[Kenwood] Watch out for a scammers in general...

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 16 Jun 2011 at 21:20, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> On 06/15/11 10:04 PM, N4AOF wrote:
> > Bottom line:  ANYONE who ever asks you to use Western Union to pay
> > for anything is a crook. You have a better chance by mailing someone
> > cash than using Western Union.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kirkby"
> > <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
> >
> >> 3) Today he rings me, withholding the number, and says Western
> >> Union would be a safe method of payment.
> >
> >
> 
> He is certainly not going to get a Western union payment. But I intend
> stringing him along a bit.
> 
> I've sent the individual at
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/ve3xax/
> 
> who has a yahoo email address a copy of the email I received. He has
> confirmed this is a scam, and that he has no AT-230 to sell.
> 
> So as I suspected, this is a scam. The person claiming to be  Alex
> Barski. VE3XAX is an impostor.
> 
> Dave

You may find these two sites of interest. ;-)

http://www.419eater.com/

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

and there are others like them out there.

These scammers tried something similar to what you've experienced on my 
son some time ago. It took some talking by me and his mother to convince 
him that he was being scammed.

Finally, he believed us and told the scammer to go fly...or words to that 
effect.

Good luck. Congratulations to you. Ya done good, Kid! :-)

vy 73,

Ken Gordon W7EKB