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thejunipertreeThis email was received by my boss, Angel, this morning in response to an ad she had placed on Petfinder regarding the cats.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Maria Williams <maria_williams802003@yahoo.com>
To: myboss'spersonalemail@hotmail.com
Subject: Cat:white prob persian with black marks
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Sir/Ma,
I am a Veterinary Doctor From Africa
with clients all over West African countries and UK
cities, we also run many zoo in some African cities
and London towns. I have Clinics in most west African
and UK Cities. I can assure you that your pet is not
going for experiment or going to end up in Lab.
testing. I have a client who's interested in your
lovely pet and also willing to pay me anything i
charged to bring it to his lovely home, he's a pet
lover and we pay him visit every week for treatment
to all his pets. I will need to know some certain things
that gets the pet anoyed and things that gets it
aggressive.
Inrespect of payment i have a client in the USA who he has agreed
to procure a Cashier's check for($5,500US) which
he's oweing me to you. All i need to do to
make payment easier and faster is to instruct him to
procure a cashier's check or Postal Money Order and
mail it to you on the address and name you want on
the check or Postal money order.
But i would want to know
if i can trust you to send the remainder of the funds
to my shipper via Western union Money
Transfer after deducting your Adoption fee, as soon
as the check or postal money order get cashed so that my shipper will make
arrangement for the pick up at your location to deliver it to ehe
Adoptee's home, he will need this money to secure
flight tickets to North and South America to pick all
the Animal i Adopted and deliver all to thier
different homes in UK and wherever. I will like you
to mail me asap to enable me arrange payment.
Furnish me with the name you want on the check or
postal money order, your home address as in
zipcode,city,etc and your contact phone number, so I
can forward it to my client who will purchase the
check or postal money order for the payment.
If you have any question or enquiry to make about
this.
You can reach me on phone number +234 8034284986
Thank you
What do you think? I know a few of you have some experience with PetFinder. Have you ever heard of any kind of scam being run through that? This email is definitely bogus. I'm just not sure how widespread it is.
Also, in better news brought through email, Angel received notice today that a friend of hers is friends with a vet, who owns a farm. And the vet is more than willing to take any (or all) of the cats. Which is a complete load of worry off of our backs, especially since all of the cats enjoy being outside.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Maria Williams <maria_williams802003@yahoo.com>
To: myboss'spersonalemail@hotmail.com
Subject: Cat:white prob persian with black marks
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Sir/Ma,
I am a Veterinary Doctor From Africa
with clients all over West African countries and UK
cities, we also run many zoo in some African cities
and London towns. I have Clinics in most west African
and UK Cities. I can assure you that your pet is not
going for experiment or going to end up in Lab.
testing. I have a client who's interested in your
lovely pet and also willing to pay me anything i
charged to bring it to his lovely home, he's a pet
lover and we pay him visit every week for treatment
to all his pets. I will need to know some certain things
that gets the pet anoyed and things that gets it
aggressive.
Inrespect of payment i have a client in the USA who he has agreed
to procure a Cashier's check for($5,500US) which
he's oweing me to you. All i need to do to
make payment easier and faster is to instruct him to
procure a cashier's check or Postal Money Order and
mail it to you on the address and name you want on
the check or Postal money order.
But i would want to know
if i can trust you to send the remainder of the funds
to my shipper via Western union Money
Transfer after deducting your Adoption fee, as soon
as the check or postal money order get cashed so that my shipper will make
arrangement for the pick up at your location to deliver it to ehe
Adoptee's home, he will need this money to secure
flight tickets to North and South America to pick all
the Animal i Adopted and deliver all to thier
different homes in UK and wherever. I will like you
to mail me asap to enable me arrange payment.
Furnish me with the name you want on the check or
postal money order, your home address as in
zipcode,city,etc and your contact phone number, so I
can forward it to my client who will purchase the
check or postal money order for the payment.
If you have any question or enquiry to make about
this.
You can reach me on phone number +234 8034284986
Thank you
What do you think? I know a few of you have some experience with PetFinder. Have you ever heard of any kind of scam being run through that? This email is definitely bogus. I'm just not sure how widespread it is.
Also, in better news brought through email, Angel received notice today that a friend of hers is friends with a vet, who owns a farm. And the vet is more than willing to take any (or all) of the cats. Which is a complete load of worry off of our backs, especially since all of the cats enjoy being outside.
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Date: 2004-10-22 09:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-22 11:33 am (UTC)That is just sick and sad.
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Date: 2004-10-22 02:55 pm (UTC)"Yes, the latest popular scam is for overseas people to offer to buy something from you (like if you post an auction somewhere). They promise to send you a cashier's check.
They give some song and dance about the check coming from a business partner that owes them money. They describe the check as being for more than the sale amount of your item. So they will "trust" you to wire them the difference (and send their item).
They send your fake, but slow to discover lack of authenticity cashier's check. You deposit it. Your bank incorrectly accepts it as valid. Your account balance increases. You wire the difference. You send the product. Your bank then discovers it is bogus and removes the money from your account.
You're now out the difference, plus the item you shipped."