I went back and found his first email. It was very brief, asking about a blowed up efi 300-6 I had on Craigslist, yeah like you are going to pay shipping on a blowed up 300 Ford. I feel kind of left out that no deposed dictators wifes have asked me to help them get 6 million out of the country lately. I played the crap out of one of those a few years ago, strung her(him?) along for a month or so. I told them it was all a go but I needed a seperate bank account to make it work and didn't have the $100 minimum depost to open it and all they had to do was send me the first $100 and we were rolling. They pretended to ignore that for a while then just stopped bothering me. I think I got blacklisted at the scammers 101 class in faroffistan.
You mean that the guy who's emailing me isn't the son of the King of Nigeria? Nigeria ought to round up all these assholes, park them in a desolate area and do the nuclear green glass paving job on them....
sounds like a scam to me. if they dont send emails asking questions about the item for sale or if they dont even reference the part i would stay away
Dude, NO ONE talks like that or writes like that! How many people do you know ask to buy something, but NEVER mention what it is they want to buy? Answer...NONE! And just for shits and grins, read that out loud to yourself in a Nigerian accent and think if it reads legit. No offence to good Nigerians, but it is a known fact that a bulk of these scammers are working from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMgGdaGOJM It's sad that a few scammers have ruined things for good buyers over seas, but it gets really redundant reading stories about people who got ripped off by the bad guys. Besides, if you have to ask, deep inside your conscience is saying it's bullshit.
Remember the 60 minutes bit a year or two back? They found Nigerian scammers operating out of Canada. Kinda pissed me off, scum of the earth crooks working out of one of my favorite countries....
People from England don't speak like that. Let's not forget, they actually invented the language. That is very poor English even by American standards. Classic second language syntax. People from England actually write much more like Americans than they speak. Could be someone who now lives in England who immigrated there and English is a second language, but I'd bet it's a scam. Also, most people in England have telephones (they sort of caught up with us back in the 60's on that). I'd say if they can't speak on the phone for some reason and you can't verify their number is actually a number registered in England, I'd say worse case, get the check, cash it and then wait at least a couple of weeks before getting ready to send the vehicle. Once it is gone, it is gone. But, most money scams these days don't want the car because they don't actually live there anyway. They want to over pay you and then have you credit them the difference and they get to keep the difference and you are left hanging for the whole bill and then possibly out a car too.
This is absolutely a scam 100% no doubt. The best thing you can do is stop all communication with these people. Don't bother emailing back, don't tell him off, just basically pretend to drop off the face of the earth. The very worst thing you can do is to reply that you know he's a scammer and tell him how you know. Telling a scammer that you figured him out only gives him a chance to refine his skills. If you never return his emails then he has no idea what happened to you and will continue to use this totally-obvious reply on others who will be able to see it's bullshit.
We speak the 'queens' english i'll have you know old chap ! Seriously, it sounds like a scam stay well away Keith
Definitely a scam and definitely not from Britain unless he just parked his banana boat at the dock for a short visit!! Internet scamming is worldwide not just Britain so if they are not willing to give detail or contact numbers etc then 'flush' the little b**st**ds down the internet toilet. and just a point to note guys: We did invent the language, you just 'borrowed' it and changed the spelling on a few words to make it your own but we are 'borrowing' your rod scene to compensate in return I just thoughtmaybe someone from the UK would pipe in and say "Oh, yeah, old Robinson? He is an ok dude, I know him." I don't speak that language very well either, I don't watch British movies because I can't understand a word they say, no offense. Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served I can understand tho. and check your own grammar before berating others! Maybe if you played our British movies at half speed then it would give your brains time to catch up! No offence taken <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
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