Possible Classifieds Scam!!

[ojf1982 0]

I am not sure if this is the appropiate forum for this thread, so if it is not then Tom will move to wherever he deems appropiate.
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I received an email from a potential buyer that she was intered in buying my rig that I have for sale on dz.com She told me that if I could calculate shipping to the Republic of Benin. To me this sounded fishy, so I looked up sangiro's posts about the several scams that have already taken place. And one of the emails that sangiro has listed ends with the same domain name of @fastermail.com that this person is sending me emails from. I told her that I will only accept paypal because of her location, which she then replied that she can send it via Western Union. Which I replied back, that that was unacceptable.

Here are the emails:

From : 
Chelsie Willsley

Sent : 
Monday, February 7, 2005 6:06 AM

To : 
"Omar Famada"

Subject : 
RE: canopy



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Hi Omar,
yes i will be shipping to cononou,and about the registration how is it
going to go ?please let me know and about the payment i am willing to pay you
with western union but i have a client of mine owing me some monye and he said
he will be apying me soon with a money order so i am wondering if i should tell
him to issue it out to you and send to you for me .if this is okay let me know
soon.

Chelsie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omar Famada"
To: cwillsley@fastermail.com
Subject: RE: canopy
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:25:35 -0500

>
> What city in Benin will it be shipped to?  you will be responsible
> for whatever extra costs, duties, taxes,  customs costs that might
> be placed on the rig/canopy.  Because of your location you will
> have to register with an online service that will act as the
> middleman of this transaction such as paypal, etc.  Fedex is
> estimating the cost of shipping at $265 and delivered in 4-5 days. 
> This is the cheapes
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Hi Oma,
yes i will like to get the two for that price and please calculate the
shipping to republic of benin and get back to me with the total amount and the
payment plan.

Chelsie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omar Famada"
To: cwillsley@fastermail.com
Subject: RE: canopy
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:48:32 -0500

>
> Yes it is still available.  Do you want just the canopy or the rig
> and canopy?  Both is $1000
>
> > From: "Chelsie Willsley"
> > To: omarfamada@hotmail.com
> > Subject: canopy
> > Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:38:56 +0800
> >
> > i saw your ad and i will like to buy your canopy if it is still
> > for sale please tell me what price it will be going for.i am just
> > a new customer to this so please get back to me soon.
> >
> > Chelsie.

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[TomAiello 26]

I'm going to move this to error and bug reports. There's not a forum for "report attempted scams" but at the rate they're cropping up, that may not be too far in the future.

I'll also PM Phreezone, who is the classifieds editor.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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[Frenchy68 0]

THird party payment: definitely a scam.

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