Alert! IS THIS A SCAM?
I recently placed an ad on line to put on the market my chihuahua puppies and I recieved this e-mail, IS IT A SCAM? If so what should I do?
I will be okay to have one of the Chihuahua for $350.
I want you to give me your FULL NAME, ADDRESS and PHONE #. My client will send you a company check, it will include my shippers cost. All you entail to do is deposit the check at your bank, it will clear in 1-3 days. Hold your fund for the puppy and send the go together to my shipper in Portales,NM by western union money transfer,... NOTE: you must not transport any money until it clears in your bank in second or third morning okay?
Then you will email me with the informations from western union after you have sent the stability,... when the funds get to my shipper, all arrangements will be made with you to know when he'll come to pick up the puppy.
I will be expecting the required informations from you so the check can be mail out to you on Sunday or Monday.
Thanks and bye for now.
Tony
yes, why does he need a "shipper" to get a puppy? Where is he shipping it to? Rule of Thumb: IF YOU THINK IT'S A SCAM...IT'S A SCAM!!!!!!!
It's a scam. Sure is.
It absolutely is a scam and a common one. Anytime someone you know sends you a check beside an "overpayment" and wants you to send a portion back via Western Union, you can count on it anyone a scam. In this case, they are trying to lull you into a false sense of security by having you not rope the money for a few days when so you think all is well. WRONG!
It could hold up 2 weeks for the check to come back and find out it is bogus and there is no way to trace the money you sent via Western Union - it is gone and you are liable to your mound for the full amount of the check.
Here is a link to the Federal Trade Commissions website that will tell you more about this scam:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/aler...
You should start by reporting it to the website that you posted the puppies for public sale.
Secondly, if you can, report the scam to the user's internet provider.
Thirdly, report the tip to the FBI at the following link:
https://tips.fbi.gov/
Yep. Been around a long time. The check is bogus and the money you send to WU is long gone, and untraceable.
Just pay no attention to it.
C'mon..
YESS it is a scam
if it dont feel right it probably is not .. sounds similar to a scam to me! yeah it's a fuc*ed up scam these type of e-mails have been circulating forever.
It's a scam. Request a certified check or money order for the exact amount.
A well prearranged scam. The check (nowadays it is usually a cashier's check) is counterfeit. The bank may credit your account, but when the check bounces they will retrieve the money from your account. In the meantime the scammer have made off with your money in bread and never heard from again.
It takes TEN (10) business days for an out of town check to clear, not 1-3 days.
Another clue, obvious errors within grammar, especially wrong use of plurals.
This person is a little trailing the times on this scam.
Cashier's checks are the preferred method, because by law the bank has to put together funds available from certain checks within a couple of days or less. Gov't checks, social wellbeing checks, cashier's checks, etc.
But company checks and private checks can have a hold placed for ten days ... so tell him he needs to update his schtick and try again.
And $350 isn't exactly profoundly of money for this scam ... it is usually is in the tens of thousands of dollars. Maybe it is a foreigner where $350 goes closely further than in the states.
This was on TV nearly 2 weeks ago. They send a cheque or bank draft. It appears to clear through the computer system, but then nearly 10 days later the bank discovers it's a good forgery and retreive their money. Meanwhile, you've sent the extra and they took the money and run.
On TV the female won against the bank because (a) she had a good attorney and (b) they repeatedly asked "has it really completely cleared?" and the bank repeatedly said "Yes it has" before they sent the money. (They come to an agreement with the bank but could not divulge the details - which means the sandbank caved in...)
Think about it - if you made a really flawless copy of your company paycheque, and deposited it, when would they find it was a forgery? The numbers would let it clear the bank system. The company would eventually tally up adjectives their paycheques and say "whoa, where did this one come from? We never wrote it!" Then they would start looking at who deposited it and why, and have the transaction reversed. That could transport 1 to 4 weeks. Meanwhile, Western Union will hand out any money to anybody and they dissappear.
If anyone tries to get anything from YOU and wants contained by this mix for YOU to send them money, then always suspect fraud. The doleful thing (sick thing) is that likely you would also have sent a puppy to some bogus address where on earth it might starve to death sitting on the doorstep in a box, waiting for someone who never showed up.
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