I have sold many things on CL and other classified sites. I have been getting these weird replies that are a little different but all seem to be the same style/type. From many different email accounts. Broken english. They want to pay with a check, what, do they want my address? what are they going to do with that? I don't get it. I got so many of these when I posted a chihuahua for adoption. I replied to one and got a response. Real person. So why the same style? has to be some sort of scam. It's just making me crazy cause I can't see what they are trying to get from me. Here is the latest one a response to an ad for a parts car. I can't ship a car. It makes no sense.
I appreciate your prompt response towards my enquiries. This is to inform you that am pleased with the pics and willing to pay the asking price for this item. I'll be making payment for this item via check, so you'll need to provide me with details in which the check can be mailout to. Details should include: your full name, visible home or office address where you can easily recieve package via courier service and phone #.
N:B Am responsible for the pickup arrangement, thereby i'll be sending you an excess payment which will cover the shipping cost but all required of you after recieving the payment is to deduct the amount for the item then you send the remaining balance to the mover via westernunion money transfer/moneygramm in cash, then they come for the pickup there after. Let me know if you're satisfied with this arrangement. if you're, i will implore you to take off the ads on craigslist and consider we have a deal on. Regards|||Those emails are called 419 scams.Most of them coming from Nigeria. Read more about them from here,
http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Does A Guy who Stalks you love you?
Been seeing someone for exactly 4 months now.he is 36 years old.
The first week after i agreed to go out with him he started showing jealousy signs.before agreeing to date him he knew i had always gotten a lot of male attention.Subsequently whenever any of my male friends called me and he he was nearby he would frown and sulk.this is was just 2 weeks into dating.
Then he would start showing up at my place unannounced any time he felt like it saying he was just checking up on me.
I kind of suspect he does not trust any woman.
He started freaking me out when he show up even if i had not agreed to see him that day!sometimes he would even show up AN HOUR after i just saw him.
He has shown signs of obsessive behavior.
i could not have a moment to myself even when we just hung out 2 hours ago he would call/text to ask irrelevant questions or to tell me he loves me(he told me he loved me 2 weeks into dating)!
3 weeks into dating we spoke one day and i told him i was going to see my friend(female)
he then asks "how come i do not know all your friends" and i am like DUDE SERIOUSLY!
i spent a week over at his place and on the friday of said week (after not having an outing in almost a month)i told him i needed to go chill with my friend.thus began enquiries as to who this friend was,where the friend was located and the friend's name.He abandoned an important meeting crucial to his CAREER that evening because he wanted to know who my friend was.(what mature 36 year old does that)?
We had a huge fight that evening like seriously i do not get nosey about who he is going out with and i believe in a relationship people need their space.
He is a nice and caring guy but he NEEDS to get a life!
The morning my folks travelled out of town we hung out up until 1am then i told him to drop me home.at 6am in the morning i woke up to see someone calling my phone with a restricted no over 10 times and then the DOORBELL RINGS! i was so scared (being the only one in the house) i peeped out of my window and lo and behold a few minutes later i saw his car pass my house.
He would offer to drive me to school (my college is about 35 miles from my house)which is sweet but he practically would drop anything to take me to school and then WAIT in school till my classes were done.
Not meaning to seem conceited but is being a bit attractive a curse because this guy has frustrated the life out of me!!
He tells me he loves me,constantly apologizes but i cant stand being with an insecure man.
Now i can see why he has never been married!No woman wants someone who does not respect her space and chokes her all the time?
Isnt a healthy relationship about making sure both your lives are filled with activities that involve and also dont involve each other? like creating a balance?
He once told me he does not need my permission to come over unannounced since we are dating!
He hides his number to call sometimes(i do not know why),once called my phone 12 TIMES startling me in the middle of the night after we had spoken earlier that night.
I am at my my wits end.I am considering ending it with him.
He is caring in every other way but
Advise Please?|||I understand that it's easy to feel like he must love you since he puts so much effort into being with you, but that is most certainly NOT the case. I don't mean to sound over the top, but this is a dangerous situation, and should not be taken lightly. I'm sure that most people would agree that a vital part of any relationship is trust, right? If this man trusted you, he would not follow your every move. If he loved you, he would want the best for you, and would want you to have an exciting and fulfilling life, outside of your relationship with him. This is not love. This is well frankly, frightening.
I would suggest ending things IMMEDIATELY, and perhaps seeing if you could live with a friend or something for a little while after wards? I realize this all sounds very over the top, but you never know what men like this are capable of, and there's no such thing as playing it "too safe."|||Post smaller questions please.No a stalker never loves you.A stalker is obsessed with you.|||Be careful when ending a relationship with someone who is abusive (yes, stalking is mental/emotional abuse and can escalate to physical). Usually things get worse when the victim tries to leave. Make sure there are people who know where you are at all times when you are planning on leaving him-if you plan on it. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE and they can help you make a safety plan.
Be careful-he is watching you.|||Sounds like you guys have trust issues. I am a very private person and don't easily let people into my life or share things with them. My fiance was also that way at the start of our relationship 2years ago. He didn't understand the private side of me because he is very open. He was acting in ways similar to your guy and I was determined to be more private. One day, I had a serious discussion with him about it and discovered that he really did care about me and acted the way he did because some of my actions were suspicious to him and he just could not understand why someone he cares about could not be open with him. He told me that he feels like I am hiding things and this was causing him to distrust me and I also didn't trust him enough to let him into my life at the time. However, we both decided to make changes that will build the trust in our relationship. We will be getting married in January.
Usually this kind of behavior means trust is lacking in some measure on both sides. You should try talking to him about why he is behaving that way and you will likely discover that it has to do with trust. Trust is not automatic it has to be built by both people.
Couple of articles that might help
http://www.familyresource.com/relationships/building-and-maintaining/five-ingredients-for-developing-trust-in-a-relationship
http://www.ehow.com/how_2299228_build-trust-relationships.html
Goodluck
The first week after i agreed to go out with him he started showing jealousy signs.before agreeing to date him he knew i had always gotten a lot of male attention.Subsequently whenever any of my male friends called me and he he was nearby he would frown and sulk.this is was just 2 weeks into dating.
Then he would start showing up at my place unannounced any time he felt like it saying he was just checking up on me.
I kind of suspect he does not trust any woman.
He started freaking me out when he show up even if i had not agreed to see him that day!sometimes he would even show up AN HOUR after i just saw him.
He has shown signs of obsessive behavior.
i could not have a moment to myself even when we just hung out 2 hours ago he would call/text to ask irrelevant questions or to tell me he loves me(he told me he loved me 2 weeks into dating)!
3 weeks into dating we spoke one day and i told him i was going to see my friend(female)
he then asks "how come i do not know all your friends" and i am like DUDE SERIOUSLY!
i spent a week over at his place and on the friday of said week (after not having an outing in almost a month)i told him i needed to go chill with my friend.thus began enquiries as to who this friend was,where the friend was located and the friend's name.He abandoned an important meeting crucial to his CAREER that evening because he wanted to know who my friend was.(what mature 36 year old does that)?
We had a huge fight that evening like seriously i do not get nosey about who he is going out with and i believe in a relationship people need their space.
He is a nice and caring guy but he NEEDS to get a life!
The morning my folks travelled out of town we hung out up until 1am then i told him to drop me home.at 6am in the morning i woke up to see someone calling my phone with a restricted no over 10 times and then the DOORBELL RINGS! i was so scared (being the only one in the house) i peeped out of my window and lo and behold a few minutes later i saw his car pass my house.
He would offer to drive me to school (my college is about 35 miles from my house)which is sweet but he practically would drop anything to take me to school and then WAIT in school till my classes were done.
Not meaning to seem conceited but is being a bit attractive a curse because this guy has frustrated the life out of me!!
He tells me he loves me,constantly apologizes but i cant stand being with an insecure man.
Now i can see why he has never been married!No woman wants someone who does not respect her space and chokes her all the time?
Isnt a healthy relationship about making sure both your lives are filled with activities that involve and also dont involve each other? like creating a balance?
He once told me he does not need my permission to come over unannounced since we are dating!
He hides his number to call sometimes(i do not know why),once called my phone 12 TIMES startling me in the middle of the night after we had spoken earlier that night.
I am at my my wits end.I am considering ending it with him.
He is caring in every other way but
Advise Please?|||I understand that it's easy to feel like he must love you since he puts so much effort into being with you, but that is most certainly NOT the case. I don't mean to sound over the top, but this is a dangerous situation, and should not be taken lightly. I'm sure that most people would agree that a vital part of any relationship is trust, right? If this man trusted you, he would not follow your every move. If he loved you, he would want the best for you, and would want you to have an exciting and fulfilling life, outside of your relationship with him. This is not love. This is well frankly, frightening.
I would suggest ending things IMMEDIATELY, and perhaps seeing if you could live with a friend or something for a little while after wards? I realize this all sounds very over the top, but you never know what men like this are capable of, and there's no such thing as playing it "too safe."|||Post smaller questions please.No a stalker never loves you.A stalker is obsessed with you.|||Be careful when ending a relationship with someone who is abusive (yes, stalking is mental/emotional abuse and can escalate to physical). Usually things get worse when the victim tries to leave. Make sure there are people who know where you are at all times when you are planning on leaving him-if you plan on it. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE and they can help you make a safety plan.
Be careful-he is watching you.|||Sounds like you guys have trust issues. I am a very private person and don't easily let people into my life or share things with them. My fiance was also that way at the start of our relationship 2years ago. He didn't understand the private side of me because he is very open. He was acting in ways similar to your guy and I was determined to be more private. One day, I had a serious discussion with him about it and discovered that he really did care about me and acted the way he did because some of my actions were suspicious to him and he just could not understand why someone he cares about could not be open with him. He told me that he feels like I am hiding things and this was causing him to distrust me and I also didn't trust him enough to let him into my life at the time. However, we both decided to make changes that will build the trust in our relationship. We will be getting married in January.
Usually this kind of behavior means trust is lacking in some measure on both sides. You should try talking to him about why he is behaving that way and you will likely discover that it has to do with trust. Trust is not automatic it has to be built by both people.
Couple of articles that might help
http://www.familyresource.com/relationships/building-and-maintaining/five-ingredients-for-developing-trust-in-a-relationship
http://www.ehow.com/how_2299228_build-trust-relationships.html
Goodluck
This is a scam right? (UK Lottery, but they sent me a legit check?)?
Alright, now Ive gotten the e-mail before saying ive won the lottery send all my information and whatnot to them to claim my prize and I know those are scams, but never before have I recieved a letter and check in the mail, I still think its a scam, but just wanna be sure before I throw out a $4.975.00 check.
Just a couple of things 1st, where words are capitalized either means they were capitalized in the letter or underline and bold.
Here's the letter (as close to word for word as I can get)
Heading
ManageMyFinance
WEST WIND FINANCIAL INC
4500 SW MARINE DRIVE, VICTORIA, B.C., V5T 2C9, CANADA
TEL +1-604-781-0663
Letter"
"FILE NUMBER: KTU/902311****/**
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY3** August 28, 2008
Dear Tom R*****
RE: US $150,000.00 LOTTERY WINNING AWARD NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the JULY, 2008 result of the $600 Million INTERNATION MEGA DRAW PROMOTION held on July, 30, 2007. Out of the 65 participants randomly selected by computer ballot system that participated in the program all over across United States, Candada, UK, Europe, North / South America, Asia and Australia, your lucky ticket numbers ***-38551***-35* with serial number 2113_** has subsequesntly drew the winning lucky numbers
1,5,7,41,43,49 and bonus #46, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus and have won you a lmp-sum winning amount of $150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars). You have therefore been approved of a lump-sum winning payment of $150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars), which have been credited to your file number KTU/90**118**9/0*
As you may be aware that the 30DAY DEADLINE within which every winning must be claimed, is about to elapse, enclosed herewith is a check of $4,975.00USD deducted from your total winning and sent to you. The purpose of this check inclosed is for the payment of the $3,985.00 CANADIAN NON-RESIDENT GOVERNMENT SERVICE TAX (GST) required to release your lump-sum winning balance to you at this same address
on receipt of this small check, you are required to "PAY" from the check a $3,985 Canadian Non-Resident Government Service Tax (GST), to the Canadian Tax Office as stated below:
TAX AGENT: Wendy Jones [MRS.]
6021 RAWLINGS ST.
TORONTO, ON, S4R 1Q8, CANADA
TAX AMOUNT: $3.985.00
PAYMENT METHOD: MONEY-GRAM WIRE TRANSFER
As soon as Government Tax Office confirms receipt of the $3,985 NON-RESIDENT GOVERNMENT SERVICE TAX from you through MONEYGRAM, our delivery agent will be on his way to your home to "HAND-DELIVER" your lump-sum balance (in a certified check) to you at home.
Winnings not claimed within the stipulated time will be transferred to our unclaimed fund account from where it shall be either rollled-over to our next lottery promotion excersize or be disbursed to charities of our choice without further notice. Regard this as a "FINAL NOTICE".
You are required to call and speak to your Claim Agent - OSCAR MATTHEW @ this TEL. NO" +1-6040781-0662 for further enquiries and directives. Congratulations and thank you for being part of this great promotion program.
(has her signature here)
DR AMY BLACK (MRS)
DIRECTOR OF OPERATION|||IT IS A RELATIVELY NEW SCAM. It is about two years old and is presented a couple of ways. The check isn't good even though your bank pays it. When it comes back around, you will be liable for the whole amount. Even though your bank cashes the check, it is no good. They count on your check clearing before their's come bouncing back. As a customer service tour bank limits themselvesw on how long they hold funds. They release the money before the check actually clears its original bank. The scammers use banks and systems that take longer than the hold.
DO NOT CASH THE CHECK. Call your local consumer fraud authorities.|||No its fake how come they would all of a sudden send u $4.975.00 check. for no reason|||If you read it carefully, they're telling you to pay them nearly 4000 dollars so they can pay you 5000. And you won't know if their check is good until you give them 4000.
I clicked on that survey link. Make sure you realize if you try them out that there is a 25.00 fee for them to pay you by Paypal. If other companies did this they'd be out of business. So you'll have to wait 6 weeks to get paid if you don't want to fork over 25 bucks everytime you request a payment.|||Tell them to bring you your money in cash to your favorite meeting spot, via a courier in a taxi cab. Tell them to take the expense of doing so out of your alleged winnings, and to keep $75,000 for themselves.
Tell them to tell the courier you are heavily armed...
It's a scam...|||That is a HUGE SCAM.
You deposit the check, you wire them money. They cash it, and by the time you find out that the check you deposited was counterfeit, your own money will be gone gone gone.
Doesn't it strike you as strange that they would send you money in order for you to send it right back???
Don't be stupid. Also - how on earth do you win a lottery you never entered?
Just a couple of things 1st, where words are capitalized either means they were capitalized in the letter or underline and bold.
Here's the letter (as close to word for word as I can get)
Heading
ManageMyFinance
WEST WIND FINANCIAL INC
4500 SW MARINE DRIVE, VICTORIA, B.C., V5T 2C9, CANADA
TEL +1-604-781-0663
Letter"
"FILE NUMBER: KTU/902311****/**
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY3** August 28, 2008
Dear Tom R*****
RE: US $150,000.00 LOTTERY WINNING AWARD NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the JULY, 2008 result of the $600 Million INTERNATION MEGA DRAW PROMOTION held on July, 30, 2007. Out of the 65 participants randomly selected by computer ballot system that participated in the program all over across United States, Candada, UK, Europe, North / South America, Asia and Australia, your lucky ticket numbers ***-38551***-35* with serial number 2113_** has subsequesntly drew the winning lucky numbers
1,5,7,41,43,49 and bonus #46, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus and have won you a lmp-sum winning amount of $150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars). You have therefore been approved of a lump-sum winning payment of $150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars), which have been credited to your file number KTU/90**118**9/0*
As you may be aware that the 30DAY DEADLINE within which every winning must be claimed, is about to elapse, enclosed herewith is a check of $4,975.00USD deducted from your total winning and sent to you. The purpose of this check inclosed is for the payment of the $3,985.00 CANADIAN NON-RESIDENT GOVERNMENT SERVICE TAX (GST) required to release your lump-sum winning balance to you at this same address
on receipt of this small check, you are required to "PAY" from the check a $3,985 Canadian Non-Resident Government Service Tax (GST), to the Canadian Tax Office as stated below:
TAX AGENT: Wendy Jones [MRS.]
6021 RAWLINGS ST.
TORONTO, ON, S4R 1Q8, CANADA
TAX AMOUNT: $3.985.00
PAYMENT METHOD: MONEY-GRAM WIRE TRANSFER
As soon as Government Tax Office confirms receipt of the $3,985 NON-RESIDENT GOVERNMENT SERVICE TAX from you through MONEYGRAM, our delivery agent will be on his way to your home to "HAND-DELIVER" your lump-sum balance (in a certified check) to you at home.
Winnings not claimed within the stipulated time will be transferred to our unclaimed fund account from where it shall be either rollled-over to our next lottery promotion excersize or be disbursed to charities of our choice without further notice. Regard this as a "FINAL NOTICE".
You are required to call and speak to your Claim Agent - OSCAR MATTHEW @ this TEL. NO" +1-6040781-0662 for further enquiries and directives. Congratulations and thank you for being part of this great promotion program.
(has her signature here)
DR AMY BLACK (MRS)
DIRECTOR OF OPERATION|||IT IS A RELATIVELY NEW SCAM. It is about two years old and is presented a couple of ways. The check isn't good even though your bank pays it. When it comes back around, you will be liable for the whole amount. Even though your bank cashes the check, it is no good. They count on your check clearing before their's come bouncing back. As a customer service tour bank limits themselvesw on how long they hold funds. They release the money before the check actually clears its original bank. The scammers use banks and systems that take longer than the hold.
DO NOT CASH THE CHECK. Call your local consumer fraud authorities.|||No its fake how come they would all of a sudden send u $4.975.00 check. for no reason|||If you read it carefully, they're telling you to pay them nearly 4000 dollars so they can pay you 5000. And you won't know if their check is good until you give them 4000.
I clicked on that survey link. Make sure you realize if you try them out that there is a 25.00 fee for them to pay you by Paypal. If other companies did this they'd be out of business. So you'll have to wait 6 weeks to get paid if you don't want to fork over 25 bucks everytime you request a payment.|||Tell them to bring you your money in cash to your favorite meeting spot, via a courier in a taxi cab. Tell them to take the expense of doing so out of your alleged winnings, and to keep $75,000 for themselves.
Tell them to tell the courier you are heavily armed...
It's a scam...|||That is a HUGE SCAM.
You deposit the check, you wire them money. They cash it, and by the time you find out that the check you deposited was counterfeit, your own money will be gone gone gone.
Doesn't it strike you as strange that they would send you money in order for you to send it right back???
Don't be stupid. Also - how on earth do you win a lottery you never entered?
Enquiries about singapore university courses.?
hello there! i would like to ask which courses in National University of Singapore (NUS) and National Technological University (NTU), which incorporates a well balance of sci and arts/ sci and biz. just any courses which is not an extreme course like, science or arts or engineering.
thanks in advance!|||Both NUS and NTU offer a wide variety of courses, so it's good that you look through all the relevant courses offered by them to ascertain what course will suit you best.|||First, you can try browsing through their websites.
NTU - http://www.ntu.edu.sg/publicportal/
NUS - http://www.nus.edu.sg/
Hmm, NTU business faculty has several specialisation (Banking and Finance, Acturial Science, HR, IT, Marketing) and has a mix of science and business modules.
I believe that some of the Humanities and Social Sciences courses have a good mix of arts and science. You can try taking a look at these courses under HSS.
thanks in advance!|||Both NUS and NTU offer a wide variety of courses, so it's good that you look through all the relevant courses offered by them to ascertain what course will suit you best.|||First, you can try browsing through their websites.
NTU - http://www.ntu.edu.sg/publicportal/
NUS - http://www.nus.edu.sg/
Hmm, NTU business faculty has several specialisation (Banking and Finance, Acturial Science, HR, IT, Marketing) and has a mix of science and business modules.
I believe that some of the Humanities and Social Sciences courses have a good mix of arts and science. You can try taking a look at these courses under HSS.
Can you please examine the following text and provide constructive criticism on its grammar (read on)?
within in the guidelines of the English language?
This is part of a CV (you may also put your personal opinion) Should I write it the way I did?
Under Personal Profile: I wrote
# Serious/ fun / energetic /quick witted %26amp; friendly
and under one of the job role I wrote:
鈥?First point of contact for all our members
鈥?Responsible for managing and directing all incoming calls
鈥?Dealing with face to face enquiries
鈥?Controlling access into the club
鈥?Operating and balancing the register
鈥?Issuing membership cards and receipts
Can you make it flows better? or What do you think?|||I would say leave out the word fun because it will imply that you fool around, change it to...
Energetic and friendly
Dont use "quick witted" because they would think you were a smart ars*e|||Although "enquiries" is an accepted alternate spelling, it is usually "inquiries." (At least in the US; UK might be different)|||Energetic, friendly, quick learner, team player.
I'd leave out the serious, fun and quick witted. As noted in another answer, it's spelled inquiries in the US.
Good Luck
This is part of a CV (you may also put your personal opinion) Should I write it the way I did?
Under Personal Profile: I wrote
# Serious/ fun / energetic /quick witted %26amp; friendly
and under one of the job role I wrote:
鈥?First point of contact for all our members
鈥?Responsible for managing and directing all incoming calls
鈥?Dealing with face to face enquiries
鈥?Controlling access into the club
鈥?Operating and balancing the register
鈥?Issuing membership cards and receipts
Can you make it flows better? or What do you think?|||I would say leave out the word fun because it will imply that you fool around, change it to...
Energetic and friendly
Dont use "quick witted" because they would think you were a smart ars*e|||Although "enquiries" is an accepted alternate spelling, it is usually "inquiries." (At least in the US; UK might be different)|||Energetic, friendly, quick learner, team player.
I'd leave out the serious, fun and quick witted. As noted in another answer, it's spelled inquiries in the US.
Good Luck
Does one Late Dr. Goodluck Garmuyu have an account with a Standard Chartered Bank Plc London?
I have been communicating with one Miss Mary Goodluck who claimed she is in a Refugee camp in Senegal. She wants me to help her transfer the sum of 5.9 US dollars which she claims is the credit balance in the account his late father Dr. Goodluck Garmuyu at STANDARD CHARTERED BANK PLC LONDON BRANCH. She is on facebook and maintains few friends (about 7 lately). She has even sent a purported death certificate of her father. Her contact lawyer is asking for 1,800 pounds to process Power of Attorney documents that will purportedly make me her foreign partner so as to transfer the said money to Nigeria or anywhere in the world before she can have access to it. I am curious as I have received mails from the said bank and the lawyer. I think this is a scam. This is why I am writing to make the enquiry. Ogabor|||This certainly is a scam, I receive at least 5 pleas daily in my inbox from all types of people. Someone step mother is trying to pull all money from the account so the child is asking for help, some bank manager asking for help to transfer millions in my account of a family that died in a plane crash and all kinds of stuff. So just ignore them and carry on with your routine life.|||You must be a complete internet novice if you don't know this is a scam. You may think you've received emails from her lawyer and her bank, but you haven't. They just make it look that way.
Didn't your mother ever tell you "if something's too good to be true it probably is" or "you get nothing for nothing"?|||The Standard Bank UK is a Scam used by Nigerian fraudsters. There have been hundreds of these on here. There is no refugee camp, no Mary Goodluck. It is called money laundering and if you take part you will be prosecuted by the UK police and HMRC.
UK|||Sounds perfectly ok to me.I did as instructed and no longer have to work for a living, as i have now been institutionalised.|||COMPLETE SCAM, THEY WANT YOUR BANK DETAILS, STAY WELL AWAY AND REPORT TO AUTHORITIES|||http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Do some homework and prove to the rest of us that you are not gullible!|||One of the oldest scams in the book very well known|||Are you joking? Of course it's a scam.|||100% SCAM
1- there are NO refugee camps in Dakar Senegal. NONE. ZERO
2 - Even if she were a refugee, refugee camps DO NOT have water or electricity, let alone computers with internet access
3 - You cannot transfer money as you are not a legal signatory on the account
4 - The lawyer's fees would be taken out of the bank account, NEVER paid by you
This is a long running scam to steal 拢1800 from you. There are NO millions in the bank. This is a typical Nigerian scam that's been around for more than 10 years
Google Senegal refugee scam -- you'll have weeks of reading, there are over 800,000 hits. That's how common this scam is
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab%26amp;hl鈥?/a>
Another google search would have shown you that Mary Goodluck has already been exposed as a scammer many times
http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtop鈥?/a>
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-2鈥?/a>
http://scambackup.blogspot.com/2011/01/h鈥?/a>
Didn't your mother ever tell you "if something's too good to be true it probably is" or "you get nothing for nothing"?|||The Standard Bank UK is a Scam used by Nigerian fraudsters. There have been hundreds of these on here. There is no refugee camp, no Mary Goodluck. It is called money laundering and if you take part you will be prosecuted by the UK police and HMRC.
UK|||Sounds perfectly ok to me.I did as instructed and no longer have to work for a living, as i have now been institutionalised.|||COMPLETE SCAM, THEY WANT YOUR BANK DETAILS, STAY WELL AWAY AND REPORT TO AUTHORITIES|||http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Do some homework and prove to the rest of us that you are not gullible!|||One of the oldest scams in the book very well known|||Are you joking? Of course it's a scam.|||100% SCAM
1- there are NO refugee camps in Dakar Senegal. NONE. ZERO
2 - Even if she were a refugee, refugee camps DO NOT have water or electricity, let alone computers with internet access
3 - You cannot transfer money as you are not a legal signatory on the account
4 - The lawyer's fees would be taken out of the bank account, NEVER paid by you
This is a long running scam to steal 拢1800 from you. There are NO millions in the bank. This is a typical Nigerian scam that's been around for more than 10 years
Google Senegal refugee scam -- you'll have weeks of reading, there are over 800,000 hits. That's how common this scam is
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab%26amp;hl鈥?/a>
Another google search would have shown you that Mary Goodluck has already been exposed as a scammer many times
http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtop鈥?/a>
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-2鈥?/a>
http://scambackup.blogspot.com/2011/01/h鈥?/a>
Strange one here !!! Can someone enlighten me ?
I rent out a holiday home via various websites on the net. I had an enquiry for a booking and a price and dates were agreed. Due to the wording etc on the emails, I was a bit suspicious. I checked the persons yahoo account and found nothing. I checked the name and address they gave me and nothing showed up in telephone directories etc. The person said the payment would be sent by cheque through a family member in the USA. Then yesterday I got a email saying that the person in the states had "accidently" written the cheque for the full amount of their holiday. I was asked to cash the cheque and then send them the balance. Obviously, I declined and told them I did not want their business, but what were they getting out of it. It was definately some type of con, but I cant get my head round what they were going to achieve. A very similar thing happened a few months ago. What is the con???|||This is an easy scam. It generally takes about three business days for a check to "clear", meaning that your bank will inform you of a bounced check that you cashed/deposited three days later.
In that time, you would've already given the scammers the "overage" of the check that they "accidentally" wrote, so they'd have your money and be long gone before you get word that their check bounced and the bank is adjusting your bank balance.
You were wise to notice that something was amiss and decline to do business with them.|||I believe they are relying on their bad check not fully clearing until after your check back to them gets into their hands. This happened to a friend of mine and she lost about 1200 dollars. They sent her a bogus cashier's check, which most banks will honor without question. She wrote a personal check back to the person for the "remainder" and it was immediately cashed. 3 days later the bad cashier's check was returned and she was out all of that money plus fees. It's great you did not agree to their scam!! Good job!|||Hi,
this is easy, they where given you a dud cheque and you would have given them some cash for it.|||If the account that the check was written on had been hacked or accessed illegally, then someone writing a check from it could send it to you to be cashed. If you cashed it for them and sent them the balance, they receive money from the account without having to personally try and cash a forged check. You should report it.|||OK dont give them a cent you chances are there are in Nigeria and a trying to scam you i have come across 1 like this and may other when i have been selling on ebay. type in google nigeria scams and loke at all the fourms that come up that a simalar.
hope this helps and stay safe!!|||The con is you send a check for balance, they wash it which can be easily done, and change the amount. The check they send you will take several days to clear and will not be good. You will be charged for all the service fees and find your are overdrawn. If you want to foil them, wait until their check clears if it is good and write the check to them with a roller gel pen. It cannot be washed.|||If I am reading correctly, this is the scam where you THINK you've got their money because it shows up in your bank account, but they can bounce the cheque weeks or even months (which is outrageous) after it seems to have cleared.
So, you send them the money and suddenly a huge amount vanishes from your account because they have taken the money back. Why banks allow this to happen is a mystery to me.|||You did the right thing declining to send them any money. the con is simple. There are many "green" People on the net, and they are hoping that you are one of them, and that you would send them the money in good faith. Good to see you have a good sense of how to conduct yourself.|||sounds to me like they were conning someone by the sounds of it, a family member maybe, they organised it all with you to rent out the holiday home and got their family member to fill in the whole amount on purpose then knowing you would receive it give you some lam excuse that they put the full amount on the cheque and would you cash it and send the full amount back to you thinking that you would do it I take it the cheque was made out to you. but they lost out because you stuffed up their plans.
thats what I think anyway, but I could be wrong.|||Sounds like money laundering. The credit card people block your card if you overpay due to money laundering. My money is clean I never have it long enough to get dirty.|||Maybe the cheque' were stolen and they send the cheques to loads of people who rent out their property payment in full but then ask for the balance to be sent back to them,
if they do this long enough they end up with a nice tidy sum of cash.
but then how can they ask for the balance to be sent back if the payment was correct, for there is no over payment and so there should be no balance or out standing money to send back.
like you say, very strange and it does sound like a con.
maybe if you send back the balance by cheque they then have your details of your name/bank/account number/sort code for a nastie scam and you being the next victim. so be very careful who you rent out your holiday home to.
take care now and always be on the lookout for scams like these.|||The check would have bounced after you sent them the cash. People have tried that scam on me on Ebay. You did good turning them down.|||This definitely looks like some kind of phishing technique...As a guideline donot use cheques as method of payment.. Use credit cards which can be easily verified and cashed..
If they can get a few dollars from you , just realise how much that can make if they do the same thing for thousands of people like you...|||Hi; Yes its a scam and it also happened to me,, What these people do is have you cash the check or money order and then you send them the money before your bank figures out that it is counterfit and after you have already sent the money the bank will hold you accountable for the money amount on the counterfit checks,, Please dont fall for this scam, i done this one time knowing it was a scam and my bank allowed me to do so, And it was indeed a fake money order,,|||Most all of this sort of fradulant activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.
To be quite honest, for a poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency"(US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"
About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.
"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."
"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."
More at:
http://www.419eater.com/
Enjoy :-)|||Most of the answers above, tells you the con.
Anyone that asks you for money, if you did not register, sponsor, subscribe to anything,accept offers, lets say to a company, and it sends you something, than its a hoax/scam.
It is a con when they talk about someone being poor or asking for money in any form to avoid of the activity being illegal like a bank transfer *which would know all activities of your personal balance account.
So remember, if anyone asks you money in an unconventinal way, report, ignore and move on.
In that time, you would've already given the scammers the "overage" of the check that they "accidentally" wrote, so they'd have your money and be long gone before you get word that their check bounced and the bank is adjusting your bank balance.
You were wise to notice that something was amiss and decline to do business with them.|||I believe they are relying on their bad check not fully clearing until after your check back to them gets into their hands. This happened to a friend of mine and she lost about 1200 dollars. They sent her a bogus cashier's check, which most banks will honor without question. She wrote a personal check back to the person for the "remainder" and it was immediately cashed. 3 days later the bad cashier's check was returned and she was out all of that money plus fees. It's great you did not agree to their scam!! Good job!|||Hi,
this is easy, they where given you a dud cheque and you would have given them some cash for it.|||If the account that the check was written on had been hacked or accessed illegally, then someone writing a check from it could send it to you to be cashed. If you cashed it for them and sent them the balance, they receive money from the account without having to personally try and cash a forged check. You should report it.|||OK dont give them a cent you chances are there are in Nigeria and a trying to scam you i have come across 1 like this and may other when i have been selling on ebay. type in google nigeria scams and loke at all the fourms that come up that a simalar.
hope this helps and stay safe!!|||The con is you send a check for balance, they wash it which can be easily done, and change the amount. The check they send you will take several days to clear and will not be good. You will be charged for all the service fees and find your are overdrawn. If you want to foil them, wait until their check clears if it is good and write the check to them with a roller gel pen. It cannot be washed.|||If I am reading correctly, this is the scam where you THINK you've got their money because it shows up in your bank account, but they can bounce the cheque weeks or even months (which is outrageous) after it seems to have cleared.
So, you send them the money and suddenly a huge amount vanishes from your account because they have taken the money back. Why banks allow this to happen is a mystery to me.|||You did the right thing declining to send them any money. the con is simple. There are many "green" People on the net, and they are hoping that you are one of them, and that you would send them the money in good faith. Good to see you have a good sense of how to conduct yourself.|||sounds to me like they were conning someone by the sounds of it, a family member maybe, they organised it all with you to rent out the holiday home and got their family member to fill in the whole amount on purpose then knowing you would receive it give you some lam excuse that they put the full amount on the cheque and would you cash it and send the full amount back to you thinking that you would do it I take it the cheque was made out to you. but they lost out because you stuffed up their plans.
thats what I think anyway, but I could be wrong.|||Sounds like money laundering. The credit card people block your card if you overpay due to money laundering. My money is clean I never have it long enough to get dirty.|||Maybe the cheque' were stolen and they send the cheques to loads of people who rent out their property payment in full but then ask for the balance to be sent back to them,
if they do this long enough they end up with a nice tidy sum of cash.
but then how can they ask for the balance to be sent back if the payment was correct, for there is no over payment and so there should be no balance or out standing money to send back.
like you say, very strange and it does sound like a con.
maybe if you send back the balance by cheque they then have your details of your name/bank/account number/sort code for a nastie scam and you being the next victim. so be very careful who you rent out your holiday home to.
take care now and always be on the lookout for scams like these.|||The check would have bounced after you sent them the cash. People have tried that scam on me on Ebay. You did good turning them down.|||This definitely looks like some kind of phishing technique...As a guideline donot use cheques as method of payment.. Use credit cards which can be easily verified and cashed..
If they can get a few dollars from you , just realise how much that can make if they do the same thing for thousands of people like you...|||Hi; Yes its a scam and it also happened to me,, What these people do is have you cash the check or money order and then you send them the money before your bank figures out that it is counterfit and after you have already sent the money the bank will hold you accountable for the money amount on the counterfit checks,, Please dont fall for this scam, i done this one time knowing it was a scam and my bank allowed me to do so, And it was indeed a fake money order,,|||Most all of this sort of fradulant activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.
To be quite honest, for a poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency"(US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"
About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.
"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."
"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."
More at:
http://www.419eater.com/
Enjoy :-)|||Most of the answers above, tells you the con.
Anyone that asks you for money, if you did not register, sponsor, subscribe to anything,accept offers, lets say to a company, and it sends you something, than its a hoax/scam.
It is a con when they talk about someone being poor or asking for money in any form to avoid of the activity being illegal like a bank transfer *which would know all activities of your personal balance account.
So remember, if anyone asks you money in an unconventinal way, report, ignore and move on.
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