Are the Trader Scammers back?

Submitted: Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 16:59

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Shaker

I have 4 x Cooper ST's listed for sale in the Exploroz Trader, I have just received this enquiry, which I think sounds a little suspicious:

hello,
Am interested in buying your product and if it still for sale kindly get back to me as soon as possible.awaiting your soonest response today...
James..

Is this similar to the scam enquiries that were received recently?

OR, if it is genuine, my sincere apologies to the enquirer!

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Reply By: ExplorOz Team - Juliana - Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 17:32

Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 17:32

Hi Shaker,

If you think that you have received an email from a scammer, forward the email on to us here and we will look at it. Send it through to Info@ExplorOz.com If it does appear to be a scammer, we can ban their account. We do check most of the emails that go through and if there appears to be one, they get banned instantly.

Through people forwarding the emails, and us checking the emails daily, we seem to have slowed them down.

Good luck with selling your tyres,
Juliana

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Reply By: Member - Toonfish - Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 17:47

Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 17:47

sounds fair dinkum to me as when they tried to dupe me they asked for bank details for payment and an agent will pay them after i pay an agent (money laundry?).

maybe you should reply my supposed buyer was in london (a fake adress i found out from a friend over there actually).

if its a ozz e-mail addy you should reply and ask for a phone number .
nothing ventured nothing gained

was thinking about your tyrres for my zook actually now you mention it.

cheers

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Reply By: awill4x4 - Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 22:33

Friday, Nov 12, 2004 at 22:33

If you do get any emails from these scammers particularly from Africa, have a read of this "how to scam a scammer" it's brilliant.
http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&sort=funnymtd&head=1&thread_id=36913
In fact have a good look around http://www.zug.com/pranks.html
I was having a look through this last night and nearly woke the whole house with laughing so much.
Regards Andrew.

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Follow Up By: Lone Wolf - Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:48

Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:48

That, that was just so PRICELESS!!!!

The funniest thing is, is that it's EXACTLY how these buggers write & talk!!!

As I have posted before, my daughter got caught up in one of these, and it was funny watching it pan out.

Both my Wife & Daughter were worried because of the phone calls they were getting in the middle of the night, but I had to let it play out.

My son & I had warned them that it was a scam, but it fell on deaf ears. Shlt is was funny to hear this little prick on Rhiannan's mobile phone.......... begging for money. It got to the stage that for a while, every time her phone rang, she wouldn't answer it, in case it was this guy. I would answer it, and pretend it was one of her girl friends! I'd then pass the phone to her..........

Anyway, it all worked out good. She's got a $5000.00 US Bank Cheque in her room with a big stamp across it from the bank, a mighty souvenir indeed!

Life is sure funny some days!!

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Follow Up By: Member - Brett H (QLD) - Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:40

Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:40

Here is another anti scam site. I have had hours and hours of laughs while reading some of the correspondence. Check out the letter archive

Anti scamming

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Follow Up By: Lone Wolf - Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 20:13

Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 20:13

That, is ONE TOP SITE!!!!

I have bookmarked it, too big for one sitting.
The phone call MPEGs send me back to Rhiannans plight!!

Good find, good work....

The fact that this guy ACTUALLY SCAMS SCAMMERS is wicked!!

Forumites, if your bored, have a look.......

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Follow Up By: Member - Brett H (QLD) - Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 21:01

Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 21:01

They also get the Scammers to take photos of themselves holding up a sign or something funny as part of te authenticatin process. It is quite a laugh.

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