Does this sound familiar to anyone?? - Page 1

I have puppies for sale. I have been contacted 2 times (via email) by someone who says they want a puppy, but they dont ask the normal questions. Then they go on the say they are going to send me more money then the price is, and they want me to cash it and wire a balance to them. I am not retarded, I am not selling my pups to someone like that. If anyone else has had a similar exprience I would just like to know how you dealt with it. I have responded to them and told them what I will need to sell them a dog, which I do not believe I will have to worry about because its not going to happen anyway. I have played along, but I immediately knew something wasnt right. Is this similar to the nigerian scams? Thank you.

I just delete the emails. It's never legit. Veronica

It is a con... the check they send you will not be good and they hope you send them the "balance" back before you discover the check they sent is no good.

Along these lines, I recently had some African Grey Parrots up for sale and received a phone call from a company that is an itermediary for someone that contacts them via instant messenger via the internet and has them make the call for them and as the originater of the IM types, the company tells me over the phone what the originater writes. The "company" will not discuss anything else with "you" except what the originater writes. Anyway, this person, called himself Sam and told them he wanted one of my puppies and I responded that I did not have puppies for sale. This got relayed back and forth and he asked "what did I have for sale". I answered "Parrots", he replied that he wanted one. I realized this was an idiot or some sort of scam and questioned the "company relay person", she put her supervisor on the phone and this women stated that they could not talk about anything other than what was typed to them via the internet. I said "Bye then" and hung up. Got the same call back the next day with this originater trying again. I chewed the company person out and hung up. Got a third call the next day and it was a spokesperson from the "company" and this person stated "we have identified this originater as a credit card fraud, goodbye". Weird. Just be aware. If anything in your life doesn't sound legit, it ain't. :)

hahaha...the last time I got someone who emailed me with this BS (I'll send you this large amount of money extra, and you please give that to the shipping agent), I sent them my "mailing address" to send their fraudulent cashier's check to? What address did I give them? "Fuzzy Babies Inc--(and told them to write the address as "F.B.I."), at our local FBI's address, and then gave one of the agents there a call and told them to expect the check. Someone in the office did call me to let me know that the stupid moron had indeed sent them a cashier's check, but I do not know what (if any) action was taken against the guy. I told the con-artist, when he CALLED (yes, from out of the country)that I never received the check, and that he would have to FedEx another one to me, or I would sell the dog to someone else. He DID FedEx another, and gave me the tracking number. I felt good about having made him spend at least $50 in shipping/phone costs. hehehe

VomFelsenHof, that is so cool...... I'm going to steal your idea next time. Hope that is okay. :)

VomFel, WOW, That is sooooooooooo cool !! What a great idea !! I'm gonna look up on of the FBI office addresses and see about using it for the next one I get, Get them all the time !! I usually just forward the email to scam.com or something like that. some sort of reporting agency, and let them sort it out, But your idea is sooooooo much better !!

DONT DO IT!!!!!!! Its a Nigerian scam. I fell victim to this when I was moving and trying to find a roommate. They sent 4800 and I was to only take about 800 and send the rest back. I took out 200 and then the thing bounced, so luckily I was only out 200 dollars. I called the bank and they said that this is pretty common. I did some research and found that its actually legal in Nigeria to do these scams and they actually have internet cafes specifically designed for these scams, no internet browsing allowed only scamming or youll be kicked out. The Nigerians seem to feel that American are greedy and we deserve it. The FBI wont and cant do anything about it because these are so common and its perfectly legal in Nigeria.

Its actually called the "Nigerian 419 scam". Google that and youll get all the info you need. What got me was that the guy originally said he was a soldier in Iraq, coming back to the US and needed a place. Me being the sucker I am told him that I myself was a veteran and would hold the room for him. After I didnt send the money I got phone calls and some how my grandmother even got calls from the guy. I got a lot of threats from the guy but nothing ever happened.

Feel free guys...it's not a copyrighted move. I feel that it is only fair to make them spend as much money as possible trying to scam us. If each person made them spend $50 "per scam" and they never got any money, they might stop trying?? Just a thought... You'll have to let me know how things go.