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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-10-12 16:12
I just received this response to an ad I placed here in the classifieds:
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"Hi Seller,
I am interested in buying your item listed above and i would like to know if its still available for sale because i will like to make an instant purchase,so please do respond back to me with the Amount of your Item. so i can start making the arrangement to buy it.
I will also like you to know that i will be paying via Business Check/Cashier Check,and it will be over night payment via Fedex/Ups Corrier Service.
Regarding the shipping,You do not have to bother yourself for the shipping as I'll instruct my Client to send down his shipper across to you for the pick-up of the ( Item) as soon as you receive the payment.And also be (NOTIFY)that my client shall be including an (Over Payment) in the check he will be sending to you in which you shall deduct the money for the (Item)and then send the rest to the shipper who will be coming across to you for the pick up of the ( Item).
So i will need you to provide me with the following information to facilitate the mailing out of the check.
1.Your full name
2.Your mailing address be it residential
3.Your phone number.
4, The Final asking price of the Item
**Once again,
I will like you to know that you will not be responsible for the shipping, i will have my mover come over as soon as you have your payment cashed **
Have a nice day and god bless you.
END MESSAGE
Don't you just love it when they don't even mention what you're selling, and then offer to pay more than the asking price, even though they don't know what the price is???
Jeff
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2009-10-12 16:21
Happens every time I post a for-sale classified.
B.
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Author: knotty
Date: 2009-10-12 16:26
It sounds like one of those scams that come from Nigeria.
knotty
~ Musical Progress: None ~
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-10-12 16:39
Why don't they just ask you for all your bank, credit and debit card details and be done with it?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: stevesklar
Date: 2009-10-12 17:35
I tell them that i would gladly accept their payment but I also require $250,000 cash security deposit and i will hold on to the passport / drivers license etc of the person who is going to pick up the item until the check clears
that's an old, old scam
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Stephen Sklar
My YouTube Channel of Clarinet Information
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Author: Grabnerwg
Date: 2009-10-12 17:42
I get these scam offers all the time. The last one involved a man wanting to buy an alto saxophone. It was an order from Singapore, and the person included a name, credit card number, and address, and asked for immediate delivery. It all sounded too good to be true. So I asked him if he wanted a special Bb alto saxophone, to which he responded in the affirmative.
So, I politely canceled his order.
I guess either the credit card number was stolen, or the order would have "disappeared" resulting in a charge back on the credit card and a lost instrument.
It's sad we have to be so careful.
Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com
Buffet Clarinets
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2009-10-12 20:00
My credit card was used for a beauty supply company in Berlin a month ago - just got the bill.
O the aggravation of following up on that one! (reported, etc).
Either was scooped up online, at a restaurant, or other merchant - no clue yet.
I hope they nab the guy though!! (I figure it's a guy even though it was a beauty supply company)
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-10-12 20:04
DavidBlumberg wrote:
> O the aggravation of following up on that one! (reported, etc).
All I did a month ago was call my credit card company and tell them I had a bogus bill from the Coach store in Philly ... no aggravation at all ...
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-10-12 20:18
A couple of years ago, my card company called me at home to be sure I wasn't in Tokyo at the time (I was sitting in my basement in Metro Detroit at the time) charging a couple of thousand bucks' worth of Kimonos. Got it reversed and the new card issued with no trouble at all.
Jeff
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-10-12 22:30
I know, David. Good luck.
Jeff
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Author: sbrodt54
Date: 2009-10-12 22:41
David,
<<<<<<I hope they nab the guy though!! (I figure it's a guy even though it was a beauty supply company)<<<<<<
Most likely no effort at all will be attempted by any police officer or any officer of any court, anywhere. While this posting that JJ got is pretty obviously a scam and of course everyone is thrilled that no crime was completed, they are getting much more sophisticated in every way.
We are pretty careful here and we try to think one step ahead of the criminals but that's just impossible, they sit in a room 24/7 doing nothing but thinking of some way to steal, cheat, or scam honest folks.
Last year we were hit with a well oiled scam. A customer called to purchase an expensive alto sax, we checked everything we could before the sale went through and everything seemed to check out fine. One day after the sax reached the customers daughter's address, the credit card was reported stolen.
This might seem pretty typical (time line) but the "customer" went to great lengths to assure us that there was no rush, take your time and make sure the card is good, the address is correct, no rush at all. We did check everything we could from here but we got scammed anyway. We now insist that every sale MUST go directly to the address on the card, no exceptions.
I handed all information to the local police who promptly did nothing, then we tried to enlist the DA, the police in the state where the sax was delivered to and we got no where. When all of those fine folks told us that this crime was not worth their time to investigate ($4,000 sax) we hired a private investigator.
This guy found the girl in California, found the parent that scammed us and found the credit card owner who was in on the scam, he lived close by the parent and allowed this to work as well as it did. We tried our best to turn over all of this to police here in PA (State, local), the DA, the police in California, not one person was even remotely interested in pursuing this case. Reason given, this was a crime with no victims, my business should have insurance to cover losses like this.
People all seem to be terrified of identity theft and I have been a victim as well, it's a PIA to untangle the mess that some criminal created. However, as long as the police are never going to pursue, chase, prosecute and arrest these criminals, they will continue to prey on us all.
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2009-10-13 07:58
"Reason given, this was a crime with no victims, my business should have insurance to cover losses like this. "
There are victims: You claim on your insurance, next year your premiums are higher, as is that of every other client of that insurance company. That makes you and your fellow clients victims.
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Author: GeorgeL ★2017
Date: 2009-10-13 15:35
"My credit card was used for a beauty supply company in Berlin a month ago - just got the bill."
An Afghan immigrant was arrested recently and charged with planning terrorist attacks using explosive devices made from beauty supplies. An article on Yahoo says he used stolen credit cards to make the purchases.
If the name "David Blumberg" shows up on the terrorist watch list, at least we will know how it got there.
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