No - I'm not selling you my bike you ******* ***** ********* *****!

[gruntygiggles]

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.

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]

When are they giong to learn some proper English? They might have better luck then!

Just had the same thing for the car I am selling.. i didn't bother replying telling him to go away..

How do people actually fall for those?!??!

[Wideboy]

I'd reply with some made up details.... could be entertaining

[Viney]

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]

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.

Originally Posted by Wideboy

I'd reply with some made up details.... could be entertaining

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

I feel much safer on the internet with arnold around.

Originally Posted by Zombie Jesus

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

I feel much safer on the internet with arnold around.

That made me laugh so much