Thread: WARNING: Scammer sending messages via the SRP Classifieds

I just received this series of emails from a person calling themselves Gary King ([email protected]):


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From:
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Subject: A message about your ad on Straight Razor Place
To: *******

Hello,
I just came across your Item and I'll like to know the following questions regarding the ad.
Q#1. How long have you owned the Item?
Q#2. a) Have you owned it from new? b) If not how many previous owner?
Q#3. Why are you selling it?
Q#4. In your opinion, what sort of condition is it?
Q#5. Any new available photo?
Q#6. What is the final asking price that you are asking for it now?
Q#7 Do you accept a ( Cashier Check / Money Order/Paypal)as a mode of payment?
Q#8Will you let a shipping company come to your house for the pick up of the Item?
If you are through with this i will like you to get back to me with the present state of the Item and your contact information to mail out the payment to you as soon as possible.
Name you want on check:
Home Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Phone Number/Office Number:
I'll like to have the response to these question in your earliest convenience. Hope to hear from you soon. kindly email me direct to my private email address ([email protected])


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From: Gary King
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Subject: About Payment.
To: *******

Thanks for mailing back, i'm an honest and straight person and always want to be treat the same way, are your sure of the item condition? this is only what can make me to be worry, i am an oceanographer and i am buying this item for my Partner, i am at sea right now,and I can only pay through Paypal and you can put the Paypal charges on me because as at present, i don't have access to my bank account online,but i have it attached to my Paypal account,and this is why am using Paypal to pay,all i will need is your paypal email address to make the payments, i'm using a private pick up agent for the pick up, after payments has been sorted and will also handle the paper works.I will contact the pick up agent with your location? So that I can know how much it will cost me for the pick up, the pick up agent still have some more items to be pick up for me, payment wil be make to you as soon as you get back to me with your paypal email address, I will be looking forward to hear back from you ASAP.
Thanks and God bless.


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From: Gary King
Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:22 PM
Subject: About To Make Payment
To: *******

Hello,
Thanks so much for getting back to me....I am about to send the payment to your PayPal account and as I have told you that i have a shipper that will come for the pick up of the item from you,but the shipper don't use PayPal, all they use is Western Union to pay them and i am trying to send the money online but it's not going through and I am on the sea there is no way i can find a western union agent to make the transfer to my pick up agent,so i wanted to ask if it will be OK for me to include my pickup agent's fees together with your payments through PayPal,So you will help me wire the pick up fee to them via western Union Money Transfer immediately i pay you.I don't mean to bother you I'm sure you understand that I'm presently on the sea and there is nothing i can do to that. The bottom line is after I have made the payments via PayPal,you will help me wire my pick up agent fee to them through western union money transfer, I just wanted to seek your consent before going ahead with the payments The sum of $370 will be added to the payment that will be send to you, $320 is going to be for the shipper, while the remaining $50 will be the Western Union fee to send the shipper's fee to them. so, I will like you to get the shipper's fee send to them via Western Union as soon as you receive the payment confirmation in your PayPal email account.
Best Regard

That's the same guy who sent me one

Yeah, and he hopes we're at sea too, the sea of stupid!! Thanks for the heads up to the Mods!!

Regards,

Howard

Sounds legit to me.

Frankly I am not sure how this guy even thinks anyone will fall for that?
Who sends a transport to pick up a razor? And he is also asking for a country , seriously? What if it was in Zimbabwe for example, he would send a plain may be?

just got the email too.

Well, just me, but I hope his barnacles rot off! Or But that's just my softer side!!

Howard

Really? Is this the first time you guys have got spam?