[DeTomaso] Scam alert # 18

Thu Mar 2 13:30:55 EST 2006

Maybe a good approach would be to somehow get their email address into as many junk mail lists as possible?  Not sure how you'd do that, but it would be funny if they got buried in junk email.

  Or maybe send a reply with a 10 MB attachement with a title they would be interested in?  Kind of a passive annoyance approach?

  Ken

daleyracing at aol.com wrote:
  I actually played with these IDIOTS, and told them to send me a check and they did then I called the bank and they said it was fake. I was told to call secret service, so I did and they said there is nothing they could do because Nigeria really has no government. But I did send all the corrosponding emails to SS and a copy of the check. So now when I get these scams I just return very NASTY words back. LOL
Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: JDeRyke at aol.com
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:04:13 EST
Subject: [DeTomaso] Scam alert # 18

Got this post from Randy Timm in WI who is currently trying to sell his 
beautiful blue Pantera. Seems to be a car variation on the usual NIgerian 
banknote 
schemes. 
Bottom line seems to be, if payment is more complicated than simply handing 
you the bucks, you're gonna lose!

Jack,

I thought that maybe you and the rest of the poca members would 
want to

know about how someone tried to steal my Pantera from me through an

Internet scam.

First off, I listed my car though Hemmings Motor News web site. (I 
also put it in the POCA News). I've gotten a lot of interest from 
this, unfortunately- all tire ` kickers except one guy- Don Dave is his 
"name". He indicated that he was a broker, and that his client was 
all set to issue me a check for the car, except I would have to give 
back some of the payment.

- see, according to Mr. Dave, his company will only issue one check

per purchase, and seeing as there would be an "agent" sent to 
inspect and

take possession of the car plus the delivery fees from the shipper- 
the check

would be made out for $11,000 over the purchase price, and it was 
up to me

to have two separate checks issued to both the " agent" and the 
shipper.

When I received the $81,000.00 check - note- the check was sent 
through the 

regular mail, not FedEx or next day air or even registered mail ! 
- I took the check to my bank and requested a full check of it's 
authenticity.

IT WAS WORTHLESS !!! apparently the name on the check - Bret 
Cullivan -

has been connected to other Internet scams where people have lost 
cars, boats

even fur coats ! So anyone out there selling anything.... the 
best attitude to ` have- in my opinion - would be to treat every " hit 
" 
on your ad as a potential scam, and by all means, don't let go of 
your car until the money is in your hands !!

Thank you for your time,

Randy Timm

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