I have taken out names just to protect the other forum.

I am here to let you know of my scam experience. It started about 3 months ago. I got an e-mail from this guy who said he was very interestead in my horse trailer. He just wanted to know the price and that was it. At first I tought something was wrong because the gram and spelling that was used was very poor. Here is an example.


Dear Sir
I am (name) I am interested in Buying your horse
trailer, Please give me the total cost of buying only and I will instruct my client to pick the vehicle up from its location as soon as the cheque/money order is cleared. I want to know if you accept a casher's cheque/money order.If that is okay by you get back to me as soon as possible because I need it urgently. If interested you can as well reach me as soon as
possible with your full names, contact address and telephone number.

Regards,
(scammer)

After me telling him the price he e-mailed me back and said he would be buying it. He told me that he had sent the cashiers check. After it not showing up I e-mailed him and asked what was wrong. He then e-mailed me and apologized for the delay. The check he sent was issued on the 1st of December. He e-mailed me back on the 5th of December and said, "I just sent the cashiers check out it will be there soon. One day I was on the internet and checking my e-mails and recived this message.


i guess by now you should have received the check. amount on the check is $5200.difference is for my shipper whom will be coming to your location to pick the trailer up from you. waiting for your response.


It was on the 15 of December, I tought it was kind of odd that he was send me $2,700 dollars to pay for his shippers. So I went and got my mail the cashiers check was there. I asked the postmaster to read the postmark and he told me it was from Africa. The stamps on the envelope were from Nigera. Also the envelope was not sealed. I took the check down to the bank they told me it would take about 12 days to calear. I e-mailed (scam name) to let him know, he was upset and wanted me to send the extra money to his shippers immediately. I talked to him on the phone to try and explain the whole thing but he was very rude. Almost every day he would e-mail me or call wanting to know if it had cleared. Many times he told me that I was lieing. So one day I called the bank to find out if the check had cleared and they told me that it was counterfit. That very night (the scammer) from (business scam name) called and I told him the cashiers check came back as counterfit and he told me he would fix every thing and send me an e-mail. I had the show me some of the things wrong with the cashiers check. So I will turn all of the info I have over to the law enforcement. I almost forgot today Dec 27 I got another scam e-mail and it was from (other scammer) in the United Kingdom and the wrote just like (1 stscammer) and asked for all of the same things just like him.

The Nigerian scammers are out everywhere, I swear. They crawl all over the internet, trying to get you to cash cheques and money orders for them and send them money. They offer to pay you for cashing cheques for them, you name it. This is certainly a very scary twist on it, however - I didn't realize that they'd bumped it up to "buying" things over the net and trying to scam money that way.

Best one that I had was an African artist that I met on MySpace. Talked to him, as friends, for roughly 8 months before he had to go to school. Suddenly, I was getting a speech about how he had to travel through all these war zones and how, in order to pay for his schooling, he had to do "work" for this man that involved weapons, etc. He began begging me for money, so he wouldn't have to "work" for this man anymore.

Shyeah...right.

That was a dedicated scam. How could he afford his internet access? Anyway glad you had the smarts to end that "friendship" I bet he made a ton on that.

Well His boss did. They work of a percentage. So for every dollar earned they get 10 percent. Since the boss has such high costs of Corruption to pay out.

Sad deal really. Evil is Evil.. and Theft is right there.

Yes, it was really quite elaborate. He made friends with quite a few of us on there, where he would post up pictures of his art work and talk about things that he was working on. Regardless of whether or not he was actually doing the paintings, he was a very talented writer, considering the scam he was trying to pull off.

It's just very sad that there are people, out there, like that.

For a poor country they sure have internet access don't they?

They sure do, but I imagine they can pawn that off on something similar to the U.S. I mean, here, almost everyone has a computer anymore, regardless of how much money they make. I know I have a very modest income and yet I have a computer and each of my children have one as well.

I'm sure the guy I dealt with would have argued that he either used his at school or one from his friends or boss or whatever but, regardless, you do raise a very valid point.

Has anyone else dealt with the Nigerian scam-artists in regards to horses? I'm still boggled by that...it's very alarming!

When I had to move and sell my horses, I ran into the same scam. The only difference with mine was he was going to have his "agent" come look at the horses. I figured this was some big wig who needed a trainer or someone to look and make sure he wasn't getting screwed over, right? This "agent" shows up, barely speaks English, looks at the horses for two seconds from his car, and then proceeds to tell me that the buyer will take them and will be sending a bank cheque the next day. I am to cash the cheque and then pay the "agent" his portion of the proceeds. Then when I told him no, I would not be selling to him, the "agent" had the nerve to start threatening me, that I was backing out of a "legal" agreement. It got nasty, but I got a little nervous. It is one thing to avoid scammers on the net but when they graduate to this level, you have to wonder.

Jax

I can't believe that arragance. All for money. You wonder what fear these people have. I mean theft is theft. From a dime to a dollar. But to go to someones house and try and pull a fast one.

I truly feel sorry for these people as they must have no heart.