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[Peppermint]

I'm getting an increasing number of emails pretending to be from banks.

They have a heading in the style of the bank and they'd like me to go to a link and re-enter my bank details.

I don't think that would be a great idea, would it?

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[pessimist]

I think its a great idea, they wouldn't ask you to do it if there wasn't someting in it for you. Would they? Personally I'm in the final stages of completing the formalities to recieve several million dollars from this philanthropic Nigerian who contacted me. I believe he asked me for my bank details too. I haven't done someting silly have I.......

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[iangrant]

I always reply with incorrect details for the hell of it - I also always reply to the Dr Imbagoe stuff offering millions - great stuff here:

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/index.html>http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/index.html</A> Fantastic fun to read, I've yet to hook one but I've tried a couple..

Ian

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[jimi]

Not at all, I've had the good fortune to have won an Australian State Lottery and have just sent off my bank details to enable the funds transfer. Wonder whether to buy the Najad 38 or 42. Probably the 38 as I would'nt want it too big really.

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[capricorn]

More great stuff on the Nigerian 319 scam here. Good sport but pity the poor souls ouls that lose thousands to these crooks though.

http://www.419eater.com

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[ubuysa]

On a slightly different note, I think someone is trying to scam us over the sale of our flat, but I can't figure out what the scam is. It's similar (I think) to the car and boat sales scam where a foreign bankers draft turns out to be a fake. What's happened to us (so far) is this:

Our flat is up for sale on several web sites. We've been contacted by email and phone by a guy claiming to act for a Swedish investor who is interested in buying our flat to rent. He asked us to send him lots of pictures (which we did, though none of them actually identify the property address) since his "investor" isn't able to travel to the UK to view. Last night we had a phone call from him offering the full purchase price.

Now, it smells pretty stinky to me, but where's the scam? With a car or boat he can have the goods out of the country before you find out that his money is no good, but you can't move a house! He'd have a hard time selling it on before we found out his money was dud too - but that's the only way that I can see that he gets the money.

What do you think?? Is it a scam (I'd hate to tell him to b****r off if it's genuine)??? And if it is (and I think it is) what is the scam???????

Tony C.

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[mikewilkes]

I presume you are doing this through a lawyer, so the lawyer dont give out the keys or the title deeds until he is certain the brass has been cleared by the bank. Lets face it lawyers can fob anybody off for long enough to have the cash.

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[AlexL]

I can't see the scam either - assuming you're using a proper law firm for your conveyencing - they will only transfer the asset once the money is cleared into their client account - and they will only accept proper bank transfers -not dodgy cheques or cash - so It could well be genuine. If your not using a lawyer then I have to comment that you are probably inviting problems.

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[ubuysa]

Thanks, and yes we are using a lawyer (madness to do otherwise). SWMBO was going to have a chat with him today so I might know more when I get home. I'd hate to give up on a genuine deal!!


Tony C.


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[KevB]

I assume you have a mortgage on the flat? If so I doubt if you would be able to sell till all the money is in the hands of the solicitors as the mortgage company have charge over the property so I cant see how a scam could work.

All monies are transfered to solictors, once in their grubby hands they "complete" the deal - No money, no deal.

as an aside, a few months ago I completed on a buy to let property, the mortgage company mistakenly transfered the funds into my current account instead of the solicitors.
Lots of frantic calls were made that afternoon by the mortgage company trying to get their money back. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Fill]

Two possibilities:

I've heard that the cheque will be paid over, appear to clear and show funds and a few days later you get a note from your bank that it bounced (even if parted with deeds it sounds unlikely to work) ; other possibility is they produce a "bankers draft" for a bit more than the purchase price (they just happened to have this) and ask you to refund the extra. Don't!

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[ubuysa]

Fill, no worries - this is the car and boat scam I mentioned and I'm already aware of that.

KevB, many thanks for that. It is mortgaged and it hadn't dawned on me that those money-grabbers wouldn't let their asset go unless they had all the i's dotted.

Perhaps it's genuine? If so we'll be boat hunting soon........./forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

Tony C.

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[TrueBlue]

Most property sales are handled by solicitors at both ends and do the transfers by CHIPS or is it CHAPS which are guaranteed funds.

A dodgy bank transfer may catch out a solicitor who is not used to overseas payments??

'Course it could be all very genuine and you weren't asking enough in the first place..

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Stop what you're doing and wait my signal

 

[Sybarite]

Be very wary about giving out personal bank details if they say that they want to transfer a deposit.

John.

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[Rowana]

Dinna be a bloody skinflint a' yer life!

Gang for this ane -
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.najad.com/najad_yach_511.asp>http://www.najad.com/najad_yach_511.asp</A>

Ah've sailed on this verra yin, and it's guid, ah can tell ye.

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[Captain_Chaos]

A UK solicitor is unlikely to be caught out by the "boat/car" type scam as they have the money laundering regulations to deal with. The solicitors will also be aware that if they cock it up they are likely to be sued for professional negligence.

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[moodycruiser]

I too was contacted by a wonderful nigerian man who said that he knew an old friend of an uncle of mine and had done a wonderful deal for him in SA and wanted to grant me the same opportunity. I said Brilliant! and if he ever saw old uncle charlie again to tell the old bu**er that he still owes me a fiver from 1987.

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[celandine]

scamming the scammers

Ian,
Many thanks for the Monkey-Man link. It kept us entertained for hours, especially the Will U. Tuchme sequence. They should sell the film rights.
Mick

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