a possible scam on Qatarliving
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Hi,
i posted a few adds for items i want 2 sell and i recieved some replies to them on my personal e mail...
it appears as though someone is trying 2 get my bank information or something....
i recieved the same e mail 4 times from 4 different adresses with the same content
i m pasting the content below
please advice on what u think....
Dear friend,
Send me you total cost and shipping cost by fedex,ups or dhl to :
Ship To
Attn Mr ADEBIYI ADESINA
Attn Mr ADEBIYI ADESINA
Lot 105,alafia road, vedoko
city :cotonou
country :Benin
zip code :00229
Payment is by bank transfer and endeavour to send me your banking details for bank transfer.
Jared
Will send you mine by e-mail.....as if!
but you forgot to ask for the bank details or send yours!
It can buy a house, but not a home.
It can buy a bed, but not sleep.
It can buy a clock, but not time.
It can buy a book, but not knowledge.
It can buy you a position, but not respect.
It can buy you medicine, but not health.
It can buy you blood, but not life.
It can buy you sex, but not love.
So you see money isn't everything, and it often causes pain and suffering.
I tell you this, because I am your friend, and as your friend I want to take away your pain and suffering. So send me all your money and I will suffer for you!
Cash is fine.
If you're email is yahoo or hotmail, just click the button SPAM or REPORT SPAM and you'll never receive email from them again, its simple.
There are a lot of people from Africa area, coming up with every kind of scam you can think of! I have gotten emails about cashing Traveler Checks, and they are fake checks, they make their selfs! What happens is they ask someone who already has an account, they deposit it in there account, which is usually around $3000, and they send the money to them, and by the time the bank realizes that they are fake, the person who had deposit them owe the bank $3000, and they only got 10 % of it! Also, they are getting parrot lovers to send them money to pay for shipping of fake birds, but we need to get to them animal lovers and let them know that they can't even ship Parrots from International Countries! It is very said that they are doing this to people in the United States, because a lot of people are getting screwed, and it is mostly old people, that don't know better!
Noel
looooooool
dude, did u not read me saying " possible scam"!!hehe
take a chill pill man, ur language is way 2 exagertaed;)
thanx for ur input thought, i appreciate it:)
have a gr8 day
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We've just added a feature to hide e-mail address from spambots. It should stop this from happening.
Of course, to really be safe you should enable your contact form and ask people to use the contact form instead of posting your e-mail (but this would limit the number of people who may contact u for a classified to registered users)
Having worked in Banking most of my life - it is common to receive these sorts of emails (known as Phishing) - ignore them - they are all pathetic traps for the trusting among us.
For the information of anyone else - if you get any of these unsolicitored emails - usually from Nigeria but increasingly from other African sources asking you to open an account for them to deposit a recent windfall (and for which you will be amply rewarded) - ignore and delete immediately.
Sounds obvious doesn't it - but there's always a victim out there it seems.
ignore ignore ignore ... never give any information of your self to stranger
Yes - Me too! put up a post about room to rent.
Got a couple of folk claiming to be models coming over!
And a couple of folk claiming to be Born again Christians coming over.
Since placing the ad. I have been getting a lot of that West African banking spam.
Use your common sense - ask to meet people or phone them.
If you are naive, insipid or lack common sense, enough too compromise your economical life savings to a fool, thieve, bacillus, deceiving and dangerous individual/s with no respect to you or anyone, then you be my guest in doing so with your personal information. Let me now the outcome. I have my box of tissues ready at hand and a big smile portraying: "I told you about Scams".
I rather take my chance in giving a couple of dollars too a beggared in a wheel chair without legs in the streets of USA. At least he is in worst condition than me.
Have a nice day
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None but ourselves can free our minds..
Don't take the chance, there are so many scammers on here. They are sending e-mails to everyone along with posting their notorious "Nokia" scams.
Was this in response to your advert (i.e. did their e-mail reference what you were selling) or was it just a general e-mail?