Reminds me of a very funny exchange between John Miles and an eBay spammer:
Item: HP 8566B SPECTRUM ANALYZER (140015503492) This message was sent while the listing was active. jmiles(at)pop(-dot)net is a potential buyer. Hi -- Does this 8566B include the optional waveguide gonkulator? Thanks! From: ARTHUR MOORE <HYPERLINK "mailto:arthumoore%40yahoo.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Question for item #140015503492 - HP 8566B SPECTRUM ANALYZER Yes include the optional waveguide gonkulator. What price you have in mind for it? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of buehl Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Ebay 5071A scam back again? One possible way of sorting out the scammers is to ask a simple question which will get a "yes" from a scammer. For example: Please confirm your 5071 has the jack labled NTSC INPUT on the back. Tom Buehl At 07:43 AM 6/26/2007 -0700, Dan Rae wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi All > > > >Am I right in thinking this is another EbayUK repeat of the dodgy 5071A > >auction that was listed a week or so ago? > > > > >Nigel, probably yes. Some of the characters go on for weeks or months >with the same phony ads but with new or newly hi-jacked seller >identities. There was one Racal dual receiver ebay ad, originally for >real, that appeared over and over again at intervals for months, maybe >thirty or forty times in all... It sometimes used to take eBay days >to pull and NARU them, I would sometimes bid just to see how long they >did take, and also tell eBay, but that is a pretty thankless task. > >The tell tale signs are many, asking for Western Union Money orders, >soliciting direct contact and so on. Looking at the seller's other >items will give a clue often, if there are pages of lots of presumably >desirable goodies like Plasma TVs, laptops etc., listed very cheap. > >The 5071 is quite a sophisticated item for the usual run of the mill >scammer though. An odd choice. > >73 >Dan >ac6ao / g3ncr > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
