUpon* *points at thread*, about a guy who caught a scam, which sounded remarkably like this.

 

 

 

The check will bounce, you'll lose your Wii..

 

 

 

Although that guy got his money back because he pretended the be the Russian Mafia... [/tangent]

 

exactly. seen this scam so many times, and this guy is bad at it. $1100 is much too high to be plausible.

[reaper88888]

Tbh I don't trust anything with lengthy, complicated instructions... It's either a scam, or someone you don't want to sell to in the first place...

[allan1114]

MUCHO SCAM. Mucho means big =D>