My Mastiffs had puppies. I advertised them in a local paper. One of my responses is from a scam artist. (Probably overseas) Who do I contact to turn them in? Is it even worth messing with? Since they are not in the U.S can any thing be done?

Here is the letter.

Goodday Once Again,
Many thanks for your swift response on that,also i am very gateful
to hear back from you and am satisfied with all what you said,so without
stressing you i will make all neccessarily arrangement with my shipping
company who will come over for the shipping and clearing of the(AKC REGISTERED ENGLISH MASTIFF PUPPIES ) at you location and i will instruct my associate who is owing me sum of $4000 to send you the payment and once you recived and cashed the
cheque,i will want you to deduct your own $900 for your (AKC REGISTERED ENGLISH MASTIFF PUPPIES ) and $100 for compesating you and for the stress you will go through in
transfering the rest of the balance to the shipping company,because
that will covers shipping and clearing of the (AKC REGISTERED ENGLISH MASTIFF PUPPIES )at your location and paper work.
I will be looking forward to hearing from you with your full name
and address on where the cheque will be mail to.
Many thanks and God bless
Best Regard
Billard

 

Definitely a scam...and probably nothing you can do about it except quit communicating with the guy.

 

I agree with Hoss.

No communication = No problem.

 

I work at a bank. Trust me, that is the biggest scam out there right now. The check is bogus and your bank will eventually come back to you and want the money back. By then, you have already sent the money to them.

There isn't much you can do about the whole deal since they are international. You could forward it on to the department of justice or you state's attorney general, but they won't do much with it.

 

Hmmm. I would play along and send him a dead roadkill. Don't cash the check.

MikeyB

 

There isn't much you can do about these guys. The cops just basically say what do you want us to do and leave it at that. These people are so hard to catch because all of their info in totally bogus. Email address change daily and there is nothing to track them with.

I agree with Hoss, just quit responding to the guy and they will give up eventually.


~Nick

 

Nothing but you can do but consider it a lesson learned and move on.

 

There are so many of those out there that the police really don't have the resources to deal with them. They usually involve a relatively small amount of money, and someone from overseas.

Naturally, they want you to cash the ligit looking check, pay to ship whatever the item is, and wire back the overpayment... The check bounces around in banker land for a couple of weeks, and comes back bad.

Others want you to electronically transfer the overage, so they can get your account number and clean out your bank account.

My GF's dad just listed a pickup canopy on the free ads that our little local internet service provider has, and he got a similar message (apparently there are no used pickup canopies to be had anywhere in Africa).

Anyhow, between that and "You've just won a forien lottery you didn't enter" kind of scams, if the police do anything with them at all, it would just be put in a file...

 

If enough people do this we might have a chance to stop this scam. Join the anti-check cashing roadkill club today... all you have to do is send us a check for $5 to (insert MikeyB's adress) and we'll send you a box of various road kill (you can choose by region if you wish) and you send them what you like. If you are not satisfied we will refund your $5. Feel free to keep the roadkill as we are overstocked.

Thanks,
The anti-check cashing roadkill club.

 

Why not have some fun. You've got to do something to put a burr under their saddle or they'll keep on doing it.

Tell them to send the funds. Dont give them any information. Not even your address. Get the address of you local police department. Give them your name at the PD's address, or your local county attorney's address. See what happens!

 

I guess this is very common.
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