Here's a link to a hilarious twist on this scam dealing with car sales.
http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/class/scam/
Note that there's very little we can do about this. The Nigerian 419 scam
has been around a while and depends on both personal greed and pity. The
e-mails themselves are not traceable because they are usually sent form a
pay-by-the-minute Internet cafe. If it's too good to be true, it is. If it
seems even a little teeny weensy bit fishy, it is. I you even faintly
suspect a scam, you're right.
Kim Elmore, N5OP
At 11:42 AM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
Has anyone heard of a scam where a person supposedily has a check from
someone in the States that owes him money and he wants you to cash this
check and take out the money for the radio. You then send him the
differerence to him. Sounds like a scam to me.
I thought I had read about this scheme somewhere.
A quick reply will be appreciated.
Thank you
Dave, W3ST
Publisher of the Collins Journal
Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
www.collinsra.com
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University of Oklahoma
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.
