Almost Scammed!!!

[KBCobra95]

For the past few weeks or so I have been emailing a guy from Denamrk wanting to buy my 42# injectors and LMAF. He told me he was a Pilot and that he would give me $300 plus shipping to Denamrk. I told him he had a deal, that the injectors and LMAF were his. He wrote/ spoke extremly bad english so I undertood hardly anything he said. He proceeded to tell me that he was going to send me $6000 dollars in money orders and that I was to take $500 of the money to be used for shipping and Western Union fees to wire the rest of the money ($5500) to his "Shipping Company" which would come to my house to pick up the items. Big Red Flag! I told him ALL I want is the $300 plus shipping. He insisted on the $6000 so I just figured he was yanking my chain. Well, yesterday After work I found $6000 in money orders in my mail box. After a few hours of confusement and contemplating why this man sent me $6000 I figured there must be a scam. I took the money orders to the local Wal-Mart (since they were Wal-Mart money orders). Come to find out they were FAKE! Naturally I sent a friendly email to him. Keep an eye out for a Kenard Robert from Denmark!!!!

 

[The Green GT]

You should try to pawn them off somewhere else.

 

[drakesdad]

See......it's retards like that you make us fear doing business...........but you do hear a lot of that going on........good catch

 

[pleasehelp]

Ha! There are a bunch of them in Europe you gotta watch for! Basically if someone from over there wants to buy something from you, 99.9% of the time it'll be a scam. I had the same thing happen to me when I went to sell my 93 Probe GT in autotrader and I had some guy from France wanting to buy it. I was thinking, "why would anyone bother buying this car from over seas?" He had a similar weird way of wanting to buy it kinda like yours did. So basically I told him it was sold already, even though it wasn't.

A few months later a friend of mine had the same thing happen to him when he went to sell his autocross bike. He had some guy send him a money order and my friend went to his bank to see if it was real and they told him it wasn't. They also told him if he would haved tried to cash it he would've been in trouble.

You guys remember that thread from some other board where someone was trying to scam this guy that was selling his mac computer and he ended up sending a made up mac out of cardboard to the scammer? Man that was funny.

 

[urban96]

sell em on ebay see if anyone bids

 

[91LX_5L]

i dont get why he would even send 6000 in fakes why not just the 300ish? wtf

 

[69clark]

I have heard of this scam dozens of times! People with no lives.

 

[Guero]

let me have the fakes!!!!!!! ill give you 100 bucks!!!!!lol jk

 

[KBCobra95]

Walmart took the fakes and emails and the number he called me from, and are going to investigate it. I hope they burn his hide!!!

 

[KBCobra95]

i dont get why he would even send 6000 in fakes why not just the 300ish? wtf

For Real man, I was like why the crap would you ned a total stranger $6000 for $300 worth of parts. Idiot.

 

[donjohn]

i dont get why he would even send 6000 in fakes why not just the 300ish? wtf

They want you to send them the difference in real money. Because if the bill does get by a stupid bank teller somewhere, when they figure out it's fake, you've already sent them 5700 real money... which the bank originally gave you but will later rebuke it from your acct.

 

[donkey_punch]

They want you to send them the difference in real money. Because if the bill does get by a stupid bank teller somewhere, when they figure out it's fake, you've already sent them 5700 real money... which the bank originally gave you but will later rebuke it from your acct.

bingo

 

[KBCobra95]

^^^^Exactly^^^^. These money orders looked Real except for the color changing dot that authentic money orders have.

 

[1994Vib.RedGT]

damn, european scams are all over the place, I remember reading one somwhere about an apple ibook that some guy in england was trying to buy, then they figured out it was a scam so they sent the scammer an actual notebook, like you would use in school with a cardboard keyboard on it. Its great, the whole thing is documented somewhere on the net, i just cant remember where.

 

['66 coupe]

You guys remember that thread from some other board where someone was trying to scam this guy that was selling his mac computer and he ended up sending a made up mac out of cardboard to the scammer? Man that was funny.

White powder would've been funnier.

 

[pleasehelp]

Found the original link to the story: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1016390&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

And here is the official site of the story: http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/ <----scroll down to see pics of the fake powerbook!!