Is this a Blag ???

[fisherman]

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As it only takes 3 banking days for cleared money in account,


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Nooooooo! haven't you seen the horror stories? Bank unclears funds much later:
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If the cheque hasn't bounced and been debited to your account by the end of the sixth working day, the bank or building society will not be able to debit it to your account unless you give your permission or unless you are a knowing party to a fraud.

Sixth WORKING day could be, instead of payed in monday cleared on thursday, payed in monday, cleared following tuesday, 8 days.

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Much much worse than 6 days, particularly with foreign transactions - think 3-6 months for the bank taking the money back from you (or having a legitimate claim against you for a bounced cheque/draft).

Try asking your bank (find someone senior) to give you IN WRITING a date by which money deposited by cheque or draft is totally, irredeemably, yours. You will find surprising reluctance. My bank told me six months was "about" the worst case scenario.

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Yes, I think it can be much longer than six days, but took the info from a website, google for the 2-4-6 rule. I now see this is only for sterling.

 

[knewboater]

The reason for a solicitor is to ensure that if things go wrong you are able to claim from their insurers, it maybe the case that a broker does not have the same insurance.
However, if it worked for you fine.

 

[Blue_Pearl]

What if you ask them to "Western Union" the deposit / or another "cash" transfer method ?. I'm sure they have the equivelent of "bankers drafts" in the US as well. On the other hand though, who trusts the banks these days !!
Do a few searches on money transfer scams .......... as the others have said, there are a few variations on the scam.

 

[Jobs_a_ good_ un]

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[Norman_E]

You should edit your post to delete your e-mail address, which appears at least three times.

I cannot find a country code for the sender, but there is a possible clue, about 10 lines up from the bottom there is a line which starts "DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1;
I am not sure if that means that the message originated in South Africa or not.

Though not all people who use web based mail are fraudsters, nearly all fraudsters do.

Where is Brendan when we need him?

 

[Jobs_a_ good_ un]

Thanks Norman post edited

One of the things I noticed was that he didnt even call it a boat but property on a few occasions

Not the best ive ever seen

Regards

mark

 

[bob234]

Hi Mark,
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1. What’s the bottom price of the property? Is the boat still on
it’s originally paint?
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'Original Paint'?!!!

Knows a lot about what he claims to be interested in buying doesn't he?

I agree with others. Not worth pursuing IMHO.

Cheers,

Bob

 

[Marmalade]

yep - it's fake.

see 419eater.com

 

[mcframe]

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I cannot find a country code for the sender, but there is a possible clue, about 10 lines up from the bottom there is a line which starts "DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1;
I am not sure if that means that the message originated in South Africa or not.


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Not quite - the rsa-sha1 bit is talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions .

However, the 41.219.199.3 IP address is African.

 

[David_Jersey]

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One of the things I noticed was that he didnt even call it a boat but property on a few occasions

Not the best ive ever seen


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What makes you think it is not <u>very very </u> well written?

You are probably thinking that the writer is unsophisticated............Which is the entire point.

and you probably think you know what the scam is / how it works and just maybe you are also thinking that you could probably outwit some peasant sitting at a PC in bongo bongo land. But remember that you are dealing with proffesionals. and patient ones.........if I was a scamster any response would be good. A live e-mail address attached to someone with at least £80k of assets <u>and</u> not afraid /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif That puts you up the list somewhat /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[cobolt]

Footsoldier - Maybe the website you are thinking of is www.419eater.com . Some brilliant "scambaits" on there!

 

[GazzaUK]

"I am vanting to be buyings your boat. Please be giving me your bank details, sir, with very much gratitudes............" etc etc etc.....Erm, yes it's a scam!