[Elecraft] [TowerTalk] Elecraft package for sale

[dave]

I'd say SCAM. Sounds like the 'seller' has somehow gained access to 
this property and so is willing to offer the 'come and test' option. 
Makes the scam all the more convincing.

If anyone on the list knows the real AK4EH they should get in touch 
with him and verify.  He may be in the hospital or have been moved 
into a nursing home and someone else is helping themselves to his gear 
(and probably everything else in his house).

It may be legit, but it certainly sounds fishy. That is an *awfully* 
good price for that much gear. He could certainly net more by selling 
the individual pieces.

73 de dave
ab9ca/4



On 12/12/14 1:35 PM, Jef Allbright wrote:
> It just begins in a older formal style that happens to have been
> adopted to the infamous Nigerian scammers. That doesn't mean that it
> was created by the same process.
>
> On the Internet, as in our day-to-day lives, people often focus on
> details while missing the larger context. Similarly, they often take
> issue with someone's words rather than seeing the words as only
> partial evidence of the nature of the generating  process.
>
> The stronger indicators of an actual scam would an offer to good to be
> true,  a stupidity filter that passes only marks stupid enough to fall
> for a scam, artificial urgency, requirement of an initial commitment,
> or appeals to greed or other base emotions that make it unlikely for
> the mark to pursue a claim afterward.
>
> This looks to me like an older gentleman, trying to do something with
> gravity and honor that is unusual--and thus suspect--in our present
> society.
>
>
> - Jef  N5JEF
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Nick Kemp <nkemp1165 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree that the text style is suspicious.  Anyone interested can Google
>> the address and view the street side photos.  It does not verify the
>> seller but there does appear to be some ham radio antennas on the
>> property. Plus the call sign lookup corresponds with the address.  The
>> phone number is a cell number and I couldn't xref it with the address ,
>> call sign or name given the minimal effort applied.
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