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ABLE1 · 11-03-2008, 04:30 PM

Hello all,

I received the following in email form four(4) times so far.

If it is too good to be true; IT IS, as well as a SCAM.

Be advised.

Les
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Am Larry James,
I will like to order the items listed below. and let me know if you have the
items available in stock.also i need to know the total cost of 100 units
including the shipping cost to West Virginia 24848, also i need to know type
of credit card you accept as method of your payment as well looking forward
to hear from you.

100 UNITS OF............PHOTROELECTRIC SMOKE DETECTOR WITH BASE 24VDC
2WIRE..BRAND SYSTEM SENSOR 2W-B i3SERIES.

Looking forward to hear from you.
Best Regard
Larry James
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Chris Johnson · 11-03-2008, 08:44 PM

If your bored, play with the guy, give him an amount tell him to send you a check and when it clears you will send the product. When it bounces (which I am sure it will) give it to the DA and the post office (mail fraud) and help shut the guy down.

ABLE1 · 11-03-2008, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Johnson

If your bored, play with the guy, give him an amount tell him to send you a check and when it clears you will send the product. When it bounces (which I am sure it will) give it to the DA and the post office (mail fraud) and help shut the guy down.

I am certainly not that bored...................................

Security101 · 11-03-2008, 09:45 PM

I get them all the time looking for 70 - $400 cameras (they started with the smokes

) and I used to mess with them. For a while I would reply with threatening letters about how I have already tracked their "real isp" and my agents are devising a tactical plan of entry at this very moment in their neighborhood, and notes like that. Usually it got rid of them.

Just delete and move on (it's easier)

On another note I did see where I won $677,384,204 in the Arabian lottery, just waiting on my check!

Jim

BuildingHomes · 11-03-2008, 09:48 PM

I used to get stuff like that in the late 90s running a computer shop. Places in Russia and such looking to buy $40K or so worth of stuff and wanting to pay by credit card. I told them wire transfer only and their response was they couldn't trust their own banks. Good luck!

ABLE1 · 11-03-2008, 10:14 PM

I have received a lot of this crap. Even phone calls. It can be easy to get suckered in to the scam. My hope is that by posting this it will clue in someone not to make a mistake.

Have a better week.

Les

hbiss · 11-03-2008, 11:51 PM

I watch a Tru-Value and Ace hardware store board and this is a common scam. You charge to their credit card and ship. A week later you find out the charge was denied.

-Hal

Snow Man · 11-04-2008, 12:03 AM

I would like to recieve the product first....then be billed.

lmao

Synacom · 11-04-2008, 06:38 AM

Same here, all the inquiries or "enquiries" as they say go into the trash. By the way, based on all the lotteries I've won, I am now a multi-trillionaire and will writing a check next week to cover the national debt.