[Hallicrafters] SCAMS

[Ed]

I've had many of these as well connected to my posting. In fact, I had so 
many that I overlooked a legitimate inquiry and missed a sale.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo at isp.ca>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] SCAMS


>I have had a couple of scammers answer my ad for S77 parts on the 
>Hallicrafters web page.  The scam goes like this:  "I want to buy your 
>parts.  I have this friend who owes me money.  Give me your address and 
>phone number and he will send you a check for $10,000.  You deduct the cost 
>of the parts and give yourself a bit of a bonus for doing this and send the 
>rest of the money to me.  My shipping company will arrange to pick up the 
>parts at your home".  Yeah, sure!  And what else?
>
> The first couple of e-mails back and forth seemed geniune from an overseas 
> ham who did not have a good command of the English language.  But then 
> came the scam, and an insistence on street address and phone number.  I 
> was approached by two "different" scammers in this way about 2 weeks 
> apart, each with a different e-mail address but both served by 
> Yahoo....ie-untraceable..
>
> I have forwarded all of the e-mails on to Phonebusters.
>
> Wonder if anyone else has had an attempted scam put on them like this as a 
> result of an ad in the Hallicrafters web page?
>
> Bill, VE3NH
>
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