An interesting e-mail (following an eBay bid)

wayneherndon · October 11, 2003 11:15PM

Got this e-mail today after bidding in an auction yesterday and thought I'd share before I hit delete:

Hello sir,
I saw your bid on this auction ([auction info deleted]) , good we can do a deal.. I am a privat seller and i have
for sale the same product for a exceptionale price. So good for now i think you understend me .
Everyone whant's ho have them in they houses and everyone likes them .OK ?
What abut the shipping? Umm this is the all users eBay question .. I
have a good offer for you .
The shipping will be free ( I will pay all the fees for shipping ) yes
you heard well the shipping is free. Now for this deal we must be protected our deal so this is my ideea.
For first i need to know your address after you will know my address
and my name.
So let's do the deal...
You will send me first 50% of the price then i will send you the product , after you will chek the product you will send me rest of money or you have 5 days to
evaluate if you dont like it you can send it back (ATENTION) IN ORIGINAL BOX , also you will receive your money back.
I forgot the payment method... The payment can be done with MoneyGram
service for more information please visit this page www.MoneyGram.com or BidPay by WesternUnion aslo you can use your credit card
MasterCard, Discovery , Visa and AmercanExpres to send me the money
online via www.westernunion.com
I will wait your reply only if you agree with this DEAL at [______@_____].co.uk
Now you must decide how you will be satisfied to do this deal.. I think
is a good way...

Kind Regards!

PS. I will wait your DECISION ( Reply )

All the best and thank's !!!

tjkillian · October 11, 2003 11:17PM

Yes, someone else just posted the same email. Clearly English is not his first language. Of course I'd be overly suspicious and send no money, but I"d might have fun and ask him to send you a picture of the coin.

A scam.

Tom

fcloud · October 11, 2003 11:25PM

Take a look at

<< I will wait your reply only if you agree with this DEAL at [______@_____].co.uk >>

.uk means United Kingdom. English is their first lanuage. Simply not American English.

I wouldn't bite on something like this.

Rampage · October 11, 2003 11:31PM

I got the same email this past Wednesday. The funny thing was that he was trying to tell me I lost the auction, but I, in fact, won it.

Friggin' idiots.

tjkillian · October 11, 2003 11:33PM

Just because his email address is in the U.K., does not mean English is his first language. Just reading the email tells me the person does not speak English well.

Even a ten year old would have better grammar.

Tom

fcloud · October 11, 2003 11:39PM

You miss the point. The lanuage is not the main issue; the scam is. The e-mail is from a different country. And the people in the UK use the language different than we do.

paulheep · October 12, 2003 12:55AM

The UK has more foriegners than we do here in the USA. I agree that the writer's first language was not english. In either case, a UK email doesn't mean the writer is really in the UK.

Paul

Dog97 · October 12, 2003 1:07AM

That's a violation of eBay rules and possible cause for the emailer to be NARUed.

ms70 · October 12, 2003 1:20AM

I wouldn't send him a Moneygram, but I would have sent him a nastygram!

mnmcoin · October 12, 2003 1:23AM

Boy yu peeple sure are qick to jump on someone, I mean where is the pruf. Good golly, last I checked in america you are inosent until proven gilty. I mean wow, how do you know for shure it is a scam. Have you checked his feedbak, certainly cheking his feedbak would insure a great deel. I mean even if it was 85% or more posative...heck that is a B+ in my book...most doctors can graduate and operate on yur momma with a 75%. Sheesh!!! Why don't you give him a chans, heck he is ofering yur mony bak with out a problim...yu can evin pay with a credit card thru western union.

morris <><

just for the slow...

airplanenut · October 12, 2003 1:27AM

tjkillian · October 12, 2003 1:31AM

Morris - even though your spelling is off, for the most part your grammar was spot on. In wayneherndon's email his grammar was very bad but only a little bad spelling.

A scam.

Tom

rkfish · October 12, 2003 1:49AM

Larry and I have received two emails form this guy in the last week....

Has been fun playing with him......but it's unfortunate as we all know
the is someone out there getting scammed as we speak....

Thanks for putting it up as Larry did the same with his....

puff · October 12, 2003 2:01AM

<< Boy yu peeple sure are qick to jump on someone, I mean where is the pruf. Good golly, last I checked in america you are inosent until proven gilty. I mean wow, how do you know for shure it is a scam. Have you checked his feedbak, certainly cheking his feedbak would insure a great deel. I mean even if it was 85% or more posative...heck that is a B+ in my book...most doctors can graduate and operate on yur momma with a 75%. Sheesh!!! Why don't you give him a chans, heck he is ofering yur mony bak with out a problim...yu can evin pay with a credit card thru western union.

morris <><

just for the slow...

>>

......... I wold repart this gay to Eboy. It is apparunt thad he ez tryun to rep yu offff.

CoinHusker · October 12, 2003 2:11AM

It's yoda! "The coin you need, I have." "Free is shipping". "From me you will never hear again, if you pay me your money, I think".

Shamika · October 12, 2003 2:18AM

"The coin you need, I have." "Free is shipping". "From me you will never hear again, if you pay me your money, I think."

No THAT'S funny!

nwcs · October 12, 2003 2:24AM

Oh come on, just donate some money.

Tassa · October 12, 2003 2:28AM

You mean you're not going to jump on that deal?

millennium · October 12, 2003 2:30AM

I got the same exact letter....I forwarded it to eBay and I looked to see if there was a seller by the name on eBay. There was, so I sent him an email to see just exactly what was going on.....He has not replied as of yet...

goose3 · October 12, 2003 2:42AM

one of our guys took a report from a guy here in town that unfortunately fell for this to the tune of a 1500.00!

291fifth · October 12, 2003 3:43AM

Strictly a scam.

AmericanSilverEagleCoins · October 12, 2003 4:01AM

My company emailed samples off this letter and other letters to all it's personnel so that we would not divulge any business info to these scammers. From the way the message is written it seems to match the Nigerian gangs that have been trying to solicit vital information from our company.

Another thing to watch for from these scammers: Many times if you have a phone system that requires you to dial 9 to get an outside line, you will get a call from someone pretending to be from the phone company or IT services requesting you transfer them to extention 90. What you have actually done is obtained an outside line (dialing 9), connecting to an operator (dialing 0) and transfering them to the operator. Once you hangup after the transfer, the caller can make operator assisted long distance calls on your company account. Again most of these calls go to Nigerian or the Middle East. Our company got raked over the coals because 2 employees were tricked into transfers and calls to Saudi Arabia were made shortly before 9/11. With all the investigations going on, it took months for us to clear our name.

Newmismatist · October 12, 2003 5:03AM

<< Take a look at

<< I will wait your reply only if you agree with this DEAL at [______@_____].co.uk >>

.uk means United Kingdom. English is their first lanuage. Simply not American English.

I wouldn't bite on something like this. >>

Duhhh - see the next, post hit reply too quick

Newmismatist · October 12, 2003 5:05AM

<< Take a look at

<< I will wait your reply only if you agree with this DEAL at [______@_____].co.uk >>

.uk means United Kingdom. English is their first lanuage. Simply not American English.

I wouldn't bite on something like this. >>

Uhhh - there's a LOT of non english speaking people in England - "United" Kingdom - they come from everywhere!

relayer · October 12, 2003 5:42AM

<< Everyone whant's ho have them in they houses and everyone likes them .OK ? >>

I'm confused, Is he trying to sell a coin or is he a pimp?

Dog97 · October 12, 2003 5:47AM

<<<Everyone whant's ho have them in they houses >>>
Not me I prefer sleaze sluts across the tailgate.
Same effect as what you'll get if you answer the email huh?

ARCO · October 12, 2003 6:06AM

Great read...thanks for sharing.

I recently bid on a lot of 5 one ounce maple leafs on Ebay. They were selling for about $400.00 each right before gold dropped. Anyway I get an offer from someone in the UK offering to sell me ONE maple leaf for the fantastic basement bottom price of only $1200. That is for a bullion coin selling for about $400.00

I can't print my reply on this forum! LOL

Tyler

Bochiman · October 12, 2003 6:32AM

1) I would agree english is NOT that person's 1st language.
2) He may not even be in the UK....even though the domain for the email is there
3) I would be VERY wary of this (I wouldn't do it, personally)

There was an article last month in the local paper I believe. About an ebay scammer and he talked about what he does, and a little bit about how.
That letter you received had a lot of the same type of things in it.

A lot of times, these scammers set up in the US bu using other countries as a base for their emails, etc. They rely on the fact that people feel too stupid at being taken to the cleaners to report them.

"If a deal is too good to be true, it usually is"

Ron

An interesting e-mail (following an eBay bid)

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