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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-15 14:47
We are going to "go forward with the procedure".
Problem is that he's going to be sending his check to an FBI agent who is my neighbor.
Bummer for him. That's one of the oldest scams in the book - beware, this guy found him on the Clarinet Board Ads.
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Hello,
Thank's for the respond,So i will pay you $2500for the Bass Clarinet (So i will like to inform you that my business associate of mine will issue out the cashier check of $6000 to you and immediately the payment received by you,you are to deduct the cost of charges for the Bass Clarinet ()and have the excess of the funds transfer to the shippers through via Western Union Money Transfer.So that they can have the funds to get all the documentations preparations before the pick up arrangement can be procure the details are below.
1.)Documentations and papers works for the shippments.
2.)shippments taxes.
3)shippments clearance.
So all these are to be done before the shippments and delivery arrangement can be procured.
So i will be highly appreciate if you can get me understand and get back with the details I will be highly apprecaited if you can hold it for me before my payment my payment will arrived and received by you.
So i look forward to received the payment details from you.
Hope everythings get clears to you.
Best Regards.
Leon Yung.....
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Hey Leon, meet Buba ..........
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Author: luckyclarinettoenla
Date: 2005-03-15 14:51
Tsk tsk tsk,
Bad grammar seems to run rampant in internet scams. If its an email from someone that I don't know, or if it doesn't address me by my full name-- typos will cause automatic deletion. People who are on the up and up usually have time to at least run a spell check. :-)
Never fool yourself into believing that today's 'good enough' will do tomorrow!
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Author: DougR
Date: 2005-03-15 15:06
Wow!! this guy sounds like a cousin of that Nigerian guy who contacted me PERSONALLY over the internet, he's helping me make thousands and thousands of dollars by sending me a big whopping check that I'm supposed to deposit...no, wait, I'm supposed to send him the check so he can...no, wait, he'll send me thousands of dollars just for helping him settle the eminent Sir Arthur Godboy's estate....or something like that. I have the paper here somewhere. Can hardly wait for the money to roll in!!! Hey, wanna go halvesies? sounds like a good deal to me!!
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2005-03-15 16:25
DONK DONK!
/Law and Order sound
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-03-15 16:35
I currently have a clarinet listed on our classifieds and have so far received three different versions of the same attempted scam.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-15 16:53
If you would, forward me the e-mails
blummy@(NOSPAM)) comcast.net
I just spoke w/the agent and got another # to call. Mail fraud is a federal offense and if he's a moving target, moreso.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2005-03-15 17:02
DavidBlumberg wrote:
> I just spoke w/the agent and got another # to call. Mail fraud
> is a federal offense and if he's a moving target, moreso.
It's a prosecutable offense if you can catch him in this country. Almost all the time it's from an overseas account where it is well-nigh impossible to prosecute. Good luck.
There is big red text at the bottom of every Classifieds page describing this scam; it's been around in various forms for a long while - it predates the Internet in other guises.
But smart people fall for it every day. Which is why it's still around.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-03-15 18:34
I deleted all my scam emails and put the senders' addresses and domain names into a 'spam-blocker' folder on my email server.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-15 19:22
I consider this type of fraud worse than the old "I'll send you money and you deposit it, etc" as this guy wants his Clarinet. It wasn't the result of a random e-mail sent out to 20 Million - it was a direct contact.
Mark C is right I'm sure, but it's worth a try at least.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-03-16 12:55
I had the same guy send me a similar email when I was advertising my Leblanc Concerto Bb for sale on the bboard classifieds. (It sold later on eBay). But, I immediately told him no deal! This is a scam and sellers need to beware.
Thanks for the reminder.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-16 13:31
You also have to wonder why the guy is stupid enough to ask the seller to send him the change of $3500 on the deal.
Who the heck has $3500 just laying around to give change for?????
Those foreigners.............. got to love em. A giveaway also is the really crappy engrish.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-16 13:59
Wrong, everyone came from a foreigner (anywhere from parent to great, great, great grandparent - unless you're an american indian, but that's just being semantical), not everyone's a foreigner.
These guys try to do scams on people when they don't know the language. It makes it way, way more obvious that it's a scam.
They guys running the scams who actually do know the language and are smart enough to run a realistic scam make the big bucks on their victims.
Somebody dumb enough to fall for one of the foreigner scams would have to be pretty low on the IQ scale or just beyond gullible.
It's just annoying that they got the mail from this place. How about having anyone sending an e-mail to the sellers be required to log in first? (with e-mail verify just like the boards).
That might cut down on them a bit.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2005-03-16 14:08
> DavidBlumberg wrote:
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> Wrong, everyone came from a foreigner (anywhere from parent
> to
> great, great, great grandparent - unless you're an american
> indian, but that's just being semantical), not everyone's a
> foreigner.
Everyone is a foreigner to someone, or of course you couldn't
say "those foreigners" ... which is what I hear everytime I
leave my own country and go to another.
They couldn't be referring to me, right?
If you were an honest man in those "foreign countries", I think
you'd be upset being lumped in with those that aren't so
honest.
America is a world leader in "scam artists" if you want to
count the Enrons and Worldcoms - just a highly sophisticated version of a scam. Perhaps we're just annoyed that these scams seem so "primitive"?
> Somebody dumb enough to fall for one of the foreigner scams would have
> to be pretty low on the IQ scale or just beyond gullible.
Or, as some scams go, greedy and dishonest themselves (the ones that offer a cut of millions or keep an extra thousand for your trouble).
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Author: William
Date: 2005-03-16 14:50
David, lets not get "political" now........................
BTW, any relation to the mayor?????
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-16 15:59
No, but he says his name the same way. (he actually says blum not bloom ) blum as in um, not oom.
On the Trump show he introduced himself by saying his name that way. Right before they entered his office, Trump pronunced his name incorrectly (which is how 99.9% of everyone says his name - but you know that the way he says it himself would be the true pronuncation).
So I say my name is with a u, not the $$ signs 
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