Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2005/10

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Scam artist watching woodwind.org classifieds
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:19:33 -0400

Some guy recently disappeared from his home in the hills surrounding
L.A. and turned up a week or so later. He had become paranoid about
being stalked by some Nigerians, with whose scam he had become
involved, so he took off for the hills and lived there for a
while. But there was something about the article which made it very
clear that the scam artists not only were not Nigerians but residents
living within the L.A. area. It isn't surprising at all to see these
things happening in the age of the Internet. Find the right people
to whom to report them and do so.

Oliver

At 08:29 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
>Mark's tagline noted:
>
><<<Cashier's check isn't worth the paper it's printed on ...>>>
>
> . . unless it's real, of course.
>
>For *real* international commerce, you need to set up a letter of credit.
>It's a device that's been around since the middle ages or so. It replaces
>the credit of the obligor with that of the bank. If you don't like their
>bank, you can get yours to "confirm" it - makes collection their problem.
>
>My company sells trucks to all sorts of interesting places and people, some
>of them in Nigeria even. We get paid.
>
>kjf

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