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Scam Alerts Basically, be *very* cautious of anyone wanting to send you a check for more than what you want for your item. They will want *your* check in return for the balance. Their check will be no good.
Added 6/27/06 Added 2/28/05 Scam email added 10/27/04...Do not reply to any email. Hello , Thanks a lot for your mail.
I am based in New York but presently in Lagos,Nigeria,West Africa for a job . Aspa shipping i have made arrangements with a shipping company (ocean airliners) ,they will be on ground to do the pick up at any location of your choice but i will have to inform you before the pick upwill be done.
As regards payment,this is what i am going to do;I have a client in the US who is owing me $4,500 i would instruct him to make out a money order to you in that amount and as soon as it clears your bank you can now deduct your money from it and send my balance by western union money transfer.Although the value of the money order is more than the price of the car I am buying from you but i think i should be able to trust you with my balance.
The reason why i am doing this is that it would take a money order sent from over here in africa 30days to clear over there,whereas a money order sent from within the US would clear tops within 48hrs.I will also be using part of the balance to pay for the shipping company that will be on ground to do the pick up.So i would like you to deduct the western union charges from my balance.So if my terms are acceptable to you,i would like you to give me your full name address and phone numbers so that i can instruct my client to make out the money order to you.Pls get back to me as soon as you get this mail so that i can know my stand.
Regards,
Rachel
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Evidently someone took a check from an African buyer in payment for his car. The check bounced before the car was scheduled to be picked up for shipment. But your car is not necessarily what the scam is intended to take from you. They're after your cash. The way it works is like this: the buyer (usually from an African country) sends a check for payment for the car. The check is for too much money, so he asks the owner of the car to cash the check and then send the overpayment back to the African buyer. The African's check is no good. So the sting is that they get you to send the money back before you know if their check has cleared. In early January 2003, one of our advertisers was contacted by "a Nigerian buyer." The buyer offered to purchase our client's vehicle at the full asking price. The seller was told that a Nigerian buyer would gladly pay the full asking price of $22,000. However there was someone in the U.S. that owed him $31,800. He wanted our advertiser to accept the larger amount and then he said he would trust the seller to send him the rest of the money. Something about the above offer bothered our advertiser and he forwarded the offer to me. I promptly emailed him back to watch out for any proposal that comes from Nigeria. For the uninitiated, Nigeria is the "scam capitol" of the world. This country has the most corrupt government and the worst reputation for dishonest schemes known today. Many of the scams are implemented with the help of Nigerian immigrants living in Chicago and other parts of the U.S. If you are contacted by buyers who identify themselves as being from Nigeria, refer to this link: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ Please understand that any offer you get from an African buyer should be regarded with a degree of skepticism. Most often, we hear that these scams are being run out of Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone in Africa. Please don't get so excited about selling your car that you fall victim to one of these "criminals." Here at the e-Parts Souce we want to make sure that none of our advertisers gets caught in the "pigeon drop." The world is full of real buyers. Don't get suckered in by this scam.
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