Please help - this is someone trying to con me i think!!

code-a-holic · 28 November 2006 at 5:22PM

I have a cooker advertised in my local friday ad and i had a email come through requesting details so i sent photos.
I have had this reply:
Hello
Thanks very much for your honesy and
transparency.I will want you to know that i am okay
with the everything about the (item)and i will offer
you £50 for it.

In regards to the shippment,i have contact my shipper
and he told me that he will come for the pick up of
the (item) from your place (by airline) as soon as the
transaction must have been sealed.

This is how the payment will be made ,a client
of mine in UK who is owing me some fund £3,500, I will
instruct him to issue a certified Cashier's check in
your name and once the cashier's check clears you will
deduct the cost of the ( item)compensation and any tax
incurred and my balance will be send back to my
shipper via western union money transfer for immediate
shipping arrangement.

I want you to get back to me ASAP with the following
details below so that i can instruct my client to
issue the cashier's check asap.i want you to write
your info according in the below..,.......

FULL NAME :
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
COUNTRY:
(HOME,CELL AND WORK) PHONE NUMBER:

Thanks for your understanding in anticipation and hope
to read from you today. Best regards N.B - I am
presently base in US ,for missionary assignment and
also will compensate you with £50 for the running
arround and transportation and also to consider the
(item) sold to me........and i will wait until the
check clears in your bank before i arrange for the
shiping process,

This is some kind of con isnt it - its just a bizzare response!!!

Creditcardkid · 28 November 2006 at 5:24PM

Yes I think that is a scam all right. I remember hearing the same one but they were buying a car. My advice is to be extremely cautious. Or in other words avoid.

Hope that helps