Oh Joy

£4.5K for my £2K bike, blimey you could get a new one for that and ship it
back to Japan

Received mail below:


Dear Seller, Thanx for the mail and the brife explianation,i am very sorry
for getting back to you so late i had to inquire if this is okay by my
CUSTOMER and he did made me understand that the the BIKE is okay by him.As
for payment i have an associate in UK who i will instruct to issue out
payment to you, i will instruct him to issue out payment to you to hasten
up the transaction so we can complete this thransaction in time. I, will
instruct him to issue out a bank draft of £4,500 this will cover the price
of BIKE and the rest of the funds for the shipping of the bike and of my
other goods in BOGNOR REGIS .please i do not intend to send any fund to my
shipper for picking up.this mean without any delay in the shipping, once
the payment is in your possession i will like you to send the ecess founds
to my shipping agent via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER so he can arrange
and come for the pick up of my goods.if this is okay by you,i will like you
to please,get back to
me with your full name and contact address as to where payment will be
sent to. and is as follow....
FULL NAME.............
STATE.....................
CITY........................
ZIP CODE.............
COUNTRY...........
CELL PHONE.......
PHONE.................
Your immediat respose will be highly be
appreciated.
Regards

ANTHONY KEN

 

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Play along until you've got the cheque in your hands. They do get
wonderfully irate when they realise they've spent all that money on
forged cheques & postage for nothing

 

Nice idea but really don't want to give my address to a bunch of cunts
IYKWIM.

D

 

If you haven't got a work address you can use, I'd suggest using your
local police station.

 

Wonder if they would be interested or if they get loads of these and can do
naff all about it.

D

 

Not interested at all ime. I showed them the first cheque I got, & they
hadn't even heard of 419 scams. They said someone from regional HQ
would call me - never heard a thing.

I also took it to HSBC as it was forged on one of their accounts.
They'd never heard of the scams either, and weren't remotely
interested, which pissed me off somewhat. You'd think they would at
least flag up the particular account so cheques were double checked
before clearing. Presumably they'd rather just reel in the bank charges
from bouncing cheques instead.

Getting the scammer to send the cheque somewhere still costs them money
though, which is the only reason I bother. I don't know how much a
forged cheque costs them, but I would imagine it's more than pennies,
especially as they are very good quality. The HSBC thought it was
genuine until they noticed the phone number was wrong.

 

David Thomas wrote

There is a unit set up in Maidstone, I believe it is, who deal
especially with this sort of thing.

Google is your friend.

 

They do. In the US, they tend to close your account for passing
counterfeits *and* inform the FBI as SOP.

They are very good quality indeed. Good enough to fool banks on
presentation. Some are being printed in Nigeria, and Fedex'd to the
crims abroad.

They're making a lot of money with this scam in the US, where cheques
take longer to clear and it can take a fortnight or more before the
thing bounces.

 

Can you pass me the details? Forward me the email? I'll have some fun.