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gruntygiggles
13-05-10, 12:44 PM
Had interest in my bike through tradeit last night but the email was oddly worded, so I responded and expected it to be a phishing scam, so didn't give any details.

Then.....I get this, just confirm that we should always trust our instincts!

Hello Again,

Thanks for your swift response,Your best price is OK by me.Please kindly remove the advert and consider its been
sold to me,Ignore other buyers from this onset,I will compensate you an extra £30 for that because i cant afford to let it go and for you to hold it for me.

Provide me this below details accordingly for your payment to be made out from my partner first thing on Monday morning.

(1)Full Name:
(2)Home Address:
(3)City
(4)State:
(5)Post code:
(6)Telephone number/mobile phone:

You should be expecting a cheque or Banker's Draft of £3,500 which include the shipping fee to cover the shipping expenses on me because i still
have other goods they will pick up for me around including yours so the money is not made for your goods only part of it is for their workmanship.Just assure me that my excess fund is in a safe hand at your care,Perhaps my partner couldn't issue out a separate cheque's on a
single transaction like this due to his company policy if not you would have have a cheque of the equivalent amount which is your asking price,But due to the unforeseen circumstance made it happen this way.But i believe i can always count on you with my excess cash.

As soon as the cheque clears in your bank deduct your cost of charges including the £30 i offer you,then kindly send the rest to my freight agent who's coming to your comfort home for the pickup in cash on my behalf.I hope I can trust you with the difference.

You can always email me.once again don't forget to remove if my term of payment is accepted by you before we proceed further.
Hope to read from you soon.
My Regards.

adw
13-05-10, 12:52 PM
I love it! What a joke! There is an anti scamming website you can visit. Search 419 & eater in google. It centres around the 419 email scams. Most of it comes from nigeria. Quite a funny site, especially some of the stories.

gruntygiggles
13-05-10, 12:55 PM
When are they giong to learn some proper English? They might have better luck then!

454697819
13-05-10, 12:58 PM
Just had the same thing for the car I am selling.. i didn't bother replying telling him to go away..

Milky Bar Kid
13-05-10, 01:00 PM
How do people actually fall for those?!??!

Wideboy
13-05-10, 01:00 PM
I'd reply with some made up details.... could be entertaining :lol:

Viney
13-05-10, 01:07 PM
Do a search for Scambaiting as well. Tells you how to play these idots at these games. If you want too that is. Ask them if you can do the transfer by Wetern union, thats thier usual way of doing things. A mate went on for about 5 days saying that the money had been transfered to their account etc. The whole transcript was well funny, ending in an obscene expletive email from the original person for wasting their time. 1 back to the little person lol

gruntygiggles
13-05-10, 01:09 PM
I replied this:-

Thank you for your kind and generous offer Nathan. Please find the relevant details below.

I just left it at that and blocked his email address.

Zombie Jesus
13-05-10, 01:11 PM
I'd reply with some made up details.... could be entertaining :lol:

better yet :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fV-dCc6cc

I feel much safer on the internet with arnold around.

ArtyLady
13-05-10, 01:28 PM
better yet :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fV-dCc6cc

I feel much safer on the internet with arnold around.

That made me laugh so much :lol: =D>

adw
13-05-10, 01:35 PM
That is brilliant!

ThEGr33k
13-05-10, 03:16 PM
LMAO Arnold. I have seen some of these pranks before but never one that lasted this long :)

There are some very very odd things goin on :-?

Specialone
13-05-10, 03:38 PM
:D:D:D:D:D:D
Fantastic

metalangel
14-05-10, 07:00 AM
Nobody told the Nigerians that the UK doesn't have states.

BigBaddad
14-05-10, 08:14 AM
I've had 3 badly worded emails from advertising my bike in MCN.

metalangel
14-05-10, 09:23 AM
That's not a scam, that's just MCN readers.

TheOnlyNemesis
14-05-10, 02:48 PM
How do people actually fall for those?!??!

you'll be surprised what people click when on the pc no matter how stupid it looks.

Milky Bar Kid
14-05-10, 03:11 PM
you'll be surprised what people click when on the pc no matter how stupid it looks.

Trust me, I am no longer surprised by anything...

Owenski
14-05-10, 03:51 PM
So when are they coming to collect your cheque?

gruntygiggles
14-05-10, 04:52 PM
Monday they are due to give me my check....they thought they'd be clever and not ask for any money...just my details. He can't even send me an email now so BYE BYE!

Milky Bar Kid
14-05-10, 05:55 PM
Bye Bye....who are we bye byeing at??

gruntygiggles
14-05-10, 06:12 PM
Nathan Lawson........a Nigerian actually called something completely different!

Milky Bar Kid
14-05-10, 06:24 PM
Ahh ok. I did an MBK didn't i?

gruntygiggles
14-05-10, 06:26 PM
Not really chick.....not this time :-)

xXBADGERXx
15-05-10, 03:08 PM
When are they giong to learn some proper English? They might have better luck then!

Oh the Irony :smt082

gruntygiggles
15-05-10, 03:37 PM
Oh the Irony :smt082


About blinking time someone noticed....I did that for MBK as she'd remarked on someone miss spelling while ranting about grammar in another thread.

xXBADGERXx
15-05-10, 03:40 PM
I often do that , I`ll go into an Epic rant about something and then gnarls something up about the rant ......

"These bloody clumsy buggars can`t do anything around here without breaking something.......<snap>"

"What was that ?"

"Erm ..... nothing...... .anyhooo"

timwilky
15-05-10, 04:16 PM
About blinking time someone noticed....I did that for MBK as she'd remarked on someone miss spelling while ranting about grammar in another thread.


Oi I don't rant. Well not much, ok maybe a little.

Oh sod it, it was in my rant.

Oh and she was wrong.

gruntygiggles
15-05-10, 07:55 PM
I don't think it was you Tim. I must have missed your rant. The one I am referring to involved someone correcting the poor grammar used by an online shoe shop...lol ;-)

Milky Bar Kid
15-05-10, 09:59 PM
About blinking time someone noticed....I did that for MBK as she'd remarked on someone miss spelling while ranting about grammar in another thread.

Like hell you did that on purpose!!

Oi I don't rant. Well not much, ok maybe a little.

Oh sod it, it was in my rant.

Oh and she was wrong.

Yeah, I did say I wasn't sure!

I don't think it was you Tim. I must have missed your rant. The one I am referring to involved someone correcting the poor grammar used by an online shoe shop...lol ;-)

You're right, it wasn't Tim's rant, it was Viney's!!

gruntygiggles
15-05-10, 10:07 PM
Hahaha...Nic knows me too well ;-)