Hey Guys
I received this email from this creep for my DC17 for sale in the buy and sell section I think Lacey had some trouble with him not long ago anyway I have offered to meet him at his place with the board or take him for a nice long paddle out behind Cook island just me and him and if he would like a carbon paddle surgically removed from his..... beware
cheers Boof

from: john Davids [[email protected]]
Hello Mate,thanks for the response,i would have loved to call but due to my present location and work load i wont be able now.Please am buying it for my son who just graduated from university of technology. he lives in....Mate i will not be able to come for inspection now all i really need from you is the exact details.Mate,due to the nature of my work i am a very busy man working all day moreso am out of town at the moment .i will pay with the fastest and safest online payment "PayPal" and please am happy to take care of the paypal chargers incase you don't want to...and pick up will be arranged.Do get back to me your PayPal email address so that i can payin...
Thanks..

I was selling a mtb a while back go to the end and a guy sent me a check for $9999.00 Aus said I could keep and extra $1k on top of the price. Catch was I had to give him the remainder when he came to pick up the bike. Figured out pretty quick he was trying to launder money through me - the African address on the card was a big tip as well.

CMC said...

Note to Laurie. Perhaps a filter for these guys fraudulantly contacting people would be to withold contact info unless the browser is a member.

Our filters are pretty good, but like the spam in your inbox, it's an ongoing quest to keep blocking them as they come up with new strategies.

We could restrict to "members only", but I've not been a fan of sites which force you to join just so you can enquire about something for sale.

Regardless whether internet, private mail, phone or face to face, you've always got to be alert for scammers!

It's not hard. With PayPal transactions you just need to check your account to see if the money is in there. Never ever trust an email.

I would probably add never trust any complicated arrangements. There is nothing terribly difficult in the "You give me money. I give you stuff." model of commerce.

AUS02 said...

I've got a sailboard for sale and just got a private email from '[email protected]' asking whether it was still for sale, so I thought I'd do a seacrch on his address and came up with this thread. I've emailed him back already saying it is still for sale. It'll be interesting to see how the correspondence transpires ...

I got one also from the same bloke

I thought the same thing oliver but dont know him well enough to start anything, anyway its not his favourite brand so he is surely innocent
cheers boof