[Boatanchors] Fw: intrested in buying the radio

[Gary Maples]

Greetings:   I work for a financial institution and I can verify 
for you that it is indeed a scam.  The scammer sends you a 
cashiers check for an amount much larger than the purchase price 
of an item.  He asks you to forward the difference to another 
party.  After you have wired the difference or sent a money 
order, the cashiers check he sent you comes back to your bank as 
being a counterfeit or completely bogus.  Your bank will expect 
you to make good on the entire amount of the counterfeit cashiers 
check.  By endorsing the counterfeit cashiers check for deposit 
in your account, you become personally liable for that bogus 
check.  The scammer has the difference between $2500 and the 
price of the radio.  You have an unplanned obligation to your 
bank.  If some one offers to buy a radio from you on this basis, 
don't do the deal.

  They really do not want the radio and will not care if you ship 
it or not.  What they want is the funds that are "excess" in the 
cashiers check.  Had a depositor defrauded of $4,000 in a 
supposed sale of an electric mobility scooter in just this manner.

73,  Gary W9OAK

p.s.:  The early scams of this type appear to have been 
originated by Nigerians

> ----------
> From: Greg Mijal <bluebirdtele at earthlink.net>
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Fw: intrested in buying the radio
> Date: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:30 PM
> 
> Here's an email I just received.  It's apparently a scam involving radio
> gear and money. As you can see he hasn't quite sprung the trap yet.
> At least it's not another get rich scheme  from Liberia.
> I'm starting to think the national product of Liberia is FRAUD.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "martins cave" <martinscave at fastermail.com>
> To: <bluebirdtele at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:23 PM
> Subject: intrested in buying the radio
> 
> 
> 
>>Hello ,
>>    my mame is martins i reside in spian and i have big enterprice in
>>which
>>i buy and resell eletronic.i saw your advart and i am willing to buy and
>>the
>>price for the radio, $150  is okay by me .And my client confirm there
>>is no problem about the price ,my client do pays with a {USA}cashier
>>check,he has agreed to mail out as bank cashiers check of $2500 . to
>>you
>>on my behalf to cover the shippment fees.About the shippment ,that we
>>be
>>taken care by  me & my personal assistant,my personal assistant will
>>be
>>using his shipper to do the quick processing of the shipping of the
>>(radio) to my client. So all you are to do after you will received the
>>check this week,Just take out your sale amount and send the remaning
>>to
>>my personal asistant Mr tola smith via western union , as soon as you
>>get the check this week you will take the cashiers check to any
>>cashing
>>outlet and get it cash immediately  and split $100 for roning around
>>and
>>send the remaning money to mr tola smith via western union.&n bsp;
>>  I called my client to know when he will issue the payment to you and
>>he said he will issue the payment to you as soon as he get your
>>contact
>>address and your phone number i will like you to mail me back with
>>your
>>contact address and your name as you want it on the check. I will like
>>to hear from you so that we can complete this transaction as soon as
>>possible.cos i will going on vacation and my client really needs it
>>urgently. martins
>>
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>