Come think of it, full well knowing it's a scam- let's screw with this "Gina"

Don't pussy-foot about with Gina, I'll give you $2500 for the board. However, as I'm on my spaceship at the moment you'll have to send me most of your personal information so that my agent can empty your bank account and steal your identity. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but I'm just gagging to pay several times the asking price for used gear and this is an opportunity too good to miss.

Please don't post this e-mail on a web-forum or otherwise mock me. I am a sincere though naive scammer just trying to get by in the 21st century. Kind regards,

dojo

I had the exact same email but for a pair of snow skis, via a seabreeze type ski website.

He said he was a english due on a ship and wanted them shipped elsewhere.


i ****ed with him a bit and never heard back.

i always get a number and call the person direct if selling gear online.

have fun

Last time there was a scammer with a stolen account on ebay selling brand new Cabrinha's for $900 we bought all his stock and then refused to pay via Western Union. It pissed him off no end because he had to relist and we kept buying his stock before anyone else had a chance to buy (we had already lodged a complaint with ebay so we were waiting for them to take the account offline - they took ages to respond and take it down)

I clearly stated that the account (which he had hacked) was in Australia so I would only pick up. He was in China and wanted the money sent to a China western union account. He obviously refused to COD offer, threatened to post negative feedback along with other threats that sent shivers down my left toe. I love pissing off scammers.

the thieving b@stards are at it again.

i have a few kites for sale and sure enough i get an offer - but the whole deliver to Malaysia thing and the choice of words rang alarm bells..so i googled the email address...

"Does it have any disabilities presently?" yes it can not fly unaided

...so i still have this bloke on the hook - what should i do?




-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bond [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 4:39 PM
To: Simon Cornwel-Smith
Subject: Re: Kite

Hello,
Thanks for the swift reply,i am interested in the torch 20119m and
torch 2008 7m price is okay($1450 for the two) and i want you to get
back
to me with more pictures because i am not available at the moment, i
am in Malaysia and i will be using this here in Malaysia.I will be
handling the pick up of this through a legitimate shipping agent that
has their headquarter situated in Malaysia.Please note that i will not
be needing the registration(if there is any to be done) because it
will be invalid over here so please remove the registration.It will be
picked up after you receive the full payment, so i really need to know
the mode of payment because i need this urgently.

I'd like to know certain things too

Are you the first owner?
Does it have any disabilities presently?
What is your reason for selling it?
I'm sorry, just want to be sure about the sale before i proceed.

Andrew

--
Hi there,is this still available for sale?.get back to me asap to know
the next line of action and the final price you are selling it
Andrew

Had a similar experience selling a bike on bike exchange. We acted really dumb and sent an email back saying this was all new to us, that we did not have a PayPal account. We asked if he could credit our visa account instead, acting really, really dumb we offered to provide the visa account number, name on card, expiry date and the three digit code on the back....

It was the fastest response to an email I have ever had, we strung him on for about 2 weeks asking one dumb question after another until he finally gave up.