Does this sound like a Nigerian Scammer? Very on TOPIC!!

tell him you dont have a bank account so you will send the whole check to the shipping agent who can give you cash when he picks up the car

 

A swede could write poor english and be an enthusiast to the bone. But not a word about dragracing, dragsters, slingshots or railjobs in the first mail? What is he supposed to be? An investor?

 

I just got off the phone with a long time customer. He has been trying to sell his 1956 M100 pickup that we built a few years back.

This one was supposed to be from Australia. This charicter was looking for a "nice" truck as the last one he bought was not as advertised and returned it, uuuhhh, yeah. So he had the check for $67,000.00 US made out to my customer John G***** and was to give the extra $7,000.00 to the shipper. The AU buyer also wanted me to create annother set of "original" invoices for the work I had done for reasons of importing.

I found it very odd that he would buy a $60K truck and never actually talk to anyone on the phone, request the truck to be converted to right hand drive or any other such questions. It turned out the check was written from a bank in South Florida and was complete with watermarks and everyting.

My customer, John, took this check to his bank with my warnings ringing in his head. The teller even questioned this transaction and told John the check needed to be held by the bank for 14 days before releasing the cash. Thursday John called the bank and asked if everything was OK and it was. They called him back yesterday to tell him the check was forged and there are no funds. The bank does exist but has no record of a cashiers check being written for that ammount or any of the parties involved having accounts there.

It pays to be cautious, think clearly and be weary of everyone.

 

Guess what! I actually fell for it. I know owe my bank about $1600.00!!!!! The whole damn time I felt something wasn't right. But I did it anyways.

The sad thing was the guy wanted the rest of his money after I already told him that his check wasn't real!

I get a sick feeling while reading all this.

I am king of the Dumbass'!!!!!

 

Here is some info that might help the next potential victim...www.secretservice.gov then look for nigerian scams.