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Good lord. Seems like your plane was on its way to Africa. Or just your money... Luckily you stopped the communication. On the other hand one could have arranged for a "talk" of the shippers with the local police, better yet the FBI. But they might be busy doing other things... Hartmut ----- Original Message ----- From: DONALD BOWEN To: FLYIN Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:28 PM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] BUYER BEWARE - SELLER, TOO ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- My ALON is for sale (see Al's Swap Page). I had also placed an ad in Trade-a-Plane. Several days later I got an e-mail inquiry requesting specs and photos. The e-mail was a bit odd, i.e., the English was slightly garbled. I sent the requested info and received two additional replies. The gist was that a foreign lady from (?) wanted to buy the airplane, sight unseen, for her husband, and have it shipped to (?). She asked about an earnest money deposit. I told her a Cashiers Check in amount of $10,000 (refundable) would suffice . She replied saying she would send me a check for $105, 000, which I was to deposit it to my bank account, retain $25000 for myself as earnest money, and give the remaining $80, 000 to her "Shippers" who would appear at my door (I had not given her my address). By that time I had decided that this was obviously a scam, and stopped exchange of e-mails with her. I recall reading about similar schemes , but don't remember where or when. BEWARE! Don Bowen ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
