Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2005/10

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Scam artist watching woodwind.org classifieds
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:07:13 -0400


Ormondtoby Montoya wrote,
>Yes, it's a scam. The $4000 money order will prove
>to be phony; but the transfers will be arranged such
>that you won't learn this until after your own $3000
>has been collected and "Abby" has vanished from the
>face of the earth.

Yup. This is the familiar "Nigerian scam." It's so old there was probably
a drive-in movie about it, complete with 3-D glasses, 1.85:1 MonsteRama and
ThundeRound Sound. The trailer starts with a high-pitched screeeeeam as
the taglines wheely-iris out: "SEE the scam so old it's got whiskers down
to its knees! CRINGE as the dumb-bunnies fail the IQ test and FALL for
this obvious trick! THRILL to the sights and sounds of craven, slobbering
GREED!"

I think the average clarinet player, including the average nine-year-old
beginner, is too smart send this clown three cents, let alone $3000. Let's
hope, anyhow.
;-)

Lelia Loban

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