Internet Scammers

   / Internet Scammers #21  
Ok, so the scam here was to get the property. Forged check, get the car, disappear with the car. Maybe move it out of the country, maybe chop it for parts, maybe get the title from a junked car and change the Vehicle ID number plates (although you end up with a salvaged title there). Once again, people selling something are trusting that the buyer is who they say they are. They probably don't even check ID once an official looking cashiers check is presented. Then they end up with, surprise-surprise, a bogus check and no way to identify the people who took the car. Furthermore, it may be a week before the bank tells them the check is bogus. If it is drawn on a distant bank, you have no way to go to the bank and verify that it is valid. A week is a long time to hide the vehicle. If the scamers are really good, they have a license plate for the same make and model of car that they immediately put on the vehicle so that if stopped, they have legitimate papers except that the VIN number on the registration doesn't match the registration.
 
   / Internet Scammers #22  
As a matter of fact the woman had taken the check to the bank and asked them if it was good and the bank had said it was.
It seems to me that the bank bears some of the responsibility. But we all know that wont happen..
Ralph
 
   / Internet Scammers #23  
Here is the latest scam I received from someone on TBN /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
You have a new message fromMr.Frank Brown for the following Classified
posted by you
http://classifieds.tractorbynet.com/default.asp?action=addetail&adid=16xx

Email of Mr.Frank Brown : f_brown@libero.it
Message from Mr.Frank Brown : Good day,

It is my humble pleasure to write this letter irrespective of the fact
that you do not know me. However, I came to know of you in my private
search for a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a
confidential transaction of this nature in respect of this, I got your
contact through an uprooted search on the internet. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

I am Mr Frank Brown, son of late Mr John Brown of Sierra Leone who was
killed by the Sierra Leone''s rebel forces on the 24th of December,1999 in
my country Sierra Leone. When he was still alive, he deposited the sum of
US$10,000,000.00 in one of the banks in Abidjan Cote d´Ivoire.

This money was made from the sale of Gold and Diamond by my mother and she
have already decided to use this money for future investment of the
family.Recently, I rushed down to Abidjan after being able to locate where
my late father kept the deposit slip that was given to him by the bank
when he deposited the funds in the bank .

I have confirmed from the bank that the money is with them, when I
demanded for the withdrawal of the funds to me in my capacity of being the
son of Mr Brown, the depositor of the funds, I was told that in the
absence of my father, the only person that can demand for thefunds is my
late father´s foreign partner on whose behalf the consignment was
deposited.

When my late father deposited the funds in the bank, he did not give the
name or gender of his foreign partner on whose behalf he was depositing
the funds,
he made the declaration for security reasons as he did not want the bank
to demand from him how he made the money hence he declared the funds as
belonging to his foreign partner.

Meanwhile, my father have instructed me that in the case of his death,
that I should look for a trusted foreigner who can assist me to move out
this money from Côte d´Ivoire immediately for investment .

Based on this , I solicit for your assistance to transfer this fund into
your Account, but I will demand for the following requirement:

(1) Could you provide for me a safe Bank Account where this fund will be
transferred to in your country.

(2) Could you be able to introduce me to a profitable business venture
that would not require much technical expertise in your country where part
of this fund will be invested?

I am a Christian and I will please, want you to handle this transaction
based on the trust I have established on you.
For your assistance in this transaction, I have decided to compensate you
with 10 percent of the total amount at the end of this business.
The security of this business is very important to me and as such, I would
like you to keep this business very confidential. I shall expect an early
response from you.
Thank you and God bless.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Frank Brown



Let's all get in line to give him our bank account info!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / Internet Scammers #24  
Just tell him to send a cashier's check made out to you. Of course the check will never come and if it does it will be forged. If he needs a business partner to withdraw the money, why doesn't he just get some one in Sierra Leone. I guess people in Sierra Leone are just not trustworthy.
 
   / Internet Scammers #25  
How is Mr. Brown going to make money on this thing unless you happen, for some reason, to give him an account # that has existing funds in it?
 
   / Internet Scammers #26  
OH, I get it....He's going to deposit a fake check in the account and then withdraw funds before the bank finds out the check is fake, and the bank will come after you for the money.
 
   / Internet Scammers #27  
What a cheapo. I was offered 30%

Eugene
 
   / Internet Scammers #28  
I received that same e-mail today as a reply to my classified listing. I told as long as he was in Africa to go find a hungry lion to feed himself to.
 
   / Internet Scammers #30  
The scam is either to get you to pony up your money based on you--and perhaps your bank's--assumption that a cashier's check is good (If the scam is really good, the scammers have inside information as to actual cashier's check numbers issued and the amounts so a call to the bank indicates that yes that check has been issued and is that it is good) or it is to get your account number and routing information to suck funds out of your acct. If you have an empty acct, they can't suck anything out.

Amazing what you can do with a little information. Apparently they are hitting the heavy equipment sales these days.
 

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