BEWARE of that guy!! - Page 1

Beware of Andy Thomas from Great Britian. He sends you a cheque with more money than you want to have for your dog/puppy. After a short time he sends you an email with a adress which should be the shipper but this adress doesn't exist. This guy wants you to send via Westernunion money to the "shippers" adress and then to a adress in Nigeria.

All this happend to me in the last four weeks. Today my bank told me that the cheque is stolen and now they want their money back.

BEWARE of this email andy1988thomas@yahoo.com

More informaton here: www.musicalinstrumentsales.co.uk/boguse-emails.html

If there is someone out there who experiecend the same, contact me please!!!

Shepherd-fan

So sorry to hear you have been scammed, this con is one of the oldest in the book I'm afraid.  They do it for all kinds of items.   My sympathy as I doubt you wil get your money back.

Margaret N-J

I have received this same type of scam.  Except I had a feeling that something was not right.  He never really asked about the specifics on the puppy he wanted to buy!  So, I played the game and got a check also....but I knew it was bogus!  He was supposedly in England, his check came from a bank in Kansas and the fedex envelope had a texas address on it!  I still have the check and my dog!  LOL!

Vickie

www.PowerHausKennels.com

Ouch....

I too have recieved this scam.  Probably 20 times or more over the years.  If it is too good to be true it probably is.  A friend fell for this as well and she now owes her bank $3500...  She cashed the check.  She turned it over to the police and was told there really was no way to recover her money and it was a hard lesson learned.  They turned it over to a special federal department that looks into these Nigerian scams.  I am very sorry for your luck.

Shannan  :(

 I'm so sorry you got screwed.  It sucks that there are dishonest ppl in the world.

It's good to spread the warning to NEVER accept payment for more than is due with an agreement to send the extra money somewhere else.  I think it generally takes a few days for certain kinds of checks to clear, and by the time you find out the check is bad, you've already sent real money (like via Western Union wire) to someone else.  And probably the item purchased as well.

And I was so exicted

I got an email from someone in Nigeria claiming Id be the recipient of $10 Million Dollars.  Now you tell me its all a scam?

Thanks for ruining my day... :)

It can take longer than a few days for some of these scammer fake cashiers checks/money orders to go bad.. 

Andy Thomas is probably a phoney name for someone who is not in Great Britton but sitting in a phone bank in Nigeria.

I'm trying to understand this story correctly. The fellow who calls himself Andy Thomas sends you a check for a puppy (more than the amount that you actually entitled to!) Then he sends you an email with "shippers" (shipping?) address to send him the extra money back? So you send him the extra amount back while you received nothing because the check was stolen? Did you cash any money? I assume not. Is this what's going on? I understand that no shipping of a puppy has been done here.