[PLUG-TALK] fun with scammers

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jun 3 22:22:49 UTC 2009


On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Daniel Herrington wrote:

> Sorry for my late reply but I'm currently in England, London. Because of the
> financial crisis, I lost my job in United States ( i was an IT Operations
> Manager ) and I had to move at my sister in United Kingdom ( here I found a
> good job ) .

   Woo-hoo! That's a good one. I had someone try to scam me about a marine
engine I have listed for sale on Craig's List. Similar nonsense. Two
different last names, two different gmail account names, hokey excuse about
being in England (first for business, second time for a honeymoon), his
"secretary" making out the check for 8 times the price ... by mistake, of
course.

   I told him to take his scam elsewhere. Apparently these updated 419 scams
are becoming common on Craig's List.

   If you find him/her, I'll gladly place the 4-cyl Chevy short block where
the sun don't shine, right behind the Apple notebook you place there.

Rich



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