| Author | Message | ||
| Ron R. Rating: N/A |
Hello: I have put my bus up for sale and just received this Email. It looked kind of funny, like the one on this sights warning. I copied it just like it was sent. Tell me what you think. Hello, I just place a look on your item and i am intrested in immediate purcharse of this item,but before i proceed on this transaction i will like to ask some question as follow. 1. Do you accept Wire transfer? 2. What is the working condition of the item?. Let me know if we can work things out and i can go ahead and authorise my client to get ready in the wiring of the money .I will be awaiting your email soonest. Regards ........john | ||
| John that newguy Rating: N/A |
HAR... You gotta' ask? Wazzat from, Nicaragua? Nigeria? If you reply to it, you'll be added to the spam list. It's a great way for spammers to locate authentic email addresses.. Delete it man, before it gives you a wart. | ||
| dave4106 Rating: N/A |
tell him to send certified funds via us postal service. that should flush him out if he,s a fraud. i suspect , yes he is. europeans and africans, what a bunch of illiterate idiots | ||
| Ron R. Rating: N/A |
I went ahead and deleted it. I started to answer it just out of courtesy, but I remembered seeing the warning here on Busnuts. I did think they needed to brush up on their english typing. I'm glad I'm not their "client". Who ever that is. | ||
| Macgyver (91flyer)
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Yea, definitely SCAM. I had about 4 of these come in when I had my vehicle in the Thrifty Nickel... I responded to each that they'd been turned into the FBI and their emails/headers and return paths had been turned over as well. Two of them actually responded acting all ticked off... Guess I scared 'em good.... hehe. The email accounts were all yahoo, and they all had broken/choppy english as yours... Although I didn't actually report them to the FBI, I did turn their emails into yahoo as spam. Cheers! -Mac | ||
| Ian Giffin (Admin)
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Ron, As suggested on the ad pages, you were correct to delete the email and not respond. JTNG, sorry, as much as you want it to be from Nicaragua or Nigeria, it's not. Dave4106, there is a warning on this site which is contrary to your advice. May I respectfully suggest that you not advise BNO viewers to respond to these emails. By the way, the illiterate idiot is from England. Ian Giffin www.busnut.com | ||
| Macgyver (91flyer)
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England! Somehow, that makes the email all the more funny!!  -Mac | ||
| Vin (Billybonz)
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Yup, I just looked at an RTS for sale on ebay with the following: Q: Hello seller , complemnt to you over there, its my pleasure of mailing you. I am an auto dealling agent but new to ebay at this present.one of my client has just recently placed a quote on your type of this item,so I’ll like to know if the price at which you are selling the item is absolutely firm. am using( CHASHIER CHECK) as a mode of payment after my client issued it out you will cash it and send the excess fund to my own agent commision through western union money transfer so get back to me with the cost and with your full name and address so i can contact my client to issued out the check. client max, thanks..........................best regard How does this scam work again.....Oh Yeah, buyer sends a fake "CHASHIER CHECK" and the seller deposits it and sends the commision back to the buyer. Come on, who does business like that? If you were a broker and sold something, would you have the buyer make out a check with your commission added on the check and then hand that same check over to the seller and ask him to refund your commission? Just cuz I drive a Fishbowl don't make me dumb as a carp!!! Vin 1973 T6H4523 | ||
| BrianMCI Rating: N/A |
Awww Vin buddy you were so close to a GREAT joke! That dumb as a carp line was good, I laughed... But if you had said ...dumb as a goldfish That's KILLER <grin> But your point is well taken. Brian | ||
| Vin (Billybonz)
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As Maxwell Smart would say...."missed it by that much." | ||
| Jim (Jim_in_california)
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Just to inject a note of basic biology: Carp. Goldfish. Same thing . I had a friend once as a kid let his pet goldfish go in the creek back of his house. About a year later he ran across it again: it was in this one fairly short but deep area - and was too big to get out. Sucker was about 14" long . They only stay small if the bowl is small enough. It's like that Latin phrase "Carpe Diem!" - "day of the oversize goldfish!" | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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carp...goldfish...coy....same thing...people in Japan pay big money | ||
| bubba Rating: N/A |
Carp goldfish sucker Shoot, back home we usta put em all in the fishbowl. Whatever we snag outta da crick! Dumb as a carp.... shoot! yer funny! | ||
| BrianMCI Rating: N/A |
Well, it's not that a carp doesn't go into a fishbowl, or that it's not a fish, or even that the goldfish is a relative of the carp... I mean that's why it was funny in the first place... But the most famous and instantly recognizable inhabitant of a fishbowl (think of all the hundreds of commercials, ads, movies and cartoons you've seen) is a GOLDFISH and anytime a joke evokes an instantly recognized image, one we all have, such as a goldfish in a fishbowl...it's just that much funnier. At the same time Vin is a very funny fella, anyone who quotes Maxwell Smart HAS to be! Brian | ||
| John that newguy Rating: N/A |
Yeah? Well -I- don't get it. | ||
| Rob King Rating: N/A |
Hey Vin and Ron Last Summer I tried to sell my stick and staple motorhome on eBAY, got several of that type response. Replied to the people through eBAY saying send certified US Bank Funds was okay by me. eBAY has client protecting software to keep them from getting your email address as long as you use it and not go directly to the email address of the bozo who sent the message. At the same time notified eBAY fraud division to "investigate". Narry a response to send funds but did get response from eBAY Fraud that they had checked each out and referred the cases to "local police officals". The tipoff to me is the "wonderful" use of the english language. Just got to be extra careful. Rob 91 Prevost | ||
| Bob Oakman (Bobsbus)
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I had a big fish bowl once. I filled it full of Blood Suckers and fed them Gold Fish. The idiots that perpetrate these e-mail scams are _______ suckers. Fill in the blank. |