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by witherspoon on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
i am trying to sell a gaboon on this sight and a lady named samantha davids from london says she wants them she first says she is going to send me 2500$ (250 asking price) i am to take out my part and send the rest to her assistance in the U.S. who will pick up the snakes i ask her to call me i would like to talk to the assi about the transport of the snake then she emails back and says she will need to send 4500$ me take my part send the rest to her assi this is strange does anyone else know about this

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by LarryDFishel on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Standard and unusually obvious internet scam.

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by captiveherps on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
She told me she wants to buy lamps too. I did not reply to her. This scam comes up all the time.

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by herpboy on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
i had the same thing done to me when i was selling an albino california king a guy from the "uk" said he would send me a thousand dollars and think i would take out what he owed me and then the guy said he would have his representative from my state (whatever that means) come and pick up the snake and the rest of the money but get this in my add i clearly stated NO shipping and then the guy turns around and tells me what the shipping is going to cost weird right? be cautious Bryan

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by herpboy on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
this is to my last post that guy i was talking about from the uk signed his name "van..."

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by idioteque4444 on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Here are some names that I have recieved emails from with the same rediculous requests: Samantha Davis, Toto Mania, and Kung Yu. They all write and TELL you how it is going to be. They say "I WANT YOU TO TAKE DOWN THE ADD AND MARK IT AS SOLD", and "YOU ARE TOY DEPOSIT THE MONEY AND SEND THE REMAINDER VIA WESTERN UNION AND THE ANIMAL WILL BE PICKED UP BY MY CONTACT IN THE U.S.". Does anyone know what the scam is with these people?

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by fizzbob7 on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
samantha davids wanted to buy my car too......scams everywhere......they tried to get me on the phone today with the visa scam that's going around.......

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by LarryDFishel on July 22, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Sal, I understand they do one of two things: 1) Send you a bad check from a foreign bank so it takes a few days to bounce and hope you're stupid enough to send them their "change" before it bounces. 2) Send you a better fraudulent check written against a real account (somone elses), which will actually clear, you send them the change, then when the owner of the account reports the fraud, you're the one liable for paying them back. If they're good or you're particularly gullible they might even get whatever you were selling out of the deal for free along with your money. I doubt most of them even bother with this though. The whole point of the "agent" is so they can give you a legitimate address (probably of someone who has nothing to do with it) and draw your attention away from the fact that you have no idea where you're sending the money...

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