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| SCAM WARNING Variations of this scam has been reported all over the web.
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| We have been informed by several people that they have been contacted by
some people from overseas who stated that they wanted to buy their classic car. This
sounds very similar to a recent scam that took another customer from another site. We
would like to urge everyone to be cautious when being approached by anyone from overseas
but especially from Africa. Here is the way the scam reportedly worked: The seller was contacted by some people from Nigeria who stated that they wanted to buy their collector car and sent them a fake cashier's check. The crooks sent more money than the price of the car stating that the extra money was to be sent to someone in the US to ship the car to Africa. The amount of money to be used for shipping was even close to what the actual shipping cost would be. Once the American seller sent the money to the person who was supposed to ship the car they discovered that the original cashier's check was a fake. These individuals lost $8000 of their own money in the scam. Apparently the scam has been tried on others. According to the people who lost their money it can take over three weeks for a bank to realize that a check is fake. They also suggest that you contact the issuing bank and get any verification in writing. The money you save may be your own! This type of scam is called "4-1-9" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code that addresses such schemes. You can find out more about it on the Secret Service Web site. If you have copies of emails from -- or accounts of -- similar encounters, it may be useful to forward them to the Secret Service Financial Crimes Division at 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov. Anyone who has lost money can contact the FBI and they will assist directly or put you in touch with other federal agencies dealing with African banking scams. Anyone who has been contacted can forward email to Fraud.autoresponder@africaservice.com, which reports the scammers to African authorities. |
__________________________________________________________________________________ Sample letters from scam artists
Dear Judd , My customer lives at canada and you can reach me on 5148144243 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ How are you today? I just got your mail and i
really apprectate the pics i SAW ON THE WEBSITE THEY ARE ok, I have spoken to my customer and concluded arrangement on the payment.He has instructed me to inform you that payment will get to you in a cashier check of $22,500 which is a refund payment of a cancelled order earlier made by him. Due to company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you ,because company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier check,so you are required to deduct cost of the CAR $15,100 when payment gets to you and refund balance $[7,400 ] to my customer via western union money transfer for him to be able to upset shipping charges After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him,our agent will come pick up title and drive to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to my customer,while title papers and other necessary documets will be given to the agent at the time of the pickup. Confirm this and provide name, address and phone number for check payment to be delivered to you via fedex or US courier. Thank you,
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